Nassau County legislature
Committee Meeting
Mineola New York
November 14, 2011 1. Meeting Minutes Meeting Minutes
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Documents: GOVERNMENT SERIVCES COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF PUBLIC NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE WILL HOLD A FULL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011 STARTING AT 1:00 PM AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 STARTING AT 1:00 PM IN THE LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER, 1st FLOOR, THEODORE ROOSEVELT EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE BUILDING, 1550 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MINEOLA, NEW YORK 11501
NOVEMBER 28, 2011 FULL LEGISLATIVE SESSION…………………………………………… ..1:00 PM
COMMITTEE TIME RULES 1:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY 1:00 PM PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT & THE ENVIRONMENT 1:00 PM TOWNS, VILLAGES AND CITIES 1:00 PM ECONOMIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & LABOR 1:00 PM PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS 1:00 PM HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES 1:00 PM GOVERNMENT SERVICES AND OPERATIONS 1:00 PM MINORITY AFFAIRS 1:00 PM VETERANS AND SENIOR AFFAIRS 1:00 PM FINANCE 1:00 PM
William J. Muller III William J. Muller III Clerk of the Legislature Nassau County, New York
Dated: November 7, 2011 Mineola, NY
As per the Nassau County Fire Marshall’s Office, the Legislative Chamber has a maximum occupancy of 251 people and the outer chamber which will stream the meeting live, has a maximum occupancy of 72. Passes will be distributed on a first come first served basis beginning at 10:30 AM and attendees will be given an opportunity to sign in to address the Legislature for a maximum of three minutes. The Nassau County Legislature is committed to making its public meetings accessible to individuals with disabilities and every reasonable accommodation will be made so that they can participate. Please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Legislature at 571-4252, or the Nassau County Office for the Physically Challenged at 227-7101 or TDD Telephone No. 227-8989 if any assistance is needed. Nassau County legislature
Committee Meeting
Mineola New York
November 14, 2011 1. Meeting Minutes Meeting Minutes
Documents: FINANCE 11-14-11.PDF, GOVT SERVICES 11-14-11.PDF, HEALTH 11-14- 11.PDF, MIN AFFS 11-14-11.PDF, PLANNING 11-14-11.PDF, PUBLIC SAFETY 11-14- 11.PDF, PUBLIC WORKS 11-14-11.PDF, RULES 11-14-11.PDF 2. Economic Committee Agenda Economic Committee Agenda
Documents: ECONOMIC COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 3. Rules Committee Agenda & Addendum Rules Committee Agenda & Addendum
Documents: RULES COMMITTEE AGENDA ADDENDUM.PDF, RULES COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 4. Veterans Services Committee Agenda Veterans Services Committee Agenda
Documents: VETERANS SERVCES COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 5. Towns And Villages Committee Agenda Towns and Villages Committee Agenda
Documents: TOWNS AND VILLAGES COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 6. Health And Social Services Committee Agenda Health and Social Services Committee Agenda
Documents: HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE.PDF 7. Public Works Agenda Public Works Agenda
Documents: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AGENDA ADDENDUM.PDF, PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 8. Public Safety Committee Agenda Public Safety Committee Agenda
Documents: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE AGENDA ADDENDUM.PDF, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 9. Planning Committee Agenda Planning Committee Agenda
Documents: PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 10. Minority Affairs Committee Agenda Minority Affairs Committee Agenda
Documents: MINORITY AFFARIS COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 11. Finance Committee Agenda & Addendum Finance Committee Agenda & Addendum
Documents: FINANCE COMMITTEE AGENDA ADDENDUM.PDF, FINANCE COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF 12. Government Services Committee Agenda Government Services Committee Agenda
Documents: GOVERNMENT SERIVCES COMMITTEE AGENDA.PDF PUBLIC NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE WILL HOLD A FULL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011 STARTING AT 1:00 PM AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 STARTING AT 1:00 PM IN THE LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER, 1st FLOOR, THEODORE ROOSEVELT EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE BUILDING, 1550 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MINEOLA, NEW YORK 11501
NOVEMBER 28, 2011 FULL LEGISLATIVE SESSION…………………………………………… ..1:00 PM
COMMITTEE TIME RULES 1:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY 1:00 PM PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT & THE ENVIRONMENT 1:00 PM TOWNS, VILLAGES AND CITIES 1:00 PM ECONOMIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & LABOR 1:00 PM PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS 1:00 PM HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES 1:00 PM GOVERNMENT SERVICES AND OPERATIONS 1:00 PM MINORITY AFFAIRS 1:00 PM VETERANS AND SENIOR AFFAIRS 1:00 PM FINANCE 1:00 PM
William J. Muller III William J. Muller III Clerk of the Legislature Nassau County, New York
Dated: November 7, 2011 Mineola, NY
As per the Nassau County Fire Marshall’s Office, the Legislative Chamber has a maximum occupancy of 251 people and the outer chamber which will stream the meeting live, has a maximum occupancy of 72. Passes will be distributed on a first come first served basis beginning at 10:30 AM and attendees will be given an opportunity to sign in to address the Legislature for a maximum of three minutes. The Nassau County Legislature is committed to making its public meetings accessible to individuals with disabilities and every reasonable accommodation will be made so that they can participate. Please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Legislature at 571-4252, or the Nassau County Office for the Physically Challenged at 227-7101 or TDD Telephone No. 227-8989 if any assistance is needed. 1
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2 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: I'm calling
3 the Finance Committee to order. I request
4 that Mr. Muller call the roll, please.
5 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
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9 B o s w o r t h ?
10 LEGISLATOR BOSWORTH: Here.
11 CLERK MULLER: Ranking Member
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13 LEGISLATOR WINK: Here.
14 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Walker?
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Here.
16 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Dunne
17 substituting for Legislator Muscarella?
18 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Here.
19 CLERK MULLER: Vice Chairman
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21 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Here.
22 CLERK MULLER: Chairman Nicolello?
23 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Here.
24 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
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2 The first item is Clerk Item 338 of 2011, an
3 ordinance supplemental to the annual
4 appropriations ordinance in connection with
5 the Nassau County Police Department.
6 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
7 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
8 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
9 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
10 Dunne. Do we have a speaker on this item?
11 This was called in Public Safety. We have
12 some more questions.
13 MR. CONROY: Good afternoon, Bob
14 Conroy, OMB.
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Mr. Conroy,
16 just briefly tell us what we're doing here.
17 MR. CONROY: This transfer is $35
18 million from the contingency in the budget
19 to the AA line of police headquarters due to
20 a contingency not materializing.
21 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Legislator
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23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I asked
24 you questions about this in public safety
25 and you had explained, and I don't want to
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2 paraphrase you, but this $35 million covers
3 the $45 million in labor concessions that
4 weren't realized, correct?
5 MR. CONROY: It covers what
6 they're going to need -- the estimate of
7 what they're going to need for the remainder
8 of the year, but the primary reason for it
9 is the fact it's a $45 million, there are
10 savings that they are incorporating as well.
11 There are vacancy savings that offset it,
12 that bring it down to the amount that's
13 needed here.
14 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So the
15 cost overrun was 45, but ten million of that
16 cost overrun, there were other cuts that
17 were made to offset what we didn't realize,
18 c o r r e c t ?
19 MR. CONROY: No, the cost overrun
20 would be 35 because that's what's needed.
21 They put 45 in the budget as a reduction, a
22 contingency, but it turns out because of
23 vacancy savings and other plans to bond some
24 termination pay, there are not going to need
25 that, they'll just need to transfer 35.
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Now, the
3 35 that you say is transferred, is coming
4 from contingency?
5 MR. CONROY: Yes.
6 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: If you
7 look at the budget, the only contingency was
8 actually put in by amendment for 11,
9 c o r r e c t ?
10 MR. CONROY: I thought it was put
11 in the budget, my understanding of it.
12 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: My
13 understanding of the contingency in the
14 budget, the only contingency in the budget I
15 thought was put in by amendment, but,
16 regardless, the contingency in the budget,
17 as I read it, would have come from land
18 sales and the Mitchell Field lease, I guess
19 amortization, when we sold the Mitchell
20 Field leases for money up front for the 30
21 year's worth of leases for money up front, I
22 will call it the Mitchell Field amortization
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24 There is no other contingency
25 that I can see, and yet I don't see the land
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2 sales because they haven't happened yet, and
3 both Deputy County Executive Sullivan as
4 well as Comptroller Maragos said that the
5 contingency, the fund contingency of the
6 Mitchell Field leases and the real estate
7 land sales haven't occurred yet, I'm sorry,
8 the Mitchell Field securitization. The
9 Mitchell Field securitization using that as
10 a contingency hasn't been approved by NIFA
11 yet and the land sales, both Mr. Sullivan
12 and Mr. Maragos said the land sales haven't
13 happened yet. So I don't know where we're
14 getting the $35 million from.
15 MR. CONROY: I would have to
16 double-check about that.
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: And I
18 could be wrong, but I think it was by
19 amendment of the majority last year that the
20 contingency was actually put in the budget
21 and that contingency was based on the
22 Mitchell Field securitization and land
23 sales, both, again, haven't happened.
24 So we're transferring money that
25 I don't think we can transfer. We don't
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2 have it yet. We couldn't use fund balance
3 because if the fund balance wasn't put in as
4 a contingency in our budget, which it
5 wasn't, we can't use it.
6 Is there someone here? We were
7 polled on this and I think all of us wanted
8 to do, make the transfer available because
9 we don't want payroll not to be made. I
10 have no problem, and I don't want payroll
11 not to be made.
12 All legislators, and I can't
13 speak for the majority side, but certainly
14 on the minority side, when we were polled we
15 wanted to allow this board transfer, but the
16 comptroller, Maragos said we couldn't be
17 polled on this because the contingency just
18 wasn't there, the land sales hadn't happened
19 yet, and the Mitchell Field securitization,
20 which would be more than enough, still, A,
21 hasn't closed, and, B, hasn't approved by
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23 So I think that's 36 or 38
24 million that isn't available because it
25 hasn't closed and hasn't been approved. And
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2 the land sales I think were down to,
3 expecting maybe $15 million, is what
4 Mr. Sullivan said. And Mr. Sullivan said we
5 haven't closed on those yet. And, if we
6 did, we would know because we would have to
7 approve the sales.
8 So I don't want to vote no, but I
9 don't think any of us don't want to make
10 payroll, but we are transferring money that
11 doesn't exist.
12 My counsel is just showing me a
13 November 1st e-mail. It's just showing me
14 that we've been notified by the
15 comptroller's office that we couldn't
16 approve this because he can't confirm that
17 this fund is available.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Mr. Conroy
19 obviously doesn't have the answers to this
20 as he's represented. Our counsel is
21 indicating that the Grumman sale has closed
22 and apparently $10 million is there, but
23 obviously that doesn't equate to the full
24 amount and the same reason why you were
25 willing to poll this, that still applies,
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2 you don't want the county not to meet
3 payroll, so my suggestion is that we pass
4 this along and that we, in two weeks, or
5 before two weeks, will know what --
6 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I will
7 agree with the chair that since we were all
8 in favor of this in polling because we want
9 to make payroll, I certainly want to put
10 this in a position that it can go through
11 two weeks from now. I do note, as we said
12 all along, this is contingency. It is all
13 one-shots. But to come up with $35 million,
14 I just don't see it right now, and that's a
15 lot of land sales and that's a
16 securitization that would have to be
17 approved before this occurs. Thank you.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Something to
19 add to this?
20 MS. DELIVA: Roseanne Deliva from
21 OMB. I just wanted to address that. The
22 movement is to move expense appropriation
23 from contingency to the PD.
24 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: What does
25 that mean?
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2 MS. DELIVA: It's just -- the
3 revenue --
4 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Boy, you
5 must have ran here quickly. I'm glad my
6 questioning got you to be sent so fast.
7 Catch your breath. We can wait two seconds.
8 MS. DELIVA: The transfer is
9 needed -- you're accurate in terms of that
10 the revenue is coming in on the revenue
11 side. It's just that the expense
12 appropriation is moving from contingency to
13 the PD in terms of the salary line.
14 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: My concern
15 is, I understand that we're moving, the
16 expense is being moved from contingency to
17 PD in the salary line, but the revenue for
18 that contingency based on both questioning
19 of Comptroller Maragos, as well as
20 Mr. Sullivan, I don't see the revenue being
21 there yet. I don't see the Mitchell Field
22 securitization closing yet or being approved
23 to be used by NIFA.
24 MS. DELIVA: I actually do
25 believe that the land sales have occurred.
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2 MR. SULLIVAN: You always have
3 the ability to move an appropriation.
4 Obviously, if the revenues do not come in by
5 the end of the year, you have what is a
6 deficit. But whenever you set up an
7 appropriation, you're able to spend up to
8 the amount of money. All budgets have
9 timing in them and things like that.
10 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So you're
11 saying we're okaying the spending of money
12 that we may not have, and if we don't have
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14 MR. SULLIVAN: I think we are
15 very close, the Mitchell Field transaction I
16 think we're very close. We anticipate
17 getting that closed in the next three weeks.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: What about
19 the Grumman sale, has that been --
20 MR. SULLIVAN: That's already
21 been consummated. That's done.
22 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: And that's
23 $10 million, correct?
24 MR. SULLIVAN: 15. 10 this year,
25 5 next year.
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: That did
3 get legislative approval, so that would be
4 10 of this 35?
5 MR. SULLIVAN: That's correct.
6 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: But we're
7 still 25 short?
8 MR. SULLIVAN: With the Mitchell
9 Field securitization, which I believe is
10 $37.5 million, as I stated, we anticipate
11 that closing pretty close to that in the
12 next three weeks.
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: That's
14 37.5 to close, then we would still need
15 NIFA's approval to use it as a one shot?
16 MR. SULLIVAN: That is correct.
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So we
18 haven't even asked NIFA --
19 MR. SULLIVAN: We have been in
20 discussions. We think this is something,
21 again, it was budgeted in 2011. It was part
22 of the contingency that was set up. This
23 legislature last year appropriated I believe
24 it was $55 million in various sales.
25 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG:
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2 Mr. Sullivan, to avoid creating a deficit or
3 missing payroll, I think both of those are
4 bad options for the legislators up here.
5 Are you saying that you would expect by the
6 end of the year that the Mitchell Field
7 securitization, which was already approved I
8 think at least 11-8, that that will close
9 this year and the approval by NIFA to use it
10 as a one shot to cover salary --
11 MR. SULLIVAN: We are hoping --
12 we are anticipating that it will close this
13 year and that we will -- I think NIFA is not
14 fond of the action, obviously, it is
15 something that they will -- they say is not
16 gap compliant, but on a budgetary basis,
17 that is something that we feel can be
18 utilized in 2011.
19 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I think
20 obviously all of us who voted against it
21 weren't fond of that either, but,
22 nevertheless, it went through. My question
23 to you is, do you believe that NIFA will
24 approve the use of the 37.5 from the
25 Mitchell Field securitization for this one
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2 shot before the end of the year?
3 MR. SULLIVAN: My belief is that
4 they will. Again, it will be something that
5 will be used as a one time budgetary balance
6 method that when we put forward a multiyear
7 plan, I think there was an agreement in
8 place, the county would not achieve, at the
9 end of the day, term structural balance
10 until 2015. That there would be this
11 transition period over the years where we
12 would transition the budget until the gap
13 basis, but they would approve it on a
14 budgetary basis for 2011.
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Any other
16 questions?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 Thank you, Mr. Sullivan, Mr.
19 Conroy. Hearing none, any public comment?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 All those in favor of moving this
22 item to the Rules Committee please say aye.
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24 Those opposed?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 It carries unanimously. We will
3 now be calling Items 420 and 421 of 2011.
4 We are still waiting for additional
5 information with respect to this settlement.
6 Item 435 of 2011, a local law to amend
7 Subdivision D of Section 2216 and
8 Subdivision B of Section 2217 of the
9 Administrative Code in relation to
10 increasing fees for fingerprinting
11 employees.
12 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
13 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
14 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
15 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
16 Dunne. Is there a speaker for this item?
17 MR. CAMP: Hi. My name is Carl
18 Camp. I'm the executive director of the
19 Nassau County Civil Service Commission.
20 I'm proposing this fee increase.
21 I can give you a little history if you're
22 interested. This started under a previous
23 administration and under one of your local
24 laws to fingerprint those people that had
25 contact with children when they were getting
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2 jobs in Nassau County.
3 Since its very creation, we have
4 set aside a budgetary item to cover this.
5 So we have never really charged people that
6 came in for printing. In today's day and
7 age, the state charges me anywhere from 50
8 to $75 to get the prints, and I want to pass
9 this on to the people coming in for
10 employment.
11 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Mr. Camp,
12 some of the increases here are up to 150?
13 MR. CAMP: That's correct.
14 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: That's over
15 and above what the state is charging?
16 MR. CAMP: It's over and above
17 what the state is charging. I'm recouping
18 some of the administrative costs that I
19 have. I did purchase an electronic
20 fingerprinting machine which we utilize
21 almost on a daily basis. So there are a lot
22 of other costs. Getting the prints back
23 from the state is only the very beginning.
24 I have to have an investigator go out and
25 speak with these people, get court records
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2 to see what they are before I put them
3 through the three man commission.
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: These are
5 applicants for employment that will be
6 paying these fees?
7 MR. CAMP: That's correct. They
8 are people who come in for employment who
9 have contact with children within different
10 departments within the County of Nassau.
11 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Is it
12 applicants for employment with the county
13 exclusively or with other municipalities?
14 MR. CAMP: Only with Nassau
15 C o u n t y .
16 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Just before,
17 there might be individuals who are not
18 employed at present.
19 MR. CAMP: We do have in
20 existence a method to waive fees just as we
21 do for examinations.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: How do you
23 determine that, is it based on income?
24 MR. CAMP: Based on any type of
25 public service that they're getting. If
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2 they are unemployed currently, we can waive
3 that fee.
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: From my own
5 perspective, I can see recouping the monies
6 that we are paying out to the state, but
7 going above and beyond what the state is
8 charging us, especially with the applicants
9 who are not currently employed, it seems
10 like there's a hardship we're imposing on
11 people who are coming for employment, they
12 may not get the job. So I would personally
13 would like to see, and I think we are going
14 to add an amendment to reflect that we will
15 charge whatever the cost is to the county
16 from the state.
17 MR. CAMP: Well, if you read the
18 law, it says our fee as declared by the
19 commission. I never planned on charging
20 more than what it actually cost, but in some
21 cases we will be taking on fingerprinting of
22 different types of candidates, where I would
23 have to get FBI prints, and I put that in
24 there simply to cover the maximum cost that
25 I would have in the future.
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2 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: We will be
3 taking a look at this. Our interest here is
4 we want to recoup the cost to the county,
5 but, again, since we are dealing with
6 applicants for employment and, in this
7 economy, we have 10, 15 percent
8 unemployment, real unemployment. There's a
9 lot of hardship out there. We don't want to
10 necessarily increase that, especially some
11 of these individuals won't be getting the
12 job. Legislator Dunne and then Legislator
13 Denenberg.
14 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: To be a
15 substitute teacher at any of the schools,
16 you have to be fingerprinted. You have to
17 go to the police department and you have to
18 be fingerprinted. To be a referee in any of
19 the sports through BOCES, you have to be
20 fingerprinted. There is another field,
21 banking, you have to be fingerprinted. So
22 this isn't uncommon to have to be charged to
23 be fingerprinted. They do it in other
24 municipalities and other districts. This
25 isn't just an excessive fee. The additional
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2 fee is what we are concerned about.
3 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Mr. Camp, I
4 want to just thank you for all the work that
5 you do. I think you really, more than any
6 civil service commissioner, makes archaic
7 laws, in many cases, at least work here in
8 Nassau County, so that things do move, so
9 thank you for your great great work. You
10 really do more than a yeoman's job, you do
11 the best job that I know of.
12 My familiarity with this is very
13 similar to what Legislator Nicolello said,
14 but it's even worse. People who are working
15 with children would include one of our
16 better programs which is the summer camps.
17 So you're talking about kids who will be
18 working with kids that have to get
19 fingerprinted. If they are under 18 years
20 old, I don't think they are making $10 an
21 hour. They might be making nine and half an
22 hour just for a summer job, or people that
23 are making hourly wages for a provisional
24 job where their first week plus in salary
25 for a six week summer program is going to go
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2 to just pay $150 for fingerprinting.
3 Certainly, I would think that
4 people making $12 an hour or $9.50 an hour
5 and people who are only working
6 provisionally just to have a summer job
7 which is really doing a service to all
8 residents in Nassau County, I can understand
9 that we have to do the fingerprinting
10 because we have to do the fingerprinting and
11 there's a cost, but we're taking a week or
12 two salary of a six week program --
13 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: He said up to,
14 he didn't say it has to be $150.
15 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you,
16 Legislator Dunne. We shouldn't be doing it,
17 period, okay? How do we adjust this
18 depending on the job or what people are
19 d o i n g ?
20 MR. CAMP: Well, there would be
21 the minimum fee that the state charges as
22 would be $50. So that would be a minimum
23 fee that I would be charging everyone across
24 the board that has to be fingerprinted that
25 was eligible to be printed. That's what the
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2 state charges me.
3 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So why
4 couldn't we just say, just recoup the state
5 charge? Why do we have to have this where
6 it could go up to $150?
7 MR. CAMP: That's exactly the
8 point of it. I was trying to set it so that
9 as the fees increased, for example, on these
10 young children, these young men and young
11 women that are working in parks, that would
12 have to be printed, we only get New York
13 State criminal justice prints on them.
14 On others, I would like to be
15 able to go to the FBI which is going to be
16 more costly. We have had cases in Nassau
17 County where they have actually followed
18 children from California and arrested them
19 in California, and our state results come
20 out completely negative, but they have been
21 arrested before in other states.
22 So there are a lot of things here
23 and, as I said, the printing is only the
24 beginning. It's what you do with the
25 prints. And what we present to the
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2 commissioners for approval or disapproval,
3 that's very important. And that sometimes
4 involves, in every case, investigation.
5 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Between
6 the cost of education, the lack of summer
7 jobs, how hard it is for our college
8 students and our high school or our young
9 people to be adding anymore cost to them, I
10 think, at the very least, if we are going to
11 run certain programs like a summer camp
12 program, the program can pay for itself.
13 But to get people that may or may not get a
14 job and then to charge them what could be
15 their first week's salary is just not the
16 way to go.
17 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Legislator
18 W i n k .
19 LEGISLATOR WINK: Mr. Camp, how
20 are you? Currently we charge $12 is it?
21 MR. CAMP: Currently we have not
22 charged anything for this program since the
23 previous administration and since you passed
24 that law. We have budgeted money. I think
25 it's approximately $75 or $80,000 a year to
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2 cover these prints, that we have not charged
3 in the past for fingerprinting.
4 LEGISLATOR WINK: $75,000 a year
5 is approximately what it takes to pay New
6 York State?
7 MR. CAMP: Approximately.
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: And you are
9 authorized currently to charge $12 per
10 p r i n t ?
11 MR. CAMP: It does say, or at the
12 discretion of the commission of the law.
13 LEGISLATOR WINK: Do you have any
14 idea what that would -- how many --
15 MR. CAMP: I would be glad to
16 work out a rate that was satisfactory to the
17 legislature and not charge as much and keep
18 money budgeted in that rate for the people
19 that Mr. Denenberg identified, I think
20 that's a good option for us.
21 LEGISLATOR WINK: Well, at
22 $75,000 a year, you said it's approximately
23 $50 per state investigation is that what the
24 state is charging you?
25 MR. CAMP: It's $50, yes.
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2 LEGISLATOR WINK: Does that also
3 factor in the possible FBI investigation?
4 MR. CAMP: No, it does not.
5 LEGISLATOR WINK: So you're
6 contemplating then --
7 MR. CAMP: $75 or more if there's
8 an FBI check.
9 LEGISLATOR WINK: So you're
10 contemplating about a thousand checks a
11 y e a r ?
12 MR. CAMP: Depending on the
13 hiring process, how many we're doing.
14 LEGISLATOR WINK: At least, as it
15 is right now, you could theoretically, of
16 those thousand, you could theoretically
17 garner $12,000 in fees under the current
18 ordinance; is that correct?
19 MR. CAMP: We don't charge at
20 a l l .
21 LEGISLATOR WINK: I understand
22 but, yet, in 2003, it appears that this
23 legislature approved a fee of $12.
24 MR. CAMP: Right.
25 LEGISLATOR WINK: Which hasn't
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2 been enforced?
3 MR. CAMP: Well, it has not been
4 charged because the county -- it was the
5 county executive's opinion, with the past
6 administration, that that should be borne by
7 the county.
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: But, doing
9 nothing, in other words, rejecting this
10 local law would still allow you to recoup
11 about $12,000 a year?
12 MR. CAMP: Right.
13 LEGISLATOR WINK: Maybe that's
14 the place to start. We are talking about
15 trying to recoup everything and here we've
16 been collecting nothing.
17 MR. CAMP: In this day and age,
18 my goal would be to collect what the state
19 is charging me for these prints and not a
20 penny less, in my opinion.
21 LEGISLATOR WINK: As much as I
22 can appreciate that, if the majority of
23 people being fingerprinted here are
24 lifeguards, rec aids, daycare employees,
25 things of that nature, we are talking about
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2 people making, 8, 10, maybe $12 an hour, and
3 we're talking about even under the current
4 state of affairs paying about an hour's
5 worth of salary for the right to be
6 fingerprinted for the right to take this
7 job. As bad as that may seem, in some
8 respect, it seems a lot more fair than
9 talking about an entire week's worth of pay
10 potentially in order for them to have the
11 right to be employed by the county.
12 MR. CAMP: As I said, our intent
13 was to build a fee structure that would not
14 charge them the full fee.
15 LEGISLATOR WINK: My sense
16 personally is that we should start with
17 what's authorized and see how that works out
18 before we go right to 50, 75, $150 a set of
19 prints. So thank you.
20 MR. CAMP: You're welcome.
21 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Just along
22 those lines, if we're able to recoup
23 $75,000, that might save a couple of jobs
24 that we're talking about,
25 MR. CAMP: Yes.
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2 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: So any other
3 q u e s t i o n s ?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 Is there any public comment?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 All those in favor please signify
8 by saying aye.
9 ( A y e . )
10 Any opposed?
11 ( N a y . )
12 It passes four to three and moves
13 on to Rules. Thank you, Mr. Camp.
14 Clerk Item 443 of 2011, an
15 ordinance amending prior legislation
16 establishing rules and regulations for the
17 use of parking on and traffic in and through
18 county owned property and making certain
19 determinations pursuant to SEQRA.
20 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
23 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
24 Walker. Good afternoon, Judge Marks.
25 JUDGE MARKS: Good afternoon.
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2 John Marks, Executive Director, TPVA.
3 MR. RICH: Dave Rich, assistant
4 executive director of TPVA.
5 JUDGE MARKS: We're seeking to
6 increase the maximum fine we can charge for
7 parking tickets of $150 to be consistent
8 with the New York State Vehicle and Traffic
9 Law and the Town of Oyster Bay and Town of
10 Hempstead.
11 Right now, in 1991, there was a
12 cap of $100 put on a parking ticket. We had
13 made an application to increase these fines
14 to the board of judges which is mandatory
15 and somebody, unfortunately, I didn't see
16 it, but somebody found this 1991 law. I
17 missed it. So they couldn't do anything
18 with it. They suggested we come back here
19 and get that threshold met before we go to
20 the board of judges to see what we can do
21 f u r t h e r .
22 LEGISLATOR WINK: Can I ask a
23 question?
24 JUDGE MARKS: Go ahead,
25 Legislator Wink.
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2 LEGISLATOR WINK: So, if I'm
3 understanding you correctly, the board of
4 judges said they weren't empowered to
5 authorize the increase because of this
6 existing local law?
7 JUDGE MARKS: Because there was
8 an 1991 law, a local law, that says the
9 maximum fine of parking tickets was $100.
10 Local Law 372 of 1991.
11 LEGISLATOR WINK: Is that a local
12 law or ordinance?
13 JUDGE MARKS: Ordinance.
14 LEGISLATOR WINK: For whatever
15 it's worth. Is it your impression then
16 that if this law is amended that the board
17 of judges will go along with your request
18 for the increase?
19 JUDGE MARKS: I wouldn't say
20 anything to that. That's not up to me.
21 It's an independent review. I would hope
22 so. I can't speak for the board of judges.
23 LEGISLATOR WINK: I guess,
24 fundamentally, my question is are we
25 undergoing an academic exercise here and the
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2 board of judges is going to say no, we think
3 the fine schedule is where it should be?
4 JUDGE MARKS: I can't answer that
5 question without having a crystal ball.
6 Unless we get the authority to present it to
7 them, they're not going to give me an
8 advisory opinion.
9 LEGISLATOR WINK: So they just
10 rejected this on the grounds of the 1991
11 l a w .
12 LEGISLATOR WINK: Thank you.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: This is for
14 vehicles on county property?
15 JUDGE MARKS: That's correct.
16 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: And that's
17 for moving violations and parking?
18 JUDGE MARKS: Parking.
19 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Just
20 p a r k i n g ?
21 JUDGE MARKS: Just parking.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: And it
23 establishes three tiers of penalties
24 depending on the number of violations?
25 JUDGE MARKS: That's correct.
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2 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: I have an
3 amendment in the nature of a substitution,
4 and I believe we all have a copy of it, but
5 I'm told that we have to formally make an
6 amendment in the committee.
7 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
8 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
9 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: The
10 amendment is moved by Legislator Ciotti,
11 seconded by Legislator Walker. All those in
12 favor of the amendment signify by saying
13 a y e .
14 ( A y e . )
15 Any opposed?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 Any other questions for Judge
18 M a r k s ?
19 LEGISLATOR WINK: Could you, Mr.
20 Chairman, not to put you on the spot, could
21 you give us an understanding of what the
22 amendment was? Because I only seem to have
23 a document that's amended in the nature of a
24 substitution.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: The
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2 amendment was to correct the whereas clause.
3 LEGISLATOR WINK: Okay. So it
4 was just the whereas clause being amended?
5 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Yes.
6 LEGISLATOR WINK: Okay. Thanks.
7 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: All right.
8 No other questions?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 Is there any public comment?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 All those in favor signify by
13 saying aye.
14 ( A y e . )
15 Any opposed?
16 ( N a y . )
17 Passes by a vote of six to one.
18 Item 445 of 2011, an ordinance amending
19 prior legislation establishing fees for
20 civil service and law enforcement promotion
21 e x a m s .
22 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
23 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
24 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
25 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
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2 Walker. Do you want to speak on this also?
3 Thank you, Mr. Camp.
4 MR. CAMP: Thank you again.
5 These fees are for basically all county
6 employees in law enforcement positions that
7 we're amending, including the general fee
8 for any open competitive exam which we're
9 raising from 30 to $40.
10 The police department promotional
11 exams have been set at $30 since I think the
12 early '80s. The correction officers also
13 have been set at $30 for ages. I'm raising
14 the correction officer to $75, police
15 sergeant, lieutenant and captain, to $100 to
16 mirror the actual cost of the original open
17 competitive police officer examination.
18 Again, Mr. Denenberg, the point
19 that he made before was well taken. There
20 are no children involved here, no kids
21 coming into these positions. Basically
22 they're all promotional exams except for two
23 or three entry level and there are people
24 who are collecting salaries from the county.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Thank you.
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2 Any questions?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 Is there any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 All those in favor signify by
7 saying aye.
8 ( A y e . )
9 Those opposed?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 Passes unanimously. Thank you,
12 again, Mr. Camp. Items 479 and 480 of 2011
13 will be called later. It involves executive
14 session. Item 484 and 485 of 2011. 484 is
15 an ordinance making certain determinations
16 pursuant to SEQRA and authorizing the county
17 executive of the County of Nassau to accept
18 on behalf of the County of Nassau an offer
19 of purchase from Neil Curtis, Inc.
20 We are not going to call 484 and
21 485 of 2011 at this time. So I withdraw
22 t h a t .
23 487 of 2011, a resolution
24 authorizing the county executive to amend an
25 intermunicipal agreement with the Town of
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2 Oyster Bay in connection with the transfer
3 of Jackson Avenue from Nassau County to the
4 Town of Oyster Bay.
5 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
7 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
8 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
9 Ciotti. Any questions on this item?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 Is there any public comment?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 All those in favor signify by
14 saying aye.
15 ( A y e . )
16 Any opposed?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 It carries unanimously. Item 516
19 of 2011 is a resolution to authorize the
20 county assessor and/or the county treasurer
21 and/or the receiver of taxes of the Town of
22 North Hempstead to correct erroneous
23 assessments and taxes.
24 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
25 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
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2 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
3 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
4 Walker. Any questions on this item?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 Is there any public comment?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 All those in favor signify by
9 saying aye.
10 ( A y e . )
11 Any opposed?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 It carries unanimously. Item 518
14 of 2011, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 526,
15 527, 528, 531, 532 of 2011 are all
16 ordinances supplemental to the annual
17 appropriations ordinance in connection with
18 the Health Department, the Police
19 Department, Mental Health, Chemical
20 Dependency and Developmental Disability
21 Services, Social Services, Parks,
22 Recreations and Museums.
23 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
24 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
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2 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
3 Walker. Any questions on these items?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 Is there any public comment?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 All those in favor signify by
8 saying aye.
9 ( A y e . )
10 Those opposed?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 It carries unanimously. Item 533
13 of 2011 is a resolution to authorize the
14 county assessor and or the county treasurer
15 and/or the receiver of taxes of the Town of
16 Hempstead -- I'm going to actually call four
17 items together, 533, 534, 535, 536 of 2011
18 which involve the Town of Hempstead, North
19 Hempstead and Oyster Bay with respect to
20 correcting erroneous assessments and taxes.
21 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
22 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
23 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
24 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
25 Walker. Any questions on this item?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 Is there any public comment?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 All those in favor signify by
6 saying aye.
7 ( A y e . )
8 Any opposed?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 It carries unanimously. I'm
11 going to call 539 by itself and then I'm
12 going to jump back to 538 afterwards. It's
13 a resolution providing for the issuance of a
14 warrant directing the treasurer of the
15 county of Nassau to pay to the supervisors
16 of the several towns and to the treasurers
17 of the several villages and cities within
18 the county of Nassau the sums as apportioned
19 by the county legislature.
20 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
23 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
24 Ciotti. Any questions on this item?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 Is there any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 All those in favor signify by
5 saying aye.
6 ( A y e . )
7 Any opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 It carries unanimously. Items
10 538, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549,
11 550, 551, are all resolutions to authorize
12 the transfer of appropriations heretofore
13 made within the budget for the year 2011.
14 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
17 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
18 Dunne. Any questions on this item?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 Is there any public comment?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 All those in favor signify by
23 saying aye.
24 ( A y e . )
25 Any opposed?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 It carries unanimously. Items
4 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, and
5 560, are all ordinances supplemental to the
6 annual appropriation ordinance in connection
7 with the District Attorney's Office, Office
8 of Emergency Management, Health Department
9 Social Services, Probation, and Public
10 W o r k s .
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
12 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
14 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
15 Ciotti. These were previously heard in
16 Public Safety, Health, and Public Works
17 Committees. Any questions?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 Is there any public comment?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 All those in favor signify by
22 saying aye.
23 ( A y e . )
24 Any opposed?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 It carries unanimously. Item 561
3 of 2011, a resolution to authorize the
4 transfer of appropriations heretofore made
5 within the budget for the year 2011.
6 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
7 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
8 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
9 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
10 Dunne. Any questions on this item?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 Is there any public comment?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 All those in favor signify by
15 saying aye.
16 ( A y e . )
17 Any opposed?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 It carries unanimously. 562 and
20 563 of 2011. 562 is a resolution to
21 authorize the county assessor -- it's
22 actually 562 and 563, resolutions to
23 authorize the county assessor and/or the
24 county treasurer and/or the receiver of
25 taxes of the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster
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2 Bay to correct erroneous assessments and
3 t a x e s .
4 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
5 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
6 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
7 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
8 Walker. Any questions on these items?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 Is there any public comment?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 All those in favor signify by
13 saying aye.
14 ( A y e . )
15 Any opposed?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 It carries unanimously. 564,
18 565, 566, 567, 568, 569 are resolutions to
19 authorize the transfer of appropriations
20 heretofore made within the budget for the
21 year 2011.
22 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
23 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
24 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
25 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
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2 Dunne. Any questions on this item?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 Is there any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 All those in favor signify by
7 saying aye.
8 ( A y e . )
9 Any opposed?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 It passes unanimously. Items
12 570, 571, 581, 582. 570 and 71 are
13 ordinances supplemental to the annual
14 appropriations ordinance in connection with
15 the Department of Mental Health, Chemical
16 Dependency, and Developmental Disability
17 Services.
18 Item 581 is a resolution to
19 authorize a transfer of appropriations
20 heretofore made within the budget for the
21 year 2011.
22 Item 582 is an ordinance
23 supplemental to the annual appropriation
24 ordinance in connection with the Department
25 of Public Works.
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2 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
3 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
5 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
6 Ciotti. Any questions? All these items
7 went through committees earlier.
8 (No verbal response.)
9 Is there any public comment?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 All those in favor signify by
12 saying aye.
13 ( A y e . )
14 Any opposed?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 It carries unanimously. We have
17 an addendum. I need a motion to suspend the
18 r u l e s .
19 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
20 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
21 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
22 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
23 Dunne. All in favor of suspending the
24 rules, say aye.
25 ( A y e . )
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2 The rules are suspended.
3 Item 437 of 2011 is a local law
4 of amend the Nassau County Administrative
5 Code with respect to item pricing and
6 accuracy in the County of Nassau.
7 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
8 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
9 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
10 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
11 Walker. Incorporate the record from
12 Government Services and ask Ms. Farley to
13 approach and let us know what this is about.
14 (Whereupon, the following are the
15 minutes of the Government Services Committee
16 pertaining to Clerk Item 437-11, 6-20-11.)
17 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: We've got one
18 item for which we need to suspend the rules.
19 Motion, please.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
23 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
24 Walker. All those in favor say aye.
25 ( A y e . )
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3 (No verbal response.)
4 The rules are suspended. This is
5 Item 437 of 11 which is a local law to amend
6 the Nassau County Administrative Code with
7 respect to item pricing and accuracy in the
8 county of Nassau. Motion, please.
9 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
10 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
11 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
12 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
13 Becker. Commissioner Farley.
14 MS. FARLEY: Hi. My name is
15 Madelyn Farley, Consumer Affairs.
16 MR. RUSK: Richard Rusk, Consumer
17 Affairs, assistant director of weights and
18 m e a s u r e s .
19 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Educate us.
20 MS. FARLEY: The purpose of the
21 proposed change is to provide greater
22 consumer protection with regard to item
23 pricing and scanning accuracy by widening
24 the scope and coverage of this office's
25 inspections. The additional benefit of
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2 these amendments would be the ability to
3 perform more comprehensive enforcement in
4 areas of pricing and scanning accuracy.
5 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: How does this
6 change it from the old law?
7 MR. RUSK: We've actually widened
8 the scope. In the past, only consumer goods
9 within certain categories were required to
10 be item priced. Now, with the new law, it's
11 all consumer goods.
12 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: The definition
13 of consumer goods has not changed, would
14 that be correct?
15 MS. FARLEY: No.
16 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Okay. It's
17 pretty much the same. Okay. Any questions
18 from legislators?
19 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: When I go to
20 BJ's they don't have a price on the -- some
21 of them do, some of them don't. So you can
22 complain and they'll fix it right away, or
23 they get fined right away?
24 MR. RUSK: We do do inspections
25 at BJs and they are required to item price.
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2 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: That's
3 considered a box store?
4 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
5 MR. RUSK: But they also have a
6 waiver from item pricing so each individual
7 item in all those cases will not be priced,
8 they will have shelf labels and the waiver
9 requires them to undergo scanner and
10 accuracy inspections.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Is Macy's
12 considered a box store?
13 MR. RUSK: No.
14 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Legislator
15 B e c k e r .
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: How did this
17 legislation evolve? In other words, you
18 would have thought in the past that box
19 stores would automatically be covered for
20 any kind of consumer --
21 MR. RUSK: In the past, scanners
22 weren't even used. This legislation started
23 around 1997 in upstate Erie County. We have
24 expanded it here in Nassau County as
25 scanners became prevalent, as the stores
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2 became bigger and bigger, this kind of
3 legislation evolved.
4 LEGISLATOR BECKER: But how are
5 box stores not included all along, why would
6 they be exempt?
7 MR. RUSK: I don't go back that
8 f a r .
9 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Why would it
10 require special legislation to now include
11 them? I'm sorry, it requires special
12 legislation to now include them, they're not
13 automatically included?
14 MS. FARLEY: No, they are
15 included. This is to include the items
16 within the store. Not all items were
17 included.
18 LEGISLATOR BECKER: It's not all
19 i t e m s ?
20 MS. FARLEY: We're expanding the
21 scope of what items are included.
22 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So to
23 consumer items?
24 MR. RUSK: My colleague was just
25 suggesting the definition for consumer items
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2 has not changed. It was consumer items
3 within the following categories is how the
4 law read. Those categories are food for
5 human consumption, and pet use, napkins,
6 paper goods, detergent.
7 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
8 telling me now that consumer goods has
9 expanded then?
10 MS. FARLEY: That's correct.
11 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So the
12 definition has changed? The definition of
13 consumer goods has now changed?
14 MS. FARLEY: Consumer goods has
15 remained the same. Just we are not
16 excluding any goods, now we are including
17 everything.
18 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So in the
19 prior, consumer goods were the same but
20 certain things were exempt?
21 MS. FARLEY: Right.
22 LEGISLATOR BECKER: You're saying
23 that, is the term box stores actually used
24 i n t h e - -
25 MR. RUSK: Not even familiar with
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3 LEGISLATOR BECKER: And Macy's
4 store is not larger than 80,000 square feet?
5 This is defined by size, the square footage
6 of a store.
7 MR. RUSK: It could be. I think
8 it's defined by the amount of gross sales
9 per year, is that right?
10 MS. FARLEY: Macy's would be
11 included.
12 LEGISLATOR BECKER: In other
13 words, I think it's defined by the amount of
14 sales per year, isn't it?
15 MS. FARLEY: It's by square
16 f o o t a g e .
17 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So Macy's and
18 other stores would be included?
19 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So what
21 happens is, the box stores are selling more
22 consumer type goods that maybe once were
23 excluded, you would only find in Macy's, is
24 that what you're saying, and now you are
25 finding books and clothing and you find them
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2 in the box stores now, am I correct in what
3 I'm saying?
4 MR. RUSK: All.
5 MS. FARLEY: All items.
6 LEGISLATOR BECKER: This
7 legislation was defined to me as something
8 that was going to now include box stores and
9 I was trying to understand.
10 MS. FARLEY: They have been
11 included, if you have the right definition
12 of box store, they were included.
13 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
14 actually including, expanding your items
15 that were once exempt from the legislation
16 just being included, and any retail store
17 would be above the certain definition no
18 matter who they are, what they are --
19 MR. RUSK: It's over $3 million
20 in sales.
21 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Okay. How
22 did you pick $3 million in sales?
23 MS. FARLEY: I didn't. It was in
24 a prior law.
25 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Any other
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3 (No verbal response.)
4 Any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 There being none, we'll vote on
7 the matter. All those in favor signify by
8 saying aye.
9 ( A y e . )
10 Any opposed?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 The item passes.
13 (Whereupon, the following are the
14 continuation of the minutes of the Finance
15 Committee, 11-14-11.)
16 MS. FARLEY: Hi. The purpose of
17 these proposed changes is to provide greater
18 consumer protection with regard to item
19 pricing and scanner accuracy by widening the
20 scope and coverage of this office's
21 inspections. The additional benefit of
22 these amendments is the ability to perform
23 more comprehensive enforcement in the areas
24 of pricing and scanner accuracy.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Any
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2 q u e s t i o n s ?
3 LEGISLATOR WINK: Mr. Chairman,
4 more a comment than a question. It just
5 strikes me a little peculiar that this
6 committee considers a local law to amend the
7 administrative code with respect to item
8 pricing and accuracy which, to the best of
9 my knowledge, there's no fiscal implication
10 on the county, potentially generating some
11 additional revenues, but, for the most part,
12 having no fiscal implications when the
13 contract for the Long Island Bus services,
14 $100 million plus contract, doesn't even
15 come before this committee. I don't
16 understand it and I'm just making that
17 observation.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Observation
19 made. I think what we are doing with the
20 Long Island Bus contract, the Veolia
21 contract, in Rules also, is to tee it up.
22 We will be back here Thursday and it won't
23 simply be this committee going over it, it
24 will be the entire legislature going over
25 it. I think that's placing a little bit of
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2 form over substance. You're going to have a
3 full hearing of the legislature for hours on
4 Thursday, and to assign some sort of
5 significance because it's not being called
6 now in this committee I think --
7 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I just
8 found out about that just now. This has
9 been going on forever and I'm sure everyone
10 in the audience didn't realize that --
11 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Legislator
12 W i n k - -
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: -- we're
14 going to endure finally a big hearing on
15 this three days from now.
16 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: I don't
17 think I recognized you, but I think --
18 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I think
19 it's ridiculous.
20 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Well, that's
21 good for you. Legislator Wink has the
22 f l o o r .
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: He'll
24 express it just as well as I do. Go ahead.
25 LEGISLATOR WINK: Perhaps a
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2 little more subtly, but I would actually
3 echo these comments, that until you said it,
4 Mr. Chairman, I received a legal notice on
5 my blackberry about an hour ago for a
6 meeting on Thursday. The contents of which
7 and the substance of which were not
8 disclosed in the notice.
9 And now I'm looking at the fact
10 that what we are considering on Thursday is
11 a local law, and according to Section 152 of
12 the charter, Subsection 4, no local law
13 shall be passed by the county legislature
14 until a public hearing thereon has been had
15 before such body. A notice specifying the
16 title of such local law and time and place
17 of such public hearing shall be published in
18 the official newspapers of the county at
19 least four days prior to the date of such
20 h e a r i n g .
21 Now I'm finding out that at 3:40
22 in the afternoon that we're going to be
23 holding a hearing on an item that affects
24 $100,000 people a day, that costs the county
25 in excess of $100 million a year, and we're
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2 nowhere near the four day's notice required
3 in the papers of record. This just boggles
4 my mind quite frankly.
5 I guess it shouldn't have the
6 impact on me it does because of the way this
7 entire process has been handled with respect
8 to Veolia, Long Island Bus and this entire
9 c o n t r a c t .
10 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: In fact, we
11 did publish a notice of this meeting ten
12 days ago so perhaps you may have missed it.
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I think
14 the world missed it. Who here got it?
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: On the 7th.
16 Look, you have been making noise about
17 having this hearing at every meeting, and --
18 let me finish. I didn't even recognize you
19 and you're jumping in. If both of you are
20 speaking --
21 LEGISLATOR WINK: Mr. Chairman,
22 we can go with the formalities, but the fact
23 of the matter is, we both have the same
24 concerns.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: There's a
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2 little bit of decorum that you have to have
3 so that this --
4 LEGISLATOR WINK: I don't think
5 that anyone has violated decorum in this
6 committee, Mr. Chairman.
7 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: If you
8 were asking for a hearing for six months,
9 you would think that the rudimentary
10 courtesy would be to tell me that you're
11 having a big hearing on Thursday instead of
12 announce it subtly all of a sudden at a
13 Finance Committee meeting when Legislator
14 Wink correctly noticed, correctly noticed
15 that you should have been demanding a
16 hearing in finance on this.
17 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Well, we
18 will be having the hearing on the 17th and
19 we will be thoroughly vetting the Veolia
20 transportation contract. That has nothing
21 to do with the item that's before us, but so
22 b e i t .
23 Any other questions for Ms.
24 F a r l e y ?
25 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: When did
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2 you know about this hearing, Ms. Farley?
3 About the same time we did, just now?
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Mr.
5 Denenberg, you perhaps didn't notice that
6 there's a local law that's before us.
7 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: You asked
8 me to ask my question to her, so I just
9 asked if she knew about it.
10 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: I didn't
11 recognize you. You're just butting in.
12 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: $100
13 million contract and I'm butting in.
14 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: The way the
15 committee is supposed to work is that each
16 individual legislator gets to speak and then
17 another legislator speaks. It's not
18 whenever Denenberg wants to jump in. All
19 right? So there has to be a little bit of
20 decorum will ask the chair. That's the way
21 it works and how it used to work because you
22 have to have some sort of decorum about this
23 business.
24 In any event, does anybody have
25 any questions about the item that's actually
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2 b e f o r e u s ?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 Is there any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 All those in favor please say
7 a y e .
8 ( A y e . )
9 Any opposed? If you want to
10 speak on this item, you're allowed to speak
11 on this item. But if you want to speak on
12 something else, then, no, it's not
13 pertinent. The item will be coming up in
14 Rules momentarily.
15 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Legislator
16 Nicolello, as chairman of this committee,
17 it's finance, it's over $100 million. You
18 should have been up in arms that this
19 committee isn't even discussing $100
20 million, a $140 million impact item to the
21 residents of Nassau County, where Nassau
22 County has an exposure of costs of $140
23 million, and to tell me it's okay because
24 three days from now there will be a hearing
25 that most of this audience, and I know
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2 myself personally have been asking for for
3 six months, and now we are going to have a
4 hearing in three day's notice is ridiculous.
5 I just don't understand why finance would be
6 punting its responsibility.
7 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: We will be
8 having a full hearing in which every
9 legislator will be present in three days
10 time in which this will be thoroughly vetted
11 and which every member of the public will be
12 allowed to speak, in which every member of
13 the legislature will be allowed to
14 participate.
15 In no way does this shunt or
16 whatever the term that you used.
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Punt.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: The
19 responsibility of the finance committee. In
20 fact, I sat on a number of different
21 committees during the course of my time in
22 the legislature in which a number of
23 different items came before other committees
24 that I wasn't on. It was always frustrating
25 to sit and listen to the other committees
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2 and not have a voice.
3 So what we're doing is, we are
4 consolidating to allow all the legislators
5 to have a voice on the Long Island Bus which
6 will be this coming Thursday, the 17th.
7 All those in favor signify by
8 saying aye.
9 ( A y e . )
10 Those opposed?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 It carries unanimously. 525 and
13 529 of 2011, ordinances supplemental to the
14 annual appropriations ordinance in
15 connection with the Correction Center,
16 Department of Parks, Museums and Recreation.
17 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
18 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
19 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
20 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
21 Walker. Any discussion?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 Is there any public comment?
24 (No verbal response.)
25 All those in favor signify by
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2 saying aye.
3 ( A y e . )
4 Those opposed?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 It carries unanimously.
7 Items 583 and 585 of 2011 are
8 resolutions to authorize the transfer of
9 appropriations heretofore made within the
10 budget for the year of 2011.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
12 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
14 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
15 Walker. Any discussion?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 Is there any public comments?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 Hearing none, all those in favor
20 signify by saying aye.
21 ( A y e . )
22 Those opposed?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 It carries unanimously.
25 I'm now going to call the two
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2 items for executive session which are 579
3 and 580 of 2011. 579 is a resolution
4 authorizing the county attorney to
5 compromise and settle the action of -- 479
6 of 2011 which is a resolution authorizing
7 the county attorney to compromise and settle
8 the action of Innocent Demesyeux as
9 administrator for the Estate of Michael
10 Innocent and Innocent Junior.
11 480 of 2011 is an ordinance
12 providing for a capital expenditure to
13 finance the payment of a judgment against
14 the County of Nassau authorizing $225,000 of
15 bonds of the county.
16 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
17 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
18 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
19 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
20 Ciotti. This matter is before the
21 committee. Do I have a motion to go into
22 executive session?
23 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
24 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
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2 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
3 Walker. All those in favor of going into
4 executive session say aye.
5 ( A y e . )
6 (Whereupon, the Finance Committee
7 recessed for executive session at 3:44 p.m.
8 and reconvened at 4:05 p.m.)
9 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Before I
10 call these items, my understanding is that
11 there are amendments in the nature of a
12 substitution for both items, and the
13 amendments involve typographical errors. I
14 need a motion to amend.
15 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
17 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
18 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
19 Walker. All those in favor of the
20 amendment, and, again, this is apparently
21 typographical errors, signify by saying aye.
22 ( A y e . )
23 Those opposed?
24 (No verbal response.)
25 Amendment carries. These items
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2 as amended, any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 All those in favor signify by
5 saying aye.
6 ( A y e . )
7 Those opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 It carries unanimously. Take a
10 motion to adjourn.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
12 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
14 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
15 Walker. All those in favor of adjourning,
16 signify by saying aye.
17 ( A y e . )
18 Rules is next.
19 (Whereupon, the Finance Committee
20 adjourned at 4:07 p.m.)
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3 the chamber. Government Services and
4 Operations come to order. Mr. Muller, would
5 you please do the roll?
6 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
7 T r o i a n o ?
8 LEGISLATOR TROIANO: Here.
9 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
10 Denenberg? Okay. He's here. Ranking
11 Member Wink?
12 LEGISLATOR WINK: Here.
13 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Dunne?
14 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Here.
15 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Becker?
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Present.
17 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Walker
18 substituting for Legislator Ford?
19 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Here.
20 CLERK MULLER: Chairman Kopel?
21 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Here.
22 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
23 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Thank you.
24 We've got one item for which we need to
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2 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
3 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
4 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
5 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
6 Walker. All those in favor say aye.
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8 Any opposed?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 The rules are suspended. This is
11 Item 437 of 11 which is a local law to amend
12 the Nassau County Administrative Code with
13 respect to item pricing and accuracy in the
14 county of Nassau. Motion, please.
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
17 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
18 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
19 Becker. Commissioner Farley.
20 MS. FARLEY: Hi. My name is
21 Madelyn Farley, Consumer Affairs.
22 MR. RUSK: Richard Rusk, Consumer
23 Affairs, assistant director of weights and
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25 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Educate us.
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2 MS. FARLEY: The purpose of the
3 proposed change is to provide greater
4 consumer protection with regard to item
5 pricing and scanning accuracy by widening
6 the scope and coverage of this office's
7 inspections. The additional benefit of
8 these amendments would be the ability to
9 perform more comprehensive enforcement in
10 areas of pricing and scanning accuracy.
11 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: How does this
12 change it from the old law?
13 MR. RUSK: We've actually widened
14 the scope. In the past, only consumer goods
15 within certain categories were required to
16 be item priced. Now, with the new law, it's
17 all consumer goods.
18 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: The definition
19 of consumer goods has not changed, would
20 that be correct?
21 MS. FARLEY: No.
22 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Okay. It's
23 pretty much the same. Okay. Any questions
24 from legislators?
25 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: When I go to
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2 BJ's they don't have a price on the -- some
3 of them do, some of them don't. So you can
4 complain and they'll fix it right away, or
5 they get fined right away?
6 MR. RUSK: We do do inspections
7 at BJs and they are required to item price.
8 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: That's
9 considered a box store?
10 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
11 MR. RUSK: But they also have a
12 waiver from item pricing so each individual
13 item in all those cases will not be priced,
14 they will have shelf labels and the waiver
15 requires them to undergo scanner and
16 accuracy inspections.
17 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Is Macy's
18 considered a box store?
19 MR. RUSK: No.
20 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Legislator
21 B e c k e r .
22 LEGISLATOR BECKER: How did this
23 legislation evolve? In other words, you
24 would have thought in the past that box
25 stores would automatically be covered for
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3 MR. RUSK: In the past, scanners
4 weren't even used. This legislation started
5 around 1997 in upstate Erie County. We have
6 expanded it here in Nassau County as
7 scanners became prevalent, as the stores
8 became bigger and bigger, this kind of
9 legislation evolved.
10 LEGISLATOR BECKER: But how are
11 box stores not included all along, why would
12 they be exempt?
13 MR. RUSK: I don't go back that
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15 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Why would it
16 require special legislation to now include
17 them? I'm sorry, it requires special
18 legislation to now include them, they're not
19 automatically included?
20 MS. FARLEY: No, they are
21 included. This is to include the items
22 within the store. Not all items were
23 included.
24 LEGISLATOR BECKER: It's not all
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2 MS. FARLEY: We're expanding the
3 scope of what items are included.
4 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So to
5 consumer items?
6 MR. RUSK: My colleague was just
7 suggesting the definition for consumer items
8 has not changed. It was consumer items
9 within the following categories is how the
10 law read. Those categories are food for
11 human consumption, and pet use, napkins,
12 paper goods, detergent.
13 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
14 telling me now that consumer goods has
15 expanded then?
16 MS. FARLEY: That's correct.
17 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So the
18 definition has changed? The definition of
19 consumer goods has now changed?
20 MS. FARLEY: Consumer goods has
21 remained the same. Just we are not
22 excluding any goods, now we are including
23 everything.
24 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So in the
25 prior, consumer goods were the same but
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3 MS. FARLEY: Right.
4 LEGISLATOR BECKER: You're saying
5 that, is the term box stores actually used
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9 LEGISLATOR BECKER: And Macy's
10 store is not larger than 80,000 square feet?
11 This is defined by size, the square footage
12 of a store.
13 MR. RUSK: It could be. I think
14 it's defined by the amount of gross sales
15 per year, is that right?
16 MS. FARLEY: Macy's would be
17 included.
18 LEGISLATOR BECKER: In other
19 words, I think it's defined by the amount of
20 sales per year, isn't it?
21 MS. FARLEY: It's by square
22 f o o t a g e .
23 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So Macy's and
24 other stores would be included?
25 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
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2 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So what
3 happens is, the box stores are selling more
4 consumer type goods that maybe once were
5 excluded, you would only find in Macy's, is
6 that what you're saying, and now you are
7 finding books and clothing and you find them
8 in the box stores now, am I correct in what
9 I'm saying?
10 MR. RUSK: All.
11 MS. FARLEY: All items.
12 LEGISLATOR BECKER: This
13 legislation was defined to me as something
14 that was going to now include box stores and
15 I was trying to understand.
16 MS. FARLEY: They have been
17 included, if you have the right definition
18 of box store, they were included.
19 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
20 actually including, expanding your items
21 that were once exempt from the legislation
22 just being included, and any retail store
23 would be above the certain definition no
24 matter who they are, what they are --
25 MR. RUSK: It's over $3 million
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3 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Okay. How
4 did you pick $3 million in sales?
5 MS. FARLEY: I didn't. It was in
6 a prior law.
7 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Any other
8 questions from legislators?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 Any public comment?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 There being none, we'll vote on
13 the matter. All those in favor signify by
14 saying aye.
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16 Any opposed?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 The item passes. Motion to
19 adjourn, please.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
23 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
24 Dunne. All in favor adjournment.
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8 JUDI BOSWORTH, Ranking 9 JUDY JACOBS 10 ROBERT TROIANO (Substituted by 11 Dave Denenberg)
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2 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Call the
3 Health and Social Services Committee to
4 order. I would ask the clerk to call the
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6 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
7 Troiano? Legislator Denenberg is sitting in
8 for Legislator Troiano. Legislator Jacobs?
9 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Here.
10 CLERK MULLER: Ranking Member
11 B o s w o r t h ?
12 LEGISLATOR BOSWORTH: Here.
13 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
14 G o n s a l v e s ?
15 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Present.
16 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Kopel
17 is sitting in for Legislator Muscarella?
18 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Here.
19 CLERK MULLER: Vice Chairman
20 B e c k e r ?
21 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Present.
22 CLERK MULLER: Chairwoman Walker?
23 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Here.
24 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
25 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Thank you.
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2 We have a quorum. There are 11 items on the
3 agenda today. I am going to call Item
4 Number 518-11 which is an ordinance
5 supplemental to the annual appropriation
6 ordinance in connection with the Health
7 Department;
8 I'm also going to call Item
9 Number 524-11, an ordinance supplemental to
10 the annual appropriation ordinance in
11 connection with the Health Department;
12 And Item 556-11, an ordinance
13 supplemental to the annual appropriation
14 ordinance in connection with the Health
15 Department. A motion, please.
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
17 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
18 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Moved by
19 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
20 Gonsalves. We have Mary Ellen Lorraine.
21 MS. LORRAINE: Good afternoon,
22 Mary Ellen Lorraine, Department of Health.
23 Item 518-11 is a supplemental appropriation
24 for the HIV surveillance and partner
25 notification. It's in the amount of $30.
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2 The state decided to give us an additional
3 funding to our grant bringing the total to
4 $287.55. So this one is for $30.
5 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
6 from the legislators?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 Is there any public comment?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 MS. LORRAINE: Item 524-11 is a
11 supplemental appropriation for the Bathing
12 Water Quality Monitoring and Notification
13 Program. This again is an additional award
14 from New York State for $1,203 bringing the
15 total funding to $47,818 and this is to
16 monitor 56 beaches throughout the county,
17 bathing beaches.
18 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
19 or comments from the legislators?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 Is there any public comment?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Mary Ellen,
24 this is, like you had to do all summer, and
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2 MS. LORRAINE: Yes, this is where
3 you get the press releases, beach openings
4 and closings. We monitor the bay beaches
5 twice a week for run-off or bacteria and if
6 it's elevated, we close them. Some of them
7 are preemptive for heavy rains. So those
8 are those press releases you get. We are
9 required to do notification.
10 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: I know you
11 were very busy with that this past summer.
12 Legislator Kopel.
13 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: This has much
14 to do with the sewage plants?
15 MS. LORRAINE: No. This has to
16 do with the bathing beaches.
17 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Which are not
18 a f f e c t e d ?
19 MS. LORRAINE: I don't believe
20 there are any bathing beaches that are
21 regulated by the Health Department that are
22 close to the sewage treatment, this is a lot
23 of the north shore beaches, Biltmore Beach
24 in Massapequa, Phillip Heeley. There's
25 about 56 of them.
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2 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Legislator
3 D e n e n b e r g .
4 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you.
5 The reason why you're monitoring these is
6 state law requirement?
7 MS. LORRAINE: Yes, we are
8 required through the state, New York State
9 Sanitary Code and this is for bathing
10 p u r p o s e s .
11 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So when it
12 rains, we have to watch out about the
13 beaches in terms of non-point source
14 discharges, rain water, surface water
15 runoffs, correct?
16 MS. LORRAINE: Correct. And some
17 beaches, because of the history and the data
18 we collect throughout the years, we know
19 after a half inch of rain, that those
20 beaches are more than likely going to have a
21 high enterococci bacteria level. So those
22 beaches are preemptive. And then we know
23 from other data collection that some beaches
24 aren't affected.
25 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: But as far
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2 as anything from, effluent from sewage
3 treatment plants, that's not what this is
4 about. This is about storm water runoff.
5 MS. LORRAINE: Storm water
6 runoff, it could be water fowl, could be a
7 number of sources. If we continue to see an
8 elevation at a particular beach, we will
9 study it through die or for whatever
10 mechanism that the sanitarians in our
11 department have to determine what the source
12 i s .
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you.
14 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any other
15 public comment?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: The third
18 item here is Item 556. We didn't vote on
19 the last one before? All in favor?
20 ( A y e . )
21 Any opposed?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 Motion carries. The last item,
24 Item 556.
25 MS. LORRAINE: Item 556-11 is a
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2 supplemental appropriation in the amount of
3 $7,579,397 and this is for the Ryan White
4 Program. This is 100 percent funded through
5 the United States Department of Health and
6 Human Services. It is to provide
7 comprehensive health and human services to
8 people with HIV and AIDS in Nassau and
9 Suffolk County. Long Island is considered a
10 region. So Nassau receives the funding and
11 through an intergovernment agreement with
12 Suffolk, we then designate the United Way to
13 administer the program and provide technical
14 support.
15 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
16 from the legislators?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 Is there any public comment?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 All those in favor say aye.
21 ( A y e . )
22 Any opposed?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 The motion carries. Thank you,
25 Mary Ellen. We are up to Clerk Item 520,
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2 which is an ordinance supplemental to the
3 annual appropriations ordinance in
4 connection with the Department of Mental
5 Health, Chemical Dependency, and
6 Developmental Disability.
7 Also, there's 521, an ordinance
8 supplemental to the annual appropriations
9 ordinance in connection with the Department
10 of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, and
11 Developmental Disability Services.
12 Also, there's 522, an ordinance
13 supplemental to the annual appropriations
14 ordinance in connection with the Department
15 of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, and
16 Developmental Disability Services.
17 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: So moved.
18 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
19 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Motion by
20 Legislator Gonsalves, seconded by Legislator
21 Becker. Who is here to speak on this item?
22 MR. MINSK: Bob Minsk, Department
23 of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency,
24 fiscal manager. All of these are 2012
25 supplemental appropriations continuing
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2 existing services. Item 520 is a grant from
3 the New York State Department of Alcoholism
4 and Substance Abuse Services in the amount
5 of $21.8 million. It's for chemical
6 dependency, treatment and prevention
7 services. This is a continuation.
8 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
9 from the legislators?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 Is there any public comment?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 All those in favor say aye.
14 ( A y e . )
15 Any opposed?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 It's unanimous. The motion
18 c a r r i e s .
19 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Item 521.
20 MR. MINSK: 521 is also a
21 continuation of services in 2012 from the
22 New York State Office of Mental Health in
23 the amount of $10.3 million and that's for
24 adult mental health treatment services.
25 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
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3 (No verbal response.)
4 Is there any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 All those in favor say aye.
7 ( A y e . )
8 Now Item 522.
9 MR. MINSK: Item 522 is a
10 continuation for 2012 from the New York
11 State Office of Mental Health in the amount
12 of $2.3 million that's for Children and
13 Family Mental Health Treatment Services.
14 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
15 from the legislators?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 Is there any public comment?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 All those in favor say aye.
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21 There are actually two more while
22 we have you there. If we can have someone
23 move Items 570 and 571 which are both
24 ordinances supplemental to the annual
25 appropriations ordinance in connection with
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3 Dependency, and Developmental Disability
4 Services.
5 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
7 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Motion by
8 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
9 Gonsalves. Item 570.
10 MR. MINSK: Item 570, again, is a
11 continuation for 2012, funding from the New
12 York State Office of Alcohol and Substance
13 Abuse Services, $4.3 million and that's for
14 the Methadone Treatment Program.
15 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
16 from the legislators?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 Is there any public comment?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 All those in favor say aye.
21 ( A y e . )
22 Motion carries. And, lastly, we
23 have Item 571.
24 MR. MINSK: 571 is the
25 continuation of federal grant from the
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2 Department of Health and Human Services,
3 Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Service
4 Administration. It's approximately $1.4
5 million and it's a family support system
6 identifying children who are in need of
7 mental health services and trying to avoid
8 PINS.
9 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any comments
10 from the legislators?
11 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I just want
12 to say, just what you just said now, is one
13 of the best reasons to vote for this. I
14 told you I once helped somebody as best as I
15 could. It wasn't great because they got
16 involved in the PINS program and didn't
17 realize that once you're in it, that you
18 really can't get out of it. So I think that
19 anything that can help to treat the problem
20 before it goes to that point is great.
21 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Legislator
22 Jacobs, I agree with you, and having a
23 background in education and seeing the
24 students that are involved, do have PINS,
25 and they do have to deal with that in their
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2 families. Anything we can do to help our
3 young people before they ever reach to that
4 point is a benefit. Any other questions?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 Is there any public comment?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 All those in favor say aye.
9 ( A y e . )
10 Any opposed?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 The motion carries. We have Item
13 523 and Item 557 which are both ordinances
14 supplemental to the annual appropriations
15 ordinance in connection with the Department
16 of Social Services.
17 MR. BRODERICK: Good afternoon.
18 Paul Broderick, Deputy Commissioner of
19 Finance, Department of Social Services.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
22 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Moved by
23 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
24 G o n s a l v e s .
25 MR. BRODERICK: Department of
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3 supplementally appropriate funds, $291,858
4 for their subsidized employment program
5 which assists our clients in gaining
6 employment. Do you have any questions?
7 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: I would like
8 to ask, how do you feel the program is
9 moving along?
10 MR. BRODERICK: The additional
11 funds, we receive funds for the last, I
12 guess the last year and a half. We work
13 very closely with our vendors and, in the
14 last year or so, we have a new director of
15 employment and they have achieved -- it's
16 made very noticeable improvements in the
17 employment area working with our partners,
18 the vendors. It's a challenging economy, it
19 really is. Some of the individuals who come
20 in, who we have referred to the program,
21 some people are more apt to be employed and
22 others are less easily employed to a variety
23 o f i s s u e s .
24 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Through this
25 program, Mr. Broderick, do we also offer
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3 MR. BRODERICK: Yes, that is part
4 of it. If you recall a number of months
5 back we had three grants from OTADA they
6 were for to train individuals in green
7 industries. Another one for medical, I
8 believe, and then there was a third one
9 similarly targeted to different industries
10 to get people gainfully employed and provide
11 the training.
12 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Thank you
13 very much. Any questions from the
14 legislators, comments?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 Is there any public comment?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 All those in favor say aye.
19 ( A y e . )
20 Any opposed?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 The motion carries. Clerk Item
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24 MR. BRODERICK: The Department of
25 Social Services is requesting to
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3 salaries and fringe benefits. These are 100
4 percent grant funds.
5 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
6 from the legislators?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 Is there any public comment?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 All those in favor say aye.
11 ( A y e . )
12 Any opposed?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 The motion carries. Thank you,
15 Mr. Broderick. The final item on our agenda
16 is Item 531 which is an amendment in the
17 nature of a substitution. Can I have a
18 m o t i o n ?
19 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: So moved.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
21 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Moved by
22 Legislator Gonsalves, seconded by Legislator
23 Becker. All those in favor?
24 ( A y e . )
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2 531, an ordinance supplemental to the annual
3 appropriation ordinance in connection with
4 the Department of Forensic Genetics.
5 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
7 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Moved by
8 Legislator Gonsalves, seconded by Legislator
9 B e c k e r .
10 MS. DOOLING: Good afternoon.
11 Karen Dooling, assistant director of the
12 Department of Forensic Genetics.
13 Supplemental appropriation for $258,312,
14 it's a no-match federal grant.
15 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any questions
16 by legislators?
17 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I'm going to
18 ask something really silly. I never
19 realized we had forensic genetics. I really
20 appreciate genetics. I think it's the whole
21 field of the future, so what is this?
22 MS. DOOLING: Forensic genetics
23 is your forensic DNA laboratory for criminal
24 cases. I don't know why we ended up named
25 that. Other jurisdictions call it forensic
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3 different names, so we're forensic genetics.
4 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Any public
5 c o m m e n t ?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 All those in favor say aye.
8 ( A y e . )
9 Any opposed?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 The motion carries. With there
12 no other items on the agenda, motion to
13 a d j o u r n .
14 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
16 CHAIRWOMAN WALKER: Moved by
17 Legislator Kopel, seconded by Legislator
18 Becker. All those in favor?
19 ( A y e . )
20 Government Services are next.
21 (Whereupon, the Health and Social
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8 THAT I attended at the time and place
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12 THAT the foregoing transcript is a true
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3 Minority Affairs Committee to order. I will
4 be the clerk and call the roll. Vice
5 Chairwoman Norma Gonsalves?
6 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Present.
7 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Dennis Dunne?
8 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Here.
9 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Joseph Belesi?
10 LEGISLATOR BELESI: Here.
11 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Robert Troiano?
12 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Legislator
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14 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Judy Jacobs?
15 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Here.
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18 LEGISLATOR YATAURO: Here.
19 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: We have a
20 quorum. The first and only item to be
21 called is 526-11, an ordinance supplemental
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3 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Moved by
4 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
5 Gonsalves. Anyone from the administration
6 here to address this issue?
7 MR. BRODERICK: Good afternoon.
8 Paul Broderick, Department of Social
9 Services. The request before you today is
10 to supplementally appropriate $20,000 of
11 grant funding for the disproportionate
12 minority representation pilot project.
13 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Any questions
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16 Any public comment?
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18 Seeing none, I'll call the item.
19 All in favor, please state aye.
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23 It passes unanimously. Take a
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3 CHAIRMAN CIOTTI: Motion by
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4 Committee please join us in the chamber? At
5 this time, will the clerk please call the
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7 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
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9 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: Here.
10 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Jacobs?
11 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Here.
12 CLERK MULLER: Ranking Member
13 D e n e n b e r g ?
14 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Here.
15 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Walker
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2 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Present.
3 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
4 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Thank you
5 very much. We have two items before us on
6 the agenda. The first item is Item 572-11,
7 a resolution authorizing the release of a
8 surety bond and cash escrow monies for map
9 of the Oaks at Broadlawn Manor Subdivison.
10 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
11 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
12 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Moved by
13 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
14 Walker. Who do we have before us?
15 MR. KATZ: Martin Katz, I'm with
16 the Division of Planning, Department of
17 Public Works. This is a bond release for an
18 escrow release for a 308 unit senior town
19 house development known as the Oaks at
20 Broadlawn Manor located at the Northwest
21 corner of Sunrise Highway and County Line
22 Road. This is -- the site was given final
23 inspection several times during the year
24 2011, 7-28, 7-29, 8-4, 8-5 by county DPW
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2 issued. At the 9-15 2011 commission hearing
3 after testimony by the county, the owners
4 cooperative, and the developer, it was
5 determined that all issues relating to the
6 public improvements were resolved to the
7 satisfaction of all parties and the full
8 bond amount and escrow can be released and
9 the planning commission recommended release
10 of the entire bond at its 9-15, 2011 hearing
11 and the amount was $1,506,829.18 for the
12 b o n d .
13 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Any
14 legislators have any questions?
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16 Is there any public comment?
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18 There being none, all those in
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23 The motion carries. The next
24 item is Item 575-11, an ordinance making
25 certain determinations pursuant to the State
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3 authorizing the county executive on behalf
4 of the County of Nassau to execute an
5 amendment to lease between the County of
6 Nassau, as landlord, and RA 55 CLB LLC as
7 tenant in connection with the lease of real
8 property known as 51 and 55 Charles
9 Lindbergh Boulevard, located in Uniondale,
10 Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State
11 of New York, said real property known as
12 Section 44, Block F, Lot 377 on the land and
13 tax map of the County of Nassau. May I have
14 a motion, please?
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
17 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Moved by
18 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
19 Dunne. Who do we have here? How do you do,
20 Mr. Schroeder?
21 MR. SCHROEDER: Good afternoon.
22 Carl Schroeder, director of Office of Real
23 Estate Services. What you have before you
24 is an amendment to a 1981 ground lease over
25 at Mitchell Field. This is one of the
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2 unique Mitchel Field ground leases where
3 there are two buildings on it. A provision
4 in the original lease does not allow for tax
5 exemptions, and the county attorney's office
6 has interpreted that to mean that there
7 could not be pilot agreement for the
8 property.
9 One of the new subtenants that's
10 moving in there is a local medical
11 pharmaceutical company called Angion
12 Biomedics headed by Dr. Goldberg. He
13 purchased the building with a pilot from the
14 Hempstead IDA and he cannot close on his
15 construction mortgage until this
16 technicality is straightened out.
17 The underlying tenant has agreed
18 to the amendment to the ground lease and
19 this is what is before you today. In
20 effect, the bottom line is that Dr.
21 Goldberg's company will remain in Nassau
22 County. It will keep jobs here. These are
23 good research and development jobs that will
24 be moving from Garden City -- staying in
25 Garden City, from Garden City to the
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2 Mitchell Field area, and if this does not go
3 through, he will sell this and move his 150
4 employees to New Jersey.
5 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Any
6 questions of Mr. Schroeder? Legislator
7 J a c o b s .
8 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I mean, I
9 received an education on this company really
10 within the last couple of days, but I also
11 understand and I'm trying to find it now in
12 my notes here, but, of course, I won't be
13 able to. Okay. OSI's employees. A lot of
14 OSI employees that were being forced to
15 leave Long Island or, if not, be unemployed,
16 were picked up by this company, I think it's
17 Angion, right?
18 MR. SCHROEDER: Correct.
19 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Because, I
20 mean, it was unusual. I don't why they
21 reached out to me but they did send me some
22 information but reading it happened to be
23 extremely interesting because they seemed to
24 be pretty solid employers for us and Long
25 Island. That's the only thing I wanted to
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3 I wouldn't know them if I saw
4 them but I received in writing and it
5 appeared to me that these are the kind of
6 things we have to do is to encourage
7 companies that at least are committed to
8 hiring from within our borders, so to speak,
9 and to have them bring up our workforce and
10 keep it viable on Long Island. I think it's
11 pretty good.
12 MR. SCHROEDER: The approval of
13 this will today save the type of company
14 that we do want to keep in Nassau County.
15 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I agree with
16 you. I wish I had taken shorter positive
17 bullet points to talk about, but I agree.
18 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Any other
19 legislator have any questions? Legislator
20 D e n e n b e r g .
21 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So, what
22 we're getting over here is, instead of what
23 they were paying as an incentive, it's going
24 to be a pilot in place of the straight lease
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3 MR. SCHROEDER: The incentive for
4 Angion to remain here is that they will be
5 getting a pilot on a portion of the
6 building. The portion is going to be
7 prorated by the assessor, the existing
8 building will keep their taxes, and this is
9 a subtenant of the underlying tenant, and
10 that there will be a pass-through to Angion
11 of the pilot program that was approved by
12 the Town of Hempstead IDA.
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay. So
14 they end up getting a pilot for the county
15 portion as well?
16 MR. SCHROEDER: Right, both the
17 building and the ground are on the tax
18 rolls, so they'll be getting the pilot for
19 b o t h .
20 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: What's the
21 commitment in return aside from obviously
22 that they'll stay here, but the commitment
23 is the lease term; that they will stay here,
24 in other words?
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2 commitment is that they will remain for the
3 life of their lease with a prime tenant
4 there. Kevin Walsh is here from the county
5 attorney's office. I believe it's a 20 year
6 deal? The bio is 10 years, with the lease
7 is 20 years? This is Kevin Walsh from the
8 county attorney's office.
9 MR. WALSH: Yes, Kevin Walsh,
10 deputy county attorney. I believe that the
11 Town of Hempstead IDA did approve I believe
12 a ten year pilot just this past summer. It
13 will have to close by the end of the year in
14 order to get the pilot into effect for next
15 year. We conditioned the lease change that
16 it can only be a pilot allowed with
17 application to the Town of Hempstead or
18 Nassau County IDA. It really was a
19 technicality because many of the Mitchell
20 Field leases already had the provision
21 allowing IDA financial assistance. This
22 made it clear.
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay.
24 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: I have a
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3 20 year lease, is that correct?
4 MR. WALSH: I'm not exactly sure
5 of the term of the sublease. I do know that
6 one of the companies that's also a part of
7 it is Lab Corp. I think Lab Corp., another
8 local employer that's going to be able to
9 benefit with Angion in this, and their lease
10 was going to expire in 2014. They were
11 willing to commit to extend if this pilot
12 was going to be available.
13 And our ground lease goes on
14 obviously for a long period of time, but the
15 pilot structure that I think Angion is
16 looking for with respect to their
17 commitment, it's a ten year from the Town of
18 Hempstead IDA I believe that was approved.
19 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Does it
20 have to come back to us for the additional
21 ten years?
22 MR. WALSH: No. Because this is
23 a permanent change to the lease we are
24 m a k i n g .
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3 MR. ABRAHAMS: I have a quick
4 question. It was my understanding that
5 Deputy Speak Hooper had proposed legislation
6 that would require kind of like a moratorium
7 on pilots. Does that legislation have any
8 impact on your decision today?
9 MR. WALSH: No, because there are
10 many different pilots. This particular
11 pilot is an IDA pilot which is allowed by
12 law. If you meet the criteria, the IDA will
13 actually have to take like a momentary
14 position in the sublease in the closing, and
15 by law every IDA in the state has to have a
16 uniform tax exemption policy and they can do
17 it under the state law and General Municipal
18 Law give pilots, but they have to have a
19 formula and the Town of Hempstead IDA board
20 has to approve it which it did, and they are
21 under a lot of pressure. If they don't
22 close with the IDA by the end of the year, I
23 think Carl might have mentioned this
24 already, they may lose this deal and lose
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3 understand that. What I'm asking is is more
4 tied into the actual legislation itself.
5 Are you familiar with the legislation?
6 MR. WALSH: I've heard of the
7 legislation, I haven't seen the legislation.
8 This didn't impact us at all because this
9 was strictly at the IDA's behest to do this.
10 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: I
11 understand that, but payments in lieu of
12 taxes, doesn't that fall under the state's
13 jurisdiction?
14 MR. WALSH: The payment in lieu
15 of taxes for the IDA falls under the state
16 General Municipal Law. It's allowed by law.
17 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: So I'm
18 saying if there was a proposal that was to
19 change that on the state level, wouldn't we
20 want to be cognizant of it?
21 MR. WALSH: Absolutely.
22 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: I believe,
23 and I can't speak to the state senate, but I
24 believe it passed in the assembly.
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3 other pilots that we deal with, affordable
4 housing and some of the others that will
5 certainly be impacted.
6 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: The greater
7 issue is, I believe it's tied to the fact
8 that she was seeking a moratorium on pilots
9 because it seemed to be the way pilots are
10 distributed throughout the county, they seem
11 to be disproportionately in others areas
12 versus some areas. It seemed to be
13 impacting primarily the areas of Hempstead
14 and Uniondale, there seems to be pilots
15 going out very quickly and I know she was
16 proposing that a concern, as a change, but I
17 thought it passed in the assembly. And I'm
18 not too sure about the state senate. I
19 think we should take a look at that.
20 MR. WALSH: Okay. We'll take a
21 l o o k .
22 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: Thank you.
23 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Any
24 legislators have any other questions?
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3 (No verbal response.)
4 There being none, all those in
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7 Any opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 The motion carries. There being
10 no other business, may I have a motion to
11 a d j o u r n ?
12 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
13 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
14 CHAIRWOMAN GONSALVES: Moved by
15 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
16 W a l k e r .
17 All those in favor of adjourning?
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19 Any against?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 We are adjourned.
22 (Whereupon, the Planning,
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8 THAT I attended at the time and place
9 above mentioned and took stenographic record
10 of the proceedings in the above-entitled
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12 THAT the foregoing transcript is a true
13 and accurate transcript of the same and the
14 whole thereof, according to the best of my
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16 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
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4 order? I will call the roll. Legislator
5 Wayne Wink?
6 LEGISLATOR WINK: Here.
7 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Legislator Dave
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9 LEGISLATE DENENBERG: Here.
10 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Ranking Member
11 Joe Scannell?
12 LEGISLATOR SCANNELL: Here.
13 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Legislator
14 Denise Ford? Sorry, Legislator Walker
15 replacing Denise Ford.
16 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Here.
17 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Legislator Norma
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19 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Present.
20 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Vice Chairman
21 Legislator Joseph Belesi?
22 LEGISLATOR BELESI: Present.
23 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: And I'm here.
24 We have a quorum. The first item coming
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3 appropriations ordinance in connection with
4 the Nassau County Police Department.
5 LEGISLATOR BELESI: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
7 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion by Joe
8 Belesi, seconded by Norma Gonsalves. Who is
9 here to speak on this?
10 MR. CONROY: Good afternoon. Bob
11 Conroy, Office of Management and Budget.
12 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Okay, Bob, what
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14 MR. CONROY: This transfers $35
15 million from the contingencies to the salary
16 line of police headquarters, basically to
17 make for the budgeted labor savings that are
18 not going to materialize.
19 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
20 have any questions? Legislator Denenberg.
21 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: The
22 budgeted labor savings that aren't
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24 MR. CONROY: In PD, it was $45
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: In what?
3 MR. CONROY: PDH.
4 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay. So
5 there's -- so how are we not going to have a
6 shortfall elsewhere then?
7 MR. CONROY: Well, it's being
8 offset by some vacancy savings. The reason
9 the transfer is not 45 is because there's 10
10 million in vacancy savings, and they
11 anticipate bonding, some termination pay.
12 So the transfer required is 35 million.
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Right.
14 But where are we coming up with the $35
15 million, the amount of the transfer?
16 MR. CONROY: It's coming out of a
17 contingency that was in the budget.
18 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay. So
19 we're reducing the contingency amounts?
20 MR. CONROY: Correct.
21 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any public
22 c o m m e n t ?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 There being none, all in favor
25 indicate by saying aye.
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3 Any against?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 So ruled. The next item is
6 519-11, an ordinance supplemental to the
7 annual appropriations ordinance in
8 connection with the Nassau County Police
9 Department.
10 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
11 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
12 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion by
13 Legislator Walker, seconded by Norma
14 Gonsalves. Who is here to speak on this?
15 MR. STEPHANOFF: Good afternoon,
16 legislators. Sergeant Greg Stephanoff.
17 This is a state grant for $47,904. It
18 allows the marine bureau to do extra patrols
19 in the waters during Memorial Day,
20 Independence Day and Labor Day to enhance
21 Homeland Security measures.
22 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
23 have any questions?
24 LEGISLATOR WINK: I have a
25 question.
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2 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Legislator Wayne
3 W i n k .
4 LEGISLATOR WINK: Good afternoon.
5 How are you?
6 MR. STEPHANOFF: Good afternoon.
7 G o o d .
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: Given the
9 current state of affairs with the marine
10 bureau, what, if any, services are actually
11 being reduced as part of the 2012 budget,
12 are there any reductions in the number of
13 boats, number of man hours, things of that
14 n a t u r e ?
15 MR. STEPHANOFF: Not that I know
16 o f .
17 LEGISLATOR WINK: So then this
18 wouldn't have any effect on any of that?
19 MR. STEPHANOFF: No. And this
20 will enhance patrols, extra patrols out.
21 This is above and beyond the normal patrols.
22 LEGISLATOR WINK: Right. Thanks.
23 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any other
24 legislators?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 Is there any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 There being none, all in favor
5 indicate by saying aye.
6 ( A y e . )
7 Any against?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 So ordered. Thank you. The next
10 item is Item 532-11, an ordinance
11 supplemental to the annual appropriations
12 ordinance in connection with the Traffic
13 Safety Board.
14 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion by
17 Legislator Walker, seconded by Norma
18 Gonsalves. And we have?
19 MS. McGARY: Joanne McGary, Stop
20 DWI Coordinator. This is a supplemental
21 appropriation request in the amount of
22 $1,540,000 for the 2012 Stop DWI Program.
23 So 100 percent grant funded and no county
24 match required.
25 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: That goes to
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2 every school, or what is that?
3 MS. McGARY: No, that will go to
4 the component agencies, and that includes
5 the police department, district attorney,
6 probation, drug and alcohol and the Traffic
7 Safety Board and the medical examiner.
8 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: The Traffic
9 Safety Board used to, with this drug and
10 alcohol program, sponsored a wrestling
11 tournament at Hofstra University, is that
12 still in effect?
13 MS. McGARY: I'm sorry, what?
14 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: They used to
15 sponsor a wrestling tournament at Hofstra.
16 MS. McGARY: No, we haven't done
17 that for a number of years.
18 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: That came out of
19 this money or no?
20 MS. McGARY: It did years ago.
21 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Were you able
22 to continue to do that or no?
23 MS. McGARY: Well, the Traffic
24 Safety Board was headed by Roger Bogstead,
25 former champion wrestler who championed that
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3 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: So, because he's
4 no longer there, this falls by the wayside,
5 i s t h a t - -
6 MS. McGARY: I haven't had
7 contact with those folks for a while, the
8 Long Island Wrestling Association.
9 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any questions
10 from any legislators?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 Is there any public comment?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 There being none, all in favor
15 indicate by saying aye.
16 ( A y e . )
17 Any against?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 So ruled. Thank you.
20 MS. McGARY: Thank you.
21 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: The next item is
22 item 552-11, an ordinance supplemental to
23 the annual appropriations ordinance in
24 connection with the District Attorney's
25 O f f i c e .
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2 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
3 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
4 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by
5 Legislator Rose Walker, seconded by
6 Legislator Norma Gonsalves. And we have?
7 MR. McMANUS: Bob McManus,
8 district attorney's office. Our office
9 received a grant from the Animal Legal
10 Defense Fund in the amount of $3,600 to help
11 defray the costs of investigation and
12 prosecution of illegal animal abuse cases,
13 particularly those that involved dog
14 fighting with Pit Bull types of breeds. We
15 would ask for your approval on this item.
16 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
17 have any questions?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 Is there any public comment?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 There being none, all in favor
22 indicate by saying aye.
23 ( A y e . )
24 Any against?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 So ordered. Thank you. The next
3 item is 553-11, an ordinance supplemental to
4 the annual appropriations ordinance in
5 connection with the Office of Emergency
6 Management.
7 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
8 LEGISLATOR BELESI: Second.
9 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by
10 Legislator Walker, seconded by Joe Belesi.
11 Who do we have with us?
12 MR. DELANEY: Good afternoon.
13 Tom Delaney, Nassau County OEM. This grant
14 is for $10,000 and it's in conjunction with
15 a hurricane tabletop exercise that Nassau
16 did jointly with Suffolk last fall and after
17 action report was filed and the state gave
18 us $10,000 to fill some identified gaps in
19 that report. We are going to be purchasing
20 coloring books to distribute to some
21 schools. The state has already approved
22 those. We'll split those with Suffolk. So
23 we get $5,000 Suffolk gets $5,000.
24 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Excellent. Any
25 legislators have any questions? Sounds like
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2 a great program.
3 (No verbal response.)
4 Is there any public comment?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 There being none, all in favor
7 indicate by saying aye.
8 ( A y e . )
9 Any against?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 So ordered. The next item is
12 Item 554-11. It's an ordinance supplemental
13 to the annual appropriations ordinance in
14 connection with the Office of Emergency
15 Management again.
16 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
17 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
18 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by
19 Legislator Walker, seconded by Norma
20 Gonsalves. This is with reference to what?
21 MR. DELANEY: This is a $60,000
22 grant that we applied for and were awarded
23 by the state. This is for a companion
24 animal sheltering equipment grant. This
25 will allow us to purchase trailers and cages
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2 and other supplies so we can open up an
3 animal shelter like we did for tropical
4 storm Irene. This is again a joint grant
5 with Suffolk County. We will get two
6 trailers, they will get one.
7 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: We used Nassau
8 Community College and you had that athletic
9 center during Irene. We're not going to use
10 that anymore, this is in addition to it so
11 we can go to other areas?
12 MR. DELANEY: I'm not sure of the
13 status of that. The original plan was not
14 to use that building. That's kind of been
15 thrown at us at the last second. It's not a
16 very good facility as far as the
17 construction itself. It's a good thing the
18 storm was just a topical storm.
19 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: So this is a
20 plant. Legislator Walker.
21 LEGISLATOR WALKER: I'm glad to
22 see that we are looking into that because I
23 know I visited the shelter during the storm
24 and there were some problems with that
25 facility, although I have to thank everyone
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2 who worked there and certainly all the
3 animals were kept safe and the people who
4 were there were safe but they did have some
5 problems with the leaking and the door
6 flying open and whatever. So it wasn't the
7 ideal spot to have, for us to have some
8 other type of a trailer that's maintained
9 for the use for having animals in them would
10 be certainly beneficial.
11 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
12 have any questions? Legislator Denenberg.
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: When you
14 work on the shelters for animals in case of
15 an emergency, is Pet Safe Coalition part of
16 your process because I know they have been
17 working on this and have a lot of experience
18 a n d s u c h ?
19 MR. DELANEY: I'm going to have
20 to shy away from answering that question
21 directly because I'm not the one that
22 manages this program. I would have to reach
23 out to the person who does to give you a
24 definitive answer and I will get back to
25 you, all right?
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Who is the
3 person who does?
4 MR. DELANEY: Mike Acari
5 (phonetic). He's a contractor and he
6 handles CERT program.
7 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Because
8 virtually every CERT needing hurricane
9 preparedness and emergency preparedness
10 seminars, when it comes to questions with
11 respect to pets, Pet Safe Coalition is
12 always there and they sort of bridge the gap
13 with Nassau Suffolk, and what is available
14 privately as well as through the public.
15 That's why I was asking. It seemed to me to
16 make sense that they would be a part of the
17 p r o c e s s .
18 MR. DELANEY: I will get you an
19 answer to that.
20 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you.
21 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Bonnie Hoffman
22 runs that program, so I will hook her up
23 with you, if necessary. Legislator Walker.
24 LEGISLATOR WALKER: I agree with
25 you. And I know, Legislator Denenberg, that
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2 there was an animal group that was involved.
3 I'm not positive that was the name. I just
4 don't know it off the top of my head, but I
5 will find out.
6 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: It is
7 always Pet Safe Co., and they come for most
8 of our hurricane preparedness and I just
9 want to make sure they're part of it. Nancy
10 Lynch is the person who is the executive
11 director of Pet Safe Coalition, but usually
12 they send one of their representatives, if
13 not Nancy, to several of our meetings as
14 well as OEM both in Nassau and Suffolk with
15 respect to the issue and animal sheltering.
16 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Thank you.
17 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any other
18 legislators have any questions?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 Is there any public comment?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 There being none, all in favor
23 indicate by saying aye.
24 ( A y e . )
25 Any against?
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3 So ruled. Thank you, Mr.
4 Delaney. The next item is Item 555-11.
5 It's an ordinance supplemental to the annual
6 appropriations ordinance in connection with
7 the District Attorney's Office. We're going
8 to call the next one also which is also with
9 the District Attorney's Office, Item 558-11,
10 an ordinance supplemental to the annual
11 appropriations ordinance in connection with
12 the District Attorney's Office. You're
13 going to do both?
14 MR. McMANUS: Yes.
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
17 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by
18 Legislator Walker, seconded by Norma
19 Gonsalves.
20 MR. McMANUS: Bob McManus. Item
21 555 is the -- your approval of this item
22 will allow us to utilize funding from the US
23 Department of Justice to develop a reentry
24 strategy under the Second Chance Act Adult
25 Offender Reentry Program. This program is
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2 intended to help individuals released from
3 incarceration to adjust to living in the
4 community with a focus on job training and
5 counseling.
6 Item number 558 is an
7 appropriation for a $20,000 grant from the
8 New York State Archives Local Management
9 Records Management Improvement Fund. This
10 grant is to help defray the cost of damage
11 that occurred on August 14th when we had
12 eight inches of rain. That rainstorm caused
13 major damage at our storage facility in
14 Hempstead and this grant will help defray,
15 in a small way help defray the costs of
16 recovering those documents. We wish to
17 thank County Clerk Maureen O'Connell and her
18 staff for their invaluable assistance in
19 obtaining this grant.
20 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
21 have any questions?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 Is there any public comment?
24 (No verbal response.)
25 There being none, all in favor
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2 indicate by saying aye.
3 ( A y e . )
4 Any against?
5 (No verbal response.)
6 Mr. McManus, thank you. Both are
7 p a s s e d .
8 MR. McMANUS: Thank you.
9 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Item 559-11 is
10 an ordinance supplemental to the annual
11 appropriations ordinance in connection with
12 the Probation Department.
13 LEGISLATOR BELESI: So moved.
14 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
15 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by Joe
16 Belesi, seconded by Norma Gonsalves. Who is
17 here to speak on this?
18 MR. FOWLE: John Fowle, Director
19 of Probation. Since April of this year,
20 probation has been the lead agency on County
21 Executive Mangano's Juvenile Justice Reform
22 Task Force. In the least several months,
23 the task force has secured $729,000 from New
24 York State to support a number of reform
25 initiatives. Item 559-11 covers a $237,000
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2 grant from DCGS, Division of Criminal
3 Justice Services. The intent is to provide
4 timely and appropriate front end services
5 for juveniles who have been arrested, before
6 the juveniles are drawn deeper into the
7 s y s t e m .
8 $212,000 is budgeted to provide
9 for respite beds at the Nassau Haven Group
10 Home which is run By Family and Children
11 Association. FCA is also contributing
12 another $28,000 in matching bringing their
13 end to a total of $240,000 which will
14 support the respite beds as well as
15 intensive family oriented services for these
16 juveniles.
17 The respite beds will be used as
18 an alternative to secure detention for some
19 of the 150 juvenile delinquents arrested
20 each year and admitted to the juvenile
21 detention center in Westbury.
22 The remaining $25,000 of the
23 $237,000 grant will underwrite expanding the
24 hours of probation intake operations.
25 Probation officers on standby will be
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2 available evenings and weekends to work with
3 the juveniles and their families.
4 Probation's goal is to risk assess within 12
5 hours of their arrival every juvenile
6 brought to JDC by police on the juvenile
7 delinquency charge. Probation is providing
8 $15,000 matching funds for a total of
9 $40,000 budgeted to extend probation intake.
10 In sum, the $729,000 in new
11 funding, including the $237,000 covered by
12 item 559-11 will help realize the ultimate
13 goal of County Exec Mangano's juvenile
14 justice reform effort which is to make the
15 most efficient use of diminishing system
16 resources while providing better outcomes
17 for youth who are at risk.
18 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Do these
19 programs reduce repeated offenders?
20 MR. FOWLE: Good question and
21 certainly the ultimate goal. In fact, we
22 are working with DCGS to try to track these
23 kids ten years out from their 18th birthday.
24 The short term goal is to provide better
25 outcomes, but the ultimate measure of our
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2 success is how they fare down the road.
3 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: And you're doing
4 a study on that to see --
5 MR. FOWLE: Absolutely, at the
6 state level.
7 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any other
8 legislators have any questions. Legislator
9 D e n e n b e r g .
10 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Does this
11 program piggyback or work with any of the
12 programs that we already have, whether its
13 EARS, or programs such as that, or is that
14 only for adult offenders?
15 MR. FOWLE: EARS, the electronic
16 assisted --
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Yes.
18 MR. FOWLE: Yes, this is
19 completely separate. The focus right now is
20 on kids who are under 16 years old. The
21 next wave in terms of juvenile justice
22 reform, working with the state, we're one of
23 nine pilots statewide, it's going to be
24 adolescent diversion, which will be the 17
25 and 18 year olds. But it's very separate --
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2 in fact, what we're trying to do is pull the
3 16 and 17 year olds out of the criminal
4 track and put them in the family court track
5 which will require some statutory authority
6 down the road. So Judge Lipman, our chief
7 judge's initiative is to, on a pilot basis,
8 establish that this isn't all that we want
9 to make work.
10 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: The
11 funding here would come mostly -- all from
12 state as well as agency funding?
13 MR. FOWLE: Right now, all the
14 funding is $729,000 of which $237,000 is
15 covered by today's item. All of that
16 funding comes either the Division of
17 Criminal Justice Services Or Office of
18 Children and Family Services.
19 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: But we
20 have our own POs assigned to work --
21 assigned to juvenile, right?
22 MR. FOWLE: Correct.
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: How many
24 are there?
25 MR. FOWLE: Currently we have
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2 three supervisors and we have 22 probation
3 officers.
4 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I continue
5 to just be concerned with what I'd asked
6 during the budget hearings. Is there plans
7 to lay off any of our probation officers
8 right now?
9 MR. FOWLE: We have submitted a
10 number of scenarios to the county exec's
11 office. I don't know what the ultimate
12 plans are. I know we are prepared to make
13 it work whatever we need to do with the
14 resources we have available. And juvenile
15 justice reform is our primary initiative at
16 this point.
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: My concern
18 is and I'm not hearing a real answer --
19 MR. FOWLE: I don't know what the
20 answer is, Mr. Denenberg, to be honest with
21 you. I don't know what the county
22 executive's plan is. I know he's to have a
23 number of scenarios presented to him so he
24 can decide what's in everyone's best
25 interest, including the probation
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2 departments, but ultimately the taxpayers.
3 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: That
4 underlies my point though, if you look at
5 numerous of the grants that we have and
6 numerous of the requirement just to get the
7 grants, we have a certain number of
8 probation officers per case. You can't go
9 below a certain number as well. You just
10 c a n ' t .
11 MR. FOWLE: A certain number in
12 terms of cases or resources?
13 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: You can't
14 have one probation officer -- well, both.
15 You can't have one probation officer for
16 9,000 cases.
17 MR. FOWLE: Correct. There is no
18 state guideline in terms of what that number
19 i s .
20 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: There's
21 guidelines for certain of our grants though.
22 MR. FOWLE: Correct.
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So that's
24 my concern.
25 MR. FOWLE: Not impacted by what
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2 we're talking about today, and, again,
3 juvenile justice reform and moving into an
4 adolescent diversion is an absolute priority
5 for the county exec as well as the probation
6 department. Whatever resources we need to
7 have we will make available.
8 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Very good.
9 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any other
10 legislators have any questions?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 Is there any public comment?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 There being none, all in favor
15 indicate by saying aye.
16 ( A y e . )
17 Any against?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 It's passed. Motion to suspend
20 the rules for the addendum for the Public
21 Safety Committee.
22 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
23 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
24 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Moved by
25 Rosemarie Walker, seconded by Norma
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2 Gonsalves. All in favor of suspending the
3 rules say aye.
4 ( A y e . )
5 Any against?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 It passes. Now, the item coming
8 before us in the addendum is Item 525-11, an
9 ordinance supplemental to the annual
10 appropriations ordinance in connection with
11 the Correctional Center. Can we have
12 someone from the correctional center come
13 up, please?
14 MR. SATHER: Good afternoon.
15 Captain Keith Sather.
16 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Keith, just one
17 s e c o n d .
18 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
19 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
20 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion by
21 Rosemarie Walker, seconded by Norma
22 Gonsalves.
23 MR. SATHER: The following item
24 is a supplemental appropriation of federal
25 forfeiture monies in the amount of
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3 equipment at the correctional center. This
4 training has no impact on the department's
5 operational budget.
6 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: I didn't get
7 your name.
8 MR. SATHER: Captain Keith
9 S a t h e r .
10 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
11 have any questions?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 Is there any public comment?
14 (No verbal response.)
15 There being none, all in favor
16 indicate by saying aye.
17 ( A y e . )
18 Any against?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 The ayes have it. That concludes
21 our Public Safety Committee. Planning is
22 next. Motion to adjourn.
23 LEGISLATOR BELESI: So moved.
24 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
25 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion to
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3 Public Works and Parks Committee to order.
4 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
5 A b r a h a m s ?
6 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: Here.
7 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
8 S c a n n e l l ?
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10 CLERK MULLER: Ranking Member
11 Denenberg?
12 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Here.
13 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Ciotti?
14 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Here.
15 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Becker?
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Present.
17 CLERK MULLER: Substituting for
18 Legislator Muscarella, Legislator Nicolello?
19 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Here.
20 CLERK MULLER: Acting Chairman
21 K o p e l ?
22 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Here.
23 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
24 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Thank you. We
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3 ordinance -- we are not calling that one.
4 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
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6 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: 560 of 11, an
7 ordinance supplemental to the annual
8 appropriations ordinance in connection with
9 the Nassau County Department of Public
10 W o r k s .
11 MR. FADEL: My name is Chris
12 Fadel with the Department of Public Works.
13 This item is for a supplemental
14 appropriation of $922,000, it was money that
15 was a reimbursement from FEMA for a December
16 2010 snowstorm and this money is just going
17 to be used to cover overtime expenses for
18 this year.
19 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: We don't have
20 a motion yet.
21 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: So moved.
22 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
23 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Moved by
24 Legislator Nicolello, seconded by Legislator
25 Ciotti. I'm sorry, go ahead.
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2 MR. FADEL: So this is for the
3 supplemental appropriation of $922,000. It
4 was money, it was a reimbursement from FEMA
5 for a December 2010 snowstorm. We're just
6 going to use the money to cover overtime
7 expenses for this year for snow removal.
8 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: So that's
9 money coming from the federal government?
10 MR. FADEL: Yes.
11 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: It's just
12 extra money?
13 MR. FADEL: Yes.
14 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Any questions
15 from legislators?
16 (No verbal response.)
17 Is there any public comment?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 All those in favor please signify
20 by saying aye.
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22 Any opposed?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 The item passes. The next item
25 is 582 of 11 which is an ordinance
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2 supplemental to the annual appropriations
3 ordinance in connection with the Nassau
4 County Department of Public Works. May I
5 have a motion, please?
6 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
7 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
8 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Motion by
9 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
10 Becker. The item is before us. Yes?
11 MR. FADEL: Chris Fadel,
12 Department of Public Works. This is for the
13 supplemental appropriation of $10.4 million.
14 This is to cover -- there's going to be --
15 there was $12 million in expenses for the
16 Hurricane Irene cleanup. So this 10.4 is
17 actually the portion that can be reimbursed
18 from FEMA.
19 There is a separate appropriation
20 here for the other 1.4, but this was just to
21 cover the part --
22 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: I'm sorry,
23 this is money that --
24 MR. FADEL: Is not reimbursed
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2 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: We are
3 appropriating it from general funds?
4 MR. FADEL: I believe so, yes.
5 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: You hope that
6 it will be reimbursed by FEMA?
7 MR. FADEL: Yes.
8 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Expect it?
9 MR. FADEL: Yes. We expect it.
10 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Any questions
11 from the legislators? Legislator Denenberg.
12 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: This is 10
13 and a half million?
14 MR. FADEL: Yes. 10 and half
15 million out of -- I think the total amount
16 was 11.9 million. This is just a portion
17 that we anticipate being reimbursed by FEMA.
18 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Why do we
19 anticipate it being reimbursed, and if we
20 anticipate it, why haven't we gotten the
21 reimbursement yet?
22 MR. FADEL: We have to submit a
23 whole big package. It takes months for us
24 to get all our paperwork together and send
25 it to them, and then it takes months after
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2 that for them to approve it. Usually it's
3 about up to a year or up to a year for them
4 to get us the money back.
5 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: How do we
6 follow that it's all been submitted and this
7 is all been reimbursed as opposed to, if
8 it's going to take that long, we are taking
9 general fund money in 2011 for a
10 reimbursement that's going to be in 2012
11 now, what do we do at the end of the year?
12 MR. FADEL: Well, this is
13 actually money that we need. We actually
14 owe contractors money, we owe vendors money
15 for supplies. We have to pay overtime.
16 This is actually just to cover the expense
17 now, and then we will be reimbursed for it.
18 It seems to me that we -- can we only apply
19 to FEMA once or can we apply to FEMA as
20 things -- as our costs are incurred?
21 MR. FADEL: We can apply in
22 s t a g e s .
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Why
24 haven't we applied yet?
25 MR. FADEL: We have. We have
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3 since the storm but it's a major process.
4 MR. MALLETT: Deputy Commissioner
5 Mallett from Public Works. If I could.
6 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you
7 Commissioner Mallett.
8 MR. MALLETT: We have already
9 started the submission process. We have
10 actually begun inspection and reimbursement
11 process is already if order. This
12 appropriation is going to pay the
13 contractors that we've used during the storm
14 as well as equipment we needed to purchase
15 during the storm and overtime on our
16 personnel. Once the reimbursement comes in
17 as you see from the previous item, it takes
18 the federal government approximately 11
19 months to get the money back.
20 So we have already started and we
21 have actually accelerated our process from
22 the last time. We expect to see this money
23 start to appear in the spring of '12 and be
24 put back --
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3 MR. MALLETT: You can't really
4 budget for a storm, especially something of
5 this magnitude. You can't have that much
6 money sitting in a budget --
7 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: I'm not
8 expecting that you will have predicted the
9 storm in advance, I'm just curious as to how
10 this gets accounted for in budget.
11 MR. MALLETT: What we do is what
12 we're doing here. It's from the general
13 fund and it gets appropriated to us. We
14 make the payments we have to make and as the
15 FEMA payments come in, we return the money.
16 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: So hit the '11
17 budget, and the surplus in the '12 budget?
18 MR. MALLETT: Correct. And then
19 it will come back into '12 and then budget
20 will then manipulate back towards '11.
21 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Legislator
22 Denenberg, anything more?
23 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: I'm not
24 really sure how that works, but how do we
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3 n e x t y e a r ?
4 MR. MALLETT: Yes.
5 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: And have
6 to remember if it matches the expense this
7 y e a r ?
8 MR. MALLETT: I won't have to
9 remember it. We have records as to what we
10 p u t i n .
11 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: This
12 appropriation is the only amount that we use
13 to pay the storm related damages right now?
14 MR. MALLETT: The excess storm
15 related damage, we have used '11 money as
16 w e l l .
17 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Would you be
18 sure to let us know and advise the ranking
19 member and the committee chairman?
20 MR. MALLETT: Not a problem.
21 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: As this
22 progresses, as it comes in?
23 MR. MALLETT: Without a doubt.
24 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Any
25 legislators have any more questions?
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6 There being none, all those in
7 favor please signify by saying aye.
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9 Any opposed?
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11 The item passes. I'll take a
12 motion now to suspend the rules.
13 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
14 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Second.
15 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Moved by
16 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
17 Nicolello. All those in favor of suspending
18 the rules say aye.
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20 Any opposed?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 This is Item 529 of 11, an
23 ordinance supplemental to the annual
24 appropriations ordinance in connection with
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3 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So moved.
4 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Second.
5 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Motion by
6 Legislator Becker, seconded by Legislator
7 Nicolello. The item is before us. Do we
8 have anyone from parks? Commissioner. How
9 are you, commissioner?
10 MR. FOSKEY: Good.
11 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: State your
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13 MR. FOSKEY: Carnell Foskey, the
14 Commissioner of Nassau County Department of
15 Parks, Recreation and Museums. How may I
16 h e l p y o u ?
17 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Please go
18 ahead and tell us about this item.
19 MR. FOSKEY: 529-11 is the
20 Cedarmere (phonetic) grant was -- it was a
21 grant that we received from the State of New
22 York in the amount of $67,000. The $20,000
23 and $19,000 are interest that we received on
24 an endowment which we received several years
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3 appropriate it and we list the three areas,
4 salaries, joint expenses, and contractual
5 services.
6 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Do we have any
7 questions from legislators?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 Is there any public comment?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 There being none, all those in
12 favor please say aye.
13 ( A y e . )
14 Any opposed?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 The item passes. Motion to
17 a d j o u r n .
18 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
19 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Second.
20 LEGISLATOR KOPEL: Moved by
21 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
22 Nicolello. All those in favor of
23 adjournment, please say aye.
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6 DONNA BOYLE, Nassau County Department of Public Works...... 11 7 MARYELLEN LORRAINE, Nassau County 8 Health Department...... 14
9 CARL SCHROEDER, Nassau County Director of Real Estate Services...... 17 10 RICH MALLETT, Deputy Commissioner, Nassau 11 County Department of Public Works...... 19
12 ROB MARIN, Chief Counsel, Office of Community Development and Office of 13 Housing and Homeless Services...... 20
14 JOANNE McGARY, Nassau County Traffic Safety Board...... 23 15 BOB CONROY, Nassau County OMB...... 26 16 CARL CAMP, Civil Service Commission...... 57 17 JOHN MARKS, Judge, TPVA...... 59 18 RYAN LYNCH, public comment...... 68 19 CHRIS GAVAN, public comment...... 79 20 ROY KOHLE, public comment...... 80 21 LISA TYSON, public comment...... 82 22 ROGER CLAYMAN, public comment...... 86 23 PATRICIA MAHER, public comment...... 89 24
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2 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Calling the
3 Rules Committee to order. Would everybody
4 please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance
5 lead by Legislator Dennis Dunne?
6 (Whereupon, the Pledge of
7 Allegiance was recited.)
8 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Mr. Muller,
9 would you please call the roll of the Rules
10 Committee?
11 CLERK MULLER: Yes. Legislator
12 J a c o b s ?
13 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Here.
14 CLERK MULLER: Legislator
15 Abrahams?
16 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: He's coming.
17 CLERK MULLER: Ranking Member
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19 LEGISLATOR YATAURO: Here.
20 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Walker?
21 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Here.
22 CLERK MULLER: Legislator Dunne?
23 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Here.
24 CLERK MULLER: Vice Chairman
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2 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Here.
3 CLERK MULLER: Chairman Schmitt?
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Here.
5 CLERK MULLER: We have a quorum.
6 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: The first item
7 I'm going to call is Item 338. As everybody
8 should be aware, the Rules Committee meets
9 first and we will execute all of the
10 contract requests that are on the calendar
11 and then we will recess and the other
12 committees will meet and then we will come
13 together again to finish the business of the
14 c o m m i t t e e .
15 The first item is A41, a
16 resolution authorizing the director of
17 Nassau County Office of Purchasing and the
18 Department of Public Works and Long Island
19 Sanitation Equipment.
20 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Motion by
23 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
24 Dunne. Who is here from the Department of
25 Public Works to speak on this?
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2 MR. FEDELE: Hi, my name is Chris
3 Fedele from the Department of Public Works
4 and this is Ray Aradino from the Department
5 of Public works.
6 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Just state
7 your titles for the record.
8 MR. FEDELE: Title is equipment
9 operator two.
10 MR. ARADINO: Title is system
11 director of inventory.
12 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Okay. What is
13 t h i s ?
14 MR. FEDELE: This is for the
15 purchase of five sweepers for a total of
16 $1,059,280. They are just sweepers. They
17 are going to replace sweepers that are old,
18 they are down and in very poor condition.
19 The sweepers are just used for sweeping up
20 sand and other debris off the Nassau County
21 roadways keeping debris out of our catch
22 basins and storm water systems.
23 LEGISLATOR SCHMITT: Anybody have
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3 (No verbal response.)
4 All those in favor please say
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7 Any opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 The item carries unanimously.
10 A44 is a resolution authorizing the
11 execution of a contract between the
12 Department of Public Works and Purfx
13 Incorporated.
14 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
17 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
18 Walker. Who is here to speak on this
19 contract? State your title for the record.
20 MR. FASANO: Nassau County
21 Department of Public Works. And Terrance
22 Hoffman, Nassau County Department of Public
23 W o r k s .
24 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Title, please.
25 MR. FASANO: Superintendent of
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3 supervisor two.
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Thank you.
5 Can you tell us what this item is?
6 MR. FASANO: These are parts to
7 strainers at the wastewater treatment
8 facility. These strainers are used for
9 cleaning the sewer water that goes to the
10 diesel engines which power up the plant.
11 Also for the chillers, the absorbers, and
12 the heaters that also generate and supply
13 heat and air conditioning for the plant.
14 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: This is for
15 both plants or for Cedar Creek?
16 MR. FASANO: Just for Cedar
17 C r e e k .
18 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any questions?
19 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: To the chair,
20 i f I m a y .
21 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Legislator
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23 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Terrance, we
24 have never been able to publically thank you
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3 the nine foot pipe that brings the sewage in
4 to the outflow pipe has been upgraded
5 because of the incredible work you've done.
6 So I just wanted to publicly thank you for
7 the job you've done.
8 On behalf of all the people of
9 Nassau County, God bless you for what you
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11 MR. HOFFMAN: Thank you, Mr.
12 D u n n e .
13 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
14 q u e s t i o n s ?
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16 Is there any public comment?
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18 All those in favor please say
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23 The item carries unanimously.
24 The next item is B44, a resolution
25 authorizing the execution of a contract on
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3 Thomas Novelli Contracting.
4 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
5 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
6 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
7 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
8 Walker. Please identify yourself for the
9 r e c o r d .
10 MS. BOYLE: Donna Boyle, Nassau
11 County Department of Public Works, civil
12 engineer three.
13 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: What is this
14 item, please?
15 MS. BOYLE: This is a safety
16 improvement for pedestrian crossings near
17 the Long Island tracks on Stewart Avenue in
18 Bethpage. This project is receiving
19 reimbursement funding from the state DOT and
20 the Long Island Railroad. This is kind of a
21 joint project between the three of us.
22 Nassau County does have the lead for
23 construction since it is our road.
24 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any questions?
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2 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Hi, how are
3 you? I'm so happy to hear this. This thing
4 has been a problem more than a problem. I
5 don't know what to call it. It's a tragedy.
6 Will this do anything though,
7 where the serious problem is, when two
8 trains are going in the same direction on
9 two separate tracks?
10 MS. BOYLE: At this point, this
11 project is only for work within our Stewart
12 Avenue project. What it does do is realign
13 the gates so that people, when they get off
14 of the trains, don't end up crossing on the
15 railroad side of the tracks. So it will
16 make it safer if that way.
17 As far as the two trains, it's
18 not really -- this project isn't going to,
19 other than stopping people from accessing
20 the tracks, that's really the safety
21 improvement.
22 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: My only
23 suggestion, not that you need me to suggest
24 to public works, and please forgive me, but
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3 problem. In the rush hour, there are one or
4 two trains, you get off say coming west.
5 You think you're okay to cross, but there's
6 another train going west on the other track.
7 There are two people killed in Bethpage with
8 that. I see it in Syosset all the time.
9 MS. DOYLE: Well, this is a
10 realignment of the gates will which prevent
11 people from going behind the gates when
12 they're down. So in that respect, it will
13 do something for the -- but it doesn't
14 completely stop people from crossing the
15 tracks. It's not an overhead or under the
16 tracks pedestrian access, no.
17 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I appreciate
18 that. I would love for you to keep it in
19 mind whenever there are any other times you
20 are dealing with them for improvements, it
21 just seems so easy just not to let it
22 happen. Thank you.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
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9 The item carries unanimously.
10 The next item is E156, a resolution
11 authorizing the executive to execute a
12 personal service agreement between Nassau
13 and the Department of Health and Service Air
14 L.L.C.
15 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
17 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
18 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
19 D u n n e .
20 MS. LORRAINE: Good afternoon.
21 Mary Ellen Lorraine, Department of Health.
22 And Linda Raney, public health nurse four.
23 And she's the director of early
24 intervention. Actually, the Office of
25 Children With Special Needs. Item 151-11 is
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2 a contract in the amount of $483,633 with
3 Service Air. This is to provide
4 transportation management to approximately
5 700 children in the preschool children
6 special ed and Early Intervention Program.
7 It's mandated and required that we provide
8 transportation to these children.
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Legislator
10 D u n n e .
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Why do we have
12 to go to Chicago to manage children in
13 Nassau County?
14 MS. LORRAINE: Actually the
15 office is in Jericho. Their parent company
16 is in Chicago, I believe.
17 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Okay, so it is
18 l o c a l .
19 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
20 q u e s t i o n s ?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 Is there any public comment?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 All those in favor please say
25 a y e .
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2 ( A y e . )
3 Any opposed?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 The item carries unanimously.
6 E158 is a resolution authorizing a personal
7 service agreement between the county and
8 acting on behalf of the Department of Parks
9 and Drake Realty Corp. doing business as
10 Smith and DeGroat Real Estate. Motion,
11 p l e a s e .
12 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
13 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
14 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
15 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
16 Dunne. We now have an amendment in the form
17 of a substitution. I will offer the
18 amendment. The amendment is being made to
19 replace to rules resolution attached to the
20 original item with the rules resolution
21 attached here. The previous rules
22 resolution referenced the incorrect county
23 department. I'll offer the amendment.
24 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
25 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Seconded by
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2 Legislator Ciotti. Is there any debate or
3 comments on the amendment?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 Any public comment?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 All those in favor please say
8 a y e .
9 ( A y e . )
10 Any opposed?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 The item is amended. Now
13 identify yourself and tell us what this is.
14 MR. SCHROEDER: Carl Schroeder,
15 director of real estate services for the
16 county. Parks, I know they're on their way.
17 But real estate in conjunction with parks
18 manages this contract. Five years ago we
19 selected a local Mineola company to manage
20 the landmark units which are the cottages
21 spread out throughout the various parks and
22 preserves throughout the county.
23 The amendment before you today
24 extends this contract for five years. It
25 reduces their management fee a little bit
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2 and reduces their construction management
3 fee and it increases the reserve that they
4 have set aside for emergency repairs and we
5 recommend that you approve this amendment.
6 Any questions?
7 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Is the fee
8 less because --
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: The chair
10 recognizes Legislator Dunne.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Because of the
12 length the contract the fee went down, is
13 that how --
14 MR. SCHROEDER: Well, they have a
15 right to renew for five years and it's just
16 our policy that if we were going to renew it
17 at our option that we would try to make the
18 deal better for the county and we negotiated
19 a lower fee.
20 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Thank you.
21 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
22 questions from legislators?
23 (No verbal response.)
24 Is there any public comment?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 All those in favor please say
3 a y e .
4 ( A y e . )
5 Any opposed?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 The item carries unanimously.
8 The next item is E163, an authorization for
9 a personal service agreement between the
10 county acting on behalf of the Department of
11 Public Works and the Nassau Health Care
12 Corporation.
13 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
14 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
15 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
16 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
17 Dunne. Who is here to speak on this?
18 MR. MALLETT: Deputy Commissioner
19 Mallett, public works. This is a contract
20 that we use to do our mandatory Department
21 of Transportation testing on our CDL drivers
22 as well as our random drug testing.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any
24 legislators have any questions?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 Is there any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 All those in favor please say
5 a y e .
6 ( A y e . )
7 Any opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 The item carries unanimously.
10 Next is E164 and E165 are both resolutions
11 authorizing personal service agreements
12 between the county and Community Development
13 Office and Arodes Construction Corporation
14 and with Energy Savers Home Improvement.
15 Can I have a motion, please?
16 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
17 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
18 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
19 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
20 D u n n e .
21 MR. MARIN: Good afternoon. Rob
22 Marin, chief counsel for the Office of
23 Community Development and for the Office of
24 Housing and Homeless Services.
25 These two amendments are for two
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2 of our eight existing lead contractors.
3 These amendments essentially act as a line
4 of credit for these two contractors to pull
5 off of for the jobs for competitive bid
6 process any jobs that they would through the
7 competitive bid than what we bid against
8 this contract. They are not guaranteed any
9 funds and this is from the Lead Hazard
10 Reduction Grant, a federal grant through our
11 department to make homes lead safe for
12 g r a n t .
13 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
14 q u e s t i o n s ?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 Is there any public comment?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 All those in favor please say
19 a y e .
20 ( A y e . )
21 Any opposed?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 The item carries unanimously.
24 Next is E166 is a resolution authorizing a
25 personal service agreement between the
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2 county, Department of Public Works, and
3 Swanke Hayden, Connell & Partners, L.L.P.
4 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
5 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
6 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
7 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
8 Dunne. Go ahead.
9 MR. MALLETT: Deputy Commissioner
10 Rich Mallett, Nassau County Public Works.
11 This is a contract for the construction
12 design of the crime lab that's going to be
13 located at 1194 Prospect Avenue in Westbury.
14 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: This work has
15 already started, has it not?
16 MR. MALLETT: We have done the
17 schematic design. This is the construction
18 design and documents. This is an amendment
19 to that contract.
20 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: This is an
21 amendment to the existing contract?
22 MR. MALLETT: Yes, sir.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: It's for
24 construction?
25 MR. MALLETT: It is for the
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2 construction documents and construction
3 d e s i g n .
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Anybody have
5 any questions on this item?
6 (No verbal response.)
7 Is there any public comment?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 All those in favor please say
10 a y e .
11 ( A y e . )
12 Any opposed?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 The item carries unanimously.
15 The next item is E169, a resolution
16 authorizing a personal service agreement
17 between the county, Traffic Safety Board and
18 New York Coalition for Transportation
19 S a f e t y .
20 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
21 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
23 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
24 W a l k e r .
25 MS. McGARY: Good afternoon.
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2 Joanne McGary, assistant director, Nassau
3 County Traffic Safety Board. This is a
4 contract extension for a current program
5 that we're doing, special needs, child
6 safety seat education. It's fully grant
7 funded. This extension extends the contract
8 through fiscal year 2012.
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any questions?
10 The chair recognizes Legislator Dunne.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Where is this
12 done, what location?
13 MS. McGARY: We don't have a --
14 we have a child fitting station in Prospect
15 Avenue Westbury DPW, but the special needs
16 training has been done basically in the
17 village of Garden City. There is another
18 one scheduled in a few months. We'll be
19 doing it again in Garden City with Triple A.
20 We can essentially do it anywhere it's
21 requested.
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: This is for
23 children with special needs?
24 MS. McGARY: Right. Physically
25 and emotionally disabled children.
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2 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: And the
3 legislators can advertise that this is being
4 done on certain dates?
5 MS. McGARY: Well, you know, it
6 takes time to set up a training but
7 certainly if you are interested in us doing
8 that we can certainly do that for you. Give
9 us a call.
10 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Absolutely.
11 T h a n k y o u .
12 MS. McGARY: Okay.
13 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
14 q u e s t i o n s ?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 Is there any public comment?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 All those in favor please say
19 a y e .
20 ( A y e . )
21 Any opposed?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 The item carries unanimously.
24 Thank you. The next item is E170, a
25 resolution authorizing a personal service
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2 agreement between the Office of Management
3 and Budget and Aquarius Capital Solutions
4 Group, L.L.C. May I have a motion, please?
5 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
7 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
8 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
9 W a l k e r .
10 MR. CONROY: Good afternoon. Bob
11 Conroy, Office of Management and Budget.
12 This is a contract to provide the county
13 with actuarial consulting services for a
14 two-year period with an option to renew for
15 an additional two two-year periods.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Any other
17 q u e s t i o n s ?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 Is there any public comment?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 All those in favor please say
22 a y e .
23 ( A y e . )
24 Any opposed?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 The item carries unanimously.
3 The next item is E171, a personal service
4 agreement between the Department of Social
5 Services and Logisticare Solutions, L.L.C.
6 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
7 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
8 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
9 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
10 Walker. Any questions?
11 (No verbal response.)
12 Is there any public comment?
13 (No verbal response.)
14 All those in favor please say
15 a y e .
16 ( A y e . )
17 Any opposed?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 The item carries unanimously. I
20 believe -- that concludes the contract
21 section of the Rules Committee. We will
22 recess and the next committee up is Public
23 S a f e t y .
24 (Whereupon, the Rules Committee
25 recessed at 1:30 p.m. and reconvened at 4:33
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2 p . m . )
3 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Rules
4 Committee back in session. I'm going to
5 call first those items that it has been
6 agreed between the minority and majority
7 that have been subject to enough scrutiny at
8 prior committees that there's been a
9 determination that we can bulk them all.
10 First I will take a motion to
11 suspend the rules.
12 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
13 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
14 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
15 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
16 Walker. All those in favor of suspending my
17 rules please say aye.
18 ( A y e . )
19 Any opposed?
20 (No verbal response.)
21 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: I would like
22 to have whatever we bulk, if you would
23 incorporate whatever record there is on
24 them. It's items 338, 445, 479, 480, 487,
25 516, 518, 519, 521, 521, 522, 523, 524, 526,
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2 527, 528, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 538,
3 539, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549,
4 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558,
5 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567,
6 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 575, 581, 582. And
7 then on the addendum is 437, 525, 529, 583,
8 a n d 5 8 5 .
9 (Whereupon, the following are the
10 minutes of the Public Safety Committee
11 pertaining to Clerk Item 338-11, 11-14-11.)
12 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: And I'm here.
13 We have a quorum. The first item coming
14 before this committee is Item 338-11. It's
15 an ordinance supplemental to the annual
16 appropriations ordinance in connection with
17 the Nassau County Police Department.
18 LEGISLATOR BELESI: So moved.
19 LEGISLATOR GONSALVES: Second.
20 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Motion by Joe
21 Belesi, seconded by Norma Gonsalves. Who is
22 here to speak on this?
23 MR. CONROY: Good afternoon. Bob
24 Conroy, Office of Management and Budget.
25 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Okay, Bob, what
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2 is this about?
3 MR. CONROY: This transfers $35
4 million from the contingencies to the salary
5 line of police headquarters, basically to
6 make for the budgeted labor savings that are
7 not going to materialize.
8 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any legislators
9 have any questions? Legislator Denenberg.
10 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: The
11 budgeted labor savings that aren't
12 materializing is how much?
13 MR. CONROY: In PD, it was $45
14 m i l l i o n .
15 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: In what?
16 MR. CONROY: PDH.
17 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay. So
18 there's -- so how are we not going to have a
19 shortfall elsewhere then?
20 MR. CONROY: Well, it's being
21 offset by some vacancy savings. The reason
22 the transfer is not 45 is because there's 10
23 million in vacancy savings, and they
24 anticipate bonding, some termination pay.
25 So the transfer required is 35 million.
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Right.
3 But where are we coming up with the $35
4 million, the amount of the transfer?
5 MR. CONROY: It's coming out of a
6 contingency that was in the budget.
7 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Okay. So
8 we're reducing the contingency amounts?
9 MR. CONROY: Correct.
10 CHAIRMAN DUNNE: Any public
11 c o m m e n t ?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 There being none, all in favor
14 indicate by saying aye.
15 ( A y e . )
16 Any against?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 S o r u l e d .
19 (Whereupon, the following are the
20 minutes of the Finance Committee pertaining
21 to Clerk Item 445-11, 11-14-11.)
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Item 445 of
23 2011, an ordinance amending prior
24 legislation establishing fees for civil
25 service and law enforcement promotion exams.
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2 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
3 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
5 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
6 Walker. Do you want to speak on this also?
7 Thank you, Mr. Camp.
8 MR. CAMP: Thank you again.
9 These fees are for basically all county
10 employees in law enforcement positions that
11 we're amending, including the general fee
12 for any open competitive exam which we're
13 raising from 30 to $40.
14 The police department promotional
15 exams have been set at $30 since I think the
16 early '80s. The correction officers also
17 have been set at $30 for ages. I'm raising
18 the correction officer to $75, police
19 sergeant, lieutenant and captain, to $100 to
20 mirror the actual cost of the original open
21 competitive police officer examination.
22 Again, Mr. Denenberg, the point
23 that he made before was well taken. There
24 are no children involved here, no kids
25 coming into these positions. Basically
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2 they're all promotional exams except for two
3 or three entry level and there are people
4 who are collecting salaries from the county.
5 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Thank you.
6 Any questions?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 Is there any public comment?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 All those in favor signify by
11 saying aye.
12 ( A y e . )
13 Those opposed?
14 (No verbal response.)
15 Passes unanimously.
16 (Whereupon, the following are the
17 minutes of the Finance Committee pertaining
18 to Clerk Items 479 and 480-11, 11-14-11.)
19 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: 479 of 2011
20 which is a resolution authorizing the county
21 attorney to compromise and settle the action
22 of Innocent Demesyeux as administrator for
23 the Estate of Michael Innocent and Innocent
24 J u n i o r .
25 480 of 2011 is an ordinance
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2 providing for a capital expenditure to
3 finance the payment of a judgment against
4 the County of Nassau authorizing $225,000 of
5 bonds of the county.
6 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
7 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
8 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
9 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
10 Ciotti. This matter is before the
11 committee. Do I have a motion to go into
12 executive session?
13 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
14 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
16 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
17 Walker. All those in favor of going into
18 executive session say aye.
19 ( A y e . )
20 (Whereupon, the Finance Committee
21 recessed for executive session at 3:44 p.m.
22 and reconvened at 4:05 p.m.)
23 (Whereupon, the following are the
24 minutes of the Government Services Committee
25 pertaining to Clerk Item 437-11, 11-14-11.)
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2 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: This is Item 437
3 of 11 which is a local law to amend the
4 Nassau County Administrative Code with
5 respect to item pricing and accuracy in the
6 county of Nassau. Motion, please.
7 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
8 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Second.
9 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Motion by
10 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
11 Becker. Commissioner Farley.
12 MS. FARLEY: Hi. My name is
13 Madelyn Farley, Consumer Affairs.
14 MR. RUSK: Richard Rusk, Consumer
15 Affairs, assistant director of weights and
16 m e a s u r e s .
17 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Educate us.
18 MS. FARLEY: The purpose of the
19 proposed change is to provide greater
20 consumer protection with regard to item
21 pricing and scanning accuracy by widening
22 the scope and coverage of this office's
23 inspections. The additional benefit of
24 these amendments would be the ability to
25 perform more comprehensive enforcement in
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2 areas of pricing and scanning accuracy.
3 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: How does this
4 change it from the old law?
5 MR. RUSK: We've actually widened
6 the scope. In the past, only consumer goods
7 within certain categories were required to
8 be item priced. Now, with the new law, it's
9 all consumer goods.
10 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: The definition
11 of consumer goods has not changed, would
12 that be correct?
13 MS. FARLEY: No.
14 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Okay. It's
15 pretty much the same. Okay. Any questions
16 from legislators?
17 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: When I go to
18 BJ's they don't have a price on the -- some
19 of them do, some of them don't. So you can
20 complain and they'll fix it right away, or
21 they get fined right away?
22 MR. RUSK: We do do inspections
23 at BJs and they are required to item price.
24 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: That's
25 considered a box store?
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2 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
3 MR. RUSK: But they also have a
4 waiver from item pricing so each individual
5 item in all those cases will not be priced,
6 they will have shelf labels and the waiver
7 requires them to undergo scanner and
8 accuracy inspections.
9 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Is Macy's
10 considered a box store?
11 MR. RUSK: No.
12 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Legislator
13 B e c k e r .
14 LEGISLATOR BECKER: How did this
15 legislation evolve? In other words, you
16 would have thought in the past that box
17 stores would automatically be covered for
18 any kind of consumer --
19 MR. RUSK: In the past, scanners
20 weren't even used. This legislation started
21 around 1997 in upstate Erie County. We have
22 expanded it here in Nassau County as
23 scanners became prevalent, as the stores
24 became bigger and bigger, this kind of
25 legislation evolved.
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2 LEGISLATOR BECKER: But how are
3 box stores not included all along, why would
4 they be exempt?
5 MR. RUSK: I don't go back that
6 f a r .
7 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Why would it
8 require special legislation to now include
9 them? I'm sorry, it requires special
10 legislation to now include them, they're not
11 automatically included?
12 MS. FARLEY: No, they are
13 included. This is to include the items
14 within the store. Not all items were
15 included.
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: It's not all
17 i t e m s ?
18 MS. FARLEY: We're expanding the
19 scope of what items are included.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So to
21 consumer items?
22 MR. RUSK: My colleague was just
23 suggesting the definition for consumer items
24 has not changed. It was consumer items
25 within the following categories is how the
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2 law read. Those categories are food for
3 human consumption, and pet use, napkins,
4 paper goods, detergent.
5 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
6 telling me now that consumer goods has
7 expanded then?
8 MS. FARLEY: That's correct.
9 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So the
10 definition has changed? The definition of
11 consumer goods has now changed?
12 MS. FARLEY: Consumer goods has
13 remained the same. Just we are not
14 excluding any goods, now we are including
15 everything.
16 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So in the
17 prior, consumer goods were the same but
18 certain things were exempt?
19 MS. FARLEY: Right.
20 LEGISLATOR BECKER: You're saying
21 that, is the term box stores actually used
22 i n t h e - -
23 MR. RUSK: Not even familiar with
24 i t .
25 LEGISLATOR BECKER: And Macy's
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2 store is not larger than 80,000 square feet?
3 This is defined by size, the square footage
4 of a store.
5 MR. RUSK: It could be. I think
6 it's defined by the amount of gross sales
7 per year, is that right?
8 MS. FARLEY: Macy's would be
9 included.
10 LEGISLATOR BECKER: In other
11 words, I think it's defined by the amount of
12 sales per year, isn't it?
13 MS. FARLEY: It's by square
14 f o o t a g e .
15 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So Macy's and
16 other stores would be included?
17 MS. FARLEY: Yes.
18 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So what
19 happens is, the box stores are selling more
20 consumer type goods that maybe once were
21 excluded, you would only find in Macy's, is
22 that what you're saying, and now you are
23 finding books and clothing and you find them
24 in the box stores now, am I correct in what
25 I'm saying?
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2 MR. RUSK: All.
3 MS. FARLEY: All items.
4 LEGISLATOR BECKER: This
5 legislation was defined to me as something
6 that was going to now include box stores and
7 I was trying to understand.
8 MS. FARLEY: They have been
9 included, if you have the right definition
10 of box store, they were included.
11 LEGISLATOR BECKER: So you're
12 actually including, expanding your items
13 that were once exempt from the legislation
14 just being included, and any retail store
15 would be above the certain definition no
16 matter who they are, what they are --
17 MR. RUSK: It's over $3 million
18 in sales.
19 LEGISLATOR BECKER: Okay. How
20 did you pick $3 million in sales?
21 MS. FARLEY: I didn't. It was in
22 a prior law.
23 CHAIRMAN KOPEL: Any other
24 questions from legislators?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 Any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 There being none, we'll vote on
5 the matter. All those in favor signify by
6 saying aye.
7 ( A y e . )
8 Any opposed?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 The item passes.
11 (Whereupon, the following are the
12 continuation of the minutes of the Rules
13 Committee of 11-14-11.)
14 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN WALKER: Moved by
17 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
18 Walker. There's no debate or discussion?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 Is there any public comment?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 All those in favor please say
23 a y e .
24 ( A y e . )
25 Now we go back to the calendar
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2 and we call 435, a proposed local law to
3 amend various sections of the administrative
4 code in relation to increasing fees for
5 fingerprinting employees. Take a motion,
6 p l e a s e .
7 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
8 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
10 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
11 Dunne. I would like to incorporate all the
12 testimony from the previous committees on
13 that, please.
14 (Whereupon, the following are the
15 minutes of the Finance Committee pertaining
16 to Clerk Item 435-11.)
17 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Item 435 of
18 2011, a local law to amend Subdivision D of
19 Section 2216 and Subdivision B of Section
20 2217 of the Administrative Code in relation
21 to increasing fees for fingerprinting
22 employees.
23 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
24 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Moved by
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2 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
3 Dunne. Is there a speaker for this item?
4 MR. CAMP: Hi. My name is Carl
5 Camp. I'm the executive director of the
6 Nassau County Civil Service Commission.
7 I'm proposing this fee increase.
8 I can give you a little history if you're
9 interested. This started under a previous
10 administration and under one of your local
11 laws to fingerprint those people that had
12 contact with children when they were getting
13 jobs in Nassau County.
14 Since its very creation, we have
15 set aside a budgetary item to cover this.
16 So we have never really charged people that
17 came in for printing. In today's day and
18 age, the state charges me anywhere from 50
19 to $75 to get the prints, and I want to pass
20 this on to the people coming in for
21 employment.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Mr. Camp,
23 some of the increases here are up to 150?
24 MR. CAMP: That's correct.
25 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: That's over
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2 and above what the state is charging?
3 MR. CAMP: It's over and above
4 what the state is charging. I'm recouping
5 some of the administrative costs that I
6 have. I did purchase an electronic
7 fingerprinting machine which we utilize
8 almost on a daily basis. So there are a lot
9 of other costs. Getting the prints back
10 from the state is only the very beginning.
11 I have to have an investigator go out and
12 speak with these people, get court records
13 to see what they are before I put them
14 through the three man commission.
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: These are
16 applicants for employment that will be
17 paying these fees?
18 MR. CAMP: That's correct. They
19 are people who come in for employment who
20 have contact with children within different
21 departments within the County of Nassau.
22 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Is it
23 applicants for employment with the county
24 exclusively or with other municipalities?
25 MR. CAMP: Only with Nassau
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2 C o u n t y .
3 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Just before,
4 there might be individuals who are not
5 employed at present.
6 MR. CAMP: We do have in
7 existence a method to waive fees just as we
8 do for examinations.
9 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: How do you
10 determine that, is it based on income?
11 MR. CAMP: Based on any type of
12 public service that they're getting. If
13 they are unemployed currently, we can waive
14 that fee.
15 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: From my own
16 perspective, I can see recouping the monies
17 that we are paying out to the state, but
18 going above and beyond what the state is
19 charging us, especially with the applicants
20 who are not currently employed, it seems
21 like there's a hardship we're imposing on
22 people who are coming for employment, they
23 may not get the job. So I would personally
24 would like to see, and I think we are going
25 to add an amendment to reflect that we will
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2 charge whatever the cost is to the county
3 from the state.
4 MR. CAMP: Well, if you read the
5 law, it says our fee as declared by the
6 commission. I never planned on charging
7 more than what it actually cost, but in some
8 cases we will be taking on fingerprinting of
9 different types of candidates, where I would
10 have to get FBI prints, and I put that in
11 there simply to cover the maximum cost that
12 I would have in the future.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: We will be
14 taking a look at this. Our interest here is
15 we want to recoup the cost to the county,
16 but, again, since we are dealing with
17 applicants for employment and, in this
18 economy, we have 10, 15 percent
19 unemployment, real unemployment. There's a
20 lot of hardship out there. We don't want to
21 necessarily increase that, especially some
22 of these individuals won't be getting the
23 job. Legislator Dunne and then Legislator
24 Denenberg.
25 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: To be a
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2 substitute teacher at any of the schools,
3 you have to be fingerprinted. You have to
4 go to the police department and you have to
5 be fingerprinted. To be a referee in any of
6 the sports through BOCES, you have to be
7 fingerprinted. There is another field,
8 banking, you have to be fingerprinted. So
9 this isn't uncommon to have to be charged to
10 be fingerprinted. They do it in other
11 municipalities and other districts. This
12 isn't just an excessive fee. The additional
13 fee is what we are concerned about.
14 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Mr. Camp, I
15 want to just thank you for all the work that
16 you do. I think you really, more than any
17 civil service commissioner, makes archaic
18 laws, in many cases, at least work here in
19 Nassau County, so that things do move, so
20 thank you for your great great work. You
21 really do more than a yeoman's job, you do
22 the best job that I know of.
23 My familiarity with this is very
24 similar to what Legislator Nicolello said,
25 but it's even worse. People who are working
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2 with children would include one of our
3 better programs which is the summer camps.
4 So you're talking about kids who will be
5 working with kids that have to get
6 fingerprinted. If they are under 18 years
7 old, I don't think they are making $10 an
8 hour. They might be making nine and half an
9 hour just for a summer job, or people that
10 are making hourly wages for a provisional
11 job where their first week plus in salary
12 for a six week summer program is going to go
13 to just pay $150 for fingerprinting.
14 Certainly, I would think that
15 people making $12 an hour or $9.50 an hour
16 and people who are only working
17 provisionally just to have a summer job
18 which is really doing a service to all
19 residents in Nassau County, I can understand
20 that we have to do the fingerprinting
21 because we have to do the fingerprinting and
22 there's a cost, but we're taking a week or
23 two salary of a six week program --
24 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: He said up to,
25 he didn't say it has to be $150.
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2 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Thank you,
3 Legislator Dunne. We shouldn't be doing it,
4 period, okay? How do we adjust this
5 depending on the job or what people are
6 d o i n g ?
7 MR. CAMP: Well, there would be
8 the minimum fee that the state charges as
9 would be $50. So that would be a minimum
10 fee that I would be charging everyone across
11 the board that has to be fingerprinted that
12 was eligible to be printed. That's what the
13 state charges me.
14 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: So why
15 couldn't we just say, just recoup the state
16 charge? Why do we have to have this where
17 it could go up to $150?
18 MR. CAMP: That's exactly the
19 point of it. I was trying to set it so that
20 as the fees increased, for example, on these
21 young children, these young men and young
22 women that are working in parks, that would
23 have to be printed, we only get New York
24 State criminal justice prints on them.
25 On others, I would like to be
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2 able to go to the FBI which is going to be
3 more costly. We have had cases in Nassau
4 County where they have actually followed
5 children from California and arrested them
6 in California, and our state results come
7 out completely negative, but they have been
8 arrested before in other states.
9 So there are a lot of things here
10 and, as I said, the printing is only the
11 beginning. It's what you do with the
12 prints. And what we present to the
13 commissioners for approval or disapproval,
14 that's very important. And that sometimes
15 involves, in every case, investigation.
16 LEGISLATOR DENENBERG: Between
17 the cost of education, the lack of summer
18 jobs, how hard it is for our college
19 students and our high school or our young
20 people to be adding anymore cost to them, I
21 think, at the very least, if we are going to
22 run certain programs like a summer camp
23 program, the program can pay for itself.
24 But to get people that may or may not get a
25 job and then to charge them what could be
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2 their first week's salary is just not the
3 way to go.
4 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: Legislator
5 W i n k .
6 LEGISLATOR WINK: Mr. Camp, how
7 are you? Currently we charge $12 is it?
8 MR. CAMP: Currently we have not
9 charged anything for this program since the
10 previous administration and since you passed
11 that law. We have budgeted money. I think
12 it's approximately $75 or $80,000 a year to
13 cover these prints, that we have not charged
14 in the past for fingerprinting.
15 LEGISLATOR WINK: $75,000 a year
16 is approximately what it takes to pay New
17 York State?
18 MR. CAMP: Approximately.
19 LEGISLATOR WINK: And you are
20 authorized currently to charge $12 per
21 p r i n t ?
22 MR. CAMP: It does say, or at the
23 discretion of the commission of the law.
24 LEGISLATOR WINK: Do you have any
25 idea what that would -- how many --
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2 MR. CAMP: I would be glad to
3 work out a rate that was satisfactory to the
4 legislature and not charge as much and keep
5 money budgeted in that rate for the people
6 that Mr. Denenberg identified, I think
7 that's a good option for us.
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: Well, at
9 $75,000 a year, you said it's approximately
10 $50 per state investigation is that what the
11 state is charging you?
12 MR. CAMP: It's $50, yes.
13 LEGISLATOR WINK: Does that also
14 factor in the possible FBI investigation?
15 MR. CAMP: No, it does not.
16 LEGISLATOR WINK: So you're
17 contemplating then --
18 MR. CAMP: $75 or more if there's
19 an FBI check.
20 LEGISLATOR WINK: So you're
21 contemplating about a thousand checks a
22 y e a r ?
23 MR. CAMP: Depending on the
24 hiring process, how many we're doing.
25 LEGISLATOR WINK: At least, as it
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2 is right now, you could theoretically, of
3 those thousand, you could theoretically
4 garner $12,000 in fees under the current
5 ordinance; is that correct?
6 MR. CAMP: We don't charge at
7 a l l .
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: I understand
9 but, yet, in 2003, it appears that this
10 legislature approved a fee of $12.
11 MR. CAMP: Right.
12 LEGISLATOR WINK: Which hasn't
13 been enforced?
14 MR. CAMP: Well, it has not been
15 charged because the county -- it was the
16 county executive's opinion, with the past
17 administration, that that should be borne by
18 the county.
19 LEGISLATOR WINK: But, doing
20 nothing, in other words, rejecting this
21 local law would still allow you to recoup
22 about $12,000 a year?
23 MR. CAMP: Right.
24 LEGISLATOR WINK: Maybe that's
25 the place to start. We are talking about
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2 trying to recoup everything and here we've
3 been collecting nothing.
4 MR. CAMP: In this day and age,
5 my goal would be to collect what the state
6 is charging me for these prints and not a
7 penny less, in my opinion.
8 LEGISLATOR WINK: As much as I
9 can appreciate that, if the majority of
10 people being fingerprinted here are
11 lifeguards, rec aids, daycare employees,
12 things of that nature, we are talking about
13 people making, 8, 10, maybe $12 an hour, and
14 we're talking about even under the current
15 state of affairs paying about an hour's
16 worth of salary for the right to be
17 fingerprinted for the right to take this
18 job. As bad as that may seem, in some
19 respect, it seems a lot more fair than
20 talking about an entire week's worth of pay
21 potentially in order for them to have the
22 right to be employed by the county.
23 MR. CAMP: As I said, our intent
24 was to build a fee structure that would not
25 charge them the full fee.
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2 LEGISLATOR WINK: My sense
3 personally is that we should start with
4 what's authorized and see how that works out
5 before we go right to 50, 75, $150 a set of
6 prints. So thank you.
7 MR. CAMP: You're welcome.
8 LEGISLATOR NICOLELLO: Just along
9 those lines, if we're able to recoup
10 $75,000, that might save a couple of jobs
11 that we're talking about,
12 MR. CAMP: Yes.
13 CHAIRMAN NICOLELLO: So any other
14 q u e s t i o n s ?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 Is there any public comment?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 All those in favor please signify
19 by saying aye.
20 ( A y e . )
21 Any opposed?
22 ( N a y . )
23 It passes four to three and moves
24 on to Rules. Thank you, Mr. Camp.
25 (Whereupon, the following is the
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2 continuation of the minutes of the Rules
3 Committee, 11-14-11.)
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: It's necessary
5 for a big long explanation because it was
6 done in other committees. Does anybody have
7 any questions? First you have to identify
8 yourself for the record, please.
9 MR. CAMP: I'm Carl Camp,
10 executive director of the Nassau County
11 Civil Service Commission.
12 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Anybody have
13 questions about this item for Mr. Camp?
14 (No verbal response.)
15 I know it was done extensively
16 before, so there is no questions. Is there
17 any public comment?
18 (No verbal response.)
19 All those in favor signify by
20 saying aye.
21 ( A y e . )
22 Any opposed?
23 ( N a y . )
24 The item carries through the
25 Rules Committee by four votes of the
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2 majority to three votes of the minority.
3 I didn't have an opportunity but
4 I'm going to talk to Legislator Nicolello,
5 who is the chairman of the Finance
6 Committee, as you know, it depends if the
7 members of finance, speaking from my side,
8 if what was said at the committee meeting
9 makes the case, or else we will have to go
10 over it again in front of the full leg, and
11 passage of this, if the case is made it will
12 be passed. But if it's not made, we will
13 see what it is.
14 MR. CAMP: Mr. Schmitt, one of
15 the objections that was made was that for
16 the people in seasonal positions, not being
17 able to pay that $50 fee for printing.
18 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: I thought it
19 w a s $ 1 5 0 .
20 MR. CAMP: It's $150. It's at
21 the discretion of the commission up to $150,
22 but I'm sure my commissioners would not have
23 an issue with charging the $12 fee for these
24 younger people who come in who, under the
25 law that you pass, have to be fingerprinted,
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2 and then apply the upper levels to people,
3 $50 for people who have criminal justice
4 only, and if they require criminal justice
5 and FBI, the $150.
6 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Okay. I got
7 you. Thank you.
8 MR. CAMP: Thank you.
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Now we go to
10 443, an ordinance amending prior legislation
11 establishing rules and regulations for the
12 use of parking on county owned property.
13 May I have a motion, please?
14 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
17 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
18 Walker. Who is here for that?
19 JUDGE MARKS: John Marks, Nassau
20 County Traffic and Parking Violations
21 A g e n c y .
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Welcome,
23 judge, how are you?
24 MR. RICH: Dave Rich, assistant
25 executive director.
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2 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Hello, Mr.
3 Rich. Do you want to tell us what this
4 d o e s ?
5 JUDGE MARKS: The current fine
6 structure for Town of Oyster Bay, Hempstead
7 is $150. We've asked for an increase -- I'm
8 sorry. Let me start again.
9 Nassau County has $100 maximum
10 fine of parking tickets. We submitted an
11 application to increase that to be
12 consistent with Vehicle and Traffic Law with
13 the Town of Hempstead and Town of Oyster Bay
14 to the board of judges. They could not make
15 any ruling on it because of the 1991
16 ordinance that indicated that the maximum
17 amount on a parking ticket would be $100.
18 We are seeking that that be removed or added
19 up to 150 so we can go back to the board of
20 judges to see if they will approve the
21 parking increase.
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Anybody have
23 any questions?
24 (No verbal response.)
25 Is there any public comment?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 All those in favor please say
4 a y e .
5 ( A y e . )
6 Any opposed?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 The item carries unanimously.
9 The next item is 512, a resolution
10 authorizing the county executive to execute
11 a grant agreement between the county acting
12 on behalf of the Department of Parks and the
13 Farmingdale Bethpage Historical Society.
14 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
17 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
18 Dunne. Any questions on this item?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 Is there any public comment?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 All those in favor please say
23 a y e .
24 ( A y e . )
25 Any opposed?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 The item carries unanimously.
4 Can I call these together? 514 and 515.
5 It's a resolution to include in the
6 proceeding of the Nassau County Legislature
7 a statement of the total assessed
8 evaluation. The second is of the adjusted
9 base proportion. Can I have motion, please?
10 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
11 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
12 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
13 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
14 Dunne. Any debate or discussion on these?
15 (No verbal response.)
16 Is there any public comment?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 All those in favor please say
19 a y e .
20 ( A y e . )
21 Any opposed?
22 (No verbal response.)
23 The items carry unanimously.
24 Next we go to Item Number 541, a resolution
25 authorizing the county executive to execute
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2 an amendment to an intermunicipal agreement
3 with the Incorporated Village of East
4 R o c k a w a y .
5 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
6 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
7 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
8 Legislator Dunne, seconded by Legislator
9 Ciotti. Any debate or discussion?
10 (No verbal response.)
11 Is there any public comment?
12 (No verbal response.)
13 All those in favor please say
14 a y e .
15 ( A y e . )
16 Any opposed?
17 (No verbal response.)
18 The item carries unanimously.
19 Now we have to go down to 573 which is a
20 resolution to amend resolution number 387 as
21 last amended to publish and identify the
22 real property listed by school district
23 published in the local papers, the real
24 property listed by school district number,
25 and so forth. May I have a motion, please?
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2 LEGISLATOR WALKER: So moved.
3 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Second.
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
5 Legislator Walker, seconded by Legislator
6 Ciotti. Any debate or discussion?
7 (No verbal response.)
8 Is there any public comment?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 All those in favor please say
11 a y e .
12 ( A y e . )
13 Any opposed?
14 (No verbal response.)
15 The item carries unanimously.
16 574 is a resolution authorizing the county
17 executive to execute a grant agreement
18 between the county acting on behalf of the
19 Department of and Chamber Players
20 International.
21 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
22 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
24 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
25 Dunne. Any debate or discussion?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 Is there any public comment?
4 (No verbal response.)
5 All those in favor please say
6 a y e .
7 ( A y e . )
8 Any opposed?
9 (No verbal response.)
10 The item carries unanimously. Is
11 there any objection to calling the next
12 three items together, they're all
13 intermunicipal agreements and so forth.
14 578, 579, and 580.
15 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
16 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
17 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
18 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
19 Dunne. These are intermunicipal agreements
20 with the Levittown Fire District. It's an
21 agreement with the New Hyde Park Museum, and
22 it's an agreement with the East Rockaway
23 Grist Mill Museum. Any debate or
24 discussion?
25 (No verbal response.)
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2 Is there any public comment?
3 (No verbal response.)
4 All those in favor please say
5 a y e .
6 ( A y e . )
7 Any opposed?
8 (No verbal response.)
9 The items carry unanimously. Now
10 we go to the addendum items. We have 384, a
11 resolution to authorize the transfer of
12 appropriations. May I have a motion,
13 p l e a s e ?
14 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: So moved.
15 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: Second.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Moved by
17 Legislator Ciotti, seconded by Legislator
18 Dunne. Any debate or discussion?
19 (No verbal response.)
20 Is there any public comment?
21 (No verbal response.)
22 All those in favor please say
23 a y e .
24 ( A y e . )
25 Any opposed?
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2 (No verbal response.)
3 The item carries unanimously.
4 Now we come to Item 584 which is a local law
5 in relation to the management and operation
6 of a Nassau County fixed route transit and
7 paratransit bus system. That's the item
8 that is scheduled for a public hearing on
9 Thursday. It turns out that research upon
10 hearing the donnybrook that occurred in the
11 Finance Committee, that research shows that
12 the notice requirements for this hearing are
13 deficient. The notice requirements were
14 advertised for an ordinance and a local law
15 was sent down to the clerk of the
16 legislature.
17 So we are going to cancel the
18 hearing on Thursday. We're going to
19 reschedule the whole thing because we have
20 to readvertise it, and they'll be a date
21 arrived at as quickly as I can arrive at a
22 date, at which point the minority will be
23 notified, and there will be an opportunity
24 to -- we'll reschedule the whole public
25 h e a r i n g .
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2 I know there are people here who
3 have been here for a long time who came here
4 to talk on this item today, and even though
5 we are not calling it, I'm going to run
6 through the slips that I have to see if
7 anybody wants to get up and share anything
8 with us. Taymar Paoli (phonetic)? Not
9 here. Miny Pierre Johnson from Elmont?
10 Gone. Joseph Vocca? Gone. Ryan Lynch?
11 MR. LYNCH: Good evening. Ryan
12 Lynch, Tri-State Transportation Campaign.
13 I'm going to be really brief. We are
14 concerned with this contract. The secrecy
15 that has pervaded the contract, we are happy
16 to hear that the hearing is postponed.
17 Thank you for doing that.
18 The contract released last week
19 really we feel seeds way too much power to a
20 private company, Veolia Transportation.
21 Essentially Veolia can raise fares, cut
22 service, and demand new revenues. We feel
23 the contract seeds way too much power to
24 Veolia. This contract allows for Veolia
25 with no oversight to cut up to six routes in
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2 the first six months, to change levels of
3 service, which, for all intents and
4 purposes, is a service cut, without any kind
5 of oversight or discretion, no public
6 hearings.
7 If their projections come in
8 underestimated during the quarterly reviews
9 in this contract, they can essentially
10 demand fare increases or new revenues from
11 the county. We think that this is way too
12 much power. The county has to do a better
13 job in this contract to make it better to
14 protect riders, protect businesses, and
15 protect workers.
16 We are very, very concerned with
17 the idea that a major event like a 13C claim
18 for the labor community would trigger an
19 automatic fare increase or service cut or
20 Veolia just gets to walk away from the
21 c o n t r a c t .
22 The question remains, what
23 exactly is the threshold for declaring a
24 major event. There's no real clear language
25 in that contract to identify what that
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2 means. The fact that Veolia can eliminate
3 routes that are within a mile of one another
4 with no oversight is very, very disturbing,
5 especially for a lot of the people that take
6 Long Island Bus, the nice bus, are seniors
7 who may not have the physical capacity to
8 walk a mile, particularly think about
9 winter. I don't want to say like my father,
10 but walking in the snow with no shoes.
11 There is not oversight and not enough
12 protections. The bottom line is, this seeds
13 way too much power to a private company. We
14 urge the county legislature to do more to
15 protect riders. We've advocated for a five
16 year freeze on fare increases and service
17 c u t s .
18 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: I assume
19 you're going to be here at the public
20 hearing, correct?
21 MR. LYNCH: Yes. Whenever that
22 is scheduled.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: At that public
24 hearing, Veolia will be here, several of the
25 questions, any questions that you have can
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2 be answered. I'm not going to debate the
3 issue because it's going to be debated
4 plenty at the public hearing, but it's my
5 understanding you made a statement that I
6 believe is factually incorrect. That they
7 can cut routes with no oversight. It's my
8 understanding, although we haven't finished
9 reviewing the contract --
10 MR. LYNCH: I'm sorry, Mr.
11 Schmitt. I would like to clarify that
12 statement. They can cut routes as long as
13 the service cut does not amount to 25
14 percent overall cut in the system. They can
15 cut routes at their own discretion.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: It's my
17 understanding that if they're going to
18 eliminate routes, cut routes, that that five
19 person board that will be appointed, three
20 by the county executive, one by me and one
21 by the minority leader, that they have to
22 hold a public hearing. They can't just cut
23 routes on their own.
24 MR. LYNCH: Only if it amounts to
25 a 25 percent cut in service.
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2 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Do you think
3 that the people, the membership that's going
4 to be appointed is going to turn a blind eye
5 t o - -
6 MR. LYNCH: Unfortunately I don't
7 think the membership of that committee are
8 going to have a lot of power to do so.
9 Especially since the county executive every
10 January 1st can erode the power of the
11 Transit Advisory Committee.
12 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: How so?
13 MR. LYNCH: And in the
14 legislation it says every January 1st --
15 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: You know what,
16 this is --
17 MR. LYNCH: This is why I'm
18 trying to get these questions answered. We
19 want to make sure that this contract is as
20 strong as possible.
21 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: You're asking
22 people questions at the Rules Committee who
23 can't answer them because Veolia is not
24 here. I'm telling you I haven't finished
25 reviewing the contract myself.
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2 MR. LYNCH: Are you going to vote
3 on the contract today then?
4 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: No. There's
5 nothing in front of us. I'm just doing
6 public comment here as a courtesy to
7 everybody who has waited so long. The item
8 is not being called because the item is to
9 send the contract to the Full Legislature on
10 November 17th, and that's been cancelled.
11 So whatever we're going to do
12 here, we're going to do this right. The
13 notice requirements are deficient. So we'll
14 just stop the process and start all over
15 again. They'll be another ad in the
16 newspaper and they'll be another meeting of
17 this committee, a special meeting I guess of
18 this committee to push through to the Full
19 Legislature. The contract, there should not
20 be a lot of debate and discussion here
21 because there's going to be a lot of debate
22 and discussion in front of the full 19
23 member legislature.
24 MR. LYNCH: Then I apologize.
25 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: You didn't do
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2 anything wrong. I'm just saying this is the
3 process that we're going to follow, so --
4 it's public comment, you can say whatever
5 you want to say, but nothing is going to
6 happen here today.
7 MR. LYNCH: I apologize. I
8 thought the item had been called. This is
9 why I was trying to get questions answered.
10 I look forward to the public hearing.
11 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Mrs. Jacobs.
12 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: The only
13 thing, Mr. Lynch, that I don't know if you
14 touched on, but that concerns me here, is
15 that I think it's to our benefit to know the
16 questions people have, such as, using the
17 Metro Card. Not allowing it, is in itself a
18 fee increase for ridership. So I'm just
19 trying to think what's to our benefit. I'm
20 glad that you are putting it off until
21 proper notice but, the truth of the matter
22 is, the best thing for us would be that for
23 Veolia not to get up on whenever the new
24 date is and say, well, we don't have enough
25 information with us, we'll have to come back
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2 t o y o u .
3 Whereas, if we can put either on
4 the record or at least a letter signed by
5 anyone who has questions to Veolia to tell
6 them to be ready to answer these questions
7 because I'm reading it the way Mr. Lynch is
8 reading it. There's going to be this board
9 formed, but the truth of the matter is, from
10 the way I'm reading it, it seems to me that
11 Veolia can walk away or terminate their
12 association with it at a moment's notice if
13 they don't feel they're getting what they
14 want. If that's not true, I stand
15 corrected.
16 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: We're going to
17 have to have Veolia here, we're going to
18 have to have, I don't know how far along
19 enough in the process, I assume Rob Walker
20 will be here, I hope Veolia will be here,
21 and we will have to get these questions
22 clarified. I don't particular care if this
23 hearing goes on for 15 hours. If they're
24 going to sit there and say, we don't have
25 the information, I'm going to tell them, go
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2 get it. We'll wait.
3 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I just feel
4 like I wanted to try to offset --
5 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: I just feel
6 that everybody needs to focus on the fact
7 that, with all due respect to Mr. Lynch, a
8 five year fare freeze is insane for anybody.
9 We have no idea, neither does the MTA, which
10 won't guarantee a five year fare increase.
11 They're going to increase fares next June.
12 You have no idea what's going to happen to
13 your situation over a five year period of
14 time. Up, down, in between, you have no
15 idea. And you can't expect the county to
16 bankrupt itself anymore that you can expect
17 the private company to bank off itself
18 trying to honor a freeze that is not real.
19 Inflation is here. All you have
20 to do is look at the price of food or the
21 price of certain other items and every time
22 the price shoots up because of inflation,
23 the government very cleverly cuts it out of
24 what they consider to be for inflation which
25 keeps the rate from rising but it's here.
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2 The only thing keeping interest rates down
3 now is the terrible situation and the fed.
4 But who knows what's going to happen in two
5 year's time? Nobody can agree to that. We
6 have three choices here folks. We do
7 nothing, in which case the buses stop on
8 January 1st, which, to me, is not an option.
9 The MTA is raping and continues to rape and
10 is trying to bankrupt this county. They
11 want $26 million more and they're going to
12 cut 50 percent of the routes.
13 Now there's questions about
14 whether or not they're going to honor
15 MetroCard, the MTA is one big bad agency.
16 They have no use for us, and no use for the
17 people who ride the bus. Not to mention the
18 $100 million they continue to extract out of
19 this county by the MTA payroll tax, so that
20 doesn't seem to be an option, and we have
21 this contract here that we have to explore
22 and, out of the three, we have to pick the
23 best one. I don't think any one of them is
24 going to be perfect.
25 MR. LYNCH: I agree and my
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2 concern is that we stop looking towards the
3 past and start looking at January 1st. The
4 MTA, as you said, wants nothing to do with
5 Long Island Bus. Nassau County wants
6 nothing to do with the MTA running Long
7 Island Bus.
8 So what we need to do now is find
9 the best way forward for bus riders and ways
10 that protect bus riders, businesses, and
11 l a b o r .
12 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: In that I
13 agree with you. But what I'm trying to say
14 to you, your vision of what best protects
15 riders may not be the vision of some of us
16 up here. It doesn't mean you're wrong. It
17 doesn't mean we're wrong. It's a matter of
18 something, it can be reasonable minds
19 saying, well, I think what we have right
20 here serves to protect the ridership, and
21 you would perhaps disagree and say there
22 should be, what I'm looking at saying we'll
23 protect the membership is this big and
24 you're saying it has to be this big. You
25 may be right. I don't know. Until we go
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2 down the road, we'll have no way of knowing.
3 MR. LYNCH: Unfortunately the bus
4 riders are going to be on that road and
5 going to be hurt if we don't do enough to
6 protect them. So when we have this formal
7 hearing, I look forward to having some of
8 these questions analyzed and answered.
9 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: As do I.
10 Thank you. Anita Belays from Hauppauge?
11 No. Jason Chinfat, New York, New York?
12 Gone. Chris Gavan?
13 MR. GAVAN: I'm Chris Gavan. I
14 represent the workers at the Transport
15 Workers Union. One of the things I wanted
16 to do, I wanted to make a comment. Most of
17 the time when they spoke it said it didn't
18 affect a lot of people, that they would be
19 absorbed, their jobs would be absorbed.
20 Well, I can tell you right now, 42 mechanics
21 are going to lose their jobs. Over 800
22 people are going to lose 27 percent of their
23 pension, okay? And depending on what kind
24 of medical we negotiate, I mean it took a
25 year for you guys to negotiate a contract
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2 with Veolia. I got to negotiate a contract
3 with them in a month and a half. So I don't
4 know what, but a lot of people are losing a
5 lot on this. I just wanted to take it from
6 the labor point. I want you to understand.
7 Understand your position. But you --
8 anybody that votes for this contract, I'd
9 never want to go into business with. I
10 stand on the record with that. This is an
11 open end. They can do what they want. They
12 can walk away and you can't say nothing.
13 They did it before in other states and
14 they're going to do it again.
15 Listen, just take that into
16 consideration and I hope you do. Thank you.
17 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Thank you.
18 Roy Kohle from Medford?
19 MR. KOHLE: Hi. I'm Roy Kohle
20 and I'm here to represent the 2,300
21 signatures I have in my hand that people
22 signed, that ride the buses, that want to
23 keep the MTA in the bus service business
24 because Veolia is in business to make money.
25 Public buses do not make money. And when
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2 somebody's going to go and buy something and
3 they want to take it and make money with it,
4 they're going to take and cut the hell out
5 of the God damn services. So you guys can
6 tell me whatever you want up there, that's
7 what they're going to do. Because I'm a
8 businessman, so when I buy something I buy
9 it to make money. Not to lose money on it.
10 I might take a shortcut on it for six months
11 or a year, but then, after that, it's going
12 to be over because that's what businesses do
13 today, they take and cut. They're cutting
14 the heart out of everybody that's out here
15 trying to make a living to live on this God
16 damn island that nobody cares about the
17 middle class person. That's the bottom
18 l i n e .
19 If you guys want to vote for
20 Veolia, and vote your lines, however you
21 want to do that, and not have a heart when
22 you do it, fine. I hope you guys have a
23 nice time with yourself when you go to bed
24 at night. Thank you.
25 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Lisa Tyson.
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2 MS. TYSON: Good evening. My
3 name is Lisa Tyson, director of the Long
4 Island Progressive Coalition. So we're at
5 an interesting crossroads. It does seem
6 like there is a lot of support for
7 privatization in this county and that there
8 will be a vote to support it.
9 Really, what we need from you is
10 to make sure that the contract protects the
11 people of the county, not just the riders,
12 it needs to protect the riders, but it also
13 has to protect the people of the county. I
14 love that there's an extension because it
15 gives you more time to read the contract and
16 there's a lot of lawyers up here, as
17 legislators, we really want each one of you
18 to read the contract. When you read it, it
19 really looks as though Veolia wrote this
20 themselves for themselves. It really helps
21 them. We want to make sure that there's
22 more language in there that protects the
23 county and riders. There's things about a
24 major event with very little documentation
25 about that. If there is a major event,
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2 Veolia can force changes.
3 My understanding, and I have to
4 be honest, I have to read the contract
5 again, my understanding is they can force
6 changes without going to the board of five
7 people. Unfortunately a lot of us like
8 government. Some of us don't believe in
9 government. But what we do find often is
10 when there are appointments, many times bad
11 decisions are made. Because if you go
12 against the person who appointed you, you
13 get kicked off the board.
14 So we want to make sure that
15 whatever party is in power, that the riders
16 and the people in the county are protected.
17 So it's not just about, oh, well, the guy is
18 good right now. He's going to do the right
19 thing. It's about the future because we're
20 going to have this contract possibly for a
21 long time, so we want to make sure the
22 contract is good. It clearly has too much
23 power for this one committee. If anything,
24 this Full Legislature should have to vote on
25 any major changes to the system.
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2 You know, running a bus system is
3 not like running a business because there
4 are people in areas of the county that don't
5 have a lot of people on a bus but who
6 desperately need it. I know, Legislator
7 Walker, your district alone has a lot of
8 seniors, a lot of home health aids, who
9 depend on it. Yes, the bus might look
10 empty, but, without that bus system, those
11 people have no capacity to get that home
12 health aid to their home, or to get to work
13 or to the supermarket.
14 Veolia and this committee of five
15 might not be caring about these people.
16 It's your job to care about those people and
17 I know you do care about them.
18 So I hope that we can actually
19 submit a list of questions before the public
20 hearing. I hope we can have more dialogue
21 about the contract itself because ultimately
22 this contract needs to be improved, and we
23 really hope that you do your due diligence
24 to improve it. And we hope that we're going
25 to work with you on making the contract as
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2 strong as it could be. Then you will
3 ultimately vote yes or no on this contract.
4 But we need a better contract. It's clearly
5 not good enough right now.
6 And, just in closing, you talk
7 about the mobility tax. Veolia had a
8 meeting with businesses and they actually
9 talked about starting an impact fee in
10 Nassau County which is a mobility tax.
11 CLERK MULLER: Your three minutes
12 have expired.
13 MS. TYSON: Thank you.
14 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Ms. Tyson, if
15 you have a list of questions that you would
16 like to submit to my office, and I would
17 suggest a copy to Diane Yatauro's office, I
18 will send them up to the administration,
19 they should be prepared to answer them on
20 the date of the hearing.
21 MS. TYSON: We would appreciate
22 that and we will do that. Thank you.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Thank you.
24 Roger Clayman. Long Island Federation of
25 L a b o r .
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2 MR. CLAYMAN: Thank you. I won't
3 go into the long issues of Long Island Bus.
4 I think that the last suggestion that you
5 made, Mr. Schmitt, is an excellent one. Our
6 purpose today was to ask you to ask
7 questions.
8 I will only just look at the
9 narrow issue of the 13C, the labor issues,
10 and ask you to ask that question of about
11 what constitutes a major event or a
12 significant event. If the workforce is to
13 receive wages, benefits, and retirement
14 comparable to what they're receiving now or
15 equal to, will that constitute a major
16 event? Is there predicated upon much lower
17 wage rates as they stated in the very
18 beginning when they tried to hire a new
19 workforce? I would make that one the
20 questions that you address when you reach
21 out between now and the time we have the
22 hearing to get that kind of information.
23 All the other issues I think have
24 been raised by Lisa and by Ryan. We will
25 work with them to give you a list of
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2 questions we think are significant.
3 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Legislator
4 J a c o b s .
5 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Mr. Clayman,
6 one question I have for you. Did you read
7 that particular part of the contract where
8 it says, federal regulations would dictate
9 the fact that if somebody works for the
10 county now is hired by Veolia, and they are
11 not hired in equal rate of pay and/or
12 benefits, that there is a liability that's
13 pushed back to the county, am I reading that
14 correctly or not?
15 MR. CLAYMAN: You have just given
16 me some homework to do. I don't want to
17 answer because I don't know the answer to
18 i t .
19 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: And I
20 certainly don't. I'd appreciate you letting
21 me know what you think of that because
22 that's what someone had said to me that they
23 believe this is. So I don't know so I want
24 to make sure we know.
25 MR. CLAYMAN: I don't know that
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2 either. I haven't figured it out. But we
3 will work on that and try to address those
4 kinds of questions at the hearing.
5 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: That could be
6 what Ms. Tyson was referring to, saying that
7 the ridership plus the people in the county,
8 that could be an enormous amount of money
9 that the county is on the line for at a time
10 when millions of dollars is not easily being
11 come by right now.
12 MR. CLAYMAN: It's a complex
13 question and I would also suggest that you
14 don't just ask that question of Veolia,
15 because they've got some pretty good stock
16 answers but maybe you address that to the
17 comptroller, and give it a thorough
18 analysis. And they are not aware, I think
19 they are supposedly producing something, but
20 I would ask them.
21 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Okay. I
22 appreciate it.
23 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Dennis Jones
24 of the New Hempstead Democrat Club? No.
25 Patricia Maher.
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2 MS. MAHER: Thank you very much.
3 I downloaded that contract last night, 352
4 pages of it. At one page it says one thing,
5 and then another page it says another thing.
6 One thing that I noticed about it, it says
7 Veolia was not a signatory to any labor
8 negotiations that happened prior to it, then
9 it has no obligation to any labor
10 negotiations that happens.
11 So if they didn't sign off on it,
12 whatever happened beforehand with labor,
13 they don't have to abide by it. I'm going
14 to continue reading it. I only got to page
15 100, so I will be back at the hearing but I
16 just wanted to make that point to you, that
17 at one point it says one thing and another
18 thing it says another. So it's a --
19 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: It's our
20 c h a r t e r .
21 MS. MAHER: Thank you. Yes.
22 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: Legislator
23 Abrahams.
24 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: There's
25 been much discussion on what Veolia has done
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2 in other areas. I was going to ask if a
3 report can be furnished by the Office of
4 Legislative Budget Review, I see Steve
5 Antonio in the back, to try to give us an
6 idea of the cities and towns that Veolia is
7 in and verify some of the allegations that
8 we've been hearing in regard to them walking
9 away from particular cities.
10 I mean, just in my own research,
11 I have seen -- been able to the name and
12 being able to get information of their
13 relationship in the city of Phoenix which
14 didn't sound to encouraging, but if you can,
15 Steve, if it's possible, can you put
16 together a report for us.
17 MR. ANTONIO: We'll look at that.
18 We'll research it.
19 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: Just so we
20 can have something to put together, because
21 the gentleman that came up, Mr. Kohle, I
22 heard time and time again some of the
23 allegation, so something that can give us an
24 idea of what cities they're in and the
25 relationship of the cities they have, that
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2 would be great.
3 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: I would like
4 you to focus in, not only on cities, or
5 places where there's been problems, I would
6 like to know about the success stories if
7 a n y t o o .
8 LEGISLATOR ABRAHAMS: Yes, that
9 t o o .
10 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: Peter, can I
11 just ask -- Steve, if I can ask you one more
12 question. Also, with Veolia, what have they
13 done, as far as -- even if they have been
14 there, how is their raises gone on as far as
15 fares, how have their cuts gone on? Also,
16 is the northeast quadrant into this
17 particular agreement or is that now gone
18 from the county concern?
19 MR. ANTONIO: It's gone.
20 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: It's gone
21 forever, right? I don't know myself. I
22 represent that area and they don't have
23 Able-Ride and they don't have bus service.
24 That's as of what, 10 months ago.
25 MR. KOHLE: Can I say something?
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2 I can tell you the lines that are going to
3 be cut right out of the gate. It's going to
4 be the 46 and the 50. The 73, 74, 80, 81.
5 CHAIRMAN SCHMITT: With all due
6 respect, that means nothing to us.
7 MR. KOHLE: And it's probably
8 going to be the 57 that runs from Great
9 Neck, up through Great Neck in there. But
10 the 46 and 50 are north and south. The 80
11 and 81 run north and south. And the 73 and
12 74 are north and south. The other one, the
13 57 runs around Great Neck. So that's the
14 lines they're going to cut because those are
15 the lines that don't carry a lot of people
16 and those are the lines that are not going
17 to make any money for Veolia. So those are
18 the lines they're going to slice right out
19 of the gate.
20 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: They don't
21 carry a lot of people because people can't
22 depend on the bus route frequency, which you
23 can understand, and by cutting them, now you
24 are cutting Able-Ride to the treads.
25 MR. KOHLE: And most of those
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2 lines carry the elderly people.
3 LEGISLATOR JACOBS: I know.
4 T h a n k y o u .
5 MR. KOHLE: So that's where
6 they're going to be at. I can tell you what
7 they're going to cut right out of the gate.
8 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: At this time
9 I'm going to make a motion to adjourn.
10 LEGISLATOR DUNNE: So moved.
11 LEGISLATOR WALKER: Second.
12 LEGISLATOR CIOTTI: Moved by
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14 Walker. All those in favor please state
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Economic & Community Development & Labor 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 384-11 OMB R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 384-11(OMB) 437-11 CE GS, F, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE WITH RESPECT TO ITEM PRICING AND ACCURACY IN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU. 437-11(CE) 525-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CORRECTIONAL CENTER. 525-11(OMB) 529-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, MUSEUMS AND RECREATION. 529- 11(OMB) 583-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 583-11(OMB) 584-11 CE R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW IN RELATION TO THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF A NASSAU COUNTY FIXED ROUTE TRANSIT AND PARATRANSIT BUS SYSTEM. 584-11(CE) 585-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 585-11(OMB)
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Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 338-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 338-11(OMB) 420-11 AT F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLE THE ACTION, DORSETT V. COUNTY OF NASSAU, NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE NASSAU COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND DETECTIVE ROBERT ABRIOLA, PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 420-11(AT) 421-11 AT F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TO FINANCE THE PAYMENT OF CERTAIN SETTLED CLAIMS AGAINST THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AUTHORIZING $7,905,000.00 OF BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO FINANCE SAID EXPENDITURE, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW QACT, THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW OF NEW YORK AND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY. 421-11(AT) 435-11 CS F, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND SUBDIVISION D OF SECTION 22-16 AND SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION 22-17 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, IN RELATION TO INCREASING FEES FOR FINGERPRINTING EMPLOYEES. 435-11(CS) 438-11 CA MA, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY, IN RELATION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE OF LOCAL OPPORTUNITY. 438- 11(CA) 443-11 TV F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PRIOR LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF PARKING ON, AND TRAFFIC IN AND THROUGH COUNTY OWNED PROPERTY, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT. 443-11(TV) 445-11 CS F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PRIOR LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING FEES FOR CIVIL SERVICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PROMOTION EXAMS. 445-11(CS)
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479-11 AT F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLE THE ACTION, INNOCENT DEMESYEUX, ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE ESTATES OF MICHAEL INNOCENT DEMESYEUX AND INNOCENT DEMESYEUX, JR., PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 479-11(AT) 480-11 AT F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TO FINANCE THE PAYMENT OF A JUDGMENT AGAINST THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AUTHORIZING $255,000 OF BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO FINANCE SAID EXPENDITURE, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT, THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW OF NEW YORK AND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY. 480-11(AT) 484-11 RE PL, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO ACCEPT, ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AN OFFER OF PURCHASE FROM NEIL CURTIS INC. OF CERTAIN PREMISES LOCATED IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, SAID PROPERTY KNOWN AS SECTION 55, BLOCK 264, LOT 5 ON THE LAND AND TAX MAP OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A DEED, CONTRACT OF SALE AND ALL PERTINENT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONSUMATE THE SALE. 484-11(RE) 485-11 RE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO EXECUTE A MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION AGREEMENT AND ALL PERTINENT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COUNTY-OWNED REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT AND DESIGNATED AS SECTION 55, BLOCK 264, LOT 5 ON THE NASSAU COUNTY LAND AND TAX MAP AND VACATING AND CANCELLING ALL COUNTY-HELD TAX LIENS AND ANY AND ALL TAX OBLIGATIONS NOT YET RIPE FOR LIEN STATUS RELATED TO SUCH PROPERTY. 485-11(RE)
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487-11 CE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO AMEND AN INTERMUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY IN CONNECTION TO THE TRANSFER OF JACKSON AVENUE FROM NASSAU COUNTY TO THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY. 487-11(CE) 512-11 PK R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MUSEUMS AND FARMINGDALE- BETHPAGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 512-11(PK)
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514-11 AS R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO INCLUDE IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE A STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE COUNTY, THE THREE TOWNS, TWO CITIES AND VILLAGES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES WITHIN THE SPECIAL DISTRICTS IN THE THREE TOWNS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE THREE TOWNS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU UPON WHICH TOWN HIGHWAY TAXES ARE TO BE RAISED AND LEVIED; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE THREE TOWNS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU UPON WHICH THE COUNTY POLICE DISTRICT TAXES ARE TO BE RAISED AND LEVIED; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD WITHIN SEWAGE DISPOSAL DISTRICT NO. 1 OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE TOWNS OF HEMPSTEAD AND NORTH HEMPSTEAD WITHIN SEWAGE DISPOSAL DISTRICT NO. 2 OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU; A STATEMENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES SITUATED IN THE TOWNS OF HEMPSTEAD, NORTH HEMPSTEAD AND OYSTER BAY WITHIN SEWAGE DISPOSAL DISTRICT NO. 3 OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU; AND STATEMENTS OF THE ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF THE PROPERTIES WITHIN THE SEVERAL SEWAGE COLLECTION DISTRICTS SITUATED IN THE TOWNS OF HEMPSTEAD, NORTH HEMPSTEAD AND OYSTER BAY UPON WHICH SEWER TAXES ARE TO BE RAISED; AND TO BE FILED WITH THE CLERK OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE TOWN BUDGETS FOR THE YEAR 2011 FOR THE TOWNS OF HEMPSTEAD, NORTH HEMPSTEAD AND OYSTER BAY; THE LISTS OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS AND AMOUNTS CERTIFIED BY THE TOWN BOARDS OF THE THREE TOWNS TO BE RAISED FOR SPECIAL DISTRICT PURPOSES AND FOR UNPAID WATER CHARGES IN ARREARS; PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY, THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, THE TOWN LAW, THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW AND THE COUNTY LAW. 514-11(AS)
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515-11 AS R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE CERTIFYING BASE AND ADJUSTED BASE PROPORTIONS FOR COUNTY, TOWN, AND SPECIAL DISTRICTS FOR EACH CLASS OF PROPERTY SET FORTH IN SECTION 1802 OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW AND FOR EACH PORTION AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1801(d) OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW INCLUDED WITHIN NASSAU COUNTY AS AUTHORIZED BY SECTION 1803(2) OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW. 515-11(AS) 516-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO THE DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.516-11(AS) 518-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 518-11(OMB) 519-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 519-11(OMB) 520-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 520-11(OMB) 521-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 521-11(OMB) 522-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 522-11(OMB)
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523-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 523-11(OMB) 524-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 524-11(OMB) 526-11 OMB MA, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 526-11(OMB) 527-11 OMB F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION & MUSEUMS. 527- 11(OMB) 528-11 OMB F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION & MUSEUMS. 528- 11(OMB) 530-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 530-11(OMB) 531-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS. 531-11(OMB) 532-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD. 532-11(OMB)
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533-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 533-11(AS) 534-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO EXEMPT FROM TAXATION FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, CERTAIN REAL PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 534-11(AS) 535-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT AN ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENT AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO A DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 535-11(AS)
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536-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN THE BETHPAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO A DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 536-11(AS) 538-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 538-11(OMB) 539-11 LE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A WARRANT DIRECTING THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO PAY TO THE SUPERVISORS OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS AND TO THE TREASURERS OF THE SEVERAL VILLAGES AND CITIES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, THE SUMS AS APPORTIONED BY THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE BASED ON A REPORT FILED BY THE COUNTY TREASURER AND THE COUNTY CLERK, SHOWING DEPOSITS FROM MORTGAGE TAXES FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 2010 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2011; PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 539-11(LE) 541-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO AN INTER-MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF EAST ROCKAWAY. 541-11(PW) 542-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 542-11(OMB) 543-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 543-11(OMB)
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544-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 544-11(OMB) 545-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 545-11(OMB) 546-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 546-11(OMB) 547-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 547-11(OMB) 548-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 548-11(OMB) 549-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 549-11(OMB) 550-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 550-11(OMB) 551-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 551-11(OMB) 552-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 552-11(OMB) 553-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 553-11(OMB) 554-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 554-11(OMB)
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555-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 555-11(OMB) 556-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 556-11(OMB) 557-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 557-11(OMB) 558-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 558-11(OMB) 559-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT. 559-11(OMB) 560-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 560- 11(OMB) 561-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 561-11(OMB) 562-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 562-11(AS)
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563-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 563-11(AS) 564-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 564-11(OMB) 565-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 565-11(OMB) 566-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 566-11(OMB) 567-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 567-11(OMB) 568-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 568-11(OMB) 569-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 569-11(OMB) 570-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 570-11(OMB)
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571-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 571-11(OMB) 572-11 PW PL, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE RELEASE OF A SURETY BOND AND CASH ESCROW MONIES FOR THE MAP OF THE OAKS AT BROADLAWN MANOR SUBDIVISION. 572-11(PW) 573-11 TR R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AMEND RESOLUTION NO. 387-2008, AS LAST AMENDED BY RESOLUTION NO. 341-2010, TO DESIGNATE NEWSPAPERS TO PUBLISH AND IDENTIFY THE REAL PROPERTY, LISTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER, LOCATED WHOLLY OR PARTLY IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD, TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, CITY OF GLEN COVE AND CITY OF LONG BEACH, ON WHICH REAL ESTATE TAX LIENS ARE SUBJECT TO SALE BY THE COUNTY TREASURER FOR UNPAID TAXES, PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 573-11(TR) 574-11 PK R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MUSEUMS, AND CHAMBER PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL. 574-11(PK) 575-11 RE PL, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO LEASE, BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AS LANDLORD AND RA 55 CLB LLC, AS TENANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS 51 AND 55 CHARLES LINDBERGH BOULEVARD, UNIONDALE, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, SAID REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS SECTION 44, BLOCK F, LOT 377 ON THE LAND AND TAX MAP OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU. 575-11(RE)
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577-11 CE R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO AN INTER-MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH THE LEVITTOWN FIRE DISTRICT. 577-11(CE) 579-11 PK R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MUSEUMS AND NEW HYDE PARK MUSEUM. 579-11(PK) 580-11 PK R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MUSEUMS AND EAST ROCKAWAY GRIST MILL MUSEUM. 580-11(PK) 581-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 581-11(OMB) 582-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 582- 11(OMB) A-41-11 PR R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE OF PURCHASING TO AWARD AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND LONG ISLAND SANITATION EQUIPMENT CO. A-41-11 A-44-11 PR R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE OF PURCHASING TO AWARD AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND PURFX INC. A-44-11
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B-44-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. – 2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO AWARD AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND THOMAS NOVELLI CONTRACTING. B-44-11 E-156-11 H R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SERVISAIR LLC. E-156-11 E-158-11 PK R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO A PERSONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MUSEUMS AND SMITH & DRAKE REALTY CORP. D/B/A SMITH & DEGROAT REAL ESTATE. E-158-11 E-163-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND NASSAU HEALTH CARE CORPORATION. E-163-11 E-164-11 CD R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ARODES CONSTRUCTION CORP. E-164-11 E-165-11 CD R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ENERGY SAVERS HOME IMPROVEMENT INC. E-165-11 E-166-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SWANKE HAYDEN CONNELL & PARTNERS, LLP. E-166-11
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E-169-11 TS R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD AND NEW YORK COALITION FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY. E-169-11 E-170-11 OMB R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET AND AQUARIUS CAPITAL SOLUTIONS GROUP LLC. E-170-11 E-171-11 SS R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND LOGISTICARE SOLUTIONS, LLC. E-171- 11 Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To THE FOLLOWING ITEMS MAY BE UNTABLED A-4-10 PU R RESOLUTION NO. -2010 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE OF PURCHASING TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT FOR THE THIRD YEAR BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF VARIOUS NASSAU COUNTY AGENCIES AND PERIMETER BARRIER SYSTEMS, INC. A-4-10 A-13-10 PU R RESOLUTION NO. -2010 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE OF PURCHASING TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT FOR THE SECOND OPTION YEAR BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF VARIOUS AGENCIES AND PERIMETER BARRIER SYSTEMS, INC. A-13-10 E-22-10 SS R RESOLUTION NO. -2010 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND HOPE FOR YOUTH, INC. E-22-10
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E-26-10 AR R RESOLUTION NO. -2010 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE ASSESSMENT REVIEW COMMISSION AND MICHAEL HABERMAN ASSOCIATES, INC. E-26-10 E-39-10 CE R RESOLUTION NO. -2010 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY AND BEE READY FISHBEIN HATTER & DONOVAN, LLP. E-39-10 E-66-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. E-66-11 E-155-11 PW R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A PERSONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HAKS ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, AND LAND SURVEYORS, P.C. E-155-11
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THERE ARE NO ITEMS IN THIS COMMITTEE AT THIS TIME
VETERANS AND SENIOR AFFAIRS 1
THERE ARE NO ITEMS IN THIS COMMITTEE AT THIS TIME
TOWNS & VILLAGES 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 518-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 518-11(OMB) 520-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 520-11(OMB) 521-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 521-11(OMB) 522-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 522-11(OMB) 523-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 523-11(OMB) 524-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 524-11(OMB) 531-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS. 531-11(OMB) 556-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 556-11(OMB) 557-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 557-11(OMB)
Health 1
570-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 570-11(OMB) 571-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 571-11(OMB)
Health 2
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 529-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, MUSEUMS AND RECREATION. 529- 11(OMB)
Public Works and Parks 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 530-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 530-11(OMB) 560-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 560- 11(OMB) 582-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 582- 11(OMB)
Public Works and Parks 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 525-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CORRECTIONAL CENTER. 525-11(OMB)
PUBLIC SAFETY ADDENDUM 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 338-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 338-11(OMB) 519-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 519-11(OMB) 532-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD. 532-11(OMB) 552-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 552-11(OMB) 553-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 553-11(OMB) 554-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 554-11(OMB) 555-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 555-11(OMB) 558-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 558-11(OMB) 559-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT. 559-11(OMB)
PUBLIC SAFETY 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 572-11 PW PL, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE RELEASE OF A SURETY BOND AND CASH ESCROW MONIES FOR THE MAP OF THE OAKS AT BROADLAWN MANOR SUBDIVISION. 572-11(PW) 575-11 RE PL, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO LEASE, BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AS LANDLORD AND RA 55 CLB LLC, AS TENANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS 51 AND 55 CHARLES LINDBERGH BOULEVARD, UNIONDALE, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, SAID REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS SECTION 44, BLOCK F, LOT 377 ON THE LAND AND TAX MAP OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU. 575-11(RE) THE FOLLOWING ITEMS MAY BE UNTABLED 484-11 RE PL, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO ACCEPT, ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AN OFFER OF PURCHASE FROM NEIL CURTIS INC. OF CERTAIN PREMISES LOCATED IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, SAID PROPERTY KNOWN AS SECTION 55, BLOCK 264, LOT 5 ON THE LAND AND TAX MAP OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A DEED, CONTRACT OF SALE AND ALL PERTINENT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONSUMATE THE SALE. 484-11(RE)
Planning, Development and the Environment 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 438-11 CA MA, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY, IN RELATION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE OF LOCAL OPPORTUNITY. 438- 11(CA) 526-11 OMB MA, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 526-11(OMB)
MINORITY AFFAIRS 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 437-11 CE GS, F, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE WITH RESPECT TO ITEM PRICING AND ACCURACY IN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU. 437-11(CE) 525-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CORRECTIONAL CENTER. 525-11(OMB) 529-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, MUSEUMS AND RECREATION. 529- 11(OMB) 583-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 583-11(OMB) 585-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 585-11(OMB)
FINANCE 1
Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 338-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 338-11(OMB) 420-11 AT F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLE THE ACTION, DORSETT V. COUNTY OF NASSAU, NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE NASSAU COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND DETECTIVE ROBERT ABRIOLA, PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 420-11(AT) 421-11 AT F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TO FINANCE THE PAYMENT OF CERTAIN SETTLED CLAIMS AGAINST THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AUTHORIZING $7,905,000.00 OF BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO FINANCE SAID EXPENDITURE, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW QACT, THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW OF NEW YORK AND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY. 421-11(AT) 435-11 CS F, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND SUBDIVISION D OF SECTION 22-16 AND SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION 22-17 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, IN RELATION TO INCREASING FEES FOR FINGERPRINTING EMPLOYEES. 435-11(CS) 443-11 TV F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PRIOR LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF PARKING ON, AND TRAFFIC IN AND THROUGH COUNTY OWNED PROPERTY, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT. 443-11(TV) 445-11 CS F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PRIOR LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING FEES FOR CIVIL SERVICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PROMOTION EXAMS. 445-11(CS)
FINANCE 1
479-11 AT F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLE THE ACTION, INNOCENT DEMESYEUX, ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE ESTATES OF MICHAEL INNOCENT DEMESYEUX AND INNOCENT DEMESYEUX, JR., PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 479-11(AT) 480-11 AT F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TO FINANCE THE PAYMENT OF A JUDGMENT AGAINST THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AUTHORIZING $255,000 OF BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO FINANCE SAID EXPENDITURE, AND MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT, THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW OF NEW YORK AND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY. 480-11(AT) 484-11 RE PL, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE MAKING CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO ACCEPT, ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AN OFFER OF PURCHASE FROM NEIL CURTIS INC. OF CERTAIN PREMISES LOCATED IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, SAID PROPERTY KNOWN AS SECTION 55, BLOCK 264, LOT 5 ON THE LAND AND TAX MAP OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO EXECUTE A DEED, CONTRACT OF SALE AND ALL PERTINENT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONSUMATE THE SALE. 484-11(RE) 485-11 RE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO EXECUTE A MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION AGREEMENT AND ALL PERTINENT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COUNTY-OWNED REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT AND DESIGNATED AS SECTION 55, BLOCK 264, LOT 5 ON THE NASSAU COUNTY LAND AND TAX MAP AND VACATING AND CANCELLING ALL COUNTY-HELD TAX LIENS AND ANY AND ALL TAX OBLIGATIONS NOT YET RIPE FOR LIEN STATUS RELATED TO SUCH PROPERTY. 485-11(RE)
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487-11 CE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO AMEND AN INTERMUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY IN CONNECTION TO THE TRANSFER OF JACKSON AVENUE FROM NASSAU COUNTY TO THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY. 487-11(CE) 516-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO THE DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.516-11(AS) 518-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 518-11(OMB) 519-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 519-11(OMB) 520-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 520-11(OMB) 521-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 521-11(OMB) 522-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 522-11(OMB)
FINANCE 3
523-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 523-11(OMB) 524-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 524-11(OMB) 526-11 OMB MA, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 526-11(OMB) 527-11 OMB F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION & MUSEUMS. 527- 11(OMB) 528-11 OMB F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION & MUSEUMS. 528- 11(OMB) 530-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 530-11(OMB) 531-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS. 531-11(OMB) 532-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD. 532-11(OMB)
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533-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 533-11(AS) 534-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO EXEMPT FROM TAXATION FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, CERTAIN REAL PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 534-11(AS) 535-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT AN ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENT AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO A DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 535-11(AS)
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536-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PETITION OF THE ASSESSOR ON A SPECIFIC PROPERTY SITUATED IN THE BETHPAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT, ASSESSED TO A DESIGNATED OWNER APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 536-11(AS) 538-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 538-11(OMB) 539-11 LE F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A WARRANT DIRECTING THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO PAY TO THE SUPERVISORS OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS AND TO THE TREASURERS OF THE SEVERAL VILLAGES AND CITIES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, THE SUMS AS APPORTIONED BY THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE BASED ON A REPORT FILED BY THE COUNTY TREASURER AND THE COUNTY CLERK, SHOWING DEPOSITS FROM MORTGAGE TAXES FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 2010 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2011; PURSUANT TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 539-11(LE) 542-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 542-11(OMB) 543-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 543-11(OMB) 544-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 544-11(OMB) 545-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 545-11(OMB)
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546-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 546-11(OMB) 547-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 547-11(OMB) 548-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 548-11(OMB) 549-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 549-11(OMB) 550-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 550-11(OMB) 551-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 551-11(OMB) 552-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 552-11(OMB) 553-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 553-11(OMB) 554-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 554-11(OMB) 555-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 555-11(OMB) 556-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 556-11(OMB)
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557-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES. 557-11(OMB) 558-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. 558-11(OMB) 559-11 OMB PS, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT. 559-11(OMB) 560-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 560- 11(OMB) 561-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 561-11(OMB) 562-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 562-11(AS)
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563-11 AS F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND/OR THE COUNTY TREASURER AND/OR THE RECEIVER OF TAXES OF THE TOWN OF OYSTER BAY TO CORRECT ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PETITIONS OF THE ASSESSOR ON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES SITUATED IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ASSESSED TO DESIGNATED OWNERS APPEARING ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS FOR THE SPECIFIED SCHOOL AND/OR COUNTY YEARS PURSUANT TO THIS RESOLUTION; PURSUANT TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW OF NASSAU COUNTY AND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 563-11(AS) 564-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 564-11(OMB) 565-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 565-11(OMB) 566-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 566-11(OMB) 567-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 567-11(OMB) 568-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 568-11(OMB) 569-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 569-11(OMB) 570-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 570-11(OMB)
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571-11 OMB H, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES. 571-11(OMB) 581-11 OMB F, R RESOLUTION NO. -2011 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS HERETOFORE MADE WITHIN THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2011. 581-11(OMB) 582-11 OMB PW, F, R ORDINANCE NO. -2011 AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 582- 11(OMB)
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Clerk Item No. Proposed Assigned Summary By To 437-11 CE GS, F, R PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. -2011 A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE NASSAU COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE WITH RESPECT TO ITEM PRICING AND ACCURACY IN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU. 437-11(CE)
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