•y. u_ o o •E WESTFIELD LEADER ~=LUi IC O« I LLI M—t Hidet* Cireutmted Weekly JVewjmper I* Umimm •A*, NO. 27 Published WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1985 Every Thursday 20 Pages—30 Cents Mayor to Appoint Library Study Committee A five-member committee to Kolterjahn said the Board of expanding the existing library study alternate plans for the pro- Trustees's prime directive is a would be that more people would posed library will be formally in- new library and that he wholly be needed to run it. troduced by Mayor Ronald concurs with the mayor in look- Frigerio at next Tuesday's public ing at site alternatives. Kolter- Corbet said a new library could meeting of the Town Council. jahn added that he is looking for a add $75,000 to $100,000 annually in At this week's Town Council substantial contribution from an heating and maintenance ex- meeting, the mayor proposed outside source which would con- penses to the town budget. He five names to constitute a panel tribute toward operating ex- added however, that these addi- to explore the town's options, in- penses, but so far he has had no tional costs would be at least par- cluding the expansion of the ex- success in finding a patron. He tially offset by more efficient isting library and a new library said that one of the nroblems with staffing at the proposed facility. on the site of the former Grant School. Committee members expected To Limit Budget Hike to to be named by Frigerio are A 6.5 percent increase in the providing for a flashing traffic Couneilmen William Corbet and capped portion of the 1985signal at West Broad St. and Garland Boothe; former council municipal budget will be Scotch Plains Ave. and increas- member Raymond Stone; Li- guaranteed under an ordinance ing membership on the library brary Board of Trustees Presi- expected to be introduced at board of trustees from seven to dent Paul H. Kolterjahn and Tuesday's 8:30 p.m. public nine. building and grounds chairman meeting of the Town Council. Harrison Watson. Public hearing on this, and Also on Tuesday's tentative The committee is expected to another ordinance restructuring agenda are approval of a con- report its findings to the mayor in fees for permits under various tract for a kiddie pool at the a month's time. subcodes of the State Uniform memorial pool complex, agree- The committee will reconsider Construction Code, is scheduled ment for bus shelters on North the potential viability of expand- for the council's meeting Feb. 26. Ave. at Birch PI. and at Elm St., HH the Ice... Te ••me, the recent SMb-cer* temperature* were warmly welcomed. Skaters flocked this ing the existing library. Last Final action will follow public and approval of raffle and land- week, Frigerio re-opened discus- sea pers' licenses. past week to Tama^wi P«nd (pictured) and Mlnd*wa«kin Park for some mid-winter fun. The Town sion on this alternative, saying hearings Tuesday on ordinances PMMIC Works scrape* Uie Ice dally to keep the mar face In excellent skating condition. that he believed the town could save $1 million, mostly in con- School Board Rules Out School Board and WEA to struction costs. Last November, in a non- • binding referendum, Westfield Consolidation of Positions voters recommended construc- Begin Negotiations tion of a new 31,000 square foot The Mountainside Board of dent, Camie Delaney. library at a cost of $3.5 million on Education in a special meeting Meeting in the newly renovated Negotiations between the Joseph Rizzt of Winne, Banta Salinard. guidance counselor at the former Grant School site on Tuesday night ruled out the con- Board office on Route 22 at New Westfield Board of Education and Rizzi, a law firm specializing Edison Junior High School and Arlington and Stanley Aves. solidation of the positions of Providence Rd., the Board's and the Westfield Education in school negotiations, is chief chairperson of the negotiating One of the main problems superintendent and principal in deliberations attracted a stand- Association, representing negotiator for the school board. team; Louise Larsen Anderson, which the new committee will the school district. ing room only crowd of Moun- teachers, nurses, librarians, Team members include James first grade teacher at Wilson face in considering the expansion With a 5-2 vote against the mo- tainside parents, senior citizens, guidance counselors, social England, chairperson of the Staff School; Robert Hild, English/- of the library is the addition of tion of Board member Patricia and other citizens who identified workers and school psycholo- Relations Committee, and com- journalism teacher at Edison parking. The plans for the new Knodel, the Board reaffirmed the themselves as having no children gists, are scheduled to begin on mittee members Kathleen Junior High School; Al Lantis, library made allowance for a district's traditional ad- in the public school. Deerfield Feb. 7. Marin, Carolyn Moran and Project 79/history teacher at parking deck, providing 66 addi- ministrative structure. Member School, with grades Kinder- Representatives from the Thomas Taylor. Westfield High School; Art Vice, tional spaces. The committee Linda Esemplare voted with garten through eighth grade, is School Board and the WEA will Jefferson 5/6 cluster •d.kysR will study all possible avenues in Mrs. Knorie! to combine the posi- the district's single school. The begin negotiating on a contract Ron Harvey of the New Jersey teacher; and Peggy KrychW- considering the expansion of the tions. ..Voting to retain separate pending retirement of school effective July 1,1985 The current Education Association is chief ecky, sixth grade teacher at library, including condemnation positions were Robert Gardella, principal Allan Shapiro at the end two-year contract will expire on negotiator for the WEA. Team Jefferson School and president of of private property in the vicinity Nancy Rau, Linda Schneider, of this school year prompted the June 30, 1965. members include Joseph the WEA. of the Municipal Building. James Pascuiti, and Board presi- discussion of job consolidation. CY & R Projects Target Student Safety Parents to Learn About Funds Awarded for Secondary School Studies Street Patty Monniger, chairperson reported. Although a "call back" ing with Parent-Teacher Council, of Children Youth and Recrea- program would be a positive step individual school PTAs and The calendar year — 1985 — courses will be answered. Course Reconstruction tion, (CY&R) reported at the last toward students' safety, Mrs. PTOs, and the Westfield Police has just begun but staff outlines will be available. Parent-Teacher Council meeting Monninger stressed that the pro- Department to present an eve-members, parents and students The program on Tuesday is Assemblymen Chuck Hard- that three of her committee's gram can only work if all parents ning program on the safety of in grades six through eleven are specifically designed for parents wick and Edward K. Gill have an- current projects are targeted to do their part. children as they travel to andbeginning to think about courses who will have children in the nounced that under the municipal the safety of Westfield students. An additional endeavor of from school. Details of this of study for the 1985-1986 acad- senior high school for the first aid portion of the 1984 New presentation will be forthcoming. emic year which begins in time in September, 1985; Jersey Transportation Trust CY&R is presently inves- Children Youth and Recreation is September. tigating the feasibility of a"call the presentation of the American Two other ongoing projects however, it is open to all inter- Fund Authority Act, Westfield back" system in the Westfield Red Cross program entitled which CY&R has sponsored are a Meetings for parents will be ested members of the communi- has been awarded $40,000 to be schools. A concerted effort is be- "Home Alone". This is a training discussion group on parenting held next week. ty. applied to the cost of reconstruc- ing undertaken to enlist the course aimed at the education of and the support of the Chemical Parents of present ninth grade Parents of students in sixth tion planned for Warren St. cooperation of parents in calling students and parents to promote People. "The Joys and Sorrows students in the town's two junior through eighth grades will have "This trust fund, which was school on the days that their child the safety of unsupervised of Raising an Adolescent," four high schools will have an oppor- an opportunity to discuss the established in July of 1984, pro- is absent., According to Mrs.children. Booklets and a slide highly informative workshops led tunity to discuss the high school seventh through ninth grade pro- vides a stable source of money Monninger, "The primary show will be made available to by Dr. Blanche Issac Perlman, program of studies for tenth gram of studies at 8 p.m. for the next four years, enabling responsibility lies with the students in grades kindergarten were held this past fall in through twelfth grade students at meetings on Thursday, Feb. 7, in longer range planning of both parents." If enough parents call through sixth grade in all cooperation with Special Serv- a special meeting set for Tues- each junior high school. highways and mass transporta- the schools, then it might be Westfield schools to develop an ices. Those attending these ses- day. Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. at the high Eugene Voll, principal of tion," Hardwick stated. "This possible for the schools to call awareness in this important sions received valuable insight school. RJHS, and Samuel Hazell.