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PUBLIC OFFICE
Public Office: Mayor,
Village of Sloatsburg, NY, 1957-63 (two terms);
Supervisor, Town of Ramapo, NY, 1966-73; Delegate, Democratic
National Convention, 1988.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN PUBLIC
OFFICE
Supervisor of the Town of
Ramapo, Rockland County, New York 19966-1973
Elected to Four Terms
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Instituted the
nationally famous controlled growth program ensuring that future
building within the Town be geared to the community's ability to
absorb and coupling this with a plan to develop necessary facilities
on a long term basis.
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Established Development
Easement Acquisitions Commission (DEACOM) to preserve private open
space in the public interest.
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Built Two town swimming
pools and town golf course.
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Established a Town of
Ramapo Housing Authority which constructed public housing for
elderly and low income families in two award winning projects.
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Constructed a new police
station and expanded town hall.
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Initiated the Ramapo
Flyer express omnibus service from the Town of Ramapo, Village
of Spring Valley to New
York City.
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Adopted a master plan,
official map, new zoning ordinance and an ongoing long-range capital
improvement program.
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Expanded town park
acreage from 23 acres to 650 acres in eight years, at no expense
established and constructed $35,000,000 town lateral sewer program.
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Instituted shade tree
program which planted four thousand (4,000) trees on town road.
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Reorganized town
government, created Department of Public Works and Department of
Parks and Recreations.
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Expanded town park
acreage from 23 acres to 650 acres in eight years at no expense to
the taxpayers.
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Established Town Police
Department as highest paid and one of the best equipped and trained
in New York State.
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Established Town of
Ramapo Justice Court on full time basis.
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Served on legislative
committee, resolutions committee and was frequent speaker at
meetings of Associations of Towns of New York.
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Member of five person
Rockland County Board of Supervisors from January 1966 through
December, 1969. During that period,
- Engaged in the organization and
launching Rockland County Sewer District No 1.;
- Engaged in the conceptions,
planning, launching and funding of the Rockland County Health
and Social Services
Complex in Pomona, New York; and imaginative and efficient
coordination of
facilities unique in the continental United States;
- Was personally responsible for
initiating and promoting a successful program to eliminate the
post of Town
Welfare Officer in all of the five Rockland County Towns, and
consolidating
the function under
the County Department of Social Services.
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Mayor of the Village of Sloatsburg, New York
1959 to 1963
Elected to
Two Terms.
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Mapped village sewer program.
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Acquired and developed village's first public park
and swimming facility.
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Adopted village's first zoning ordinance.
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Built municipal building and firehouse.
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Planning Consultant to Metropolitan Regional
Council 1976
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
January, 1979 through September, 1988
Member of the Board
Represented Counties of Orange, Rockland, Dutchess and Putnam
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Chairman of Metro-North Commuter Railroad
Commiteee, took over the dilapidated Metropolitan Region of
Conrail and rebuilt it into a first class commuter railroad.
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Established Middletown-Suffern Shuttle Train (1982),
which more than doubled rail service to Orange County; service
doubled again in 1983 with substitution of regular trains for
shuttles and additional runs added with shuttle.
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LEGAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Columbia University School of Law
Admitted to
practice in New York State, Federal District Courts and the Supreme Court
of the
United
States.
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Associate of law firm of Root, Ballantine, Harlan,
Busby and Palmer 1950-1951
(Now Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer and Wood) of 40 Wall Street
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Frequent lecturer and author of numerous articles and
matters of planning, zoning and governmental administration.
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Lecturer for Practicing Law Institute, a national
post-graduate training program for attorneys throughout the United
States.
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Chief Assistant Public Defender - Rockland County
1975-78
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Ramapo College, Mahwah, New
Jersey 1976 and 1977
Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law and Land Use and Planning
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Glickman and McAlevey
1976-1992
Partner (personal specialty -- land use planning and criminal)
Attorneys in general practice of law in Rockland county, New York
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