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Last call for
Freeport-Baldwin's
Mother of the Year
see page 4 for information
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FREEPORT LIBRARY
144WMERRICKRD
FREEPORT NY 11520-3726
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www.freeportbaldwinleader.com
77th Year, No. 18 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 The Community Newspaper Thursday, May 3, 2012 750
Freeport's Field of Dreams is under construction
ON THE RIGHT TRACK: George Emma, Jr. Field at Freeport High School gets a
makeover with a new track and turf.
Budget votes in Freeport, Baldwin May 15
Freeport residents will vote on a
$ 149,477,547 budget on Tuesday, May 15,
from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. The expenditure budg-et
represents an increase of $1,534,707 or
1.03%.
Thanks to an agreement with the
Freeport Teachers Association to defer
salary increases for 2012-13, enrichment
programs and all-day kindergarten will be
retained. Additionally, 27 teaching posi-tions
threatened with the budget ax will
now be retained, leaving 15 positions to be
reduced, including four teaching position
excised through retirement.
In March, the district was facing a $1.5
million revenue decrease. Thanks to an
additional $800,000 in state aid, and
$300,000 from other sources, the decrease
has been reduced to $400,000, for a tax
levy increase of approximately $1.9 mil-lion
or 2.37%, which will require a simple
majority when the community votes on the
budget on May 15, as certain budget items
are exempt from the state's 2% tax cap.
If a budget is defeated twice, then the
district cannot increase the tax levy at all,
a situation requiring the loss of 10 teach-ing
positions, two elementary assistant
principals, equipment, supplies, clubs and
sports.
Board Vice-President Debra Mule will
be running for a new three-year term on
the school board, and will be challenged
by Jorge Heras Jr.
Baldwin
The proposed 2012-13 Baldwin school
budget calls for expenditures of
$119,483,487, a decrease of $494,099, or
.41%, and a tax levy of $86,584,727, an
increase of $2,024,271 or 2.39%, an aver-age
annual residential increase of $177.
The tax levy increase fits within the
state's 2% tax cap, since certain items are
exempt from the cap (pension costs above
2%, for example).
A loss of over $2 million in state aid
over two years, combined with continued
increases and costs (special education,
pensions and healthcare, for example) left
the district with a budget gap of almost
$4.7 million dollars, and $4,693,318 of
reductions have been made to fit under
the cap, most notably a salary freeze for
teachers and administrators ($1.2 mil-lion),
closure of Shubert and Milburn
Schools ($900,000), teacher reductions
($1.185 million) and increased class size
districtwide ($422,500).
Five candidates will compete for two
spots on the school board: incumbents
Mary Jo O'Hagan and Robert B.A.
Schoen, Michael Grannum, Eric Harrison
and Tracy Mahler.
NAMES MAKE THE NEWS: Read about your neighbors! 42 local people's names were in your community newspaper this past week Maybe yours is in this week! See inside.
Baldwin
library budget
pageS
Freeport school board
candidates
Baldwin school board
candidates
; ,; page 5
'Meet the A/lets'
at Hofstra
page 10
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2012-05-03 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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