o o TH..•/••.E. WESTFIEL' D LEADER (Q O - M a; o The Leading and Mo8t Widely Circulated Weekly Newspaper In Union County ! §"& U5PSwmojo Pubilihid I, NO. 37 Scvond CtiM PIHMIC Paid WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1981 Ev«ry Thuradty 24 Pages—25 Cents nwntlkM. NJ. Gulotta Heads B of E; Council Restores Funding Senus Elected V.P. Marilyn Gulotta was the legislation, community unanimously elected information and operations For Defeated School Garage president of the school committee. board at its organization She is a programming meeting Tuesday night. analyst with Prudential Despite objections from three coun- last week's school election, indicated a efficiency of the school system; and Leon Senus was elected Insurance Co. at Roseland cilmen, agreement was reached more conservative spending program. "2. Failure to provide this facility vice-president. and is also the vice- Tuesday night to restore about half of Brady added that he felt two town yard would be anticipated to result in school Harvey Wolfs on chairman of the educational the school capital outlay program bays could be freed for use of school maintenance and operational problems nominated Mrs. Gulotta for council for M.I.T, for the defeated by voters last week. vehicles, and Caldora added that this is because of failure of automotive support the. presidency and Joan centsral New Jersey area. While a $90,000 computer purchase "no time to allow more money to be for lack of proper maintenance which Unger seconded the She and her husband, was deemed to be unnecessary at this spent." would also result in a disruption of the nomination. As no other Charles, a manager, of time, the Town Council voted 6-3 that a While voters defeated the capital educational process. - names were put forth, operation , systems $106,000 maintenance garage should be outlay portion of the school budget last "The governing body also finds that Board Secretary James development at SeaLand allowed to remain in the budget. week, they gave a 350 vote plurality to the portion of the capital projects budget : Krieger cast the single vote. Services, Inc. at Elizabeth- Failure to provide the garage, which operating expenses amounting to $18.8 relating to the purchase of new com- : James England port, live on Colonial Ave. has been the subject of collective million. puter equipment is not necessary at this ; nominated and Lillis Hull with their daughter, bargaining, the council said, could result Board members and councilmen met time to provide a thorough and efficient seconded Leon Senus for the Miriam, a sophomore at in a labor dispute and disrupt the ef- Monday night to discuss the capital issue system of schools for the district for the : vice-presidency. Thomas Westfield High School. ficiency of the school system. defeat; if dissatisfied with Tuesday following reasons: : Sullivan nominated Joan Prior to the meeting new The Board of Education, however, night's council decision, the school board "1. The current computer system is Unger, In the subsequent board members, Miss Hull, must seek a use variance before the could appeal the cut of the $0,000 presently providing instruction in and poll of the board, Senus Wolfson, Vincentsen and ' Marilyn Gukttta Leon Senus Board of Adjustment if it plans to build computer to State Commissioner of exposure to computer technology to received votes . from England were administered Resolutions were read . During the public portion the maintenance facility adjacent of the Education Fred Burke. students at the high school and junior England, Hull, Senus, V. the oath of office by Krieger. honoring Frederick of the meeting, several old Elm St. School which it currently In its 6-3 ruling Tuesday, the Town high school level and is functioning William Vincehtten and Gulotta lauded past- Buhrendorf and Joan Franklin School parents uses as administrative headquarters. Council said in part: satisfactorily in that regard. Wolfson; Unger, from president Sullivan for his Corbet, members of the induing two new board This site drew comments from "The governing body finds that the "2. Sufficient funds are expected to be Sullivan and Unger, Gulotta contributions and unlimited previous board who were members. Vincentsen and Councilwoman Betty List, who com- portion of the capital projects budget available from surplus to finance the abstained and Alice Dillon service to the board. defeated for re-election. (Continued on t>f *) mented that the board's differences on relating to the provision of an purchase of this equipment as a current wu absent from the vote. site selection had'' left many questions." automobile maintenance facility at expense item without requiring same to Mrs. Gulotta was first ^ At various times the school board opted Board of Education Offices at Elm St. be a capital project or affecting the tax elected to the board in 1W7 for building the maintenance garage at School is necessary for the provision of a rate. and If now entering the either Lincoln or Edison Junior High thorough and efficient system of schools "3. The Board of Education has not second year of hat second School before agreeing to seek funds to in the district for the following reasons: demonstrated a clear plan at the present term/She has been a construct it at its present location. "1. Failure to provide such a facility time showing what computer facilities member of the curriculum, Maintenance men now use a unpaved which has been the subject of collective would be purchased, their cost, and how legislation, community parking lot for auto maintenance and bargaining between the labor they would be used. information, operations, use portions of the Elm St. School for organization representing the school "4. The Board of Education has staff relations, finance and additional work. system custodial and maintenance conceded that the provision of an ad- policy review committees. The 1106,000 figure also was contested workers and the Board is .very likely to dition to the computer facility is im- Shu has bsan chairman of by Councilmen John Brady and James result in a labor dispute and possible portant but not critical to the CaMora who teltthe t taxpayer*, in their work stoppage, or slow down which educational process at the present Westfield in ltt« to 1454 defeat of capital projects in would severely adven*ry sited the time." 21at Legislative Arbof Day Trees Sought Friday, .AMI M will be Arbor Day in Westfield. new State legislative district Sometime during mid-spring, mest suites set aside • ""' ^ii l>-"i'«Tnd has new day for the purpose of planting trees for forest municipal "partnert' ' -'ailw" r products for soil and water conservation, and, as is as ; nprtMRtoiit: n ii usually the case here la town, for decorative and or- TrMim *mmi nemental purposes/ •::••/. '••!.•• :; . '''V''1 ' Thai week;Ta |>arBlcia>rk offers a good opportunity ef entee;sdmMrtttMl ay WrttfteM lo observe Ike beauty If uV trees already gracing the rmttHeard ef Edacatlea Heard Secretary James J. Krieger at la* heare's organ hull** town and to think about adding to the, woody by an aieetlMKTttradey algbt. the new beard nwmbiers, elected last wtek, are (left to right) population by donating a tree to be>planted in a town - Apportionment Committee Vhtceat William VbicenUea, Llllta A. Hull, Harvey K. Wolfson and James ('. England. park or in the downtown business district. working with two U.S. Arrangements for Memorial Trees may be made by Cemus population figures, calling Mrs. Goerge M. Rounds, Arbor Day chairman will be Cranford, Garwocd, of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Culture and - HllUlde, Kcnilworth, Town Budget Approved Beautification, or Mrs. William Wallace, Memorial : Roselle, Roselle Park, Trees Chairman. • Springfield and Union A $9.1 million municipal recognized as an historic program. Cost ol This year, Arbor Day is also Secretaries' Day - a Westfield, for the last 10 budget was unanimously site, council approved an renovations to the near living tree could make a thoughtful, lasting gift to a - yeart.hu been aligned with adopted by the Town application for funds for its century-old building ii valued employee. Garwoed, Cranford, Council Tuesday night; no restoration through a Hlltatde, Rosette, Roselle one appeared at the public Historic Grants-ln-Aid Park and Union in the 20th hearing on. the sum which YWCA Week Proclaimed. .. Mayor Allen Chin of Westfield proclaims April l» to r. Legislative District will ratte the local property as "National YWCA Week" a» Shirley Ren wick, left. YW executive director, and WestfleW's current three tax by four points toil year. Pedestrian Injured YWCA president Michelle llealy look on. The Westfield YWCA, 2211 Clark St., is ohserv- State reprstentatlve*. state ' Abo approved were minor Ing It* golden anniversary this year. Senator Anthony Ruwo, and language changes to the Aisernblymen, Louis land use. ordinance, and In Accident Tuesday permission to grant a sewer • Basaano and Chuck Hard* Police are investigating sent an Injured person to the Myrtle Ave. Residents wick all live In the new Jl»t easement in Scotch Plains. ;in accident that occurred hospital. Another accident dUtrlct, RIBS* aad Bassano Tuesday night around U:50 on Rahway Ave. produced in Union and Htrdwkk in A three-year contract with an injury but did not require the Teamsters local p.m. on East Broad St. be- Irked by Area Conditions Wettfleld. tween Harrison and Euclid hospitahzation of the victim, representing public works at the intersection of Rah- rats "as large as cats," meeting of the Town Council department employees was Aves. A woman pedestrian Deteriorating conditions was injured and ai of yes- way Ave. and First St. on sections of Myrtle Ave., illegal dumping and other in search of answers. ratified by council prior to Accidents also occurred at including poor street complaints brought a The group, which introduction of an ordinance terday was in critical con- dition at Overlook Hoipital, the intersections of lighting, faulty drainage, contingent of neighbors, to a previously had sent a letter setting pay scales for Lawrence and Kimball to council, was asked to members of the public Summit, According to reports, the woman was Aves.