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AN ANVETY
4S 413 Ef
V35I 4

Sle is a C Tre

CSEA TO APPEAL
$200,000 PENALTY

bers last March.

CSEA president

‘Theodore C.

the Civil Service Employees Assn, workshop for MH ehiaplae tellers.
Holding their awards are, from left, CSEA collective bargaining spe-
clalist Robert Guild, CSEA director William McGowan (Mental Hy-

siene, Region V1)

and Gowanda Psychiatric Center chapter 408

president Maye Bull. (Other photos and story on page 8.)

Wenazl said of the decision, add-
ing his organization acted “in
the best tradition of unionism
in providing assistance” to the
Orange unit during the 14-day
walkout.

“These employees had a just
cause,” sald Dr. Wenal, “Even
the Taylor Law “recognives the
Possibility of unjust treatment
on the part of employers in its
provision on ‘extreme provoca-
tion.’ Though the Taylor Law
calls strikes illegel, this provision

PERB Ruling Strongly Endorses
TSEA’s Representation Rights

(From Leader Correspondent)

OSWEGO—The Civil Service Employees Assn. won a major victory reinforcing Its
right to represent City of Oswego employees.
Public Employment Relations Board hearing officer Zachary Wellman has ruled that
the city “deliberately interfered with, restrained and coerced employees in their protected

rights” to conduct union activ-
ities.
Mr. Wellman also found that
missioner of Public Works
Edward L. Williamson allegedly
planned to utilize harsh discip-
Mine for minor infractions of
work rules as a ‘device to dis-

courage employee
CSEA.

The decision was described as
one of the “strongest in favor of
CSEA in & long time” by Terry
Moxley, CSEA field representa-
tive

support of

Mr. Moxley said that Carl
Thomas, a DPW employee was
told by Mr. Willlamson at the
time of his application for a
driver's job that he would be
hired “if he kept his nose clean”

(Continued on Page 3)

does agree thai the punishment
should fit the crime in cases
where an employer's unreason-
able attitude has actually pro-
voked @ job action

“This is exactly what hap-
pened to our members in Orange
County," Dr. Wenzl continued,
“They had gotten a realistic rec-
ommendation, from impartial
4 percent

fact-finders, for a
raise

“This was arbitrarily rejected
by a politically motivated legis-

What Will Be Impact
If NYC Really Drops
FromSocialSecurity?

NEW and serious threat
to the pension rights of
public employees has been
posed by the notice served
by the Beame Administration

(Continued on Page 6)

e By SUSAN DONNER
MANHATTAN — Daniel Klepak,
new commissioner of the Office of
Drug Abuse Services, looked astound-
ed when asked about his reputation
as a “hatchet man” who takes over
state agencies on the verge of col-
lapse and helps to dismantle them.

“Nothing I have ever entered has
been dismantied,” said Mr. Klepak.
“I was in the Health Department as
a Commissioner. I started the Of-
fice of General Services and it blos-

1 Want To Make ODAS Viabl.

somed. I've been in the Labor De-
partment. I made a study of Social
Services, I've been in the Budget
Department. I don't recall any of
them falling by the wayside.

EXCLUSIVE FIRST INTERVIE
“I didn't take this job in order to
wipe out an outfit and then look for
another job, I took this job be-
cause I want to make this agency
viable. I think L can do it, This is

my 36th year in Social Services. I
think they hired me because of my

, Says Klepak

reputation and my health back-
ground. I want to merge both drug -
and alcoholism in the Office of Drug
Abuse Services. I have redirected
everything in the agency and I've
been fighting in the legislature to
get more money.

“My main objective is to eliminate
the large facilities and go back to

the community,” Mr. Klepak ex-

plained, “There is a general feeling

in all areas of health, that the best
(Continued on Page 4)

Wenzl Calls Fine ‘Way Out Of Line’
For CSEA Aid To Orange Employees;
Hits ‘Basic Deficiency Of Taylor Law’

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn. will appeal a court decision handed
down last week fining the union $200,000 for its support of a strike of Orange County mem-

“Grossly excessive and a glaring example of the basic deficiency of the Taylor Law,”

lature, which went even further
‘wnd drastically reduced annual
increments payable to newer em-
ployees as an established condi-
tion of employment.

“After months of disappoint-
ing negotiations and intensive
last-minute efforts to resolve the
situaiion, these frustrated em-
ployees had no choice but a job
action,” the CSEA leader de-
clared. “Now the Taylor Law his
compounded their unjust treat-
ment by imposing upon the
parent CSEA organization a
penalty that's way out of pro-
portion for giving @ local unit
the measure of support that any
union member bas a right to ex-
pect. Now the parent union has
no choice in the matter, either.
We must appeal this penalty.”

CSEA attorney Barton W
Bloom pointed out that the fine
“was inconsistent” with those
meted out to other unions in re-
cent years, When sanitation
workers struck New York City,
endangering the health and wel-
fare of all the residents of the
city, their union was fined $80,-
000. When the 40,000-member
United Federation of Teachers
shut down the New York City
sehool system for 17 days in

(Continued on Page 3)

Nurse, Medical Specialist,
- Ung Joa Psychiatrist Posts Open °

ALBANY--Licensed practical nurses, psychiatrists and
medical specialists are continuously being recruited by the
Stete Civil Service Department for posts in state agencies.

Carey Outlines Goals
Quality Of N.Y. Criminal lustice

ALBANY~-Gov. Hugh L. Carey, in a special message to the Legislature, gave 13 spe-
cific goals in his-campaign to improve the quality of criminal justice in the state

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 4, 1976

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From left are Susie Pfaffenbach, of Rensselaer County;
Nonie Kepner Johnson. of Law Department; Mary Moore,
inal Justice, and Warren Moloney, of SUNY at Albany. Miss-
photo is Marianne Herkenham, of Rensselaer County.

‘A-Legislature Themes
monize In Rensselaer

ROY—While “Remember in November” has become the
jal theme of the Rensselaer County unit, Civil Ser-
ployees Assn., “there'll be some changes made” seems
fe become the theme of members of the politically
msselaer County Legis-

‘The lunch hour situation was
also clarified. Employees of var-
tous departments once again are
being allowed to take a half-
hour lunch, rather than an hour
lunch, to allow early departure.

wislature, at the urging
County-CSEA unit, has
to take steps to correct
parts of the contract it
(@ the 1,100-member
tion.

have corrected the com-

The unit will briny uj -variou¥

. prghjem areas to the Legisiatute
7 AN ante ay bo ® they arise ‘and will continue
bese gg to tell the public that It is not

in be allowed to accrue
ind use up to 70 hours at
iscretion, with supervisor
Il, and can now be di-
to use time in excess of
by their supervisor.

CSEA calendar o

formation for the Calendar may be submitted directly
E LEADER. It should include the date, time, place,
s and city for the function. The address is: Civil
e Leader, 11 Warren St., New York, N. Y. 10007.
CSEA Calendar.

the public employees who have
mited the various county ser-

‘The blame belongs to the
Executive Office, unit
members declare

vices
County

JUNE

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PERB Strongly Endorses Rights ©

(Continued from Page 1)
and didn't talk about union this
and that." The reward was to
be a permanent job.

In addition, Daniel Griffen,
city sewers superintendent in
1974, testified at the PERB
hearing that sometime in early
1974 Mr. Williamson said, “I
would like to see the AFL-CIO
come in here.” adding Mr. Wil-
Hamson claimed “he'd like to or-
ganize that union, bring that
union in there.

John Shatraw, a laborer fore-
man, in testimony sald Mr. Wil-
liamson “got talking about the
AFL, and he told me, ‘You know,
T have a friend higher up in
the AFL. It would be better for
me and {t would be worth a
large sum of money if I could
handle this, get the AFL in and
get the CSEA out.'”

Mr. Shatraw also testified that
Mr. Williamson told him that
Ronald Knopp, a CSEA shop

steward, was a troublemaker
wanted him fire

Mr, Shatraw he was of-

fered the position of sewer main-

tenance foreman if he d M
and another employee

Shatras explained Mr

amson later gave him the

job and that the DPW chief

ink Mi! nopp
dhe «

job Mr. Shatraw could find
Williamson's anti
also attestified
Theodore Murphy, then
unit vice-president

Mr. Murphy said Mr. William-
son proposed “If I would aid and
assist him in undermining and
subverting the CSEA union, that
he would personally assure me
of an official capacity in the
AFL-CIO union, she position, of

bias was

to by
CSEA

to be accomplished
by persuading the local member-

ship, through fatlure to process
legal grieva: and to function
aS aN aggressive union, that the

local and chapter officers would
not enforce the CSEA-City of
Oswego agreement. “The people
who cooperated with manage-
ment, namely Commissioner
Williamson, would be rewarded
and those that did not would be
penalized, reprimanded, sus-
pended, terminated and de-
moied.’

Mr, Williamson flatly denied
the charges. However, Mr. Well-
man found “When one considers
these findings, together.with the
use by Williamson of harsh dis-
cipline for seemingly minor in-
fractions in a discriminatory
manner as hereinafter discussed

$200,000

(Continued from Page 1)
1967, the fine amounted to $150,-
000,

Another teachers union, repre-
senting the Schenectady City
School District, last fall received
a fine of $20,000 for a 14-day
strike. This was the same length
of time as the Orange job ac-
The number of employees
ved also approximated those

tion.

a the Oran action
The CSEA strike was not un
dertaken out of feelings of ma-
kee.” Mr, Bloom noted. “The
Orange County employees had
woveked so long. and wo
uch an extent, by the county
egisiature that their action wa.
basically one of frustration
suen 4 situasion, you just can’t

one can only conclude that Wil-
lamson’s actions were intended
to cause the employees to with-
draw their support of CSEA and
coerce CSEA representatives into
silence and inaction vis-a-vis his
operational changes.”

Mr. Wellman stated that a 30-
day suspension of Mr. Knopp for
a coffee-break infraction, with-
out seeking an explanation, and
other testimony “compels the
conclusion that but for Knopp’s
protected activity he would not
have been treated in such a
manner.”

The hearing officer took note
of the testimony of Edward
Johnson, assistant public works
commissioner, who said in effect
that other employees who had
committed similar infractions
were only reprimanded.

Mr. Wellman also found in fa-
vor of a claim by Mr. Thom
also suspended for an
leged coffee-break infraction and
nonperformance of work

susp occur
ter eported a
Williamson to a
Mr. Thomas
vtened with di

8% Boost Is

union.” Mr. Wellman recom-
mended the city and the DPW
head cease from interfering with
and coercing employees because
of their union activities; cease
imposing disertminatory discip-
line, and reconsider the 30-day
suspension of Mr, Thomas,
awarding him any pay due. Mr.
Knopp's suspension was handled
through a settlement between
CSEA and the city.

Mr. Moxley explained the im-
portance of the case was not in
“who did what" or “who said
what.”

“We've been as right before.
but PERB has never come out so
strongly in our favor.”

Yet the case also demonstrat-
ed what an extremely unfair law
the Taylor Law ts,” Mr. Moxley
said.

‘Even when we win, what have
we gained? When we are found

guflty, we can be fined or even
jailed. There are ‘recommenda-
tions’ when a government unit is
found guilty

1 didn’t have the

» impose sanctions, So

win, what is it to us
We must make the Taylor Law
fairer

Recommended

For Utica Water Board

UTICA—A Public
finder has recommended an

nployment

Relations Board fact-
8 percent salary increase for

employees of the Utica Board of Water Supply.
John H, Owen, of Cooperstown, is the fact-finder named

by PERB in a contract dispute
between the city and. the Board.
of Water Supply unit, Ciytl Ser;

vice Emplgyees Assn. 7

mr og recammended. shat
the” salar® increase should be
fetrouctiv® to Jan. 1. He also
proposed that ‘#fféetive that
same date there should be
longevity increases of $100 for

each five years of employee ser-
vice.

Other recommendations n-
clude

* Continuation of the present
11'2 holidays

Order Orleans

ALBION—An arbitrator in
a contract dispute between
Orleans County and the Civil
Service Employees Assn. has
ordered the county to pay retro-
active wage increases to 100 So-
celal Service Department workers.

‘The county had frozen the pay
hikes due Jan, |, elting an un-

* No change in the grievance
procedure

@.No change in the current
Work, week of 32!9" hours

@ Deletion of provisions for
full pay during atsibiement~

* Retention of provisions for
promotion from within the ranks
on the basis of the combined
criteria of sentority and qualifl-
cations.

© Deletion of the section pro-
viding for augmented seniority
rights for union officers and
stewards in certain positions.

Back Pay Hike

precedented budget increase for
1975.

But Howard Forster, of Buf-
falo, the arbitrator, said the
county was obligated to pay the
7 pereent hikes. The Board of
Supervisors said meeting the ar-
bitrator’s demand means a $40.
000 cast to the county.

Penalty Appeal

order people to discount their

emotions,”

to
A legal spokesman for CSEA
said {t would immediately file
an appeal in the Appellate Divt-
sion of the ruling by the State
Supreme Court at Goshen

The decision
$2,000 fine on
County chapter
the strike

The impasse
ind Orange Cou
about durt
alks provided und
on salary ma’

also imposed 9
CSEA’s Orange
for its part in

between CSEA
officials
bargat

& reopene

nad

ini

olause ‘or the

al two ot

existing

hree-year contract covering the

OU E LT

) employees

The CSEA attorney 0

clared Dr
ment with the Taylor
flects the

Wenal's disenchant-
Law re-
feeling of the whole

organization, He sald CSEA will
call on its

230,000 members “to

ly their support for an in-

drive to gain some re-
1) public employees in

this state
Included tn this effort. he
aid, would be a renewed push
wink passage this year of a
CBRA-endorsed bill now in the
ture to provide for
a Binding Arbitra-
7 f sector labor dis
putes. As an native, OF per
haps in on to LOBA, the

vet
mon is also considering @ thrust

nublic — employer

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’ Main Objective To Eliminate

’ Large Facilities And Go Back
To Communities: Klepak

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 4, 1976

(Continued from Page 1)
health—mental or anything else— ts
in an individual's own community.
I share that view with Governor
Carey.

“So even if there weren’t these
dramatic cuts, I would have worked
that way. I’m going to find out this
year what the need is, and have the
local facilities absorb as much as
they can.”

Mr. Klepak, is one of the few non-
political appointees the agency has
had.

“I know everything possible about
what's going on in this agency,” he
said. “If I’m responsible, I have to
know. I spent weeks visiting every
facility, talking with staff and di-
rectors. I have tried to restructure
and redirect the entire program. We
have a court referral system
throughout the state that I am try-
ing to evaluate. At the same time,
every lobbying group seeks to spend
half the day with me. Everyone is
unhappy with my distribution of
money. When you have a lot of mon-
ey to give out, everybody likes it;
when you have very little, it's a dif-
ferent story. How do you decide how
much to give Daytop, or Harlem
Drug Fighters, or school-based pro-
grams? Everyone is competing for
the money and the pressure focuses
on me.”

From interviews with counselors,
psychologists, narcotics correction
officers, directors and assistant di-
rectors and other staff at ODAS
facilities, one must come to the
conclusion that, since its inception
in 1966, as the Narcotics Addiction
Control Commission, this agency ap-
pears to have been unlucky. It was
mismanaged and had some com-
missioners who appeared to lack
knowledge of clients and treatment
policies within each facility. Some
had never visited a facility. Thou-
sands of dollars were wasted. The
gap between the ODAS administra-
tion and its people in the field was
enormous. Most directors and staff-
ers felt that they had accomplished
certain goals “in spite of” rather
than “because of” administrative

policy.

However, with the arrival of Mr.
Klepak as new commissioner, the
tide seems to be turning.

Although Mr. Klepak has a repu-
tation of being—in his words-
real hardnosed guy,” if one looks
closely at his background one seems
to see that he really—also his words

“believes in this stuff.”

In 1969, he won an award as the
outstanding volunteer in the nation
from the United Community Chest
and Foundations of America for
work in the ghettoes. He was presi-
dent of the Clinton Square Neigh-
borhood Assn. in Albany, and presi-
dent of the Council of Community
Services as well as being on the
board of directors of the Albany In-
terracial Council. Immediately be-
fore he came to ODAS, Commission-
er Klepak worked with the second
deputy health commissioner where
he was in charge of controlling all
Medicaid costs.

Why The Cuts?

Mr. Klepak feels that the budget
of ODAS was cut so drastically for
many reasons.

“The state operation of ODAS is
severely tarnished. The Senate In-
vestigation Commission report was
given tremendous publicity as to
high cost, poor management and so
on. I think it furnished the justifi-
cation for those people who needed
money to cut. And to a great extent,
I feel the criticisms were true. I
also think it’s a product of the
times; a product of the fact that
drug abuse services generally have
fallen into disfavor. People aren't
as hysterical about the problem as
they used to be, even though heroin
use is actually on the rise in the U.S.

“Another reoson is that methadone
was looked upon as a panacea, but
it was oversold. It is by no means
a failure. It does have limited value
but does very well in a certain area
The previous administration threw
money at the drug problem; money
didn’t solve it. And one last, very
important thing is that the state
was broke. They needed money and
you have to cut somewhere. Other
agencies got hurt badly too.”

There are two types of money that

ODAS receives. The State Legisla-
ture appropriated $50.6 million this
year to be distributed to community
programs of all kinds. In addition to
that, a contract is negotiated for
funds each year with the National
Institute on Drug Abuse. In this
case ODAS is given several million
to make contracts with additional
organizations which they supervise
and evaluate.

“The cuts were made; they are
not desirable but we must live with
them. They are by no means suffi-
cient, but it's what we have and it’s
what we'll have to do with,” said the
new commissioner.

“I'm trying to work the program
so that it will do the maximum
good, and I'm trying to see that
nobody gets put back on the streets.
The biggest problem in drug abuse
is that no one has been able to
show yet what you get for your
money. In the absence of showing it,
the people who provide money don't
want to provide it.

“There is also very little agree-
ment among authorities within the
field of drug abuse itself as to
which treatment modalities are the
most successful and what the real
problems are concerning the person-
ality of the addict—why he started
taking drugs in the first place. I
always thought people took drugs
because they needed a psychologi-
cal crutch, because they couldn’t
face reality. Yet in the black ghetto
there is tremendous peer pressure
and many people get hooked that
way.”

Mr. Klepaks has some ideas on
the way ODAS should travel. First,
he seeks a partnership between the
community and the state, in which
the state operates facilities for those
people serving a court sentence and
who Daytop or Phoenix House with
their open door policy and without
security could not handle. There
seems to be agreement that the
psychotic, the very aggressive, the
violence-prone individual cannot be
handled at a community level.

For these people, ODAS will main-
tain three state-run contained pro-
grams at Manhattan Rehabilitation

WHERE DO
THEY GO NOW.

(This is the fifth article in a Leader serie@on
addiction problems that must be faced in the
of threatened cutbacks in aid at both the private
the public levels. Leader staff member Susan Do
has been interviewing addicts, administrators
union leaders, joining them at protest rallies
touring various facilities, Photography, original
work and story are by Ms, Donner, The proble

everyone's.)

ODAS Workers Feel Their Views Neglect

BROOKLYN—The employ-

most commissioners, as well as

back. They don't come to us and

COMMISSIONER DANIEL
..» “If 1 could fire the ones
to fire immediately, I could
more people permanently

Center, Brooklyn Cent
tation Center, and M n
Buffalo,

“If we see, as the year pra
that there is a need for mq
grams of this kind and if th
lature will finance more, per!
will be able to expand in
of treatment,” said Mr. Kle

Another goal is to transfe!
adone maintenance to priv:
community based clinics.
methadone clinics havd
down in recent years and tl
been a great deal of public
cerning diversion, the illeg
tribution of methadone.

Last week Mr, Klepak
methadone maintenance

Most of the participants
that it was a highly successf}
of treatment; and that thi
been very little diversion, a!
it has not only been ve re
but overregulated.

A third goal provides tha!
care will be relegated to
in the individual's commun,
will be supported by federa
to ODAS, Lastly, Commission
pak said, “I want to build

(Continued on Page 7)

ees’ view of the Office of
Drug Abuse Services’ admin-
istration over the past few

all levels of deputy commission-
ers and various administrators
down the line, have had no idea
of what our clients have actu-

ask what are the problems with
these people, what are you trying
to do for them and how could

years hea been one of anser we help you do better. They don’t
and frustration. Giles Spoonhour, Y gone through, nor did they care for an input from the line
senior counselor at Brooklyn have much of an idea of what people

Central Rehabiliation Center, “® were doing with the client." wpnis is a serious problem. Very
noted, “Throughout the years “There's been very Mttle feed- often when we feel that the

treatment philosophy is actually
wetting in the way of helping
the client, we try to get the
commissioner and say, ‘Look this
is wrong, it’s not working.’ Any-
thing we are doing with this
client is in spite of the system.
but they never want to hear At

They say, ‘We are the adminis-

tration, we set the pol
carry it out. Period. I
met many administrat
knew what the problen
and asked for any inp
the employees as to how
help the client,” Mr. 8
declared

‘Continued on Page|

— Secretary of
Mario M. Cuomo an-
recently that 24
- oriented employees
it the state have
the New York State
Local Government Pub-

for four periods of con-
management training
a week's assignment to
ing state agency, Co-
of the program were
ent of State and
aer Polytechnic Institute

W. Blackburn, Greene
Planning director; John
mn, New York City De-

‘Town of Greenburgh, di-
of the nutrition program
elderly and Youth Em-
it Service; Mark R.
Monroe County personnel
@andra G. Cato, New
ity acting director of Pro-
Standard and Review:

Charles J. Clem, City of New
Rochelle Human Rights Com-
mission extecutive director; Ter-
ry M. Conroy, Syracuse Depart-
ment of Public Works adminis-
trative assistant, and Patricla
Chidland, Onondaga County
Child and Adolescent Services
program manager.

Also, John P. Decker, Town
of Lioyd supervisor; Errol C.
Pletcher, Buffalo Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act
assistant project director; John
P. Garretson, Hempstead admin-
istrative assistant; Thomas J.
Hroncich, Town of Islip assis-
tant to the supervisor; David R.
Kaczor,” City of Lackawana
Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act program coordina-
tor; Judith R. Kerr, Monroe
County senior research planner;
James W. Nugent, Binghamton
personnel and safety director,
and Paul M. Rood, Town of Pen-
field Parks, Recreation and
Youth Services director.

Also, Peter D. Rosenstein, New
York City Office of Neighbor-
hood Services assistant to the
director; Dorothy Serdenis,
Rochester Bureau of the Budget
and Efficiency principal staff
assistant; Carolyn G. Seymour,
Jamestown mayoral executive as-

soe rey?

Complete Admin Internships

sistant; Donald D. Smith, Lake
George project coordinator; Bd-
ward G. Wilbeck, Dutchess
County principal welfare exam-
iner; James W. Wright, Oswego
County director of personnel:
Eric Yergan, Dutchess County
equal employment opportunity
officer, and Robert J. Zenkel,
Monroe County senior computer
programmer.

In describing the program.
Secretary Cuomo said: “Govern-
ment must learn the lesson that
the public has already learned:
in times that are fiscally hard,
we must do more with less.
That's what the Public Admin-
istration Internship Program is
really about, It's designed to help
management people learn how to
get more production at less ex-
pense to the taxpayer of this
state. More specifically, it en-
‘voles chief executives from local
government jurisdictions to tden-
tify and encourage employees in
management methods and tech-
niques designed to keep down
costs while increasing produc-
tivity.”

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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1976

$200,000 Outrage

ART of Theodore C, Wenzl's strength as president of the

Civil Service Employees ASsn. is his ability to retain his
self-control during a crisis, and then zing in when the
circumstances are right.

News of the $200,000 fine levied against CSEA, plus the
$2,000 fine for the union's Orange County chapter, must
have rocked the CSEA leader like no other news in his nine
years as head of the giant labor organization.

The fine is so outrageously out of proportion with
penalties meted out in similar public employee strikes that
it defies belief . . . all the more so since the Orange County
employees had been provoked to the job action by a county
legislature that was moving to withdraw previously nego-
tated benefits.

So unprecedented a penalty is enough to set off howls
of protest—but what good would such hysteria and chest-
beating accomplish?

Dr. Wenal has, instead, issued a defense of CSEA's action
in providing ald to the Orange employees as being “in the
best tradition of unionism.”

He has approved the union's going ahead with an appeal
to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court de-
cision,

The union president has also tagged the penalty as
“grossly excessive and a glaring example of the basic de-
ficiency of the Taylor Law,” which does not provide for
control of employers who take advantage of the Taylor Law's
no-strike prohibition.

The State Legislature should realize this injustice toward
public employees, and heed Dr, Wenz!’s call for immediate
action on the “Last Offer Binding Arbitration” Bill.

Kinds Of Pollution

OLLUTION—air and water, principally—has become an
issue in almost every contemporary political campaign.
Even the most insensitive legislator will not mount the

stump these days and declare, “I'm gonna pass laws that'll
poison the water you drink!" or “I’m gonna introduce acts
that'll make it impossible for the elderly to breathe!"

On the other hand, it isn’t necessary that they make the
above statements. Given the unholy marriage of some with
special interests, the above results are guaranteed, Why talk
about them? Why worry your constituents?

There is, however, another kind of pollution that the
pols don't vote on—they produce it. We refer to the visual
and aural pollution pols produce at election time with their
posters and sound trucks.

Say what you want about Sun Myung Moon, the Korean
Elmer Gantry. At least his followers take down his posters
the day after a given appearance. Measure this performance
of the Moonies against your typical legislator: The posters
are smeared all over in November and there they are, the
next March, April or May, ugly and flapping on the tele-
phone poles.

Worse, though, are the sound trucks, These blatting
vehicles move slowly through a given congressional, sena-
torial or assembly district baying mindless messages. The
trucks interrupt your sleep or enjoyment of music, conver-
sation or television, They rape silence,

Who do these people think they are, that they feel free
to invade our privacy this way? Who told them they could do
this? Where do they get this arrogance?

Don’t Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 1)
upon the federal government of
withdrawal by New York City
and its employees from the so-
celal security system.

Under the Mw, @ notice period
of two years is required prior to
withdrawal, It may well be that
in the Interval the Beame Ad-
ministration, or a subsequent
City administration, will with-
draw the notice before it be-
comes effective.

While other municipalities
have in the past withdrawn
from the social security system,
those have been smal] munici-
palities, The situation raised by
the City of New York is different
from those municipal withdraw-
als of the past.

Domino Effect?

This comes from the fact that
New York City does hold a gen-
erally accepted leadership posi-
tion in relation to its treatment
of public employees. Thus, there
is a distinct danger that with-
drawal from social security by
the City will have a domino
effect, and stimulate other mu-
nicipalities to follow sult as a
technique for balancing their
budgets.

Unfortunately, there has been
spread rather widely the misin-
formation that retired public
employees receive overly gener-
cus contributions. The facts are
otherwise, and countless public
employees who are retired are
compelled to resort to welfare
benefits to keep a roof over their
heads and to feed and clothe
themselves,

The impact of the City’s with-
drawal would be disastrous. In
the first place many public em=
ployees have contrittuted house
ands of dolls of thelr money
to the social security system. If
at the time of the City’s’ pros-
pective withdrawal, some em-
ployees have not met the mini-
mum contributions for vesting of

rights, then all of such em-
ployees’ contributions yo down
the drain

When Vested

Where rights have been vested
but no further contributions are
made by the employee and by
the City in the employee's be-
half, then a retired employee
would be entitied to only mini-
mum social security benefits.

In addition, the absence of so-
cial security benefits will mean
tha: thousands of public em-
ployees will lose certain benefits
that system provides for widows
and dependent children, which
are not provided for in the mu-
nicipal pension system.

The notice of withdrawal has
also created concern, among top
Officials of the social security
system. The funds that the sys-
tem uses to pay benefits to elig-
ibles are derived from the con-
tinued inflow of contributions
from employers and employees
still employed. Any sharp cut in
the flow of such revenues may
endanger the soundness of the
total social security system. Un-
der the circumstances, it 1s not
unlikely that Congress may
change the law that would pro-
hibit a public agency from with-
drawing from the system.

Benefits Reduced

The wony about the action
taken by the Beame Administra-
tion is that the controversial
Kinzel report designed to cut
down on public employee benefits
for employees of the state and
its political subdivisions seeks to

(Continued on Page 7)

Mr. Gaba is a member of the firm of White, W:
P.C., and chairman of the Nassau County Bar
Law Committee,

A Case Of Termination

The Appellate Division, Third Department, rece}
firmed Special Term, Rensselaer County, in a case |
a police officer was permanently appointed to that
in the Town of East Greenbush after having passeq
service examination. His appointment was made
11, 1974. Prior to his appointment, the officer had
required to take a physical examination. How , lal
year, in September 1974, he was required to his
examination, at which time his eyesight wes mea)
be 20/70 without glasses in each eye!

ACCORDING TO THE provisions of the Civil Ser]
and Rules of the Municipal Police Training Coung
uncorrected vision is the minimum acceptable sj
Two months later, in November 1974, the Rensselaeq
Civil Service Commission was advised that becausg
officer's defective vision, he would not be qualified
manent appointment. Later that month, thi bs
County Civil Service Commission notified the Wo
visor to the effect that the officer was required t
moved from the position of police officer. The off!
commenced an Article 78 proceeding to annul t
mination of the Civil Service Commission, His
was simply that having once certified him as eligiblt
position, the Commission cannot thereafter revoke
tification and terminate his employment on the gro}
he did not meet the physical eligibility requireme|
petitioner did not dispute the fact that at the ti
original appointment he did not meet the physic:
standards required. ti}

THE APPELLATE DIVISION discussed section
Civil Service Law and pointed out that the statutor;
of that section directs the Civil Service Comm!
examine fully an applicant's eligibility prior to thi
his appointment. In the event the Commission 4
a disqualification prior to the appointment, thi
provides for the individual to be given a written 5]
of the reasons for his disqualification and an op}
to challenge that reason, The statute goes on to saj
tion 50.4: “Notwithstanding the provisions Posie
or any other law, the state civil service de,
propriate municipal commission may investigate tj
fications and background of an eligible after he
appointed from the list, and upon finding facts
known prior to appointment, would have warranted
qualification, or upon a finding of illegality, irregy
fraud of a substantial nature in his application,
tion or appointment, may revoke such eligible’s
tion and appointment and direct that his emplo;
terminated, provided, however, that no such cer|
shall be revoked or appointment ryroge Sy
three years after it is made, except in the q

THE NEW YORK COURT of Appeals has he!
(Continued on Page 7)

What's Your Opinion

By JANE B. BERNSTEIN
QUESTION
Why did you become a civil servant rather than work for private industry?

THE PLACE
Downtown Manhattan

@ohn O'Connell, clerk, Federal Dept. of Justice:
“T got my job in 1950, Primari-
ly, I went to work for the fed-

, eral government because of the
Foe a} security and the pension sys-
tem. I'm glad I made the de-

cision then, because I'm a

couple of years away from re-

tirement. I wouldn't go to work
for New York City today be-
cause of the fiscal crisis — it
isn't as secure as it was years
ago. But federal service ts the

jost secure, and if I had to make the decision
even today, I would go to work for it.”

Charles Rivers, police officer, NYPD: “I used to
work for the city as a deck
hand for the Department of
Marine Aviation. I entered the
Police Department because of
the 20-year retirement policy.

i I now have nine months until

I retire. Working for the city

gives you confidence and re-

e spect. You feel like you're really
doing a job and helping people.

I come from a long line of city

employees. My father retired

after 33 years with the Parks Department and
my grandfather retired with over 30 years in the

Department of Sanitation.”

Dolores Murray, key punch operator, Environmen-
tal Protection Agency, N. ¥¢

"L entered civil service because
it offered more job security
than private industry. I used to
work for a private firm, and
there was much more pressure
on the job than I've found in
my job with the city. We used
to have corporate deadlines and
in civil service you're given so
gy many days—sometimes a week
to complete a project. When

I took the job, you never had to worry about

losing your position, and the pension system is

good. I might not go to work in it today, because
er is not as much security.”

Alfred Ottimo, bookbinder, Comptroller's Office
“I spent 15 years in private In-
dustry, and I left a better job
to go to work for the city. I
like the pension and security of
civil service. I've been working
for the city for 11 years, and
I don’t regret a day of it. 1
would still begin a career with
the city today, even with the
crisis—because I enjoy the work
and the benefits.”

Linda Meo, police administrative aide; “I worked
in private industry for three
years and the pay was low. So
I took the test to be a police
administrative aide and the
pay is great and the benefits
are great. For what I do—secre-
tarial work—I make a lot of
money. I couldn't make that
amount in private industry.
Plus I get a raise every year.
even if the money has been
deferred. It’s interesting work-
ing with police officers. It's not your usual boring
insurance company type job. I'm secretary to one
of the deputy police commissioners and I think
it's a terrific job.”

Danny Rizza, detective, NYPD; “I was in the
United States Marine Corps
when I was 17. When I was

19 I was walking down Broad-
way and a cop in uniform asked
me if I'd like to switch uni-
forms. So I took the police test
and scoréd a 99. I was number
48 on the police list. I got a
letter that I would be appointed
on such and such a date. So I
went to my commanding officer
and told him, and he said if I
decided to take the job, they would release me
from the service a few months early. I figure any-
thing that would allow me to leave the Marines
early would be worth it. But that's not the only
reason I took the job. I love being a cop for New
York City and it gives me a lot of satisfaction.”

(Continued from Page 4)
redirect the whole socio-science re-
search operation here, The people
involved were entirely devoted to
writing articles to enhance their own
personal reputation, and not doing
a thing for the client.”

There have been rumors among
ODAS employees that the agency
will eventually disappear. Commis-
sioner Klepak does not feel that
way. “I feel the agency can survive.
It depends on your view of the
mission, I know there is a terrible
morale problem among ODAS em-
ployees these days. I would like to
¢ go to each facility, draw people to-
gether and have meetings and tell
them that I hope to make it a viable
organization, I don’t want to appear
heartless, what's happening to ODAS
employees is frightful. These are
people who have devoted their lives
to these jobs. The ODAS employees
are getting murdered, and while I
don’t believe in wasting money, I
had to fire about 1,200 people whom
@ I never met and never evaluated,
That was simply because we didn't

Make ODAS Viable

have the money to keep them. So
they have suffered terribly. It's cruel,
but there's no alternative for us;
we have just so much money,

“The union made a good deal and
they got six months’ notice. But its
also a bad deal, because to give six
months’ notice to the employees in
the facilities that I am closing, I
have to close more facilities than I
would have. It eats up a lot of my
budget. If I could fire the ones I
wanted to fire immediately, I could
have kept more people permanently
employed.”

During the Rockefeller Adminis-
tration, Mr. Klepak was given the
task of looking into the field of
social services to make some recom-
mendations for change

“My changes were organizational
and the policies weren't dramatic,
but services don’t necessarily pro-
duce an outcome. Services usually
exist for the server, You end up
creating a mechanism to keep them
surviving, but you forget about your
client. And that’s the whole history
of social services in this country.”

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
NYC’s Retirees

The New York City Retirement
Board last week approved 491
upplications for retirement. Of
these 136 were without options;
102 were under Option 1; 37
were under Option 2; 73 were
under Option 3: 56 were under
Option 4; 10 were under Option
4-2; 30 were under Option 4-3.

An unusual number of pay-
ments were made for refunds of
accumulated deductions and re-
serve balances. Ninety-eight re-
serves were approved under Op-
tion 1 and 44 under Option 4
Twenty-six refunds of accumu-
lated deductions were made
Loans amounting to $7,833,740
were approved for 1,443 mem-
bers,

Older renters of apartments
would benefit from the passage
of a bill introduced by Rep, Her-
bert E. Harris (D-Va.) that
would provide a 20 percent re-
duction in the property tax ele-
ment in their rents, Most com-
munities provide tax abatement
for those over 65 who own homes
and the bill would equalize this
advantage.

Pood stamps will be harder to
get under a new program due
to pass Congress and the Presi-
dent, Stamps will be denied to
families of four with an annual
income of $7,800-$8,000.
The new law will affect 1.5 mil-
lion recipients.

If you have trouble hearing,
you should be aware that some
new types of telephone—notably
the trim line and other fancy
phones—don't work with hearing
aids unless you use a special
adapter, These adapters are
available from the Telephone
Company or from hearing aid
companies.

gross

Where should you store your
insurance policies? The answer
to this common question ts
NOT in your safe deposit box
which may be sealed when you
die. You should have a fireproof
steel box at home. Keep a note
of the policy numbers in your
safe depostt box in case the poli-
cles are destroyed or stolen.

The Federal Trade Commis-
sion has issued a note pointing
out IRA is not for everyone and
there are several kinds not all
alike.

Note that the investment in
IRA iy not tax free—you will
have to pay the tax when you
take the money out. Of course,
most people expect to take the
money out after they retire when
their tax bracket will be lower.

You can take all or part of
your IRA fund out before you

When you open a new IRA
account, you should know that
anyone selling you » plan must
give you certain information
seven days before you sign a
contract, or give you the right
to cancel within seven days
after you receive the Informa-
tion. Some plans have a fee in-
volved. And remember, a “pre-
diction” is not a “guarantee.

If you were not required to
file an income tax last year, it
may still be wise to file one. This
year there is a new earned In-
come credit which may entitle
you to a refund up to $400. If
you have a dependent child who
is a student or is under 19 years
of age, living at home, you may
qualify, Your earned income ‘or
adjusted gross income) must
have been less than $8,000 in
1975, This gross income excludes
Social Security payments and
any part of your pension that is
a return on your own invest-
ment. An IRS estimate indicates
that the government expects
three miliion claims for such
refunds by people who are not
required to file income tax. Less
than a tenth of these have been
received. You oan still file even
though the deadline is past

As & public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefici-
aries of unclaimed checks from
the New York State Employees’
Retirement System and the State
Policemen's and Firemen’s Fund.
The Leader or the New York
‘State Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem in Albany may be contacted
for information as to how to
obtain the funds.

Following is = listing of those individ

paragraph | of the Retirement and So.
cial Security Law on of before August
31, 1974,

(Continued from Inst week)

Acla, Donald & Cavite
Agoving, Georke P Holes il
Alexander, Earl D New York
Aliwang. "Forrest Farmingdale
Amoronano, Charles B ... New. Rochelle
Anderson. John H Amityville
Antiero, Aiphones A Ballston Sp
Anthony, Charles R Gowands
Tehace

Rochester

Scaten Island

New York

Brooklyn

Eden

Tully

Belknap. James P Poughkeepsie
Helshaw, Thomas E Rochevter
Tarrytown

Rochener

Briere, Macrice $
Brocklebank,

Elizabeth B Binghamcon
Burke, Thomas J Cambria Heighis
Basch, Morris Loch Sheldrake
Campbell, Patricia M New York
Careano, Raymood Jr New York

Chagas, Leonard)

Cole, James P

Conninahom. Janet A
Lorena

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Fri

One of last chores performed by chapter leaders was a group photo Sunday afternoon
after the Presidents meeting. All are presidents ynless indicated otherwise. From left,
front row: David Strader, first vice-president, St. Lawrence PC chapter 423; Ronnie
Smith, Willowbrook DC 429; collective bargaining specialist Robert Guild; James
Gripper, Brooklyn DC 447; James Moore, Utica PC 425; Charles Noll, Marcy PC 414;
Francis White, Rome DC 422, and Robert Lee, Willard PC 428. Middle row: Gregory
Saurnicki, Kings Park PC 411; Maye Bull, Gowanda PC 408; Dorothy King, first vice-
president, Creedmoor PC 406; William Cunningham, Kingsboro PS 402; Victor
Procoplo, Syracuse DC 424; William Anderson, Bronx PC 401, and Floyd Payne, execu-

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tive vice-president, Manhattan Children's PC 413. Back row: William McGowan, past
president, West Seneca DC 427; Robert Thompson, Harlem Valley PC 409; Alexander
Hogg, Middletown PC 415; Ann Wadas, Institute for Research in Mental Retardation
438; Rick Recchia, Hudson River PC 410; Joseph Love, first vice-president, Suffolk
DC 430; Edmond Gagnon, Gouverneur Hospital 407; Betty Duffy, Pligrim PC 418;
Lorraine Burrus, delegate, South Beach PC 446; Robert Watkins, Letchworth Village
DC 413; Mick Stanton, Buffalo PC 403; Richard Snyder, Wassale DC 426, and Martin
Langer, Rockland PC 421

Maye Bull, president of Gowanda PC chapter 408, ac-
cepts plaque from smiling Robert Guild for her long
service on behalf of Mental Hygiene workers. Applaud-
ing are CSEA vice-president Joseph McDermott and his
wife, Laura, and Jeanne McGowan, of West Seneca DC

chapter 437 (Leader photos by Ted Kaplan)

=
ren, a
CSEA’s director of education.

participated in various panels at the labor seminar.
Harrison and Matt Kelly,

Harlem Valley PC chapter 409's secretary Edna Kimbal,
left, and Peggy Waterston confer on some of the issues
that were debated by the delegates.

Edward Diamond, second from left
From left are Jerome Thier, Dr.

Plaque presentation was also made to William McGowan,
CSEA executive vice-president, Mental Hygiene Council
chairman, Western Region V1 Mental Hygiene director
and West Seneca DC chapter 427 past president. Making
the presentation is a beaming Robert Guild, as CSEA
counsel James Roemer applauds.

hats with some of the speakers who
Diamond, David

Tables are turned As céllective bargaining specialist
Robert Guild realizes that best-guarded secret of eve-
ning was special plaque presentation to him. Mental
Hygiene Council vice-chairman James Moore reads the
inscription, as Region Hl Mental Hygiene director Doro-
thy King and toastmaster James Roemer listen.

Explanation of “CSEA Leral Assistance Program” is made by CSEA
legal committee chairman Joseph Conway, who conducted seminar

Saturday afternoon,

Binghamton PO chapter 441 president Leon Wilmot
discusses views with Willard PC chapter delegate Gary
Dougherty.

McGowan, Moore, Duffy
Elected To Top Positions
By Mental Hy Leaders

By MARVIN BAXLEY
CATSKILL—Wililam McGowan and Betty Duffy were elected to their
third consecutive terms as president and secretary, respectively, of the
Mental Hygiene Presidents Council at a meeting here last month.
Joining them in the top echelon was James Moore, who handily beat
two opponents in the vote for vice-chairman.
Mr. McGowan, of West Seneca Developmental Center, and Ms. Duffy,
of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, are the two senior members among the 16
CSEA directors representing Mental Hygiene constituencies. Both served
when there were only four directors from the department
Mr. Moore has been rising rapidly since he emerged on the statewide
scene four years ago when he became chapter president at Utica Psychiatric
Center. Since then he has been elected as a CSEA director (Mental Hygiene,
Region V), vice-chairman of the union's State Division, chairman of the
Central Region V State Workshop and chairman of the statewide Insti-
tutional Unit bargaining team
In other action, the Mental Hygiene Presidents Council renewed efforts
last month to have a separate

title set up within the union
structure for someone whose re-
sponsibility would be Mental
Hygiene affairs

Currently the union has three
titles for specific groups of its
members. Directly under execu-
tive director Joseph Lochner

ability that other staff personne!
id be assigned to assist cer-
tain chapters in a random man-
ne

The chapter presidents’ con-
viction, expressed at thelr May
ing here at the Friar Tuck.
is that they want all Mental

there are two equal-rank posi- Hygiene staff persor to be
tions for assistant executive di- under the direction of one per-
rector. John Carey holds one of son

these posts: for State Division About one third of CSEA's
and Joseph Dolan holds the State Division membership ts in

other: for County Division. In the Mental Hygiene Department
addition, there is a separate title There are 44 MH chapters
for director of retirees affairs, a throughout the state.

position hekt by Thomas Gil- Utica Psychiatric Center chap-

martin. ter president James Moore em~

Although Mental Hygiene is phasized that they should base
the only department to have an their continuing campaign upon
exclusive collective bargaining establishment of a title, so as not
specialist, Robert Guild, for some to confuse the issue &s one of

time Mental Hygiene leaders personality.
have been concerned about his Heated discussion was also
growing workload, and the prob- (Continued on Page 14)

Floyd Payne, left, Manhattan Children's PC chapter 413 executive vice-president,
discusses chapter policy decision with other members of chapter delegation, Rosalind
Edwards, Harold Robertson and Jimmy Payne.

Hoch PO chapter 442 president Allan Genovese, left, has attention of Central Istip
PC chapter 404 delegates Sal Russo, Dorothy Russo, Elleen Gorski and Lynn Judge.
At business session, Mr, Genovese had made plea to prevent merger of Heoh with
Northeast Nassau.

aS “TA

Overwhelmingly elected to positions of top leadership for Mental Hygiene Presidents
Council are these three influential members of the Civil Service Employees Assn.
William McGowan, left, was elected to his third term as chairman, Betty Duffy, her
third term as secretary, and fast-rising newoomer James Moore, his first term as
vice-chairman.

OL61 “Fb 2URE ‘Seppy ‘HIGVAT SOIAN

CSEA president Theodore C.
Wenzl was on hand to greet
Mental Hygiene delegates at
opening of their meeting.

CSEA director John Clark (Mental Hygiene, Re-
sion Ll), of Letchworth Village DC, greets Doro-
thy Mariano, who is also 1 member of chapter 412.

(Leader photos by Ted Kaplan)

Park PC chapter 411 delegation members check over agenda for weekend

Kings
Mental Hygiene Labor Seminar in order to determine which semions various delegates
be amigned to attend. From left are Kathicen Fennell, Cart Fennell, Barney Pen-
~

CIVIL SERVICE ‘LEADER, Friday, June 4, 1976

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civil service commission cannot
refuse to recognize an appoint-
ment made from its own ell-
gible list merely because it erred
in its determination of matters
which it alone had jurisdiction
to determine. However, a differ-
ent question Is presented in this
case where a statute or ordin-
ince defines required qualifica-
tons for appointment to office.
In this case, the visual acuity
standards were a matter of stat-
ute and rule. The faulty certi-
fication of eligibility did not re-
sult from any determination by
the Civil Service Commission
over which it alone had power
and jurisdiction. The Legisla-
ture, in section 58 of the Civil
Service Law, had expressly pro-
hibited the employment of per-
sons as police officers who do
not meet specific physical re-
quirements. Assuming for pres-
ent purposes, the court went on
to say, that subdivision 4 of sec-
tion 50 of the Civil Service Law

would constitute a waiver of the
eligibility requirements on and
after three years from the time
of certification or appointment,
the present record establishes

that the illegality of the ap-

pointment was discovered and
sled upon before three years
had passed." The court held

therefore, that since the appoint-
ment was in direct violation of
section 58 of the Civil Service
Law, the petitioner's termina-
tion from employment must be
affirmed. Matter of Lockman v.
Van Voris, 49 A.D. 2d 285.

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moderate the impact of its rec-
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security benefits as a supplement
to those provided by the public
employee pension plans.

The State Legislature and the
Emergency Financial Control
Board of the City of New York
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CAREY TAKES CUT

In a statement of assets and liabilities released last week, it was
revealed that Gov. Hugh L. Carey has followed through on his election
campaign promise to voluntarily take a 10 percent cut in salary.
Although it was not possible for the Governor to legally change the
amount he is paid, the statement showed that he has donated the
equivalent of 10 percent of his income to Roswell Park Institute, a
state research facility in Buffalo. The statement said the Governor,
who received $85,000 annually, last year paid $23,563 in federal taxes,
$9,867 in state taxes and $2,300 in New York City taxes. The state-
ment also showed that the Governor's net worth increased by $35,573
during his first year in office, up from $94,885 to $130,458, The in-
crease was largely due to improvements made at the Governor's
Shelter Island summer home.

DMH PROBERS NEED CHARGES

A Mental Hygiene review board recently set up by Gov. Hugh
L. Carey to investigate suspicious deaths in mental health facilities
will conduct such probes only if allegations are made that patients
died due to neglect or foul play. “If a person were to die under sus-
piclous circumstances and charges of neglect or overt mishandling
are leveled, one of the pathologists on the panel will conduct an
autopsy,” said Kevin Cahill, special assistant to Governor Carey on
health affairs. A spokesman for the Department of Mental Hygiene
said the agency is “in accord with the establishment of an indepen-
dent pathology panel to study circumstances surrounding any deaths
in state facilities which might occur under unusual circumstances.
In addition to investigating deaths, the board is empowered to inves-
tigate and report on adequacy and quality of care provided to the
mentally disabled by the Department,

GOLDMARK GLOOMY

In remarks to a Siena College seminar, State Budget Director
Peter Goldmark Jr. said the state has not yet seen the end of the
fiscal crisis and that a number of cities and counties “will find them-
selves in trouble. Mr. Goldmark predicted that “present reliance on
debt in all levels of government in the state will have to continue”
and that more outside controls will be imposed on governmental af-
fairs as is now the case in New York City. The Budget Director added
that he foresees a decline in state spending and that governments
attempting to sell bonds will have to increase information about them
to lure wary investors.

ATTICA FALLOUT
Some testimony heard by grand jurors investigating the 1971
Attica Prison riot has been ordered sent to State Police and Corree-
tions Commission officials, This could cause disciplinary action to
be taken against some state troopers and prison guards whe were
involved in putting down the insurrection.
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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has ruled that student
proctors on State University campuses are employees of the state
and ure thus eligible for indemnity benefits under the Public Officers
Law. The proctors are usually known as resident assistants and act
as dormitory counselors and perform certain clerical and office
duties in return for free lodging.

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AG Lefkowitz: Job Must Be Abolished Prior To A Firing

ALBANY — State Attorney
General Louis J. Lefkowitz

has ruled that if the state,

seeks to fire an individual
for economy reasons, that indi-
vidual's job must first be abol-
ished.

Said Mr. Lefkowltz: “In view

Milowe Named
PERB Director

ALBANY — Harvey Milowe
has been appointed director
of public employment prac-
tices and representation for
the Public Employment Rela-
tions Board, the position held by
Paul E. Klein since the agency's
inception in 1967

Mr. Klein is now general coun-
sel for the New York Educators
Assn., a National Education
Assn. affiliate.

Mr. Milowe, who began his
career with PERB in 1968 us a
trial examiner, most recently
served as PERB's assistant direc-
tor of representation, He is a
graduate of New York University
Law School.

of the fact that the Civil Service
Law makes express provisions
for those cases in which tenured
employees may be suspended
and makes no provision for sus-
pension for economy reasons ex-
cept im the context of abolition
I must conclude that the

abolition of positions is a neq
sary prerequisite.

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suspensions are the
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held on a proposed increase in
housing rates for employees who
live on the grounds of certain
institutions

‘There was also an update on
progress being made to forestall
mergers of several Mental Hy-
giene facilities such as Utica~
Marcy, Hoch-Northeast Nassau
and Adams-Gowanda. While fi-
nancial savings for the state
were recognized, the loss of ser-
vice to the public was a matter
of major concern.

‘The three-day Mental Hygiene
Labor Seminar also included
PC chapter 418 first vice-president Joseph Noya, left, disouses various discussions with numer-
blems with other members of chapter delegation, Charles Salsman ous specialists serving as panel-
iste.

Among these educational ses-

sions was “Arbitrators Criteria in
Dealing with Efforts of the West Seneca DC chapter 427 president and CSEA director James

Parties to Settle Discipline Cases Bourkney (Mental Hygiene, Region VI) congratulates Gowanda PC
During the Grievance Process” chapter 408 president Maye Bull on her birthday. The lady dectined
‘This program on plea bargaining @ reveal her age, though,

was moderated by Matt Kelly, of
Cornell University’s School of
Industrial Labor Relations.

Another program, conducted
by Jerome Thier, of the Public
Employment Relations Board
was on "Unfair Labor Practices
r the Taylor Law." An ex-
1 of “CSEA's Legal As-
ce Program was ded

nan of

Conway, chair
the statewide con

tle

Mini-sessions Saturday after-
noon were conducted by Ronald
Donovan, Joel Douglas, David
Randles and Lamont Stalworth.
all consultants in the labor re-
lations field.

Ahigian, president of Eleanor Roosevelt chapter 445 at Oswald At a banquet Saturday even- Ter Bush and Powell's Ronald Lacey explains details of insurance
Heck Deyelopmental Center, exchanges views, with Cornell Uni- ing, CSEA counsel James Roemer coverage to Flo Covati and Marie Dupont. both of Letchworth Village

y professor Ron Donovan, panelist at Friday evening seminar. served as toastmaster, chapter 412.

n Chadwick, of Keene unit, Hudson River Psychiatric Center delegates compare opinions on what Manhattan Children's PC chapter 413’s Samuel Brown, Willowbrook
spirited participant during they have learned at labor seminar. From left are Shirley Palmer, DC chapter 429 treasurer Irene Hillis and Anne Percoco are attentive
business meeting of MH John Carrera and Clara Franklin. Usteners. Ms, Hillis is also president of Mental Hygiene Employees
Assn.

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we seems to be a subject of some dispute between Brooklyn DC Roe! nd PC chapter 421 delegate Bernie Duprew, left, Craig DC Brooklyn DC chapter 447 presi-
pter 447's first vice-president Nathaniel Flowers and Pilgrim PC chapter 405 secortl vice-president Jack Galbraith and Monroe DC dent James Gripper calls for

pier 418 vice-president Robert Williams. chapter vice-president Mary Cartwright pause between meetings. public employees to be appointed
to New York State committees,

(Continued from Page 4)

“Another great difficulty of our
agency is that there was never
a coherent treatment philosopy
promulgated by our administra-
tion and carried out at the mid-
level or the line level. Some fa-
cilities emphasize the correction-
al aspect, others the treatment
and rehabilitation aspect. It's the
director of each! facility that
sets the standard,” continued Mr
Spoonhour. “I feel we should be
somewhat closer to the private,
community-based programs than.
we are now, rather than the pri-
son parole type of operation that
we have had. The staff has tried
to humanize it as much as pos-

sible and has met with great re-
sistance from the administra-
tion. Since we have not been
allowed to have an input into
treatment planning and policy
we do the best we can within
the structure that has been set
up.”

“I think,” said Mr. Spoonhour,
“that our input would greatly
improve the services available to
our clientele. We have a labor-
management committee; we have
local labor-management commit-
tees to deal with individual em-
ployee relations, We also have
the statewide labor management
committee which deals with state
problems. We have attempted

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titles, call 566-8700.

Several City agencies do their
own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only)y @5-- Court’ St,
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 596-
8060; NYC Transit Authority,
370 Jay St, Brooklyn 11201
phone: 852-5000.

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piicants to contact the individ
ual schools; non-faculty jobs are
filled through the Personnel De-
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applying in person at any of
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Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
contact the Staffing Services
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Admin., 270 Broadway, N.Y.
phone 468-4141.

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through this committee to bring
up issues for discussion regard-
ing treatment planning. We have
not had very much success in
this area, but we're still trying.”

Hank Winters, director of
counseling services at the Man-
hattan Rehabilitation Center,
felt that most of the commis-
sioners were obstructionists.

“Some never even put their
head into a facility, and. if they
did, they usually messed some-
thing up. One commissioner tried
to have a child who was under
my care and supervision at the
time, taken out of our facility
as a favor to a friend. The client
was in dire need of treatment.
Removing her from our care
would have had serious consequ-
ences for the patient. I fought
the request, but it’s a perfect
example of interference from ‘the
top’ which is destructive to the
people involved.”

Thomas Linden, Civil Service
Employees Assn. collective bar-
gaining specialist for ODAS, feels
that in the past the commis-
sioners sat in an ivory tower
and refused to listen to the union
or employee point of view. Mr.
Linden also feels that, as an
agency, ODAS has had a very
difficult time proving itself as
effective for many reasons.

“They wanted to see ODAS
producing something,” said Mr.
Linden. “Taking people off the

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ASS'BLYMAN ANDREW STEIN
. his investigation helped

streets in one condition and put-
ting them back in another. The
Department of Correction doesn't
have to justify itself. In Mental
Hygiene they just have to take
wood care of the patient. But
in drug addiction you have not
committed a crime against some-
one else; it’s a crime against
yourself. so it’s not considered
as important as the other two.

“Another reason is that it
was so badly mismanaged. One
of our past commissioners who
knew absolutely nothing about
the client or the treatment at
the facilities, who probably
never even visited a facility, had
a 12-page ‘dress code’ made up
for employees and distributed to
the staff of ODAS. He somehow
thought that this would set a
fine example for the client which
would somehow speed_up his re-
covery. It took 10 meetings to
straighten this ridiculous matter
out. Each meeting lasted about
half a day and there were three
or four very high officials pre-
sent on each of these occasions.
It just gives you an idea of
where the manpower went and
where the commissioner's head
was at.”

Benjamin Goldman, director of
Cooper Rehabilitation Center,
Manhattan, said, “What is need-
ed is someone to help directors
to do a better job. There were a
number of desultory attempts to
effect change, but these attempts

“Bach facility was only as good
as the director who ran it. There
was no basic authority exerted
on me to help me to function
better, like periodic inspections
in which someone would come
down to ask me to evaluate my
own program or justify the
quality of work. Only now are
other forces entering the picture
which are attempting to change
things. We now get federal funds
on a case-by-case basis under
Medicaid. We get funds from the
Department of Health, Educa-

CSEA’s THOMAS LINDEN
“crime against yourself”

tion and Welfare, through the
‘State Department of Social Serv-
ices, through the State Depart-
ment of Health and down to
our program for individual cases.

“We are now classified as a
Health Related Facility which
means that all of our programs
are subject to federal and state
regulatory codes governing pro-
gramming, environment, sanita-
tion, structure, safety and so
forth. We are also subject to
unannounced state inspections as
well as to utilization reviews
concerning programming. We
have received a number of pro-
cedures growing out of our re-
sponsibilities in this area, such
as setting standards as to how
we have to program for resi-
dents. indicating the kind of
services that are required,
the.intensity and frequency
of service.

“Bo only now, because of out-
sidg intervention, are we be-
ginning to establish uniform
methods and procedures govern-
ing our program. This is the be-
winning. If we were to stay in
business, I am sure with that
as a foundation, we would start
to develop uniform policies and
procedures which would have to
be coordinated on an overall
administrative level. Before this
we had none. These are all part
of the new laws that the Legis-
lature has passed as @ result of
Assemblyman Andrew Stein's in-
vestigation.

“I would like to see a lot of
changes made,” said Mr. Spoon-
hour. “From what I have heard,
Commissioner Klepak as a state
employee has been very effective
in many areas as an adminis-
trator. I know that he has been
in state service for almost 40
years. I've heard that he’s very
sharp, that he asks pointed and
knowledgeable questions and ex-
pects very succinct and immedi-
ate responses. I also hear that be
doesn't waste any time. I'm very
eager to see what is going to
happen.”

Assail Masten Cutbacks

BUFFALO — The close of
some programs at the Mas-
ten Park Narcotics Rehabili-
tation Center this month
means 250 clients of the center
will “in all likelihood have to
fend for Unemselves,” said Ray-
mond Caryana, president of the
Center's Civil Service Employees
Assn. chapter

Cutbacks forced a layoff of 20
percent of the Center's staff in-
cluding counselors, parole offi-
cers and securtty personnel.

Mr. Caruana sald the state
“passes strict drug control laws
that have mandatory sentences.
Then it shuts down drug pro-
grams that work.”

He added the clients affected
represent a broad spectrum of
the community and have histo~
ries of chronic sociological prob-
lems. Center programs, he said,
offered them “a sort of preven-
tion program” through athletics,
arts and crafts and basic skills
classes,

OL6t “b une ‘Sepyy “YAGVAT AOIANAS HAD
IVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 4, 1976

CSEA executive vice-president; Charles Peritore, Mental Hygiene CSEA representative from Western

Region VI. and John Schallenberg.

Submit Bill Easing Real Estate Tax Nip

Citing a need for an in-
crease in the income require-
ment for senior citizens’ real
estate tax exemptions, State
Senator Owen H. Johnson (R-

DOT Region Ten’s
Cleary To Retire;
48 Years’. Service

HAUPPAUGE — Joseph A.
Cleary, principal right-of-
way agent for New York
State Department of Trans-
portation Region 10, will retire
June 23 after nearly 48 years’
state service.

Mr. Cleary, who entered state
service in October 1928, will be
feted at a June 17 luncheon at
the LaGrange Inn, Babylon.

A graduate of St. John’s Uni-
versity and St. John’s Law
School, Mr. Cleary has been in-
volved in nearly every land ac-
quisition project undertaken by
the Region. Mr. Cleary was a
founding member of the Region
10 Civil Service Employees “Assn.
chapter and is also a charter
member of the Empire State
chapter, American Right Of Way
Assn.

Suffolk, Nassau) is proposing to
boost. the level to $7,200.

Mr. Johnson secured backing
for his bill by getting 28 co-spon-
sors. Assigned to the Local Gov-
ernment Committee, the bill is
numbered 810087.

“Recent cost - of - living in-
creases granted in social security
benefits will result in many
senior citizens losing the 50 per-
cent tax exemption on their
homes," the West Babylon Sen-

will bring many senior citizens
just over the $6,500 Kmit by just
few dollars, and it just is riot
equitable. that they will jose the
50 percent tax break. For ex-
ample, & retiree who now has
less than $6,500 in income, and
because of the exemption is pay-
ing taxes on one-half of the
property's assessed valuation,
will face full taxes if the social
security increase brings his total
income even one dollar over the
$6,500 limit.”

The Johnson bill is expected
to be reported from committee
and on the Senate calendar
shortly. As with the original
legislation establishing this ex-

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C.S. Training
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ALBANY—Herbert M. En-
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ployee training in the New
York State Civil Service De-
partment since 1968, and an em-
ployee with the State since 1946,
has retired.

During his career, he has
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and private sector organizations,
including the United States Of-
fiee of Education, Southern Il-
linois University, and the United
States Civil Service Commission.

Most recently, Mr. Engel has
been responsible for directing
the implementation of the Civil
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chapters are planning some fun in the sun. Bill Mensel, president
‘of Nassau County Retiree chapter, reports that his members will
have a barbecue picnic at Lido Beach on June 30. Bill, by the way,
was recently named by president Theodore Wenz! to be a member
of the statewide retirees committee,

Another outing we have heard about is a boat ride on June 21
arranged by the Capital District Retiree chapter. According to secre-
tary Deloras Fussell, they will safl the Hudson and the Erie Canal
‘on @ leisurely six-hour cruise. Those Capital District folks must like
the water. Last July they spent the day on Lake George.

Tris Schwartz, president of Dutchess-Putnam chapter, (ells us
that their members also are looking forward to a cruise on the
Hudson on June 15. Incidentally, Tris and a half dozen other retirees
have lately been doing volunteer work in the Fishkill office of CSEA
Southern Region ITI, helping with the fight against a challenging
union.

George Butler, president of the new Madison-Oneida-Herkimer
Tri-county Retiree chapter, is looking for a big attendance at their
plenic at New Hartford Pirk, in Utica, on July 29

Binghamton chapter's first vice-president Al Dexheimer and
wife, along with secretary Florence Drew and husband, recently at-
tended Broome County's first annual senior citizens month “Recog-
nition Luncheon” in Windsor. Florence reports that “the meal was
superb, and we were immensely impressed with the speaker, Evan
Pritchard of Albany.” Mr. Pritchard is chairman of the New York
State joint legislative committee of the American Assn. of Retired
People

Arranging retiree meeting places so that members who live at
some distance can attend more conveniently is a problem some
chapters are trying to solve. John Tanai's Syracuse chapter has for
some time been rotating meeting places around the counties within
the chapter. Rochester retiree chapter president, Ruth McFee, states
that they have tried to do the same, and also have been experiment-
ing with the unit idea. so that members who live quite a distance
from Rochester can hold their own meetings. Their problem with
attendance in the Rochester chapter is understandable, having eight
counties. This is an even bigger problem in the Capital District chap-
ter which has 12 counties within its chapter boundaries.

Regional meetings are proving ‘o be helpful in giving retiree
presidents and delegates a chance to get together to discuss common
problems and to exchange workable ideas for successful chapter
activities. Chapter: presidents Don Buswell of Binghamton, Helen
Musto of Ithaca, George Butler of Utica and John Tanzi of Syracuse,
accompanied by some of their chapter officers, met at CSEA
Region V's meeting at Owego on April 23-24. On the 24th, the
retirees had their own meeting and discussed many items of interes
land concern to their chapters. It was such a good exchange that they
decided it would be worth repeating. The next regional meeting: will
be held at Alexandria Bay on June 4-5. The host chapter will be
Jefferson County chapter, Retiree coordinator Tom Gilmartin will
try to make that one, as the Jefferson-Lewis-St. Lawrence Counties

area is the territory labeled Retiree Chapter 915, still unorganized.

Mary Gormley is the new Buffalo-Nisgara Frontier Retiree
chapter president and she announces that her members will hold
their second big meeting on June 15 at the Buffalo and Erie County
Public Library auditorium. People who are familiar with Mary's long
and active interest in CSEA, as well as with her charm and en-
thusiasm, are sure that this new chapter will soon be thriving and
@ pleasure to belong to.

President John VanDuzer's Orange-Ulster-Sullivan Counties
chapter is noted for its civic achievements within those three coun-
ties. They really keep local legislators, county executives, public
utilities people, and offices of the aging on thelr toes, John's current
drive is to influence the state to convert its unused facilities over
tothe much needed use of the elderly, Equally active in the Middle-
town chapter is their seoretary, Clarence Lokey. This same chapter
recently sent nearly 1,000 letters to state lawmakers in support of
CSEA retiree legislation.

George Celentano, president of Rockland-Westchester Retiree
chapter, can be proud of a fine legislative newsletter he sent to all
members of his chapter. He also mailed identification cards to each
which enables his members to get extremely low dental rates. Some
of our other chapters will want to contact George to learn how they
managed to gain this benefit for members.

Metro Retirees

MANHATTAN—The New York

NAME GRECO
ALBANY—Assemblyman Ste-

Metropolitan Retirees chapter
910, Civil Service Employees
Assn, will hold a meeting Tues-
day, June 15, according to chap-
ter president Nathaniel Acker-
man. The meeting, which is set
for 1 p.am., will be held in Room
5800, Two World Trade Center,
Manhattan.

Buy U.S. Made Products

phen R. Greco (D-Buffalo) has
been appointed by Comptroller
Arthur Levitt to the Comptrol-
ler's Advisory Council on Re-
trement Systems, an agency
charged with helping Mr. Levitt
in investing state pension funds.
Mr. Greco is chairman of the
Assembly Governmental Em-
ployees Committee which handles
all pension legislation.

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