Village News 1980-05

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Homeowner Loans And Grants Available
With the start of spring, the
Freeport Community Develop-ment
Agency has announced a
stepped up program to provide
rehabilitation loans and grants to
qualified Freeport homeowners.
Under the federal program, the
home improvement work done
under either a grant or loan must
be deemed necessary according
to the guidelines. The priority for
improvements include the
correction of building code vio-lations
such as electrical, plumb-ing,
heating, roofing, structural
problems, etc. In the instance of
loans where violations are mini-mal,
interior and exterior paint-ing,
stoop repairs, kitchen and
bathroom repairs are considered
as well as energy conservation
measures.
Loans are approved by partici-pating
banks with the Village
using federal Community De-velopment
funds to subsidize
interest rates to 3%.
Residents within the Village's
three designated housing im-provement
areas remain eligible:
for 3% loans, subject to bank,
approval, without any income
limit restrictions. The housing
improvement areas are generally
the northeast, the Russell Place
area and the southeast..
However, in other areas income
limit restrictions do apply. Limits
for LOANS are: $12,950, one
person; $14,800, two persons;
$16,650, three persons; $18,500,
four persons; $19,650, five per-sons;
$20,800, six persons;
$21,950, seven persons and
$23,100, eight persons or more.
In addition to the loan program,
a Community Development
GRANT program is also available
to homeowners who qualify
regardless of where they live in
the Village. The maximum
amount of the grant is $5,000,
providing that is the amount of
the rehabilitation work required.
The income limits for grants
are: $8,100, one person; $9,250,
two persons; $10,400, three per-,
sons; $11,550, four persons;
$12,450, five persons; $13,400,
six persons; $14,300, seven
persons and $15,250 for eight or
more persons.
Further information may be ob-tained
from the Freeport Com-munity
Development Agency
located at 67 North Main Street or
by calling 378-4432.
Broker's License Suspended
Dale Thompson, a licensed real
estate broker out of 95 Lakewood
Avenue, Roosevelt, .will have to
do without his license for a month
or pay $250 following a hearing
before the Secretary of State's
office at which he was found
guility of illegally practicing in
Freeport.
Thompson, doing business as
D.M.J. Enterprises, Inc., acted
as a rental broker out of 25 Free-port
Plaza beginning in January
of last year although he was not
licensed to do so. His activity was
immediately reported to the
Secretary of State by the Freeport
Stabilization Task Force. Due to
the efforts of the Task Force, the
State has determined that no ad-ditional
brokerage offices will be
allowed to open in Freeport. The
hearing officer noted that "the
restriction, exists as part of the
Department's efforts to assist in
the stabilization of racially inte-grated
communities."
Thompson claimed at the hear-ing
that Demitrious Jackson,,
owner of D.M.J., a licensed real-estate
salesman but not a broker,;
had assured him he could operate'
out of the Freeport Plaza office.
The hearing officer ruled that
Thompson should have been
aware that a license was re-quired
and that he could only
operate as a broker at the Roose-velt
address at which he was
licensed. The officer also noted
that despite a meeting between
the Department of State, Jackson
and Thompson, where it was
stated that Thompson was acting
illegally, he continued in business
"thereby demonstrating untrust-worthiness."
Village Task Force Coordinator
Michael Kirwan commended the
staff of the Department of State
for their cooperation in the case
and pledged continued vigilance.
by the Task Force of all real
estate practices affecting the
future of Freeport.
New Year
To Begin At
Recreation Center
The Freeport Recreation Cen-ter
will begin its sixth year of
operation on June 1. All 1979-80
Activity Cards will expire on that
date. New ones may be obtained,
in person only, at the Center at
$2 each.
The cost of Health Wing Plans,
allowing unlimited • entry to the
indoor/outdoor pools, steam and
sauna, exercise room and gym-nasium,
remains the same for
residents as last year. Cost for an
Annual Plan, available only now
through Labor Day, is $165 for a
family, $80 for an individual and
$40 for senior citizens. Cost for a
Summer Plan is $65 for a family.
$30 for an individual and $15 for
senior citizens. All costs are in
addition to the initial Activity
Card fee.
Depending on the weather, the
outdoor pools will be open on the
weekends during June. They will
be open from Tuesday to Sunday
beginning in July.
Registration for programming
to take place during the summer
season will be on Saturday,.
June 21, 10 am to noon, at the
Center. Registration for adults
will be on Tuesday, June 24, 7 to
8 pm. Programming includes
Kiddie, Youth and Sports Camps
which are held one-half day from
Tuesday to Friday on a monthly
'basis at a cost of $45 for the
youngest group and $55 for the
older. The camp programs are
available, on a limited basis, to
children ages three to 13.
A brochure outlining all activi-ties
at the Center and through the
Freeport Recreation Department
in the coming year will be mailed
to every residence prior to the
season's start.
SHOPPING
IS GREAT
IN FREEPORT
A Public Informatl^B'ulletm
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
William H. White, Mayor
Village
News
Public Meetings on the 1st. and 3rd. Mondays of the Month, at 8:00 P.M.
Annual Organization Night
The Annual Organization
Meeting of the Village Board of
Trustees was held on April 7. The
"purpose of the yearly session is' to
appoint or reappoint the various
department heads and members
of boards, commissions and com-mittees.
In opening the meeting, Mayor
William White, praised Trustees
James Clark and Timothy Peter-nana
for "having done a fine job"
in their first year in office. He
went on to say that "Freeport is a
viable, exciting, action-filled
Village." The Mayor also re-ported
that he had received a
report from the Treasurer advis-ing
him that the Village's bonded
indebtedness has been reduced
by approximately $10 million
since 1974.
Mayor White appointed
Trustee Dorothy Storm as Deputy
Mayor and James Lyons as
Budget Director for the coming
year. Trustee Storm was also
appointed a member of the Board
of Police Commissioners for three
years. - —• -•-
The Board approved the
appointment of Thomas De-
Vincenzo as Administrative
Assistant to the Village Board and
Village Clerk and James Lyons as
Village Treasurer, both for a term
of two years.
Other department heads
appointed for one-year terms
were Henry Gramlich Jr., Deputy
Village Clerk; James Lyons,
Village Assessor; Barry Dunn,
Deputy Village Assessor; Michael'''
Solomon, Village Counsel; Harri-son
J. Edwards, Deputy Village
Counsel; V. Roy Cacciatore,
Deputy Village Counsel; Charles
Mehrmann, Acting Village
Justice; Edwin Prefer, Superin-tendent
of Public Works; David
Lovejoy, Superintendent of Build-ings;
and Ludovic Long, Superin-tendent
of Electric Utilities.
The following were appointed
to serve on Boards: Robert Allyn,
Ethics, for five years; Milton
Sanders, member for five years
and chairman for one, Zoning
Appeals; John Di Grazia, member
for five years, chairman for one,
Planning; William Cominos,
William Hill, George Hubschmitt,
Ludovic Long, Frank McKenna
(chairman), Dbminick Molese and
Peter Meyers, members for one
year, Electrical;-and Gil Krog,
John Marshall (chairman) and
William Bateman, members for
one year, Plumbing. Michael
Kirwan was appointed liaison
officer to the Nassau County Rent
i Guidelines Board for one year.
Appointed to Commissions
were: Robert Burger, chairman
for one year, Stephen Malone,
member-to" fill unexpired~-term
and Robert Storm, member for
five, Sewer and Sanitation;
George Krakora, member for five
years and Henry Altengarten,
chairman for one, Water and
Light; John Cunningham,
member for five years and
Thomas Re, chairman for one,
Parks; Joseph Badalucca, mem-ber
for five years and Stewart.
Yanover, chairman for one,
Highways; J. Lawrence Gumbs,
Charles Friedman, Olga Dunning
and Robert Barr, members for
three years and Dr. Walter Ligon,
chairman for one, Human Re-lations;
and William Botwinik,
member for five, Bienvenido
Andujar to fill unexpired term
and Marilyn Roller, chairwoman,
Conservation of the Environment.
The following were appointed
to Committees: Clinton Metz,
Wilfred Morin, Robert Raynor
(chairman) and Ira Schildkraut,
members for one year, Historic
Landmarks; and Kay Benda,
Sandy Danziger, Martha De-
Salvo, John DiGrazia, Hugh
Erwin, Sigmond Esposito, Ray
Henderson and Helen Jenkins,
Thomas Connors, Helen Rosati,
Harry Gritmon, Warren Samet,
Louise Simpson, Elinor Shebar,
Lionel Socqlov, Emmett O'Hare
and David Vieser, members for
one year, Community Develop-ment.
Thomas DeVincenzo, Marion
Harvie, Ruth Haack, Michael
Kirwan, Anita Landau, Marilynne
Moynihan, Velma Johnson, Gwen
Alexis and Joanne Paradine were
appointed members of the
Stabilization Task Force for one
year.
Dr. Bernard Ross, Benedetto
Caruso, Rudolph Joseph, Shyman
Prabhakar and Peter Chak were
appointed Police Surgeons for one
year. Josephine Donnelly and
Mary Volpe were reappointed
Police Matrons. The firm of
Canale & Gerardi were appointed
as Public Auditors and the
National Bank of North America,
Chase Manhattan Bank, Citi-bank,
Long Island Trust Co. and
Chemical Bank were designated
as depositories of Village Funds.
The Leader was designated as the
official newspaper of the-Village. .
Village.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, timothy Peternana
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo; Treasurer: James J. Lyons; Counsel: Michael Solomon
Mall Survey Results Encouraging Straight Shooters
Martin Silberg, Freeport
Director of Business Develop-ment,
has announced the impend-ing
publication of a survey of
shoppers taken on The Freeport
Mall. The publication will be used
to attract additional retail opera-tors
to the shopping center. In
reviewing the results', Silberg
said, "Between the inconven-ience
eaused by construction dur-ing
the Mall's creation and the
vacancy caused by the national
fall of the W.T. Grant chain, you
might suspect The Freeport Mall
has 'fallen apart.' In fact, I have
been pleased to hear from many
long time Mall merchants who
told me that they were doing ex-ceptionally
well—historically they
never had a busier, more profit-able
year than this one! Now the
survey shows The Real Story."
The survey was conducted by
members of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce stopping shoppers on
the Mall in both September and
December of last year. A total of
722 shoppers were questioned
with the results tabulated by the
Office of Business Development.
Of the shoppers, 57% were
Freeport residents. Of the re-mainder,
42% came from the
west-southwest part of Nassau
County; 29% from the east-southeast;
21% from north; and
8% from Suffolk County and New
York City. Strongest out-of-town
support came from Baldwin and
Merrick residents.
Median purchase was $43.50
with a high of $290 to a low of $1.
In September,- 58%--indicated
they had come to the Mall for
general shopping while 39% in-dicated
they had come for a spe-cific
purchase. In December 54%
had come for a specific purchase
and 46% for general shopping.
In September, 7% indicated they
had come to view the Art Show
presented by the Freeport Arts
Council, a higher percentage than
that experienced at promotions
sponsored by the regional shop-ping
centers.
Most popular purchases were
paint, cameras and photo sup-plies,
jeans, women's apparel,
children's clothes, meat, shoes,
beauty salon services and re-cords.
Unsolicited remarks made by
shoppers as to why they shop on
the Mall included the conven-ience
of nearby parking, close-ness
to home, avoidance of heavy
vehicle and pedestrian traffic and
familiarity with merchants.
Merchants expressed surprise
at the number of shoppers the
survey shows coming from 1
yond a five mile radius.
A limited number of copies o:
the survey will be available short-ly
to those residents who may
have relatives or friends interest-ed
in opening a store on the Mall.
CLIP & SAVE ',
No Trash During Holiday Week1,
Violators Will Receive Summonses
It is important to all property values in Freeport
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:
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Fri., July 4
Mon., Sept. 1
Mon.,Oct. 13
Tues., Nov. 4
Tues., Nov. 11
Thurs., Nov. 27
Thurs., Dec. 25
A contingent of West Point cadets traveled to Freeport recently to
shoot against members of the Freeport Rifle and Revolver Club at the
Freeport Police Benevolent Association's pistol range. For the second
time in a row, Freeport won, 3,398 to 3,373, to keep the winners'
plaque. According to the organizers, Sgt. Bryon Sullivan and Officer
Bryan Whitty of the Freeport Police Department, the series of competi-tive
matches were set up in the belief that better gun handling leads to
safe gun handling. Checking the target results, left to right, are Mayor
William White; West Point pistol coach John McClellan; Cadet David
Lee, Class of '81 and a native of Anchorage Alaska; Officer Whitty; and
Sal Lioy, Freeport Range Officer and coordinator of the event.
Entertaining Events Planned For Mall
The Retail Division of the
Chamber of Commerce is again
planning a series of events to
entertain shoppers on The Free-port
Mall during the warm
months.
The first will be on Saturday,
May 31, when the Apache Twirl-ers
will hold a five hour Twirling
Marathon in full costume and ac-companied
by music. The Apache
Twirlers represent the Freeport
Recreation Department and are
sponsored by Apache II and
Apache III of Woodcleft Avenue.
Regional champions, the young
twirlers are conducting the
Marathon to allow them funds to
travel for competition. Each
member will ask for donations
based on the amount of time they
can twirl during the Marathon
which will begin at noon and end
at 5 pm.
Another event is tentatively,
scheduled for July 5, 9 am to
6 pm, and will be an International
Fair featuring ethnic foods,
music, crafts, etc. of different
nations. Representatives of ethnic
organizations interested in partic-ipating
are asked to call Ira
Bryck at 378-0797.
Residents are urged to consult
the local media for other up-coming
Mall events between now
and October.
Homefinders Now
Full Time Job
Mrs. Ramona Crook, part-time
coordinator of the Village's
Stabilization Task Force from
1977 to 1979, has been appointed
by Mayor William White to the .
full time position as Director of
the Task Force's Homefinders
Service. The full time position
became possible through alloca-tion
of federal funds.
A resident of the Village since
the early 1940's, Mrs. Crook is a
graduate of Freeport High School
and the Skinner Secretarial
School. S_he resides on South
Long Beach Avenue with her
husband, William' and their
daughter, Jill who is a student at
Freeport High School.
Prior to retiring to raise her
daughter, Mrs. Crook was a sales
representative with Reuben H.
Donnelley Corporation of Man-hattan.
On the local level she has
served on the Village's Beautifi-cation
Committee and a com-munity
association chairwoman,
leader, consultant, public re-lations
and program chairman for
the Freeport Girl Scouts. She was
active with her sister, Martha
DeSalvo, in the cease and desist
campaign which successfully led
to cooperation with the Secretary
of State's office for the halting of
"block busting" techniques.
Mrs. Crook was also involved in a
county-wide human relations
workshop program conducted by
the Girl Scouts.
-While-serving as_Task._Force..
coordinator, Mrs. Crook set up
the Homefinders Service as a
Village function whereby po-tential
homebuyers are brought
together with no fee to either
party. Since that time she has
taken a real estate course and
worked for a broker.
In accepting the position,'Mrs.
Crook expressed the hopes that
residents will continue to take ad-vantage
of the Service which has
successfully sold many houses.
"Particularly in today's housing
market, this Village function is a
valuable source of assistance for
those wishing to either buy or sell
a house. From mortgage counsel-ling
to personal service, Free-port's
Homefinders Service is
unique."