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NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE NORMA GONSALVES, PRESIDING OFFICER FULL LEGISLATURE NORMA GONSALVES, CHAIRWOMAN 1550 Franklin Avenue Mineola, New York December 15, 2014 1:02 p.m. REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 2 A P P E A R A N C E S: NORMA GONSALVES Chair KEVAN ABRAHAMS Minority Leader SIELA A. BYNOE CARRIÉ SOLAGES DENISE FORD LAURA CURRAN FRANCIS X. BECKER (Not Present) HOWARD J. KOPEL VINCENT T. MUSCARELLA RICHARD J. NICOLELLO ELLEN BIRNBAUM DELIA DeRIGGI-WHITTON MICHAEL VENDITTO LAURA SCHAEFER DENNIS DUNNE, SR. JUDY JACOBS ROSE MARIE WALKER DONALD MACKENZIE DAVID DENENBERG WILLIAM MULLER Clerk of the Legislature REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 3 INSERT TO TRANSCRIPT Page 137, Line 9 through Page 156, Line 18 REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 4 LIST OF SPEAKERS PENNY ELLIS. 6 JAMES CARVER . 9 STEVEN SKRYNECKI . 17 JOHN JARONCYK. 20 META MENEDAY . 41 PATRICIA FRIEDMAN. 45 TOM BRUNO. 50 PAT BOYLE. 51 SAM LEVINE . 51 ROBIN LAVEMAN. 57 GREG MAY . 59 GARY ACKERMAN. 60 DOMENICA CALIFANO. 60 ALLISON BLANCHETTE . 65 RICHARD CLOLERY. 68 AARON LOPEZ. 70 GAVIN CUMMING. 72 DEBBIE WILSON. 74 JOHN MICHNA. 77 BRUCE MARKOWITZ. 80 TERRY WINSTON. 81 REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 5 JAMIE BOGENSHUTZ . 82 LIST OF SPEAKERS (cont'd) ANDREW MALEKOFF. 94 JOANNE BORDEN. 96 PAUL EGGERS. 98 HENRY BOITEL . 104 VERONICA VANDERPOOL. 108 CLAUDIA BORECKY. 111 RICH GOLDSTEIN . 114 JAMES CARRICCIOLA. 117 ALEX SLATKY. 120 JOHN SULINSKY. 123 MARTY LYONS. 124 ROBERT BENESH. 125 ARLENE O'DELL. 127 KENNETH KESTENBAUM . 128 MICHAEL RYAN . 131 ROB WALKER . 148 JOHN BUDNICK . 152 REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 6 2 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: I would like to 3 call on Legislator Dunne to lead us in the Pledge 4 of Allegiance. 5 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 6 r e ci te d. ) 7 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Okay. Today, one 8 of our fellow legislators has a point of personal 9 privilege, and I believe it's a privilege for all 10 of us here today. Without any further ado, 11 Legislator Ford will introduce the point of 12 personal privilege. 13 LEGISLATOR FORD: Good morning. And 14 thank you very much Presiding Officer Gonsalves. 15 Today, I'm happy once again to provide 16 everyone here with a wonderful, wonderful holiday 17 treat, as I introduce the Oceanside High School 18 Dance Team and their Best Buddies, under the 19 Direction of Penny Ellis, who was Teacher of the 20 Year, and the dance instructor, Kristen Perufal 21 (phonetic). 22 So, everybody, sit back and enjoy. 23 And Laura Gallalack (phonetic). I'm REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 7 2 sorry if I missed anybody. 3 Welcome, students. And we're looking 4 forward to your dance. We're all going to sit 5 back and enjoy. 6 This also, I failed to mention, that 7 Legislator Kopel and it might even be Legislator 8 Curran also has parts of Oceanside. Correct. So 9 you actually have three legislators up here who 10 are very, very proud and very happy that you've 11 come here to entertain us. So let the dancing 12 b e gi n. 13 I stand corrected by the teachers. Thank 14 you very much. Take it away. 15 Thank you very much. As you can tell, 16 Radio City and the Rockettes have nothing on this 17 group. Thank you very much for taking the time 18 o u t. 19 Penny, would you to just come up and say 20 a few words? 21 MS. ELLIS: Hi. We'd like to thank all 22 of you for coming. And on behalf of Laura 23 Galleck and Kristin Perufal, we want to wish you 24 all a happy and health holiday season and Happy 25 N e w Ye ar . REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 8 2 Also, we just want to let you know the 3 music was on fast mode, I think, and that's why 4 it didn't look the way it should have looked. So 5 we apologize for that. We just want to wish you 6 all a happy holiday season. 7 This really is a work of love. The dance 8 team, every single year, works with our students 9 and they practice with our students, and they 10 work very, very hard to include our students in 11 the high school and in everything that they do. 12 Thank you, Kristen. Thank you. 13 MS. PERUFAL: Just so that you know, 14 Best Buddies is a club and Anthony Shriver 15 started when he was in college, and it's a club 16 that pairs up students with intellectual 17 disabilities and the typical students from the 18 high school. They all do an amazing job. And 19 it's a club that pairs up friendships. And the 20 friendships that we've had in our high school, we 21 have over 150 members in our high school club. 22 It's actually the first Best Buddies Club 23 that was started on Long Island. There are now 24 12 chapters on Long Island. And we're just so 25 proud of our students. REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 9 2 This past year we were nominated the best 3 chapter in New York; we are very proud of that. 4 And we are celebrating our tenth anniversary this 5 year, also. 6 And thank you to all the legislators for 7 having us. Thank you, Denise. 8 LEGISLATOR FORD: Thank you very much. 9 Once again, Penny Ellis, who had been voted Top 10 Teacher of the Year throughout the United States 11 I forget how many years ago. As you can tell, 12 even with the music being fast and they were used 13 to this, the students, you could see how 14 professional that they are. They did their 15 dance. They went through the routine without 16 missing a beat. Congratulations to all of you. 17 And thank you everybody for your 18 patience. Thank you. 19 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: It's always nice 20 during this holiday season to see how our young 21 people do perform and add that little extra cheer 22 that some of us may need. 23 We have some other point of personal 24 privilege today. This is something that all of 25 us here on the legislature have tried to do since REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 10 2 September, or October, I should say. We are 3 going to continue in that tradition, and that is 4 for us to honor our top cops. We have a few of 5 them here with us today. I will call them by 6 name and give a description of why they're being 7 recognized as PBA's top cops. 8 I believe the president of the PBA is 9 here with us too today. Am I correct? Okay. 10 You can introduce the first two, the life 11 saving award recognition, to the two officers, 12 and then, if you want, you can do the description 13 or I can read it. 14 MR. CARVER: However you want to handle 15 it, Norma. What Norma wants, she gets, right? 16 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Yes. Go ahead. 17 Who do we have here? 18 MR. CARVER: Glen Ciccone is president 19 of the detectives, and to the left of me is Kevin 20 Black, the vice president of the superior 21 o f fi ce rs . 22 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Okay. Good. 23 Thank you. 24 MR. CARVER: First off, let me thank you 25 for reinstituting this program. As we all know, REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 11 2 the media sometimes tries to shine a light on 3 alleged bad behavior of police officer instead of 4 the good behavior. And if they ever concentrated 5 on the good behavior of police officers, they 6 wouldn't have enough paper to print what our men 7 and women do day in and day out in Nassau County. 8 One of the best jobs in the world or the 9 greatest job in the world is committing yourself 10 to a career as a police officer, raising your 11 right hand and protecting the people or those 12 that you represent for 20, 30 years, our police 13 officers. And I don't believe that anyone does 14 it better than the men and the women of the 15 Nassau County Police Department. 16 Today, Norma, if you want, I'll read them 17 all because this is kind of special to us. This 18 is our top cops of the year. Again, these are 19 the best of the best, performance over the last 20 12 months. We just give you a short story about 21 what happened. There is more detail that goes 22 into this. The persistence in some of these 23 cases is outstanding, the work that the 24 detectives do, the police officers do when there 25 is a situation that arises and the commitment REGAL REPORTING SERVICES 516-747-7353 1 Full Legislature – 12-15-14 12 2 that they have. 3 The first one that we have is a 4 lifesaving award. We have Police Officer Jimmy 5 Duignan and Scott Theil from the Third Precinct, 6 if they could come up here.

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