The-Helm_1970-06-18; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Lynbrook, U.S.A. Week-June 22-28
Schedule on page 5
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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 3 Entered as S e c o n d - C l a s s Matter
Post Office, LvnbrooK. N. Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, June 18,197^ ^0^
1970-71 Lynbrook
P.B.A. Contract Set
Mayor Francis X. Becker, of Lynbrook signs P.B,A. contract, (L-R) Police Chief Walter Waring;
PEA Pres. Daniel Carrano; Mayor Becker; Village Clerk Joseph Vitelli.
MAYOR BECKER SIGNS PAPERS INCREASING POUCE BUDGET
TO $733,500.00,.
LYNBROOK FORCE KEPT ON PARITY WITH NASSAU COUNTY,
On Friday, May 5, 1970, Mayor Francis X. Becker signed into
force a contract with the Police Benevolent Association for 1970-71
covering the 49-man local force. Representing the Village in addi-tion
to the Mayor were Jay F. Korth, Village Attorney; Joseph Vitelli,
Village Clerk. The Association spokesmen were Daniel Carranno,
Presidenjt of the P.B.A. and Richard Hartman, Attorney for the
P.B.A.
In accordance with the termte
of the agreement the Village of
Lynbrook will be paying the fol-lowing
salaries which are.
Identical with those of the Nassau
County Police Department:
Patrolmen - Grades 1 to 5 -
$8199 to $11,073 per annum.
Sergeants - $12,739 per annum
Lieutenants - $14,441 per annum
Captains - $15,864 per annum
Chief - $19,400 per annum
Included in the fringe benefits
are:
Longevity - $300. per annum
after 8 yrs. service; $350. per
annum after 10 yrs. service;
$350. per annum after 15 yrs.
service.
Overtime - 11 paid holidays -
re-call time standby-time - 2
days personal leave - health
insurance night differential -
clothing allowance in lieu of uni-forms
- death benefits, etc.
Earlier in the Spring, Mayor
Becker, anticipating this sub-stantial
budget increase of ap-proximately
$100,000. over last
year's budget, appealed to the
residents of Lynbrook to give him
their feelings about maintaining a
local police force. He pointed out
tliat since the Department repre-sents
approximately 1/3 of the
total budget, he felt that all tax-payers
should have a say in the
matter. The Mayor and Trustees
were almost immediately over-whelmed
with a very positivere-action
from the Village. Almost
without exception, the people de-manded
that the local force be re-tained.
An independent survey
conducted by the HELM, a local
newspaper in Lynbrook, sub-stantiated
this thinking. In view
of the evident reaction, the Mayor
and Board of Trustees proceeded
to negotiate with the P.B.A. with-out
bringing the matter to an of-ficial
— and costly — referen-dum.
In this period. Mayor Beck-er
made it abundently evident that
he and the Board were most
anxious to retain a local force
and they were all extremely
gratified by the over-whelming
vote of confidence given to the
Lynbrook Police Department by
the Village taxpayers.
Lynbrook Board Meeting
^ By Annette Ling C
The regular meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the In-corporated
Village of Lynbrook
was held on Monday evening,
June 15, 1970 at 8:00 p.m. at
the Lynbrook Library Auditori-um
on Eldert St. Father Ed-ward
Moore of Christ Episcopal
Church gave the Invocation,
The Board chaired by Deputy
Mayor Kurt Arndt approved the
Minutes, Mr. Stewart Murray,
age 12, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Murray of Central
Ave., Lynbro(A: was given a
Certificate of Award from Mayor
Francis Becker by Deputy Mayor
Kurt Arndt and was made an
Honorary Member of the His-torical
Committee, one of the
Citizens Advisory Committees
and congratulated for his essay
on the history of Lynbrook,
U.S.A. Fire Chief Frank Hill-gardner
gave the report of the
Lynbrook Fire Dept. for May,
The sincere thanks of the Man-ager
of the Lynbrook Theatre,
Mrs. Mary Grassi, were given
to the Chief because of a small
fire swiftly and expertly snuffed
out by the wonderful volunteer
Vamps this past week. The
Lynbrook Library Report for May
was given by Miss Grace Fox,
revealing a total of 154 new
readers and a total registration
of 53,769 new books,periodicals,
records etc. now on file in our
library. Mr. Roger Faut, Supt.
of the Building Dept. gave his*
report for the May reporting
a total of estimated value of
new buildings etc. at $53,769.
Deputy Mayor Kurt Arndt wishes
all residents to know that Lyn-brook
Police Headquarters are
now in the basement of the new
Village Hall at Penninsula Blvd.
and Merrick Rd. and that the
Motor Vehicle Bureau will be
housed in their old basement
headquarters in the old Village
Hall or Municipal Building on
Merrick Rd, The Recreation
Report was read by Trustee Bill
Buzzeo and it was brought out
that Lynbrook has won the
Mayor's Trophy permanently by
winning three out of five games
from East Rockaway in the
Midget Class of Baseball at Greis
Park. Mr. Floyd Wilcox gave
the report of the Dept. of Public
Works for May. The Board
approved his attendance at a
Solid Waste Conference to be
held in Mineola in the Board
of Supervisors Room by the
Bureau of Special Services on
June 17th.
The Board of Trustees ap-proved
a request from Lynbrook
Police Chief Walter Waring to
attend the Police Chief's Con-ference
in Albany from July 26th
to July 30th.
A request from the MARCH
OF DIMES for their fund drive
was approved. They were given
permission to paint house num-bers
on the curbs of homes
once more this year. The work
is done by college students and>
money collected is divided be-tween'
the March of Dimes and
the students to help pay tuition
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Thomas L. Driscoll,Jr.
Mayor Of Malverne
Budgets Pass
Yes No
Central High School
District #1 6006 4950
District #13 3571 2627
Dist#13 Recreation
3360 2758
Thomas L. Driscoll, Jr.
Mayor William M. Sheeser
presided for the last time at
the Malverne Village Board
meeting on June 17th at which
time he turned the reins of Vil-lage
Government over to Thomas
L, Driscoll Jr. On June 17th
Mayor William M, Sheeser re-tired
from public office and
during the course of the meet-ing
Deputy Mayor Thomas L,
Driscoll Jr. was sworn in to
fill the unexpired Mayoral term,
Stewart R, Morrow took the oath
of office as Trustee, replacing
Driscoll for his unexpired term,
brought about by him assuming
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