Village News 1980-02

              FFB80
DEFERENCE
The Fieeport Arts Council,
partly funded by the Village,
Freeport School District as well as
the New York State Council on the
Arts, is planning a series of activi-ties
in the" up coming months.
Two events will occur on Satur-day,
March 1. A bus will leave the
Recreation Center at 8 am for
Philadelphia and a tour of the
Barnes Foundation and the Fine
Arts Museum. Cost is $25 for
adults and $23 for senior citizens
and Council Friends and includes
juice and donuts on the trip down
and wine on the way back. The
bus will return about 7 pm.
Advance reservations may be
phoned into the Council at
223-2522. The second March 1
event will begin at 8 pm at the
Center. Dubbed "The Golden
Silence," it will feature' a 60
minute film starring Buster
Keaton, a slide show on silent
film stars and a talk on those who
lived in Freeport. As in the
"silence" era, the film and slides
will be accompanied by music
provided by famed organist, Lee
Erwin, who will also conduct a
"sing a long." A fundraiser for
the Council, cost will be $3 for
adults and $1 for children.
On Saturday, March 8, the
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Ensemble will perform at Free-port
High School, 8:30 pm, as
part of the Council's Sixth Annual
Performing Arts Series. Cost is $6
and tickets may be obtained by
sending a check, made out to the
Council, and a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to P.O. Box 97,
Freeport. That afternoon, from
1-2:30, the 14 members of the
Ensemble, under the direction of
Norbert Vesak, will conduct a
Master Dance Class at the
Recreation Center. Cost to
participate or watch is $3 and
advance reservations by phone to
the Council are recommended.
On Sunday, March 9, 2 to 5 pm,
there will be a reception cele-brating
the opening of The
Gallery A-Little-Off-The-Mall at
12 Newton Boulevard. Refresh-ments
will be served. The open-ing
exhibit, which will last until
April 5, will show the products of
those enrolled in Mary West-ring's
Etching Workshop since its
beginnings in 1976. The Gallery is
open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs-days,
and Saturdays from 10 am
to 5 pm; Wednesdays and Fri-days,
1 to 3 pm; and Tuesday
evenings from 7 to 10.
The Performing Arts Founda-
Special Ceremonies were held recently in the office of Mayor William
White to honor the students who took first prize for their school in the
Village Fire Department's Fire Prevention Poster Contest. The winners
(left to right) are Antonette Hooghkirk of Our Holy Redeemer School,
Kippy McQueen of Archer Street School, Stephanie Hirschfeld of
Columbus Avenue School, Michele Hosey of Giblyn School. Patrick
Oliver of Transfiguration School and Craig Schlecter of Atkinson
SchooL'Stephen Gyerra, a student at Atkinson, won a Special Achieve-ment
Awara. Village officials who awarded the trophies were (left to
right) Freeport Fire Department Ex-Chief and Contest Chairman John
Morton, Village Trustee James Clark, Mayor White and F.F.D. Chief
Donald Mauersberger.
tion will present "Tracking West-ward"
for children at the Recrea-^
tion Center, April 3, 1 pm, for a|
cost of $1.75. Drama, song and
movement depict the excitement
of the Old West. -
A weekend bus trip, the
"Washington, D.C. Arts Festival
Weekend," April 25-27, will
feature a performance at the
Kennedy Arts Center and visits to
the National Gallery of Arts,
Freer Gallery, the National
Geographic Society, Congress,
Textile Museum and George-town.
Included in the cost is
luxurious accommodations for
two nights with continental break-fast.
Inclusive cost is $130
(double occupancy. - $125 for
Council Friends) and $160 (single
occupancy).
May will conclude the Perform-ing
Arts Series for the season. On
May 3, stage and screen stars
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee will
perform in the two-person pro-duction
of "Inside/Out." The
cost is $6 with the show beginning
at 8:30 pm at Freeport High
School. Finally, on the 24th, again
at the High School, three young
professional musicians who grew
up in Freeport will perform. They
will be Ann Yarrow, violin;
Jocelyn Rothgarber Lopatin,
piano; and Wendy Gillespie,
gamba. Ticket price will be $4 for
adults and $2 for children.
ii 4 FEBRUARY 1980
The Freeport Housing Author-ity
has announced that it cannot
accept additional applications for
Section 8 rental subsidies at this
time.
The U.S. Department of Hous-ing
and Urban Development has
approved 100 units for Freeport
whereby individual and families
pay no more than 25% of their in-come
for rent regardless of where
they live in the Village. The dif-ference
is paid out of federal
funds.
Under HUD guidelines, the
Housing Authority has such a
substantial waiting list for the
program, no further applications
can be accepted at present. All
those who have applied in the
past will remain on the waiting
list and will be informed when an
availability occurs.
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month, At 8:00 P.M.
"Two Guys" Opening In April — Proceeds Allocated
_.
&>4f--*l* -^SfK^.
Signs at the end of the Village on both Merrick Road and Sunrise Highway let passersby know that a 110,000
square foot "Two Guys" will be opening. Timetable for opening is on or about April 1. Standing by one
sign, from left to right, are Freeport Superintendent of Buildings David Lovejoy, Arara Construction Presi-dent
Al Levine and Two Guys Vice President for Construction Hank Hyatt T Monies realized from the sale
of the Bennington Park land added $612.214 to Freeport's Community Development projects using federal
funds. Allocated was $70,000 for additional parking on Woodcleft; $90,000 for North Main Street spot im-provements;
$90,000 for a playground in the Liberty Park area; $30,000 for plantings and additional im-provements
for the Mall and $60,000 for expanded parking; $15,000 for code enforcement; $20,000 for the
neighborhood stabilization program; $40,000 for historic preservation; and $15,000 will go towards removal
of architectural barriers. The balance is earmarked for contingencies and adminstration. Allocations were
made after two public hearings.
Trustees:!. Dorothy Storm,. Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Timothy Peternana
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo - Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Michael Solomon
Sewer disposal for the Village
of Freeport is now being handled
by Sewer District #3 of Nassau
County through the Cedar Creek
facility.
Sewer collection is still the
responsibility of the Village. For
Program
For
Pre-Schoolers
The Freeport Recreation
Department maintains a Kiddie
Club for youngsters, ages three
to four and a half, at the Recrea-tion
Center four days a week. The
Club, under the direction of ex-perienced
leaders, has developed
into an extraordinary pilot pro-gram
applauded by parents and
educators.
Dedicated to an informal atmo-sphere
that encourages creativity
and learning, the program in-cludes
music, games, creative
drama, storytimes, dance,
puppetry, arts and crafts, films
and trips. Special programs and
events are planned utilizing the
gymnasium, pool, and ice rink in
season, at the Center.
There are two sessions each
day from Tuesday through Fri-day.
Parents have a choice of
either the morning session, 9 to
11:30, or the afternoon session,
1-3:30.
Cost is $20 per month for two
days per week, $30 for three and
$40 for four days. When space is
available, cost to non-residents is
$5 additional for the month. All
youngsters must have an initial
interview with the Club's Di-rector,
Mary Hall. Registration
is held on the last Tuesday of the
month at the Center from 10 am
to 4 pm. While registration is on a
monthly basis, a youngster may
be registered for more than one
month.
SHOP
FREEPORT
MERCHANTS
Sewer Lines Inspection
this reason, all sewer lines are
being inspected by the Village
engineers, Bald win and Cornelius,
between midnight and 5 pm.
The inspection will involve the
opening of manholes throughout
Freeport. Such openings will be
protected from traffic. Vehicles at,
the opening sites will bear thd
name "Baldwin and Cornelius'^
and all personnel will have identi-fication
showing that they are
members of that firm.
CLIP & SAVE !
No Trash During Holiday Week j
Violators Will Receive Summonses
It is important to all property values in Freeport that
the Village streets remain free of trash. For that reason,
...the .ordinance forbidding the. placement,of.,trash .at.. _
.. curbside other than on the scheduled collection day will." '
be strictly enforced. There is a change in collection
when a holiday occurs and for this reason it is important
that the residents keep the information below for refer-ence.
It should be noted that prior to contracting out for
private sanitation service, when a holiday occured trash
was not collected anywhere in the Village that week.
Under the present system; only one-third of the Village
is effected.
Trash will not be picked up from the curb in a week
when a holiday falls on either of the normally scheduled
collection days for your area of the Village.
FOR EXAMPLE: If you live in the northern section of
the Village, garbage is normally picked up from the
rear on Mondays. On Thursdays, garbage is picked up
from the rear and trash from the curb.
If a holiday occurs on a Monday, garbage will not be
picked up that day. On that Thursday, garbage only will
be collected. Trash will not be collected.
If a holiday occurs on a Thursday, garbage will be col-lected
as usual on Monday. On Thursday, however,
'neither garbage nor trash will be collected.- " ' ' •
In both the above instances, trash will be collected from
the curb on Thursday of the following week.
Persons putting trash at the curb on a non-collection
day will be notified to remove it immediately. Repeated
violators can be summoned to Village Court where they
will be liable for fines up to $250.
Village holidays in 1980 are as follows:
Lincoln's Birthday Tues., Feb. 12
Washington's Birthday Mon., Feb. 18
Memorial Day Fri.,May30
Independence Day Fri.,July4
Labor Day Mon., Sept. 1
Columbus Day Mon., Oct. 13
Election Day Tues., Nov. 4
Veterans Day Tues., Nov. 11
Thanksgiving Day Thurs., Nov. 27
Christmas Day Thurs., Dec. 25
Please Be Counted
The 1980 federal Census is
important to all Freeport resi-dents.
The Office of Revenue
Sharing of U.S. Treasury uses
census population and per capita
income figures to allocate pay-ments
to communities. If every-one
is not counted, the Village
will be short changed and will not
receive its fair share of tax funds
which were originally paid by
Freeport residents.
Census results in Freeport
determine (1) Apportionment of
Congress (House of Representa-tives);
(2) Federal and State
Aid programs; (3) Housing
needs; (4) Legislative re-district-ing
(assuring fair representation
of our State Legislative districts;)
(5) Population facts (providing a
statistical profile of commun-ities);
and (6) Planning (solid
facts on which to base future
actions in specific activities).
Census Day: April 1
Your questionnaire will arrive
by mail on Friday, March 28.
PLEASE ANSWER ALL CENSUS
QUESTIONS THAT APPLY TO
YOUR HOUSEHOLD.
PLEASE MAIL BACK YOUR
CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE ON
APRIL 1 IN THE ENVELOPE
PROVIDED. If you don't get a
brown return mail envelope, hold
your completed questionnaire for
a census worker to pick up.
YOUR PERSONAL ANSWERS
ARE CONFIDENTIAL BY LAW.
No one outside the U.S. Census
Bureau can see or use your per-sonal
answers for 72 YEARS.
Only statistical totals are ever
published.
HELP IN ANSWERING THE
QUESTIONNAIRE IS AVAIL-ABLE.
There will be a telephone
number on the mailing labels on
the questionnaire. Please call for
any assistance you may need.
SPANISH LANGUAGE QUES-TIONNAIRES
ARE AVAILABLE.
If you or a friend or relative pre-fer
a questionnaire in Spanish,call
the telephone number of the
mailing label.
Households who do not co-operate
with the request to mail
back the complete questionnaire
will be visited by census takers.
For every 1% of the population
that cooperates with the census
mail back questionnaire, TWO
MILLION DOLLARS IN FED-ERAL
TAX MONIES WILL BE
SAVED IN FOLLOW-UP COSTS
AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
GALLONS OF GAS.
Caution When Siding
Freeport homeowners are
warned that if electical service is
improperly . disturbed at the
meter, such as when aluminum or
vinyl siding is installed on a
house, an internal short may
develop in the meter resulting in
higher meter readings, or, more
seriously, the electrification of the
siding.
Although a permit is not re-quired
from the Freeport Build-ing
Department for siding
installation, an electrical permit
may well be necessary. Any time
that an electric service is moved,
adjusted or disturbed for any
purpose, all such work must be
done in accordance with the
requirements of the National and
Village Electrical Codes which re-quire
such work to be performed
by a licensed electrician after
securing a permit from the Build-ing
Department.
This requirement is for the
safety of residents and failure to
obtain such a permit may result in
a fine of up to $250.
Municipal Budget Adopted - Lowest Tax Hike In Decade
Following a public hearing
during which few residents made
comment, the Board of Trustees
adopted the 1980-81 municipal
budget of $13,559,723. The
amount to be raised-.through • tax-ation
is $9,721,435. The tax rate,
therefore, will be $11.21 per $100
of assessed valuation, a 100 in-crease
over 1979-80, the lowest
increase in the past 10 years.
For the typical'house assessed
at $7,000, the increase will mean
an additional $7 in the upcoming
fiscal year.
While mandated costs such as
social security and workmen's
compensation continued to rise
and inflation has had an impact
on every aspect of Village govern-ment,
years of consolidation and
institution of innovative pro-grams
are credited with keeping
the lid on expenditures despite
economic pressures.
Just two areas, the Village's
self-insurance program instituted
in 1978 and the contracting last
year for private sanitation ser-vices,
resulted in a conservative
savings of $604,578 in 1980-81
over 1978-79.-The. savings figure
is conservative in that it does not
take into account the inflation
factor between the two fiscal
years. Further, while the munici-pal
budget shows a savings of
$186,734 in the area of self-insurance,
the true total is close
to $300,000 when taking into con-sideration
the electric and water
departments where increases
would have been passed on to
consumers.
In presenting his budget,
Mayor William White expressed
his gratitude to the members of
the Board of Trustees for attend-ing
budget workshops on Satur-days
and Tuesday and Thursday
nights starting in early November
although they were not obligated
to attend. He also thanked the
department heads for their
realistic recommendations to
maintain quality services at min-imum
costs and the majority of
Village employees from foremen
to secretaries to laborers, for in-creased
productivity during the
past fiscal year. Mayor White also
said credit must go to past Boards .
as well as the present one for
"their foresight in implementing
programs such as self-insurance
and private carting, resulting in
long term savings. Finally," he
said, "we must thank all the
volunteers consisting of resi-dents
and business people in-volved
with various Village com-mittees,
the Homefinders Ser-vice,
Chamber of Commerce, Fire
Department, our own employes,
the parents assisting in recrea-tion
programs and so forth. If it
were not for these volunteers, we
could not accomplish all that we
do."