Bethpage-Tribune_1985-08-08

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VOL. 20 NO. 18 Week of August 8 - August 15,1985 20 cents per copy
TOBAY Forced
To Ship Garbage
The July 31, 1985 decision of the State Commissioner of
Environmental Conservation, denyihg' the 1982 Town of
Oyster Bay applicatibn Tor a^ temporary extension of the
Town's only landfill, is in keeping with the course of action
initiated by the DEC policy makers last October. At that
time they ignored the recommendations of their own
experts and apparently decided that the answer to Oyster
Bay's refuse disposal needs is long distance shipping rather
than resource recovery. Long distance shippinij is neither
environmentally sane nor economically intelligent. It cer­tainly
isn't reliable. ~
"Since last October we have been fighting to prevent the
Governor and,the DEC administrators from attempting to
force Oyster Bay to ship its residents' waste to landfills in
other states," Supervisor Joseph Colby said. "By success­fully
blocking the State from implementing such an irres­ponsible
policy, we saved Town residents $70,000 per day or
approximately $ 16 million over a nine-month period.''
"But'\ Colby added, "this arbitrary denial by the DEC:
Commissioner leaves us no choice but to close the. Old
Bethpage landfil and attempt to ship our residents' garbage.
The money that we were able to save through our vigorous,
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long distance hauling of waste; It is the only method the
DEC decisions leave us, if we are to make sure that gai:bage
i.s not left on Town streets later this yea;r.". ;
Colby noted that Governor Cuomo's teleyised comhfients
earlier this year made it obvious that the decision on the
Town application to temporarily extend the landfill until a
resource recovery plant could be constructed would be
ba.sed on partisan politics, not facts. "There is no doubt the
Long Island landfill law provides for a terhporary landfill
extension while Long Island towns attempt to buijd resource
recovery facilities," Colby said. "The law recognized this
need, and DEC engineers found the Town's plan technically
sufficient, but partisan politics.affected the Governor who
publicly stated during the permit hearings that he directed
his appointees to do all in their power to prevent the tempor­ary
e.\tension. The DEC Commissioner, and appointee of
the Governor, has obviously carried out that direction."
During the nine months that the Town has fought to
prevent the State from forcinjg the expenditure of $70,000
per day to ship refuse. Town personnel utilized every legiti­mate
alternative, "While our attorney sought to legally over-come
the State's pro-shipping pressure, our engineers
sought ways to continue disposal operations until the tem­porary
extension permits would be granted," Colby said.,
After the State turned down an earlier request to permit
landfilling to a higher elevation ~ a request that was recom­mended
for approval by DEC engineers in Albany and on
Long Island ~ the Town re-examined its existing landfill
permit.
Since.the permit stated that the "final" elevation of the
landfill could not exceed 240 feet above .sea level (about 120
feet above ground) and since it is a known fact that refuse
settles after being landfilled, the Town continued landfill
operations above the "final" elevation. When this operation
foiled State efforts to force costly and unreliable shipping,
the State brought charges against the Town seeking
$100,000 in penalties.
"While we have been in the process of deriionstrating that
the'charges were wrongfully brought," Colby said, "the
State has made is clear that it will accept no solution other
than long distance shipping of waste."
The Town will attempt to initiate a shipping plan and is
currently attempting to finalize bids in order to secK a con­tact
that will comply with the State demand for shipping.
"If the State administration had followed the intent of the
Legislature, a safe, DEC-approved temporary extension,
would have been constructed in the ground long ago and the
DEC would have assisted this Town in implementing a
resource recovery plant rather than working to implement
policy to force Long Island to ship its waste," Colby said.
In Town Annette Giulino appointed
"We want to serve you by helping you to use the Postal
Service to your best advantage," said Annette Giiiliano, the
newly installed Postmaster of Bethpage.
"There are46employees at the Bethpage Post Office with
initiative and resources. We wiU join together as a team
giving you, the community of Bethpage, our quality product
... Service. '
Before administering the Oath of Office, Roger Nienaber,
Hicksville Manager/Postmaster said, "I feel confident and
secure that Annette; Giuliano is a professional, postal man­ager
whose record of-keeping postal operations running
safely and smoothly is eyident to all who come in contact
with her. 1 know Annette is going to provide'innovative
leadership in the Bethpage Post Office and that the citizens
of Bethpage can count on truly professional Postal Service."
Michael Figlia, Bethpage Superintendent of Postal Oper­ations,
introduced theguest speakers which included Arthur
Leachv Director of Administrative Service for Grumman
Corporation, Bethpage's largest customerand Long Island's
largest employer. "Recently Grumman has adopted the nine
digit zip code to handle our_mail rnore efficiently. We look
forward to working with our new Postmaster," said Mj.
Leach.
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office was one of the areas large mailers and that the Postal
Service had always provided him with excellent service; He
wished the new Postmaster success.
John Hambel, Executive Assistant to Congressman
Norman F. Lent extended congratulations from the Con­gressman
who was in Washington.
new Bethpage Postmaster
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Roger Nienaber MSC Manager/Postmaster Hicksville,
presents Annette Giuliano with Postmaster Certification
from Postmaster General Paul Carlin.
Gary M usiejlp. Receiver of Taxes for the Jowa of Oyster
' Bay'|)resented"^#^^ a Proclamation from the
Town Board. .
Robert Swiatko, Supervisor of Mails and Delivery pre­sented
Mrs, Giuliano with a corsage from the employees of
Bethpage Post Office. Mi-s. Giuliano thanked the many
family members, business customers, friends and co­workers
who joined her at the ceremony.
Faith Cleary hew Principal of Bethpage High School
Miss Cleary brings to her position a broad background in
teaching and administration. She is currently principal of a
junior high school in Port Washington, a position she has
held since 1982. Prior to that she served for two years as
director of secondary education.
Dr. Antonette Mansfield, J. F.K.
Dr. Mansfield comes to Bethpage following eight years of
teaching experience in public and private .schools in New
York City and Long Island. She also served as a science
department chaiperson in a New York City junior high
school for several years.
Her training is a rare combination of elementary and
secondary, since she holds both an elementary education
license and high school general science, biology and physics
certification. She has taught mathematics,.English, general
.science and biology. . • . •
While science chairperson, in addition to planning and
implementing .science programs, she conducted teacher
inservice training programs. During this period she was a
consultant for Queens college for the Project City Science
Evaluation Team from 1975 to 1980.
. Dr. Mansfield is currently a high school assistant pincipal
at Kennedy High School in Bellmore Merrick Central
School District. Her major responsibilities involve disci­pline,
planning and implementation of thebuildingbudget .
and supervision of instruction. She supemses the mathemat­ics,
science, and computer education programs.
, In 1983 she presuiitcd a research paper to the Eastern
Educational Research Association in Baltimore, Md., an
Among her responsibilitiea have been developmen^and
coordination of a drug education program, participation of a
district computer literacy program, development of Itigh
school master schedules and supervision of the guidance
prograrn. Another of her responsibilities has been conduct­ing
an inservice training program fo 400 teachers. She has
also served as an adjunct Professor at Hofstra University,
teaching courses for prospective guidance counselors.
Her teaching career began in 1956 in a private school. She
then moved to Edgemont High School in Scarsdale as a
foreign language instructor and in 1965, becanrie a guidance
counselor in the Port Washington Schools. She became
chairperson of guidance in 1970;
She receeived her Bachelors and two Masters degrees
from Hunter College, where she was a magna cum laude
graduate and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. The first Mas­ters
degree was in Spanish, the second in Guidance. She is
currently completing the requirements for a docatorate at
New York University.
Junior High School/Principal
the role of the Principal in promoting succesful science and
mathematics programs. Last year, at the N ARST meeting in
New Orleans, she presented a paper on teacher retraining in
science, based upon her doctoral dissertion at St. John's
University. •• "
Dr. Mansfield received a BA in psychology from Queens
College and a M.S. in Curriculum and the Ed. D. in Admin-isiraiiun
from St. John's University. ...