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TO:
Mayor William H. White
Municipal Building, Freeport, N.Y. 11520
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D Narcotics Guidance
D Building Dept.
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JULY 1980 Village
News 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.
Thanks For "Something Special"
THANKS FOR "SOMETHING SPECIAL." Dorothy MacLennan
(second from left) and Constance Warshowsky, received Certificates of
Appreciation recently from Mayor William White (left) and the Board
of Trustees. The two Freeport residents produced the "Something
Special From Freeport" WGBB radio show each week from May, 1978
to January, 1980 when business pressures required them to stop their
volunteer work. The radio station's program director, Gil David, also a
Freeport resident, is at right. WGBB will continue to provide the
Village with one half hour of free air space each week if one or more
hosts could be found. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact'
the Publicity Office at Village Hall. A minimum amount of experience
and an adequate speaking voice is required.
Water Rates Raised
Following a public hearing on
June 16, the Village Board of
Trustees voted to raise Freeport
water rates as of July 1.
The new rates are $10 per
quarter for the minimum usage of
7,000 gallons, 74* per thousand
gallons for the next 93,000 gallons
and 69$ per thousand gallons for
over 100,000 gallons.
The rate hike, the first since
1977, was necessitated by the cost
of repairs and improvements to
the system as well as increased
labor costs and other overhead
expenses.
Important Notice
Starting in August, the firm of
Baldwin and Cornelius, the Vil-lage's
engineers, will go into its
next phase of evaluating the Free-port
sewer system.
Homeowners affected by the
study will receive direct informa-tion
from the engineering firm in
advance. Residents are urged to
cooperate in this study.
Electric Bypass
Stopped By Village
Village Superintendent of Elec-tric
Utilities Ludovic Long has re-ported
that two Freeport resi-dents,
Leonard Sabastian of 135
East Seaman Avenue and Her-nando
Pacheco of 12 Johnson
Place, each received one year's
conditional discharge in District
Court recently. Both had pleaded
guilty to illegally tapping into the
Village's electric service at their
homes.
The Court ordered Pacheco to
pay $50 in partial restitution to
the Electric Department. Sebas-tian
was fined $100 and ordered
to make a partial restitution of
$425. According to Superinten-dent
Long, the Village will now
sue in civil court for full restitu-tion
in both cases.
The equipment installed by
both residents, which allowed
them electric service while by-passing
their meters, was spotted
by Electric Department employ-ees.
The information was turned
over to the District Attorney as
grounds for prosecution.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James ClarK, Timothy Peternana
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo; Treasurer: James J. Lyons: Counsel: Michael So'omon
On June 19. Newsday devoted
one third of its editorial page to
Freeport's proposed garbage dis-posal
plant in an editorial,
"Making Sure Waste Disposal
Plans Are Solid." That piece was
based-on a so-called "fact." The
editorial staff wrote '.'...the
village has so far requested no
guidance from the regional office
of the federal Environmental
Protection Agency...." THAT IS
NOT TRUE.
• Newsday now knows, because
they have a copy, that Mayor
William White received a letter
from EPA dated May 19 which
began, "This is in response to
your letter of May 7, 1980, re-garding
your request for technical
assistance under the Environ-mental
Protection Agency's
(EPA) Technical Assistance
Panels program."
One simple phone call from the
staff of that daily newspaper to
Village Hall would have elicited
the information that the Village
government had indeed contacted
the EPA. But then Newsday
would have been "out" an excuse
for an editorial hitting Freeport.
They would have forfeited an
opportunity to call upon the Vil-lage
to do exactly what had
already been done!
Upon reading the editorial,
Mayor White called the editorial
page - editor demanding a., cor-rection
on the editorial page. At
this writing, that retraction on the
editorial page has not been forth-coming,
so, as Mayor White
promised the editor, "we will
make the correction directly to the
people of Freeport in our own
'Village News' bulletin which is
mailed to every household."
A "Letter to the Editor" from
Mayor White was hand delivered
to Newsday's office on June 23
and it was published the following
day. It is being reprinted below to
make certain that all Freeporters
are aware of the facts, rather than
Newsday's allegations.
' 'Newsday's editorial calling
for Freeport to consult with the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency before further consider-ing
a waste-to-energy plant in our
community, was a waste of your
editorial space because you didn 't
bother to check with Freeport.
THE BIG BOATS ARE COMING. The Third Annual Guy Lombardo
Classic Offshore Power Boat Race will be held on Saturday, August 2
out of the Town of Hempstead's Guy Lombardo Marina, foot of Lom-bardo
Avenue. If fog or other conditions prevent the Saturday race, it
will be held on Sunday, the 3rd.
The large, high-powered race boats and the contingent of some 150
racers and maintenance crews will arrive from throughout the nation
and overseas on July 31 and will set up headquarters at the Marina.
The public is welcomed to tour the area that Thursday and Friday and
see the pre-race activities which includes test runs.
The race starts at 11 am on Saturday with the ocean course extending
some 180 miles. Race finish is expected at approximately 1 pm. The
public may view the boats leaving for the Jones Inlet starting point at
the Marina. The Coast Guard will maintain a spectator fleet area in the
Inlet. Pending Coast Guard approval, the boats, at their top speeds,
can be viewed along the beaches.
A communications center will be maintained during the entire race
at the Marina where the public can follow the race through ship-to-shore
radio reports.
' 'Our Village's consideration qj
the proposal has long been know\
to EPA. We don't know to who
your newspaper spoke at that
federal agency who might have
said Freeport had not sought
-'guidance.'-On. .May 19, Evan
Liblit, Enviornmental Protection
Specialist, Solid Waste Branch at
EPA's Region Two office, re-sponded
to my letter of May 7
asking for assistance, by writing,
'We regret that at this time we
must give the highest priority in
our use of technical assistance re-sources
to cases involving hazard-ous
wastes. 'He recommended we
seek advice from the U.S. Depart-ment
of Energy and the State
Department of Environmental
Conservation which is exactly
what we are doing.
"We agree that 'the technology
of solid waste disposal is chang-ing
rapidly.' That's why we sent
our Superintendent of Public
Works, a licensed engineer, to a
recent national EPA-sponsored
resource recovery'seminar where
he had lengthy discussions re-garding
the Freeport proposal
with David Sussman, the environ-mental
engineer with the Re-source
Recovery Branch of the
Office of Solid Waste, U.S. EPA,
who has responsibility for evalua-ting
demonstration and com-mercial
resource recovery sys-tems.
In addition; our Superin-tendent
has travelled to, or other-wise
familiarized himself with,
waste-to-energy systems all over
this nation. He - has spoken to
those involved in systems func-tioning
in Europe for 50 years.
"The five lay persons on the
elected Board of Trustees of Free-port
will cast their vote as ~io
whether this plan will go ahead
based on the information gather-ed
' by the Superintendent, by
their own individual .investi-gations
and on the opinions of the
federal and state regulatory
agencies without whose approval
the plant cannot function. I sus-pect
the emotionalism expressed
by residents ofMerrick at recent
Freeport public Board meetings
will be put in the context of
persons who are largely unaware
of the contractual safeguards
Freeport will insist upon if this
proposal is to come about.
' 'The members of the Freeport
Board of Trustees live in the.
Village and our children live here.
It is our responsibility to dispose
of our community's garbage in an
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The US Department of Housing
Jand Urban Development (HUD)
provides a free counseling service
for qualified homeowners with
FHA mortgages who face fore-closure.
Some 500 homeowners in
the Nassau, Suffolk and Queens
: area saved their homes by going
to the service last year. However,
according to HUD, the vast
majority of persons facing fore-closure
fail to seek help despite
notification by the bank holding
their FHA mortgage that the free
service is available.
Under the program, a typical
family might be paying $500 a
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environmentally-sound way with
the least economical impact on
the taxpayers. We are investiga-ting
one method to alleviate one
of the most serious problems
facing Long Island municipalities
today." .
Commenting on the matter
further, Mayor White said, "I
wonder if, in the long run, News-day
knows as much about the cur-rent
thinking on resource re-covery
systems among the ex-perts
as the Village does. . .
"For instance, Steven Levy,
Chief of the Technical Assistance
Branch of the Resource Recovery
Division of EPA spoke at the
Urban Waste to Energy workshop
at the 1979 Annual Conference of
Mayors where he stated, 'EPA
feels'that where it is economically
justified, resource recovery can
be successfully implemented,
provided that the projects are
carefully planned and executed.
In fact, EPA has structured its
resource recovery program to en-courage
and to assist communi-ties
to implement resource
recovery...While it's true that we
. don!t have a long history of
numerous successfully operating
plants, we have learned enough
from our successes and failures to
enable communities to build
systems which would entail
acceptable levels of risk.'.
"Don Walter, Chief of the
Urban Waste and Municipal
Systems Branch of the US Depart-ment
of Energy said at the same
conference, '...I fully believe
municipal waste is a viable
energy source; it is environ-mentally
and economically sound,
and finally, it will provide up to
3% of our energy needs if we get
on and use it.'"
month in mortgage payments.
Working with the service, those
payments could be reduced to
$400 for one year to allow the
family to catch up financially. The
12 months of reduced payments
would leave them owing. HUD
$1,200 which would then be paid
back over 10 years with no
interest.
The counseling agency for
Nassau County is the Family
Service Center. 2093 Bellmore
Avenue, Bellmore, NY 11710.
Phone number is 785-4225.
Franny Umansky. is -the director
and Shirley Rothenberg the hous-ing
counselor.
Ramona Crook, director of the
Village's free Homefinders Ser-vice,
reports that the group sold
20 houses in the Village in the
period from April to June. The
lowest cost house went for
$27,000 and the highest for
'$58,000. " " "- " " ~ : - . " " ""•"
The houses sold are on Park
Avenue, Hampton Place, Nassau
Avenue, Layton Street, Oakfield
Avenue, Juanita Avenue, Graf-fing
Place, Maryland Avenue,
Polk Street, Moody Avenue, Jef-ferson
Street, Ray Street, South
.'Bay view Avenue, East First
Street, Bedell Street,. Guy Lorn
bardo Avenue, Church Street,
Davison Place and two on South
Long Beach Avenue.
The Freeport Police Depart-ment
has developed a program of
conducting security surveys for
homeowners and business people
in the community. The purpose of
these surveys is to reduce the
attractiveness of a possible
burglary target by the use of
various security techniques avail-able
to the property owner.
Burglary is often a crime of
opportunity, and ,in many,_ca.ses _
this opportunity can be reduced if
one knows what to do and what
not to do.
Sergeant Joseph King of the
Department has recently com-pleted
an intensive course in the
various aspects of crime pre-
A major problem in our Sewer
System today is GREASE build-up.
When heated in hot water,
grease dissolves and runs with
little problem out of a house or
building sewer line. However, up-on
entering the street line, it cools
and begins forming globules and
accumulates with other GREASE.
These GREASE accumulations
begin to cling to the wall of the
sewer pipe. The ultimate result is
a BLOCKED sewer line which
The buyers came from apart-ments
in Freeport and from Lyn-brook,
Wantagh, Brooklyn,
Valley Stream, Massapequa and
Baldwin. In one case, a Freeport
family sold their house through
.the. •Homefinders Service .to a
Baldwin couple and then pur-chased
a larger house in Freeport
through the Service.
Freeport homeowners who
must sell their house due to job
transfers, retirement, etc., may
list it with Homefinders for view-ing
by prospective buyers. There
is no commission to either buyer
or seller. Mrs. Crook can be
reached every business day at.
Village Hall, FR 8-4000.
vention and crime prevention
techniques, given by the New
York State Division of Criminal
Justice Services. He will utilize
this knowledge to assist resi-dents,
as well as owners of com-mercial
and industrial establish-ments,
who have experienced
burglaries or attempts.
. This is a limited program
depending on Sergeant King's
-other duties.- He may be reached
by calling the Freeport Police
Department at 378-0700.
The program is part of the
Freeport Police Department's
effort to eliminate burglaries in
our community.
then becomes a problem for all
people concerned.
With the help of all residents
and businesses we can eliminate
a great deal of this problem. Be-fore
washing pans or containers
having cooking oil, fat or grease,
drain them into a tin can or con-tainer
which can be disposed of in
the garbage when the grease has
hardened. A small expense com-pared
to the damage a sewage
back-up can cause.
