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VOL. 36 NO. 8 Wednesday, March 15,1989
Lynbrook Obtains Nassau
County Property
Nassau County Executive
Thomas Gulotta is joined by
Mayor William P. Geier
and, standing. Village Trus-tee
Eugene V. Natde, and
Stephen T. Grogan as the
County Executive signs an
agreement with the mayor
turning over Nassau County
property to the Village of
Lynbrook. The property
which was formerly New
York City watershed prop-erty
before the county
acquired it runs along the
north side of the LIRR
tracks and includes some
areas near Greis Park.
The Village of Lynbrook
has been working with
Gulotta's office to obtain
this property for some time.
One of the benefits of
obtaining this property will
be the use of the present
Wilcox Alley dirt road
which will be used for
employee and residential
parking during the day. This
will relieve the parking con-gestion
in the Yorkshire
section of the village. Due to
insufficient parking caused
by the Freer Street office
building, built in the 1970's,
and which only has 48% of
the required parking, the
residents of Yorkshire have
many employee vehicles
parking on their streets. The
employee parking at Wilcox
Alley will clear out the
residential street parking.
(Photo by John Cribbin)
Town Recycling Effort
Moves Forward
Hempstead Town Presid-ing
Supervisor Joseph N.
Mondello, along with
Supervisor Gregory P.
Peterson, today announced
the acquisition of additional
equipment for the continued
implementation of the
town's mandatory recycling
program.
The new additions to the
town's recycling apparatus
are: 13 collection trucks, 3
collection support trucks,
one container truck, 80,000
residential recycling con-tainers,
200 commercial rec-ycling
containers, one roll-off
truck and other related
equipment.
"The town is diligently
pursuing recycling as the
primary means of solving the
solid waste management
crisis facing all Long Island
municipalities," said Presid-ing
Supervisor Mondello.
"This equipment will be used
to further our efforts in the
Lynbrook
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second phase of Hemp-stead's
curbside recycling
efforts. Phase H will involve
more than 45,000 house-holds
in active recycling."
The town's mandatory
recycling program is already
operational in East Mea-dow,
Salisbury and part of
Levittown. Since its incep-tion,
in March 1988, the
town has experienced a com-pliance
rate nearing 90 per
cent. Each week during the
past year, an average of 136
tons of newspapers, 13 tons
of colored glass and cans,
and 8 tons of clear glass have
been removed from the
waste stream.
Phase II of the recycling
effort will incorporate all
remaining areas served by
the town's sanitation depart-ment,
including: Barnum
Island, Bay Park, Bellmore,
Eastern Levittown, Harbor
Isle' Lido Beach, North
Lynbrook, Point Lookout,
Mayor Bill Geier was
absent from the Grievance
Day proceedings Board of
Trustees Meeting held on
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1989 at
Village Hall and Deputy
Mayor Norman Dreyer
presided.
The Minutes of the pre-vious
Board Meeting were
approved and placed on file.
A new Building Superin-tendent
of the Building
Dept. was formally approved
in a motion made by Trustee
Gene Natale, and approved
by Trustee Steve Grogan
and Trustee Norman Dreyer
with Trustee Dominick
DeCarlo abstaining because
he had no previous notice of
the appointment. Ronald
Craig as Building Supt. was
approved at a salary of
$40,000 annually. The resid-ency
requirement was
waived by the Board in his
case.
An agreement for Core
Testing in conjunction with
the Road Improvement Pro-gram
was discussed and
approved.
Temple Emanuel was
granted permission to hold
their Annual Bazaar on
March 11,12,13, & 14,1989
and to waive all Village
Permits required.
Sealed Bids were opened
on Thursday, February 16,
1989 at 10 a.m. for the
purchase of five (5) Police
Package vehicles and one (1)
Fire Dept. vehicle as follows:
Major Chevrolet - Net Bid
- $71,106. Majestic Chev-rolet
- Net Bid - $84,152.00.
The Bid of Major Chevrolet
was accepted and approved
by the Board as the lowest
Bid.
The Board approved post-ing
"One-Hour Parking -
Monday to Friday - 9:00
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Evergreen
Avenue from Putnam
Avenue to Scranton Avenue
and Olive Place from Broad-way
to Peninsula Blvd.
The Board approved the
removal of 15 metered park-
Seaford, Uniondale and
Wantagh.
"Hempstead Town resi-dents
have overwhelmingly
supported our recycling
efforts," said Supervisor
Peterson. "By continuing to
work together in this most
important endeavor, we can
help ensure the protection
and preservation of our pre-cious
environment for gen-erations
to come."
ing spaces from municipal
parking lot #10A (behind the
library and post office) to
provide more commuter
parking.
Village Clerk Shirley
Moskowitz was named by
the Board the Official
Records Disposition
Officer, and to adopt
Records & Disposition
Schedules Mu-1.
Allan Rotto Consultants
was approved and autho-rized
by the Board to audit
the telephone bills.
The discussion on the
Village Impound Yard was
tabled by the Board.
The following transfer of
funds was approved by the
Board: The amount of
$64,061 from Health Insu-rance
to Worker's Compen-sation.
Also the amount of
$60, 321 from Worker's
Compensation Fire Depart-ment
and Worker's Com-pensation
Fire Department
m the amount of $3,740.
Under Good and Welfare,
Mary Colway wished to
know what recruiting efforts
had been made to fill the
position of Supt. of the
Building Department. Dep-uty
Mayor Dreyer assured
her that Mayor Bill Geier
will inform her of the proce-dures
followed. Her ques-tion
was also answered on
the matter of a workmen's
compensation transfer by
Village Clerk Shirley Mos-kowitz,
who explained that
there was an increase in the
modification rate a retro-spective
audit that caused an
increase in billing and proce-dure
premium for this
budget that was not
anticipated.
Under the Grievance Day
part of the meeting two
applications came before the
Board which were covered as -
follows: the application for
Grievance made by Diana
Adler of Scranton AVe. of
a twenty dollar difference in
her Senior Citizen Exemp-tion
which put her $20 over
the maximum $15,025.
Exemption amount was
denied by the Board and the
application of Mr. John
O'Shea from Grace Avenue
for a reduction in the
assessed valuation of his
property due to the noise
created by truck deliveries
made to Cross Island and
other stores at all hours of
the day and night was turned
over to Village Attorney Jay
F. Korth for further
evaluation.
East l^kaway
Then and Nov/
The Observer feh that the business and profes-sional
people of our village should be recog-niled
and supported. Therefore, we decided to
salute the businesses and Village of East Rocka-way
with a special four page section which you
will find in the center of this issue.
Israel's Speaker on
Mid-East Problems
The monthly meeting of
the Lynbrook Republican
Club, held last Wednesday
at the American Legion
Hall, drew a near-capacity
crowd of citizens from sev-eral
adjoining villages, all
interested in learning about
the potentially explosive
situation in the Mid-East
from Dr. Meir Rosenne,
Israel's former Ambassador
to the United States and
current President and
C.E.O. of the Israel Bond
Organization. Robert
Becker, Executive Leader of
the Lynbrook Republicans,
stated, "The community
wants to get a clear under-standing
of the very difficult
situation for America's ally
in the Middle East."
Ambassador Rosenne
presented a first-hand
knowledge of the crisis situa-tion
existing between Arab
and Israeli and told the
audience of the many areas
of co-operation between
Israel and the U.S.A. He
also took questions from the
audience. The Ambassador's
stint as speaker for the
Lynbrook Republicans was
arranged by the Long Island
Committee for Soveity
Jewry at Becker's request.
The next meeting of the
Lynbrook Republican Club
will be April 5, at 8 P.M.,
American Legion Hall, 134
Union Ave., Lynbrook.
HENDRICK AWARDS BECKER. Lynbrook Independ-ent
Party President Bill Hendrick, candidate for trustee,
presents Betsy Becker with a commemorative plaque for
her years of diligent service to the Independent Party and
the community.