Civil Service Leader, 1976 May 28

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Friday, May 28, 1976

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Corbin Defends
Civil Service At
Suffolk Hearing

RIVERHEAD — Warning
that it would be counterpro-
ductive, James Corbin, presi-
dent of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn, chapter represent-
ing Suffolk County employees,
testified before the County Legis-
lature on a home rule bill that
would grant permanent compett-
tive civil service status to cer-

table the request for better clar-
ification, Mr, Corbin noted that
many positions have been filled
on a provisional basis for more
than a year.

“Then a test is given on an
open competitive basis,” he said,
“and the incumbents pass, only
to find themselves unreachable
on the list and, therefore, ter-
minated.”

Mr. Corbin calied this sttua-
tion “counterproductive, sinot
the new personnel would have
to be trained to replace those
people who are being termin-
ated.”

He also emphasized that CSEA

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rights.”

The union had an especially
bitter blast for Donald H. Wol-
lett, director of the State Of-
fice of Employee Relations.
CSEA charged he “personally en-
gineered the governor's proposed
bills designed to deprive public
employees of their rights.”

CSEA president Theodore C.
Wenz! called the Governor's pro-
posed amendments to the Civil
Service Law “outrageously anti-
labor” and said “the more than

ROCKLAND MESSAGE — Leading Rockland County em-

See Pages 8&9

ployees in their struggle to win a fair contract, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. Rockland chapter president John Mauro, right, adds
personal touch to picket sign as unit president Patsy Spicci looks
over his shoulder, Hundreds of employees took part in protest march
last week to publicize County Legisiature’s hard-nose attitude toward
employees. (Story and other photes on Page 16.)

CSEA's President Attacks

Carey Bill Recommendations

The Civil Service Employees Assn. has labeled a series of bills recommended by Gov.
Hugh L. Carey to amend the state’s Civil Service Law as “an outright union-busting tactic
designed to strip public employees of the dignity and protection of union representation

one million public workers in
this state, including more than
300,000 represented by CSEA, will
be violently opposed to the pro-
posals.""

Dr. Wenz) said that “if these
regressive proposals reach a floor
vote in the Legislature, we'll see
which legislators believe in the

» rights and dignity of public em-

ployees—and which do not.”

CSEA is “bitterly opposed,”
Dr. Wenz) said, to a pair of

proposals by the Governor,

One would remove a broad
range of supervisory personnel
from existing Bargaining Units.
‘The other would allow the em-
ployer to make unilatera] changes
in the terms and conditions of
employment of employees once
an impasse had been declared in
negotiations after the expiration
of the existing contract.

“Both proposals are devious,”

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CSEA Condemns
8 Bills Affecting
Mental Patients

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn. has mo-
bilized its members and lobbyists in an effort to defeat eight
bills which, the union says, could lead to closings or con-
solidations of state mental] hospitals.

CSEA executive vice-president
William McGowan has sent
copies of the bills to every CSEA
Mental Hygiene chapter presi-
dent in the state, urging them
to call and write to their legis-
Jators ‘in protest.

“Some of these bills are simply
wasteful and unnecessary.
Others are a potential danger to
the mental patients, mental hos-
pital employees and the citizens
in general,” Mr. McGowan said.

One of the bills is Senate
$10175 and Assembly A12705.

Tt establishes & “program de-
velopment grants fund” which
would consist of “any moneys
appropriated for the operation of
an institution to be used for
the benefit of patients residing
at such institutions or patients
to be discharged or released from

uch institution.” The fund could
also use “any other moneys
which may be made available to
the department for the purpose
of such fund from any other
source or sources.”

Mr. McGowan made it clear
that CSEA, which represents
thousands of mental institution
employees, is vehemently op-
posed to such a bill .

“This sounds to us as though
they're taking money away from
the mental hospitals, which are
already desperately understaffed
‘and underfunded, and giving it
to county-run programs. These
programs in general still have
mo system of accountability
‘There's no way to ensure that
the moneys will be used for the
benefit of the patients,” he said.

Mr. McGowan pointed to the
experience of California, which
went through a phasing-out of

pace.

Taking drugs was viewed with a
certain warped romanticism at that

time.

tough.

themselves

ence.

Now, however, things are getting

The feeling now ts, “Those irre-
sponsible kids are out there enjoying
but we have to suffer
and struggle. The hell with them.”

The mystique is gone, but the
problem is still very much in exist-

Heroin addiction as well as mul-

60's Drug Mystique Gone: Politics Stay

By SUSAN DONNER

MANHATTAN—During the 1960's,
when there appeared to be a good
deal of money available and people
in government were willing to spend
it, the public seemed to become en-
amored of the “Addict Mystique.”

Hundreds of book and magazine
articles were published on drug ad-
diction. One could find, almost on a
daily basis, something on the subject
im any newspaper; television kept

officialdom.

tiple drug abuse is on the rise. A
drug problem exists among adoles-
cents in almost every town or city
in America today, even though it is
sometimes denied by parents and

“This is Pleasantville or Happy
Valley: Everything here is fine,” said
Hank Winters, director of counseling
at Manhattan Rehabilitation Center,
citing the reluctance to face the
problem. On a recent visit to his

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its state mengal hospitals in 1969
and 1970. The state found its
county-run programs could not
begin to adequately treat the
exiled patients, some of whom
had known no other home but
their state institution for 30
years.

“That experiment ended with
a tremendous increase in violent
crime, community fear and re-
sentment, and untreated, home-
less mental patients living in
back alleys,” he said. “There was
such a public outery that the
state legislature finally took
@way the authority of the gov-
ernor to continue his program
of closing the state mental hos-
pitals. It all ended with the first
override of a California gover-
nor’s veto in 28 years.”

‘The union official said he sees
the answer in a massive educa-
on Page 4)

(Continued

Cuomo Puts Teeth
Into Enforcement
Of Lobbying Laws

OBBYISTS are a perman-
ent fixture on the Albany
scene, They stalk the legisla-
tive corridors and make
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, May 28, 1976

Nurse, Medical Specialist,
Psychiatrist Posts Open

ALBANY—Licensed practical nurses, psychiatrists and
medical specialists are continuously being recruited by the
State Civil Service Department for posts in state agencies.
Salaries range from $8,051 to $33,704 a year.

For all posts no written exam-
inations are necessary. Appli-
cants will be rated according to
their education, training and ex-
perience.

For licensed practical nurse,
No, 20-106, candidates must have
a license to practice as a prac-
tical nurse in New Yotk or have
@ limited permit to practice as a
practical nurse or have applied
for a permit. Practical nurses
are employed with the Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene, Educa-
tion and Health, as well as the
State University.

A state medical license and
completion of three years of
residency training in psychiatry
will qualify candidates for psy-
chiatrist I, No. 20-390, Candi-
dates meeting requirements for
psychiatrist I who have two
years’ post-residency experience
may apply for psychiatrist I.

For medical specialist I, No.
20-407, candidates must be li-
censed to practice medicine and
have completed a training pro-
gram approved by the certifying
board of the candidates specialty
Individuals with two years’ post-
residency experience may apply
for medical specialist II, No, 20-
408.

Application forms may be ob-
tained in person or by mai! from
the State Civil Service Depart-
ment at Two World Trade Cen-

ter, Manhattan; State Office
Building Campus, Albany; or
Suite 750, 1 West Genesee St.,
Buffalo.

Pilgrim Human
Rights Group
Elects Five

BRENTWOOD—The fourth
annual election of members
for the Pilgrim Psychiatric
Center's human rights com-
mittee saw Clayton Chesson, Dan
Denber, Pauline Whaley, Alfred
©, Carlsen and Dan Henry
named to the 11-member group.

Bach of the new members will
serve a three-year term, Com-
mittee officers are Jerome Mor-
ris, chairman; John Mableton,
vice-chairman, and Sidney Far-
kas, secretary, Incumbent mem-
bers are Ann Huot, Margie Noya
and Emmett Foster. With the
exception of Messrs, Farkus and
Henry, all are members of the
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center chap-
ter, Civil Service Employees
Assn

The committee serves as a
watchdog group investigating al-
leged instances of discrimination.

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Officers Named
At Bronx PC

BRONX — William Ander-
son was elected president of
the Bronx Psychiatric Center
chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. in recent balloting
by members there.

Aretha Walker, initially eleot-
ed second vice-president of the
chapter, moved to the post of
first vice-president replacing
John Hendricks who has re-
signed.

Installing officer was Solomon
Bendet, president of the New
York City chapter, CSEA, and
New York Clty Region IT. Mas-
ter of ceremonies was Randolph
V. Jacobs, Region II public re-
lations spectalist.

Thelma King was named
treasurer and Geneva Phillips
was elected secretary. Ten dele-
gates were also elected. They
are Catherine Smith, Dorothy
Sargeant, Dorothy Cherry, Tho-
mas Owens, Leroy Edwards,
Stanley Craft, Jane Speller, Re-
na Bowen, George Austin and
Helen James.

Suffolk Schedules
3 Exams & 1 Promo;
Filing Date June 16

HAUPPAUGE Open -
competitive posts of public
health aide, mental health
aide and labor mediator, and
{ promotional post of public
health nurse II are presently
open for filing in Suffolk
County

Filing for all positions will
close June 16 with exams set for
July 17. The jobs have starting
salaries between $5,798 to $15,-
860 a year

Applications and detailed an-
nouncements are available from
the Suffolk County Department
of Civil Service, H, Lee Dennison
Executive Office Building, Haup-
pauge; the East Northport Test-
ing Center, 295 Larkfield Road,
East Northport; and the River-
head Information Center, Coun-
ty Center, Riverhead.

Memorial Day
To Be Noted

ALBANY—State employees
will receive Monday, May 31,
as a day off to mark Sunday,
May 30, as Memorial Day.

Gov. Hugh L. Carey signed a
bill last week fixing the Memorial
Day observance on May 30 every
year, ending the seven-year-old
practice of marking the day on
the last Monday in May.

Whenever @ holiday falls on a
Sunday, state law requires that
it be observed with the closing of
state offices, schools and courts
‘on the following Monday.

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER
America’

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Westchester County Sheriff Thomas J. Delaney discusses his up-
coming testimony in a hearing of a Civil Service Employees Assn.
appeal of a State Retirement System determination on the eligibility
of Westchester County sheriff deputies for section 89b of the Retire-
ment and Social Security Law. From left to right, at the recent
hearing held in Albany, are Sheriff Delaney, Sgt. Matthew Dunn,
a Westchester deputy sheriff, Richard L. Burstein, CSEA counsel,
and Gary Johnson, staff coordinator for CSEA’s statewide uni-
formed law enforcement officers committee.

State Hearings Commence
On Application Of 89b
For W’Chester Deputies

ALBANY—The first of what sources say will probably
be a long series of hearings on the applicability of Section
89b of the State Retirement and Social Security Law to
Westchester County deputy sheriffs was held at the Alfred
E. Smith Office Building here

recently. sections not covered by the spe-

‘The hearings are being held us
the result of an appeal by the
Civil Service Employees Assn.,
the union which represents the
Westchester deputies, of a de-
termination made by the State
Retirement System.

Section 89b is a special section
of the Retirement Law which
provides for the retirement of
deputy sheriffs after 20 years of
service at half pay. Frequently,
when @ union representing depu-
tes negotiates terms of a new
work agreement with a particu-
Jar sheriff's department, one of
the contract demands is for in-
clusion of the employees involved
under the spectal retirement sec-
tion.

CSEA counsel Richard L. Bur-
stein said that such was the case
in recent negotiations between
CSEA and the Sheriff of West-
chester County. Mr, Burstein
said that when such inclusion is
agreed upon that the sheriff,
must indicate to the Retirement
System which employees of the
Sheriff's Department spend “at
east 50 percent of their time in
criminal law enforcement” since
this is the stipulation by the
System for inclusion under Sec-
tion 89b.

Mr. Burstein said that West-
chester County Sheriff Thomas
Delaney maintained that all 29
job titles in his department
qualify for the special section.
The Retirement System, how-
ever, made a determination that
only seven positions actually
qualify for Section 69b—all titles
in the Criminal Investigation
unit—or about 60 employees. Ac-
cording to Mr. Burstein this
leaves some 140 other employees
in the Criminal, Civil and Court

ue
BONDS!

cial retirement provision.

It ts CSEA’s contention that
the eligibility requirement of
work involving “criminal law en-
forcement” actually includes all
Westchester County sheriff dep-
uties, since criminal law enforee-
ment, under common law, en-
tails “the whole process, from
prevention to incarceration.”

Mr. Burstein pointed out that
the sheriff has the constitu-
tional power to assign any of his
employees to any job. “He runs
his office as he sees fit," the
CSEA counsel said. “It is quite
common for court officers to be
put on road duty in emergency
situations, for example

“Under the State Criminal
Procedures Law, deputy sheriffs
are defined as ‘police officers’
and are required to carry fire-
arms at all.times, on duty or
off,” said Mr. Burstein. “The
Penal Law says that these
people, whether on duty or off
duty, are required to make ar-
rests if they see a crime being
committed. The main duty of «
deputy sheriff is to aifeguard
life and property. All Westches-
ter County deputies are obliged
to do this 24 hours a day.”

Because of the complexity and
possible widespread significance
WHERE DO 9
THEY GO NOW:

Mystique Goes, Politics Stay

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hometown he said he found “A
gigantic drug problem: pills,
heroin—everything. The official
school position is that there is
no drug problem, and it’s so ob-
vious.

“T've talked to kids and their
parents. I know what's going on
in the schools. One girl, whose
family moved to this town less
than a year ago, is returning to
school in New York City because
of the severity of this drug
problem. It’s very shortsighted
when upstate legislators vote to
disband drug treatment pro-
grams. An estimated 35 percent
of our clients are from upstate
towns and cities. Eventually these
kids will wind up in jail, because
there will be no other available
alternative.”

Many legislators consider the
drug problems to be a New York
City problem. There will always
be more drug abuse in a large
metropolitan area, where there
are substantial minority groups,
ghettoes and poverty. But it is
also true that there are drug
abusers from all over the state
and country. They tend to gravi-
tate to New York City, where
help is more readily available
and the addicts anonymity ts
insured

More Subtle Problem

Authoritative sources in the
field of drug abuse believe that
the drug problem is more serious
toda: s in the 1960's,
tle one.
if the drug facilities
extremely serious

nore

are

closed,
problems will be created.

Giles Spoonhour, senior coun-
selor at Brooklyn Central Reha-
bilitation Center, said that this
summer; “The heroin will be
flowing freely in the streets
everyone will be zonked out of
their minds. But when the fall
comes, and the weather starts
getting cold, and these addicts
are looking for a place to go,
because they can no longer con-
tinue to sleep in burned-out
buildings in the South Bronx and
Bedford-Stuyvesant, they will be
looking toward our facilities.
‘They usually volunteer to come
in during the winter so they can
be clothed and fed and warm
If they can’t get in, and there's
no place for them to go, I dread
"what's going to happen.”

A Scapegoat?

Clients, directors and staff
working within the Office of
Drug Abuse Services feel that
this was & program created by
former Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
feller, and that, because there
is now @ Democrat administra-
ton in Albany, ODAS has be-
come @ scapegoat.

“Due to the state's budget
problems, our program is being
eliminated; as @ Republican cre-
ation it is now expendable,” said
Mr. Spoonhour.

“Whether Governor Carey in-

(This is the fourth article in a Leader seri
addiction problems that must be faced in the

os on drug
light

of threatened cuthacks in aid at both the private and
the public levels. Leader staff member Susan Donner
has been interviewing addicts, administrators and
union leaders, joining them at protest rallies and

touring various facilities.

Photography, original art-

work and story are by Ms. Donner. The problem is

everyone's.)

tends to create a program of his
own, I don’t know. I'm sure he
realizes the need for this type
of program. But thete have been
no indi¢ations so far.

“The existence of ODAS seems
to be a political football between
the Legislature and the Gover-
nor,” Mr. Spoonhour continued.
“They're blaming each other and
we're caught in the middle. We
have attempted to reach various
people to discuss what is hap-
pening. We've tried the Ways
and Means Committee, the Pi-
nance Committee, the Governor's
office. We can't even arrange a
meeting. It has been very frus-
trating.”

The sentiment within ODAS
is: Why start all over again with
cy for political rea-

than keep the
skills and experience that have
taken so many years to acquire?

The Governor's proposal in the
executive budget was to take the
alcohol abuse treatment func-
tion away from Mental Hygiene
and merge it with the Office of
Drug Abuse Services, rather than
to start a new agency. The Leg-
islature turned this down, how-
e when they decided to cut
out ODAS altogether. What it
appears they are really saying
is that they are not going to
deal with drug addiction. They
have proposed a number of con-
trived solutions, As one example,

Young resident at the Manhattan Rehabilitation Center
works diligently on painting.

they are doing away with state
methadone treatment, putting {t
in the hands of the private doc-
tors and hospitals. But this, some
ODAS staffers feel, is the worst
way possible to deal with metha-
done. The ODAS methadone pro-
gram had its limitations, they
say, but it also had a control
factor in terms of social supports
—vocational training. guidance
and education. Private hospitals,
treatment centers and private
physicians cannot provide that.
Clients should not be treated
with methadone without the
proper modalities that should, of
necessity, go along with it, many
staffers said.

As far as drug treatment pro-
grams are concerned, the Leg-
islature’s feeling appears to be
that addicts can go to private
agencies, However, ODAS offers
a different kind of treatment
program than private center
though both kinds are very n
needed, The private
offer an “open ended” program
where

volunteers for

the patie
treatment and usually is self-
motivated in seeking a cure. He
is free to leave when he chooses.

ODAS offers a “contained” pro-
ram where the addict, in most
cases, is remanded by the courts.
This client is usually more prim-
itive, younger, less verbal, and is
rarely motivated to change his
lifestyle to any great, degree

Lynne Marsh, senior counselor in charge of the youth pro-

gram at Manhattan Rehabilitation Center, gives tearful
good-bye hug to one of her young clients. Ms. Marsh was
forced to leave job Que to financial cutbacks and staff
changes in the Office of Drug Abuse Services,

Through the program however,
he may gain commitment to
change.

“The private facility offers an
cellent program for a certain
type of addict, the ‘cream of
the crop’ of ll drug addicts,”
sald Benjamin Goldman, director
of Manhattan's Cooper Rehabill-
tation Center. “Those who are
already highly motivated and
have the stick-to-it-ness required
hemselves in a program
hs without splitting
anxiety gets high.

Why Quit?
has been learned about
addiction through years of
addiction

eg0-sy henome-
This means that the drug
addict likes his addiction, derives
@ great deal of pleasure from tt
and sees no reason to divest him-
self of this problem. His whole
is organized around the us-
ing and procuring of drugs, Why
then should any addict want to
give up this very essential pleas-
ure in his life and look for cure,
when being cured means work-
ing, struggling, acting responsi-
bly and taking on roles he may
never have known in his life?

‘The basic issue is, “How do
you motivate the drug addict?"
Very often he ends up in court
The judge says either you go
and get treatment or you go
back to jail, So he thinks, why
should I go to jail? I'll go for
treatment. But he really has no
‘commitment" for treatment, as
one must have, to be successful
in @ private program, where the
addict can leave at any time.
In an ODAS “contained” pro-
gram, the client cannot leave;
he cannot resolve his problems
by taking drugs. The drug addict
or the psychopath or the socio-
path is constantly running away.
He finds release in running
away,

“If your regular channels of
release are closed off and you
don't have the opportunity to
find expression for your tensions
in accustomed behavior, your

What
drug
experience is t

is an

non.

tensions fall back on you. For
the first time you -begin to ex-
perience an enormous sense of
anxiety,” explained Mr. Gold-
man, “When we recognize that
the resident is experiencing anx-
iety, we have him here, and we
can explain to him what 1s going
wrong: your ordinary means of
control are failing; your chan-
nels of expression have been cut
{; now you can begin to see
for the first time who the devil
you ure and how you have to
with yourself

By keeping the client at the
and depriving him of the
s that he has cus-
used to resolve his
problems, we ‘motivate him.’ For
the first time he acquires some
insight into himself.”

Mr. Winters believes there
should be an overall assessment
as to what the state’s treatment
needs, In both the public and
private centers, really are.

“Instead of having 14 atate
programs, maybe there should be
eight, but at least there should
be some kind of investigation as
to where the treatment needs
are, based upon the needs of
the clients, The kind of clients
we serve are those who need a
structured environment, There
ould be an estimate as to
how many people need that kind
of help. Right now we can only
accommodate 400 residents. I'm
sure there are many more drug
abusers who need help in the
entire State of New York.”

Corbin Detends

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holds sacred the Civil Service
Law of properly testing quall-
fied personnel,”

The Suffolk County Legisle-
ture voted to table the requests,
which were made by Senator
Leon Giuffreda (R-Centereach)
for support of Senate Bill S-
9639, and by Assemblyman Rob-
ert Werte (R-Gmithtown) for
Assembly Bill 12374,

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, May 28, 1976

Columbia CSEAers' Monroe Goes For A Showdown

ROCHESTER—The Monroe County chapter, Civil Service Employees Assn., and Mon-

Patience Is Tried

HUDSON—“We are running short of patience. W'ere
still waiting for the Legislature to make up its mind,” said
Dale Funk, president pro tem of the Columbia County chap-
ter, Civil Service Employees Assn.

First, he said, the county Leg-
islature held « hearing; then
the Legislature reopened negoti-
ations and announced that it
would not announce a Legisla-
tive decision by the appointed
date, but was going to extend
its decision indefinitely

The Legislature then sched-
uled another special meeting and
its chairman announced in a
local paper that a meeting with
CSEA at this time would be
agreeable. The negotiating team
appeared to present its side, “and
the Legislature goes into execu-
tive session and totally ignored
our presence,” said Mr. Punk

The Legislature seemingly has
changed its mind again and will
be announcing its decision short-
ly.

erefore, we are waiting to
hear their decision before we

act but we are not willing to
walt much longer,” Mr, Funk
concluded.

CSEA has established a Co-
lumbia County “Crisis Head-
quarters” and is ready to staff it

for future operations as
membership directs.

Niagara Pact’s
Reopener OK’ed

LOCKPORT — William
Doyle, president of the Ni-
agara County chapter, Civil
Service Employees Assn., and
Gary C. Johnson, collective bar-
gaining specialist for the union,
announced that CSEA and Nia-
gara County have agreed to a
5.3 percent salary increase, plus
increments, as provided for in
the second year reopener clause
of the 1975-1976 contract

The county and CSEA also
agreed to complete a study of
the current salary scale, in an
effort to solve some alleged in-
equities that presently exist in
regard to the grade placement
of certain job titles

About 1,000 Niagara County
employees were represented by
CSEA during negotiations.

the

CSEA Condemns 8 Bills

(Continued from Page 1)
tional campaign aimed at both
the legislature and the general
public.

“That's why CSEA is sending
all eight of these bills to our
Mental Hygiene chapter presi-
dents,” he said.

“We want them to get their
members, friends and all con-
cerned citizens to immediately
contact their legislators to let
them know these bills must be
defeated.”

One of the bills, Senate S10186
‘and Assembly A12708, would es-
tablish a “Council for Mental
Hygiene Planning.”

“What do we need another
committee for?" Mr. McGowan
asked. “The Department of Men-
tal Hygiene has regional direc-
tors who should be able to ‘de-
velop long-range plans’ without
creating yet another ‘blue-ribbon
panel’ to do it, Also, if it really
is necessary to have such a
committee, I think it is ludicrous
that nowhere in this bill does it
call for union participation

"CBEA represents thousands
of people who work on a day-to-
day basis with the mental pa-

tients of our state, No one knows
thelr needs and wai
than the CSEA men
care for them. So why
jon for participation by

no prov
the union?

Another
4s 510183 a -
fers to consolidations of state
mental institutions. This bill's
purpose is to develop a plan for
implementing operational and
reorganijational changes, in-
cluding “consolidations of facil-
ities.” ‘The Department of Men-
tal Hygiene is directed by the
bill to make recommendations
for such consolidations before
the legislature votes on the 1977-
1978 Mental Hygiene Budget.

“This certainly sounds like the
legislature ts aiming for the con-
solidation of our state mental
hospitals,” Mr, MeGowan said.

bill ©

EA is fighting
which re

“I have no doubt that the bills
were introduced with the best
of intentions, just as the Cali-
fornia experiment was begun
with the best of intentions, But
the phase-out of mental hos-
pitals there was a colossal fail-
ure, and that the same result
would occur here.

“Closing the state hospitals
and turning the care of the men-
tally il over to counties turns
out to be more expensive to the
taxpayer, and its expense in
terms of wasted lives cannot be
measured.”

roe County are apparently headed for a showdown over the threatened loss of negotiated

benefits.

“We feel it’s only mismanagement that’s caused the budget deficit which County

Manager Lucien A. Morin pre-
dicted will be $2.1 million this
year,” said Jean McAvoy, acting
chapter president.

The chapter's board of direc-
tors voted to refuse to accept
“cutback in pay or any of the
other ultimatums the county
gave us.”

Mr. Morin said the only amer-
native is a layoff of 650 county
workers, which would be a 20
percent reduction in the county
work force.

“In effect,” said Ms. McAvoy,
“the chapter's directors voted to
accept the layoffs if they must
come.”

But she and other chapter
officers warned of “drastic cut-

backs in service to the taxpayers
of this county” if the layoffs are
ordered.

Por example, Ms. McAvoy
said, “a drastically understaffed
Parks Department could result
in the closing of several parks
this summer.”

Finding emergency housing
and authorizing emergency food
stamps for welfare recipients
may take nearly three months
instead of three days, she said,
adding many users of public
health nursing services may be
denied that service after July 2

Mr. Morin said the alterna-
tives to massive layoffs would
be a 10 percent across-the-board

Restore CSEAer To Job;
Krupsak Lauded For Help

MANHATTAN — Jack Weisz, Civil Service Employees
Assn. representative from the Department of Corrections,
expressed gratitude to Lieut. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak for
her help in restoring a union member to his job.

Parole officer Paul Horman.
injured on the job in 1974, was
on half-pay under the Workers’
Compensation Law while he un-
derwent surgery and physical re-
habilitation until Jan, 7.

At that time, his doctor au-
thorized his return to work with-
out; any restrictions. However,
Mr. Horman was laid off from
his newly-regained job on Jan.
23, allegedly because his “line
item” had been eliminated.

Mr. Weisz and CSEA went to
bat for Mr. Horman, a union
member for eight years. Mr.
Weisz personally spoke with Lieu-
tenant Governor Krupsak's coun-
sel, Ronald Sinzhelmer, and
within a week Mr. Horman was
informed that he was being re-

stored to his job at Bushwick
Correctional Facility, Brooklyn.

“You and your counsel gave
me the opportunity to unfold
the truth,” Mr. Weisz wrote to
Ms. Krupsak. “You have opened
wide the doors of the Executive
Office to the ordinary citizens
and career civil servants of the
State of New York.”

Mr. Weisz added, “Thanks to
you and your staff, it no longer
takes a miracle to correct the
injustices inflicted by’ the bur-
eaucrats in State Government.”

Mr, Weisz said recently that
CSEA is instituting a court suit
to get back the wages Mr.
Horman lost while he was laid
off from Jan. 23 to April 8

pay cut. The average salary of a
county employee ts about $12,000,
so the average pay would then
drop about $1,200 and a reduc-
tion in the normal five-day work
week to three days.

Either move would save $2.1
million, but Mr. Morin said it's
unlikely that any one alternative
would be used alone.

The county legislature's ways
and means committee earlier
directed the county administra-
tion to negotiate two-week un-
paid furloughs, instead of laying
off workers the rest of the year.

All employees would be expect-
ed to take the furloughs, the
legislators said.

The only way to avold the
layoffs—or the pay cuts—would
be for the county to borrow
money at the end of the year,
but Mr. Morin said he opposes
borrowing.

Ms. McAvoy said the CSEA
chapter “deplores the county's
disregard for the public in cut-
ting back services and deplores
putting of productive workers on
unemployment pay—or welfare.”

Ms. McAvoy said chapter of-
ficers had three meetings with
the county administration in an
attempt to offer suggestions and
keep the county from going
through with the layoffs.

“But we could not reach agree-
ment,” she said. “At this point
we don’t plan any further meet-
ings. We won't discuss the fur-
loughs proposed by the ways and
means committee until we get
advice from our attorneys.”

She said the layoffs would be-

gin July 1 and be on a seniority
basis.
“Generally, the last persons
hired will be fired, but what ef-
fect will this have on the affir-
mative action program? Many
of those laid off will be in mt-
nority groups," she said.

CAPITOL SPOTLIGHT

Pension Reform Freeze

ALBANY—Amid growing signs that no pension reform
legislation will move through the Legislature this year, Gov.
Hugh L. Carey announced the signing last week of a bill
to extend the freeze on retirement benefit negotiations

through Aug. 31.

The bill came out of the Rules Committees of the Senate
and Assembly. With the three-year-old freeze extended
beyond the probable adjournment date of the Legislature,
there seems little chance of revising existing pension legis-

lation.

And Governor Carey underscored this likelihood at a
press conference last week when he said he believes there
will be no pension legislation. The decision leaves the con-
troversial recommendations of the Kinze] Commission, for
a contributory system for new state employees, in limbo,

Other legislative action during the week included Senate

passage of an amendment to the Civil Service Law expand-
ing the definition of veteran eligibility for additional credit

in competitive examinations.

Sponsored by Republican Senators James T. McFarland,
of Buffalo, John D. Caemmerer, of Williston Park, and John
E, Fiynn, of Yonkers, the bill would make eligible veterans
who have been state residents for five years prior to their
application for appointment or promotion or at the time

of hiring.

Current law mandates that a person have been a state
resident at the time of induction.

In the Assembly the bill is sponsored by Democrat-
Conservative Roger J. Robach, of Rochester.

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School Funds
Distribution

ALBANY —State Comptrol-
ler Arthur Levitt reported he
had distributed $704,200,920.-
42 to school districts as part
of the state's support of public
schools.

The payment represents ap-
proximately 25 percent of the
assistance due during the 1976-
‘71 State fiscal. year

‘The distribution is the fifth
to be made during the current
school year. The 1974 Legisla-
ture changed the distribution
formula for all school districts.
The apportionment {s based on
statistics for the 1974-75 school
year.

New York City’s share ts
$191,579,480. Districts outside
New York City are apportioned
$512,621,440.42

Stein Is Appointed
To High HRA Post

Howard 8. Stein, former Hu-
man Resources Administration
acting administrator, has been
named first deputy administra-
tor of HRA. He will assist HRA
administrator J, Henry Smith in
policy and administrative mat-
ters.

Mr. Stein became HRA deputy
director of fiscal operations and
in 1969 and later
director.

was named

By SUSAN DONNER

QUESTION
‘The first woman firefighter has just been hired in Massachusetts.
How do you think this will work out?

THE PLACE
Lower Manhattan

OPINIONS

Bobbie McCoy,

senior clerk, New York City: “I
don’t think it will work because
firefighters have to wear such
heavy equipment. They also
have to climb ladders and carry
bodies and I just don't think
a woman could do that job as
well as a man. I think a woman
might have the courage to do
this kind of work but physically
there are very few who would
be able to handle it. Is it some-
thing I would like to do? Never,
I wouldn't even consider it.”

Frank Neglia, supervisor, Dept. of Social Services:
“I don't think it will work out,
not if they stay in the same
house together. Firefighting is
a physical job. How tall is she,
what does she weigh, what are
her physical abilities and at-
tributes? I've seen some women
‘who I'm sure could do that job,
but I don’t think the majority
of them can. Passing a test is
one thing. Job performance is
something else. Will her body

endure the kind of physical punishment necessary

throughout the years? I think women certainly
have the courage, sometimes more so than a man.

Women seem to keep very clear heads during dis-

asters when they see blood, etc. They're used to

that just from raising their own kids."

Joseph Donini, supervisor, Dept. of Social Services:
“I feel that there's really no
difference and I believe that a
woman can do the same job
that a man can do in fighting
fires. In the Second World War
in England the women replaced
the men as firefighters because
they were all in combat at the
time and from what I hear did
& marvelous job under severe
circumstances. I also think that
if we replace the men with
women firefighters in our city we might save the
city a lot of money in relation to their health
bill. Women are not as susceptible to heart attacks
as men are, Mayor Beame, take heed,”

Anthony Tilotta, police administrative aide: “I
think a woman could work out
rm fine in just about any job, but
% here I'm not so sure she'll be
able to handle the physical as-
pect of the job. Lifting heavy
equipment such as hoses, carry-
ing bodies, all kinds of rescue
procedures. It could turn out to
be quite a problem, just as far
as her health is concerned. I
“ea think there are some women
that are really built to handle
that kind of work; if that’s the case, fine. I'm
certainly not opposed to it. I say if she can do,
terrific! Courage? I think they have more of that
than men.”

Edward Kaminski, fireman, Engine Company 23:
“If she can keep up with the
work of the regular fellows, I
can't see anything wrong with
it. But with the conditions un-
der which we fight fires, the
heavy weight, etc., I can’t really
see how she can keep up with
them. I heard that they had
already hired a few in various
parts of the country but that
three-quarters of them have al-
ready been laid off because it
was just too much for them. Not only the equip-
ment but the job itself. I think it’s a very tough
job and I just don't think most women are built
for it. Of course there are some women who can
handle it and if she's got determination she'll
stay with it.”

Michelle Carolan, police administrative assistant:
“I don’t feel any woman is
capable of being a firefighter;
carrying 200 pounds along with
her own 125 pounds and walk-
ing up to a sixth floor apart-
ment and maybe having to
come down with a body. It's
Just too difficult physically. I
think women can handle police
officers’ jobs very well. Also
what about sleeping quarters?
There would have to be a lot

of changes made in the facilities; separate sleep-
ing quarters, showers, etc. A woman might have
the guts to handle this job but I feel she just
wouldn't be able to respond the same way a man
could in terms of speed and equipment.”

CSEA Court Win Restores
Westchester Playland Staff

WHITE PLAINS-—Fourteen employees of Westchester County's Playland, laid off in

a budget-cutting move, were returned to their jobs last week as a result of two suits brought
against the Westchester County Playland Commission and Westchester County by the

Civil Service Employees Assn.

Judge George Burchell signed
the temporary restraining order
against the layoffs which barred
the termination of 14 CSEA-rep-
resented maintenance workers,
switchboard operators, parking
Jot attendants and gardeners em+
ployed at the  epunty-owned
amusement park,

‘The first sult, a taxpayer's ac-
tion against Westchester County
and Westchester County Play-
land Commission, was brought
by Ray Cassidy, president of the
Westchester County CSEA chap-
ter, and charged the county with
extracting $300,000 a year from
Playland for police protection
that, the suit maintained, was
the county's obligation by le

to provide, instead of the amuse-
ment park's responsibility.

Mr, Cassidy said he believes
that, should Westchester County
be found to be illegally charging
the amusement park for police
protection, now paid through
Playland's seasonal receipts, per-
sonnel cuts because of budget
deficits would be necessary.

The other suit, an Article 78
proceeding instituted by the
Westchester County chapter and
the I4-laid-off personnel, is
seeking to prohibit the county
from laying off these eniployees
while rehiring seasonal non-civil
service help in their place,

CSEA Southern Region II at-
torney Arthur Grae presented

the case before Judge Burehell
and charged the Playland Com-
mission with “abolishing the jobs
in bad faith.

“In this case, the jobs are not
actually being abolished, Instead,
the Playland Commission is at-
tempting to rehire seasonal per-
sonnel in the same jobs but
without civil service status, In
relation to the taxpayer's action,
We are maintaining that if the
county paid the $300,000 for
police protection at the amuse-
ment park, these employees

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The ODAS Cuts

SOCIETY'S priorities — especially its fiscal priorities

tell a great deal about it. They tell about its values,

“Show me how a society treats its old people,” someone
said once, “and I'll tell you how good it is.”

The same may be said about a society's young people —
especially young people with problems. Given the ongoing
New York State nursing homes scandals, it is difficult to
say that we are doing especially well by our elderly people.

And given the current fiscal cutbaeks in the budget for
the state's Office of Drug Abuse Services, it seems we're not
doing very well either by our young people.

Imagine; The state has in the past spent a good deal
of money in staffing and maintaining an outpost in India
—India! —-as a part of its effort to attract foreign trade.
The state has also—courtesy of its legislators—been sad-
dled for more than two generations with the barely justifi-
able “lulu” system, a system that has drained uncountable
dollars from the tax funds we all pay.

Just two examples of priorities. The state faces a sig-
nificant pinch for money these days—as do we all—but
funds were found for these items.

The state plans to reduce its facilities for drug-addicted
young people from 15 to three statewide. This at a time
when, according to people in a position to know, the drug
problem is primed to mushroom into a nightmare.

In this edition of The Leader, and in previous ones, the
ramifications of the ODAS cuts have been well explored by
staffer Susan Donner. The feeling, it seems, among our
Albany representatives is that, “Ah, well, they're just these
junkie kids. What is it to us?”

What it is to you, ladies and gentlemen, is that if you
can afford to set up satellite offices in India and vote your-
selves lulus and not care about these, the state’s children,
you are giving us ali a good picture of your priorities.

Why Experiment?

HE Civil Service Employees Assn. has gone on record as

opposing a Legislature list of bills which would appre-
clably affect the status of patients at mental hospitals
statewide.

The measure would tend to lead to the closing and/or
consolidation of various mental hospital and treatment
facilities. The state, and most important, the patients,
do not need this.

Among certain legislators, there appears to be an inex-
plicable fascination with what was termed by some “The
California Experiment,”

In this ill-fated scheme, which was put into practice
around 1970, major mental hospital and treatment facilities
were shuttered, Patients were placed in small facilities —
using a selection system we do not pretend to understand —
around the state.

William McGowan, CSEA executive vice-president, de-.
seribed the result as well as anyone can: “That experiment
ended with a tremendous increase in violent crime, com-
munity fear and resentment; and untreated, homeless men-
tal patients living in back alleys.”

Any attempt to improve the lot of the state’s mentally
ill—to cure them or to make their lives better — will get
the warmest kind of approval in these columns.

But this feckless experimentation, with no real assur-
ance that the substitute will be better than the existing
plan: Really, who needs it?

Not the state nor its mental patients,

Harcourt Tynes
City Editor

Alan Bornstein
Features Editor

(Continued from Page 1)
themselves at home in the of-
fices of the Senators and Assem-
blymen. They are adept at check

grabbing in Albany's favored
dining and watering places. They
throw lavish cocktail parties for
legislators and thelr aides and
secretaries,

The freedom lobbyists enjoyed
in past years has been curbed at
least in part by Secretary of
State Marlo M. Cuomo. Under
the law all lobbyists are required
to register with his office, and
the employers of the lobbyists
are required to file within 60
days after the end of the session
& report setting forth the fees
they paid to their representa-
tives together with a statement
of other expenses incurred for
lobbying purposes.

First Time In 70 Years
In the past, this provision of
the law was as frequently
breached as it was observed.
However, Secretary Cuomo put
an abrupt end to this easygoing

regard for the requirements of
the lobbying control laws.

During the course of het
year’s session, Cuomo's office
took the lobbyists by surprise by
returning 270 lobbying state-
ments filed because they did not
fully comply with the statutory
requirements for filing. This was
the first time that filings had
been rejected since 1906, when
the registration law was first
enacted

One of the salutary econse-
quences of Cuomo's action was
to generate a sharp increase in
the number of lobbyists who de-
cided that they had better com-
ply with the law by registering.
As a result, a total of 518 regis-
tration statements were filed
jast year as contrasted with only
957 such statements filed in 1974

In terms of expense state-
ments filed, these increased in
1975 to 396 as against only 322
in 1974. As a signal that he
really meant business, Cuomo
served upon Attorney General
Louis Lefkowitz a list of 20 em-
ployers of lobbyists who fatled to
file expense statements by the
end of the two-month period
after a legislative adjournment.
The penalty for not filing in
time is $100 for each day's de-
lay. As a result of follow-through
on the list of delinquents by the
Attorney General, a total of $8,-
100 was collected in fines.

Require Further Disclosure

Secretary Cuomo is a strong
supporter of legislation to impose
even more stringent controls
over lobbyists, designed to end
what he considers a too-cozy re-
lationship between them and the
legislators. Under his bill, he
would be empowered to subpoena
and investigate suspected un-
registered lobbyists. His bill
would further require public dis-
closure of all positions taken by
lobbyists and of the ways that
they spend their money in seek-
ing to obtain their legislative ob-
Jectives.

Secretary Cuomo said that his
bill, if enacted, “could mark the
beginning of a trend in which
our democratic system is brought
back into balance, and the end
of the spread of cynicism about
the link between money and the
ability to win favorable treat-
ment from government.”

‘The betting among the lobby-

iste is that the bill will not be
enacted.

DRUG REHABILITATION

Law & You
By RICHARD GABA

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

A Strike? Or Not?

Several months ago, the Nassau County Supreme Court
was faced with the question of whether a Teachers’ Asso-
ciation violated the Taylor Law prohibition against striking
when it encouraged teachers not to attend “Back-to-School
Night and when it advised teachers that their refusal to
comply with principal’s direction to attend “Back-to-School
Night” could not be treated as insubordination.

THE PLAINTIFF SCHOOL district, in 1958, initiated a
function called “Back-to-School Night.” This was an ac-
tivity scheduled once a year in each of the several school
buildings in the district. While the format of the program
varied, generally it consisted of conducting parents through
a capsuled school day. The schedule provided for teachers
to report at 7:30 p.m. The program started at 8 p.m. and
lasted for another hour or hour and a half. Teachers regu-
larly attended and participated in Back-to-School Night
from 1958 through 1970. There was no evidence to show
that the teachers had ever complained about attending or
that they had ever taken the position that they had no
obligation to attend.

IN 1971, even though contract negotiations were in
progress and there was friction in the district regarding
salaries, the Back-to-School Night programs were held in
all but two of the seven schools in the district. In one of
those schools the function was rescheduled and held later
in the year; in the other school it was not held at all. The
Back-to-School Night programs were held routinely from
1971 through 1974. However, toward the end of 1974, the
Teachers’ Association took the position that teacher par-
ticipation was voluntary. The district principal therefore
advised the teachers in writing that their attendance at
the Back-to-School Nights was expected and required.
Nevertheless, the union's delegate assembly voted to recom-
mend that the teachers not attend the program and the
union took an advertisement in a community newspaper
to advise the parents that the teachers would not be present
at Back-to-School Night. Furthermore, the union advised
its members that failure to attend the function could not
be treated as insubordination,

WITH THE EXCEPTION of one school where most of
the teachers attended and participated, very few teachers
took part in the Back-to-School Night programs in their
schools, The district claimed there was a strike and moved
for injunctive relief in Supreme Court under Section 211
of the Civil Service Law. The motion for preliminary relief
was denied because the issue of whether there was a strike
had to be determined at the trial. The Appellate Division
affirmed. The teachers’ union then moved to dismiss the
action on the grounds that it was moot. That motion was
denied, and the district amended its complaint to ask for a
declaratory judgment as well as for an injunction, The issue
before the court is whether or not the attendance at Back-
to-Schoo! Night programs is a part of a teacher's traditional

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i Civil Service Law ou i

(Continued from Page 6)
professional duties. The teachers
argued that it was a matter for
collective bargaining, and there-
fore the refusal to attend cannot
be considered an illegal strike
under the Taylor Law. The dis-
trict argued that the unton’s
urging of teachers to refuse to
participate in their regular job
responsibilities is a violation of
the Taylor Law's prohibition
against strikes.

THE COURT awarded declar-
atory judgment in favor of the
district to the effect that teach-
ers were legally obligated to at-
tend Back-to-School Night, but
denied the injunction because
the court perceived no reason
to believe that the teachers

&
would not attend these functions

referred to, and it was clear that
attendance at these functions
was considered a part of the
teachers’ professional duties, The
court held, in effect, that & mass
refusal to perform a traditional
part of one’s job, even though it
be considered voluntary, may
constitute a strike .. . such as a
mass refusal to accept overtime.
Bellmore - Merrick C.H.8.D. v.
Bellmore-Merrick United Sec-
ondary Teachers, Inc. (Spec
Term, Part II, Nassau County
Sup. Ct. 12-11-75)

Occupational And Physical
Therapist Job Slots Open

ALBANY—The State Department of Civil Service is con-
tinually accepting applications for occupational therapists
and physical therapists for posts in the Department of
Mental Hygiene, Health Department and The State Uni-

versity of New York. Starting
salary is $11,337 a year.

To qualify for occupational
therapist, exam 20-176, appli-
cants must have a bachelor's de-
gree and registration as an oc-
cupational therapist with the
American Occupational Therapy
Association. A bachelor's degree
in occupational therapy and a
state occupational therapy li-
cense will also be accepted.

Candidates with a degree in
physical therapy and a license
issued by the State Department
of Education may apply for phy-
sical therapist, exam 20-177.
Candidates. who have a tempor-
ary license to practice in New
York State may be appointed,
but must obtain their license
within one year.

Candidates for both positions
will be rated on the basis of

their training and experience

Applications may be obtained
from the State Civil Service Dr-
partment, Two World Trade Cen-
ter, New York, N.Y.; Suite 750,
1 West Genessee St., Buffalo,
N.Y. or the State Office Build-
ing Campus, Albany, N.Y.

‘There will be no written test.

HRPC To Meet

POUGHKEEPSIE —A meeting
of the Hudson River Psychiatric
Center chapter 410, Civil Service
Employees Assn., will be held
Tuesday evening, June 15

Chapter public information of-
ficer Harold McKinney said the
meeting, set to begin at 8 p.m.,
will be held in Room FA of the
Cheney Conference Center Bulld-
ing.

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security cards, If they have any

social security office first.

Q. I'm a United States citizen,
but I was born in Italy. I've
been told that I'll need a social

A. As @ United States citizen
who was born in @ foreign coun-
try, you'll need one of the fol-
lowing to get @ social security
number; @ certificate of natural-

Q. I'm 69 and I'm considering
applying for supplemental se-
curity income payments, The
money I had saved from my
husband's life insurance is just
about gone and I have no other
income, Will I have to spend all
of the money from my savings
account to get payments?

A. Not necessarily, Your eligi-
bility for supplemental security
income will depend on whether
your resources, including your
savings, amount to $1,500 or
more. If you ure eligible, the in-
terest on your savings may affect
the amount of your supplemental
security income payments, Call
or write any social security of-
fice for more information.

Q. My father is in the hospital
again as a result of the second
Stroke in the past several years.
Will he have to walt 5 months

cial security office about his
condition as soon as possible.

To C.S. Dep't
Exam Division

. JOHN S. WILSON

ALBANY—State Civil Ser-
vice Commission President
Victor Bahou has announced
the appointment of John 8.
Wilson as assistant director of
the Department's examinations
and staffing services division.
Mr. Wilson, former director of
the systems and planning bu-
reau, has been with the depart-
ment since 1959.

The bureau determines the
staffing needs of state agencies,
administers and rates oral and
performance tests, maintains
lists of exam candidates and
other personnel changes in state
service. It also advises agencies
on layoff provisions of the Civil
Service Law, maintains preferred
lists and supervises reinstate-
ments

Mr. Wilson, a 1954 graduate
of the State University at Al-
bany, ls married and resides in
Niskayuna.

Levitt Reports
$ Disbursement

ALBANY — State Comp-
troller Arthur Levitt an-
nounced the distribution of
$90,503,950 for May 1976, to
57 Social Service Districts in the
State.

These monies represent ap-
proximately 90 percent of the
Federal and State share of the
anticipated welfare expenditures
for May by localities. The Fed-
eral share amounts to $62,333,-

$82,861,187 to the City of New
York for welfare expenditures
for the period May 1-15. The
Federal share amounts to $53,-
626,142, A payment was made
to New York City on May 17 for
anticipated expenditures for the
last half of May. Federal regu-
lations requires sem!-monthly
payments to New York City,

BLUM IS NAMED

ALBANY—Goy, Hugh L. Carey
announced the uppolntment of
‘Tibby Blum, a lawyer in New

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
SS Check Guildlines

Most men and women who
reach 62 in 1976 can collect
monthly social security checks if
they've worked as little as 6%4
years in jobs covered by social
security.

People earn retirement bene-
fits by credit for work covered by
social security done in or after
1937, the year social security
started. The work credit is meas-
ured in calendar quarters: Jan-
uary-March, April-June, July-
September, or October-Decem-
ber,

Most employees get credit for
@ quarter of work if they're paid
$50 or more in that quarter for
work covered by social security.
Most self-employed people get
social security credit for four
quarters in any year their an-
nual self-employment net in-
come is $400 or more.

Most jobs.and self-employment
are covered by social security.

To be eligible for social secu-
rity retirement benefits you
need, at a minimum, quarters of
work equal to the number of
years between 1950 and the year
you reach 62. So, if you reach
62 in 1976, you need at least
25 quarters—or 6% years—of
work credit.

Eligible workers can begin col-
lecting their full social security
retirement benefits at 65 or re-
duced benefits at 62. Dependents
can also get payments based on
the worker's earning records.

Quarters of work credit help
determine eligibility for social
security retirement benefits, but
they don’t affect the amount of
your monthly check. That's
based on your average earnings
covered by social security over a
set period of time.

You can find out how much
work and earnings are credited
to your social security record
free of charge. Call any social
security office and ask the
people there to send you a Re-
quest for Statement of Earnings
post card.

Social security now pays over
$3.6 billion a month in retire-
ment benefits to over 19% mil-
lion people—16 million retired
workers and their families. The
average monthly payment to re-
tired workers is $200.

In September 1975, 512,700
people were employed by Gov-
ernment in New York City, and
259,700 people were employed by
Government in the New York-
Northeastern New Jersey area.

see

If your company has a pension
plan, you should be aware of
some elements in ERISA changes
that went into effect on Jan, 1
In general, you~are eligible if
you are at least 25 years old
and have worked for the com-

service. At that time, whatever
has been put into the fund be-
longs to you. You have at least
25 percent after five years’ serv-
fee, and 5 percent more each
year over the next five years,
and 10 percent over the follow-
ing five years. Another rule pro-
vides that you get at least 50
percent vested after you have
worked five years and your age
plus the number of years total
45. Thus, if you have 10 years’
service before you reach 35, you
get 50 percent vested in any case.
And, in addition, you get 10 per-
cent vested for the next five
years, Employers are required to
have the plans conform to these
rules within the next year, Any
changes made are retroactive to
this pension year.

As a public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefict-
artes 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 iss listing of those indtvid-
whose membership terminated pur-
to the provisions of section 40,
ragraph 1 of the Retirement and So-

cial Security Law on or before August
31, 1974.

{Continued from fast week)

Gitford, Charles Wenterlo
---Bioghameon
‘Webster
Glorevsville
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Griffin, Alfred Yonkers
Harraingvon, Alvaro E Adams Center
Herring, Joba D Nyack
Horel, Virginia M Wenew
Humphrey, Heleo Staten Island
Thnotic, Anne Endwell
Impervinto, Gasper Central Islip
Johnson, Roger L Trumansburg
Jones, Willam G EB Setaul
Karpenko, Paul He Me
Kean, Justin D Sparrowbush
LaBelle, Georgiana :
Lamb, Charles W Jamestown
Lamere, Fred Tupper Lake
Lebowitz, Alan L -Brooklya
Levy, Liltian New York
Lifrieri, Joane T Lake Carmel
Linker, Julian G Brooklya
Lovejoy, Joan L Jacksoo Heights
M ati, Ranieri P - 4
Rochester
Caboes
Rochester
wburgh
Newark
Miller, Yolanda a l
Monslave, Carlotta L Brooklyn
Matignaal, Vincent P..Fonxwanda
Natalizia, Nicoe atlM Depew
Neubauer, Rudolph Rhinebeck
Oliver, Margaret Village
Parti, Eileea Buffalo
Perry, Fred A
Pfeiffer, Theodore W evieown
Prescomt, George A Se, Garrison
agi 5 Fer Rockaway
I, bur
Reidel, Adolph miiniscdale
Rivera, Maria M Piermont
Rivers, Mary ‘ood
Ruggitto, Anna Province De Latina, Italy
Saced, Yasmeen J Brooklya
Sanfelix, Miguel A Peekskill
Sawyer, Betty J Syracuse
Sete » Patricia A
Schmitt, George W Jr Bulfalo
humana, ‘Syracuse
Scapanski, Dorothy J Warnaw
Sewell, Richard New York
Jama 8 Buffalo
Soulier, ‘Gwendolya F. Cohoes
Sonranis, Poser §) «Rochester
ivan,’ Robert
Touclello, "Demiet 8 pathele
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ADER, Friday, May 28, 1976

CIVIL SERVICE LE

° . Ces

Regional officers are attentive during deliberations. From left are sergeant-at-arms Carl Garrand, of Wassaic DC chapter 426; second vice- Westchester Local 860's Edward

president Richard Snyder, also of Wassaic and its chapter president; third vice-president Rose Marcinkowski, of Highland Training School Carafa squares account
chapter 550, and secretary Sandra Cappillino Deyo, who is also Transportation Region § chapter 507 president. writing check.

Rockland chapter 844's county unit president Patsy Spicci, left, Members of Southern Region

after

social services committee meet during mini-session. From left are

confers with CSEA assistant director Joseph Dolan about contract Larry Jonke, Westchester; Alan Goodman, Sullivan; Helen McCollum, Dutchess; Patsy Twitty, Ulster;

dispute between Rockland employees and the county administration. Pat Thomas, Orange, and Pat Spicci, Rockland.

George Celentano, president of Rockland-Westchester Retirees chapter 918, urges

CSEA field representative Jose Sanchez, left, and Hudson River Psychiatric Center

retirees’ involvement in political affairs in order to help their union fight for their chapter 410 president Rick Recchia listen to views of Hariem Valley Psychiatric

betterment. chapter president Robert Thompson, right.

(leader phows by Ted Kaplan)

Vinnie Grimaldi, president of East Hudson Parkway

political actiow chairman, are attentive. business session. ference president Nicholas Puasiferri listens.

John Long, Jr, and Bea Kee, beth of Helen Hayes Regional treasurer Patricia Comerford, of Helen Hayes
Authority chapter 051, and Al Leckwood, the chapter's Hospital chapter 3@2, listen to discussion during regional Hospital chapter 302, reports as former Southern Con-
ARNOLD WOLFE
Rockland PC chapter 421

NINA YAEGER
Ulster County chapter 856

Political Action Funding,
Press Relations, Probed
At Southern Region Meet

By HERB GELLER

NEWBURGH—The question of how to get funds to carry
on political action activities for the Civil Service Employees
Assn. was debated and a clearcut answer was given at a
meeting of CSEA Southern Region III's executive board at

the Holiday Inn here.

The answer was provided by
Pat Mascioli, chairman of South-
ern Region III's political action
committee, and Edward Carafa,
& member of the committee, in
the midst of a debate on PAC
funds.

Mr. Mascioli and Mr. Carafa
walked around the meeting room
and asked everyone there for a
contribution of one dollar each.
A total of sixty dollars was col-
lected. This will help provide
some postage for PAC mailings,
Mr. Mascioli said.

Southern Region III president
James J. Lennon had advised
the members that due to new
election laws, it has become very
difficult to raise funds for poll-
tical action. The only way to
raise the money is through con-
tributions from individual mem~-
bers, Mr. Lennon said.

A lively discussion resulted
over the best way to raise the
needed funds. Raffles, fund-rais-
ing parties, and individual con-
tributions gre all legal. The ques-
tion is which is the most effi-
cient and productive way to raise
funds, members pointed out.

The conclusion reached was
that each chapter could run
fund-raising drives of their own.
Mr. Carafa and Mr. Mascioli
demonstrated how this could be
done

Tom Phillips, president of the
Ulster County chapter, said it
is facing a challenge from the
Service Employees International
Union. He asked that other
county chapters which had faced
similar challenges provide the
Ulster chapter with information
and advice on how to best meet
the challenge.

Also brought up at the meet-
ing was the allegation that cer-
tain newspapers in the state have
been conducting what amounts
to @ vendetta against civil ser-
vice employees.

One falsehood cited by John
VanDuzer, president of the
Orange-Ulster-Sullivan Retirees
chapter, was that Civil Service
employees receive “huge” pen-
sions when they retire,

“They never mention the man
who gets only $118 a month in
his pension,” Mr. VanDuser
pointed out.

To counter false information
about civil service employees,
Mr. Lennon suggested a letter-
writing campaign to local news-
papers telling the public em-
ployee side of the story. The
members also suggested that
CSEA itself strengthen its pub-
lie relations effort to make sure
the public is told more about
civil service employees and their
problems.

Ray Cassidy, president of the
Westchester chapter, seconded
Mr, VanDuzer's proposal to list
the names of all persons who

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during strike action last summer.

John Deyo, left, acting supervisor of Southern Region III, is
dated by Dutchess County chapter 814 president Ellis Adams on
his chapter's effort to replenish Welfare Fund, which was depleted

LARRY KEARI
Rockland County chapter 844

RAYMOND CASSIDY
Westchester County local 860

etl

CSEA vice-president James Lennon, right, head of the union's
Southern Region Ill, looks over report prepared by the Region’
political action chairman, Pat Mascioli, of Westchester local 860.

r Be
CHESTER REILLY
Hudson River PC chapter 410

Transportation Region 8 chapter
507 political action chairman
Donald Fullam offers suggestion
during debate over regional
policy.

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CENTER VISITOR

ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey
announced the appointment of
Kathleen Perkins, of Oswego, to
the Board of Visitors of the
Syracuse Developmental Center.
The nomination is subject to
Senate confirmation.

Dr. Perkins, a pediatrician, is
attending physician at Oswego
Hospital and the Mental Health
Center and a board member of
the Assn. for Retarded Children.
She was named for a term end-
ing Dec. 31, 1979, to succeed Pat-
rick LaFrate, who resigned. The
position is unsalaried.

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currently accepting applica-
tions for promotional exams
of senior municipal research aa-
sistant and chief, bureau of sci-
ence education. Filing for the
education post will close June 7,
with applications for research
jobs accepted until June 14.

For senior municipal research
assistant G-14, No. 35-964, can-
didates must have six months’
experience as & municipal re-
search assistant in the Depart-
ment of Audit and Control. The
July 17 written exam will test
for knowledge in municipal fiscal

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SHORT TAKES

Buffalo law professor Herman Schwartz, denied confirmation
by the State Senate last month as chairman of the Commission on
Correction, has been named chairman of the Citizens Advisory Com-
mittee to the State Assembly Codes Committee. The appointment
was made by committee chairman Stanley Fink (D-Brooklyn).

DMH DONNYBROOK

‘The State Department of Mental Hygiene and the chairman of
the Senate Mental Hygiene and Addiction Contro] Committee appear
ready to bump heads over a DMH plan to combine Marcy and
Utica Psychiatric Centers, Senator James H. Donovan (R-C, Chad-
wicks) declared that he has found no proof “that there is going to
be any real savings for the state” in the planned consolidation. He
also cited the possibility of “traumatic experiences” for patients who
would be moved. Both DMH facilities lie in the Senator's district.
Both facilities have a client population of about 2,400.

ERA STILL LIVES Z
The state legislature apparently will not move to rescind
approval of the federal Equal Rights Amendment this year despite
an overwhelming defeat of ERA by voters last fall. The Assembly
Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 against a resolution calling on the
state to withdraw approval of ERA gained In 1972. The committee
also voted 15-4 against a proposal urging Congress to recall ERA.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, given the yote by its Assembly

counterpart, will probably not even consider proposals to rescind
ERA this year,

HANNA RAPS UNIONS

Utica Mayor Edward Hanna, now running for the U.S. Senate,
attacked unions in a campaign visit to Albany last week. Mr. Hanna,
who has been waging a running fight with his city's public sector
unions, noted “Unions are rupturing and all but devouring private
business. I'm for the working man—I came up the hard way myself
—but this is financial strangulation.” The Utica mayor added that
the conduct of public sector unions, Including the Civil Service
Employees Assn., has been partially responsible for the approx-
imately 300 layoffs of city workers he has made.

NYPIRG: INFO LAW FAILS

‘The state's two-year old Freedom of Information Law, intended
to open certain government records to public view, is a failure
and should be amended, according to the New York Public Interest
Research Group. The organization, which describes itself as a non-
partisan advocacy organization, said a survey it has undertaken
shows many state and local government agencies were not obeying
the FOI law. A number of college students were involved in the
survey in seven parts of the state, The students attempted to obtain
copies of documents which the law specifies should be available on
request, In 31 of 80 cases, NYPIRG said, the documents were un-
available despite repeated attempts to get them. The group added
that, on the average, it took the student researchers 44% calls or
visits to the office to obtain the information or denial of it, Robert
Freeman, executive director of the state’s Committee on Public
Access, noted however that “the problem is a human one, rather
than a problem with the law itself.”

OFFER COURT PLAN

Gov. Hugh L. Carey has proposed a plan to reorganize the state's
major courts and to provide for the appointment of judges from the
county level on up. The proposed amendment would create a single
statewide trial court—the Supreme Court—thus merging county,
claims, family and surrogate courts as well as the New York City
Criminal and Civil Courts. Judges for the system would be nom-
inated by a commission on judicial nominations on a non-partisan
basis and appointed by the Governor subject to Senate confirmation.
Terms would be 14 years. However, each judge would be required to
run for election after his or her first two years on the bench.

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MENTAL PATIENT LEGISLATION

A 15-bill package has been introduced by chairmen of the
Legislature's committees on mental health affecting the status of
patients at state mental health facilities. One key measure would
mandate the state to investigate alleged instances of patient abuse
and to take steps to safeguard the patient from such alleged abuse.
‘The measure also requires the state to provide legal counsel to any
patient involved in such cases, Under current law, patients making
such claims must retain their own counsel. Another proposal would
require a given Mental Hygiene facility's board of visiters to be
notified of any patient complaint. In addition, the board would be

make an inspection visit to the facility or vacate his position, A
third proposal would require cach institution to develop a written
treatment plan for each patient and that patient be examined and

Fuel Tax Cash
Receipt Awards

ALBANY — State Comp-
troller Arthur Levitt an-
nounced the distribution of
$18,735,587.22 in state motor
fuel tax receipts to the 57 coun-
ties of the State and to the
City of New York. New York
City’s share ts $9,367,793.61.

This total is the share of
state-collected motor fuel tax
for the three months ended
March 31, which {s being re-
turned to the counties and New
York City in accordance with
the State Highway Law.

The law provides that 10 per-
cent of certain statewide collec-
tions of the state’s gasoline tax
and the tax on diesel motor fuel
is allotted to the counties outside
New York City on the propor-
tional basis of county road and
town highway mileage in each
county. The money is earmarked
by statute for deposit in the
county road fund.

New York City’s share, based
upon 10 percent of certain col-
lections, is credited to the City’s
general fund for the construc-
tion and maintenance of city
streets, highways and parkways.

‘The amount distributed to the
counties and the City of New
York in April of 1975 was $18,-
457,683.40.

Two Rockland
Tests Are Set

NEW CITY — Applications are
currently -being accepted for
open-competitive posts of hous-
ing inspector and vocational in-
structor in Rockland County
offices. Filing for the inspector
post will close May 30, with ap-
plications for instructor jobs
taken until June 30,
Applications and complete an-
nouncements are available from
the Rockland County Personnel
Department, County Office
Building, New City, N. ¥. 10956

Seven Nassau
Posts Available

MINEOLA — The Nassau
County Civil Service Com-
mission is accepting applica-
tions until June 11 for open-
competitive posts of clinical tech-
nician I, respiratory therapist I,
recreation facility manager I and
I, job developer for the handi-

No written tests will be held
for the $9,174 to $16,224-a-year
posts, Candidates will be rated on
the basis of their training and
experience, Pull information and
applications ure available from
the Nassau County Civil Service
Commission, 140 Old Country
Road, Mineola, N.Y. 11501,

CAMP COUNCIL
ALBANY—Gov, Hugh L. Carey

oo EAR
Open Continuous
State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical Physici $25,161 20-413
Associate Actuary (Life) $18,369 20-520
Su $26,516 20-522
i $22,694 20-521
$18,369 = 20-416
$26,516 20-418
$14,142 20-519
$27,974 20-414
Clinical Physici $31,055 20-415
Compensation Examining Physician | $27,942 20-420
Dental Hygienist $ 8523 20-107
Dietitian $10,714 20-124
Supervising Dietitian $12,760 20-167
Electroencephalograph Technician $7,616 20-308
Food Service Worker $5,827 20-352
$11,337 20-211
$ 8,051 © 20-170
Hospital Nursing Services Consultant $16,538 20-112
Industrial Foreman $10,714 20-558
Laboratory Technician $8,051 20-121
Legal Careers $11,164 = 20-113
$10,155 & Up 20-339
$ 8,051 20-106
$7,616 Various
$27,942 20-40;
ji $33,704 20-401
Mental Hygiene Asst. Therapy Aide $ 7,204 20-394
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide (TBS) $7,616 20.394
Motor Equipment Mechanic
(Sta except Albany) 9,546 —_varies
Nurse | $10,118 20-584
Nurse Il $11,337 20-585
Nurse Il (Psychiatric) $11,337 20-586
Nurse Il {somes ; $11,337 20-587
Nutrition Services Consultant $31,404 = 20-139
Occupational Therapist $11,337 20-176
Offset Printing Machine Operator $6450 20-402
Pharmacist $12,670 20-194
Physical Therapist $11,337 20-177
Principal Actuary (Casualty) 694 20-417
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20-521
Psychiatrist | $27,942 20-390
Psychiatrist Il $33,704 20-39!
Public Librarians $10,714 20-339
Radiology Technologist 7,632-$9, 20-334
Radiology Technologist (T.8. Service) .. ..($8,079-$8, 20-334
Senior Actuary {Li $14,142 20-519
Senior Medical Records Librarian $11,337 20-348
Senior Occupational Therapist $12,670 20-137
Senior Pharmacist $14,880 20-194
Senior Physical Therapist $12,760 20-138
Senior Sanitary Engineer $17,429 20-123
Asst. Sanitary Engineer $14,142 20-122
Senior Stationary Engineer $10,714 20-101
Specialists in Education {$16,358-$22,694) 20-312
Stationary Engineer $9,546 20-100
Assistant Stationary Engineer $ 7,616 20-303
Stenographer-Typist $varies varies
Varitype Operator $6811 20.307

Additional information on required qualifying experience and
application forms may be obtained by mai or in person at the State
Department of Civil Service: State Office Building Campus, Albany
12226. Applicants can fi only at Two World Trade Center,
New York 10047; or Sui 550, | fest Genessee Street, Buffalo,
New York 14202.

Specify the examination by its number and title. Mail
application form when completed to the State Depertmee! of Civil
Service, State Office Building Campus, Albany, New York 12226.

RETIREMENT AND
PENSION SEMINARS

We are pleased to announce that one of the city’s fore-
most pension and retirement analysts, David Moss will
conduct Seminars on Retirement Problems at 45 East
33rd Street, New York City, Suite 601 at 5:30 P.M.
on the following Wednesdays, June 9, June 16 and
dune 23, 1976.

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‘Rubenstein at (212) 089-2016

tried, pei call Mrs

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WILLARD VISITOR
ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey
announced the appointment of
Clara Maher Hughes, of Ovid, to
the Board of Visitors of Willard
Psychiatric Center. The nomina-
tion is subject to Senate con-

firmation.

Ms. Hughes, a former member
of the Board of Visitors, is a
legal secretary for a law firm.
She is a former director of the
Seneca County Red Cross. She
was named for a term ending
Dec. 31, 1979, to succeed Gerald
B. Masten, of Seneca Palls, whose
term expired. The position is un-
salaried.

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EXAM_35-870
SR STENO
‘Tes Held Nov. 1, 1975
List Est. April 16, 1976
1 Angivio J K Massapequa 97.6
2 Mitchell Gloria Ronkonkoma ....94.5
3 Budaey Bettyann Farmingdale... 94.4
4 Fitrgerald NT Upper Nyack 93.3

ODAS MEMBER

ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey
announced the appointment of
Daniel Klepak, Executive Deputy
Commissioner of the Office of
Drug Abuse Services, as a mem-
ber of the Crime Control Plan-
ning Board. The nomination 1s
subject to Senate confirmation.

Mr. Klepak, 58, is a career
public administrator who has
held a number of positions in
state government since 1941

Property Sought

LAND, six actos or more sought In
Suffolk County” preferably Westhamp-
ton to Mootuk..No Brokers. Mail
replies to: WALTER THOMPSON,
258 Broadway, N.Y. 10007,

ING to purchase houses under
000 in need of repair. From West
hampron to Montauk. No Brokers.
Mail replies co: WALTER 1
SON, 258 Broudway,
10007.

POEMS WANTED

The NEW YORK SOCETY OF POETS
is compiling a book of poems. If you
have written a poem and would like
our selection committee co consider it
for publication, send your poem and
& self-addressed) stamped envelope to:
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF POETS,
P.O, Box 727, Radio Station, New
York, N.Y. 10019,

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14 Bertani Debra A Middletown ..91.1

15 Bernde Theresa Pt Jefferson ....90.9

16 Clofalo Jonne Levittown 90.8

17 Leonardi M C Kings Pk 90.3

18 Karpicki Martha Seaten Is 90.2

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$1 Gorman Judith C Selden 85.7
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56 Almond Ruth EW Babylon....85.4
57 Gamble Judth A Uniondale......94.9
58 Adams Maureen Woodhaven 84.3
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60 Matzen Diane Wheatley Hes... 84.1
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NAME COORDINATOR

WHITE PLAINS — Joyce G.
Levin has been appointed pro-
gram coordinator uf the West-
chester County Women’s Center.

‘The center {s designed to pro-
vide county women with voca-
tional and educational counsel-
ing, referra) services, child care
services, legal assistance, finan-
cial counseling and counsel with
health or mental health prob-
lems.

Ms. Levin will be charged with
establishing a help program at
establishing a health program at
the White Plains Adult Educa-
tion Center, 288 Fisher Ave, She
is a former public health social
worker with the New York State
Department of Health and was
named “Social Worker of the
Year” in 1973 by the Westches-
ter Chapter of the National Assn.
of Social Workers.

INTING SUPERS

ALBANY—A printing audit su-
pervisor eligible list, resulting
from open-competitive exam 24-
310, was established May 10 by
the State Department of Civil
Service. The list contains three
names.

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Computer operators and
technicians are being re-
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and Northern New Jersey. The

For GS-5 positions, applicants
must have two years’ general ex-
perience and one year of special-
wed work. General experience for
both posts means experience op-
erating electric accounting ma-

used in support of computer op-
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tions into computer langunges,
heading and interpreting pro-
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yn; 590 Grand Concourse,
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Civil Service Commission, 301
Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse,
N.Y. 13202.

Filing Suspended

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fice of the US. Civil Service
Commission has suspended filing
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Postponing The Question

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

MANHATTAN — At many
meetings, motions brought
up before the assembly run
into attempts to postpone
the question. Just how do these
Postponement attempts work
and how do they affect a meet-
ing’s progress?

Under Robert's Rules of Or-
der, delays can be accomplished
in two ways: postponing an issue
to a certain time or postponing
it indefinitely. The two are quite
different and misinterpretation
could lead to the exclusion of
an important plece of business.

Postponing a motion to a cer-
tain time ts an action deferring
the question to a definite day,
meeting, hour or after a certain
event. Postponing a question in-
definitely, however, kills the mo-
tion for the duration of the ses-
sion and avoids a direct vote
on it.

In postponing a motion to a
certain time, the motion can be
moved regardiess of how much
debate has taken place. Usually,
questions are postponed in this
manner, because debate has
shown reasons for holding off
decision until a later time.

In the case of postponing a
motion indefinitely, the move
only can be made when the
main question is immediately
pending.

A temporary postponement
takes precedence over a main
motion, subsidiary motions (such
as to amend or to commit), and
over incidental motions that ap-
ply.

Postponing indefinitely takes
precedence only over the main
question, as it is the lowest rank-
ing subsidiary motion. It yields
to all other subsidiary motions,
all privileged motions (such as
orders of the day, questions of
privilege, recess or adjournment)

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Substance of Certificate of Limited Part.
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rights therein, General Partner: Robert
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$10,000 each; Mitton Engel, 1421 Holly
St, NW, Washington, De; Christopher

$3,750, $2,500. Partnership wo con:
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joms 10 be made. Limited partners

of the set profits
Limited partners have the right (© assign
their interest, No additional limiged
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Fetirement or insanity of the general part
ner, the limited partners have the right

e the business, ited pare
no tight 10 demand property
an cash io revura for their con.

tribution,

and all applicable incidental mo-
tions (such as point of order,
appeal, suspension of rules, di-
vision of question, objection to
consideration of question).

A motion to postpone to a
certain time can be applied to

However, postponing to a certain
time can also be applied to such
motions as to postpone indefi-
nitely, amend or commit,

‘The subsidiary motion to post-
pone a question to a certain
time:

© Is out of order when anoth-
er motion has the floor.

© Must be seconded.

© Is debatable, with debate
limited in that it cannot go into
the merits of the main question
any more than is necessary to
decide whether or not to post-
pone.

© Is amendable as to time to
which main question is to be

misnomer

Pre tasjortiy. ‘vole. canted. toe

passage.

® Can be reconsidered by the
assembly.

Motions to postpone a ques-
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lowing provisions:

© Is out of order when anoth-
er motion has the floor.

© Must be seconded.

© Is debatable—debate allow-
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main question.

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CIVIL SE

Syracuse Region

SYRACUSE — The Jeffer-
son County chapter, Civil
Service Employees Assn.,
which this year marks the
30th anniversary of its founding,
will be the host chapter for the
June 4-5 meeting of Syracuse
Region V, CSEA.

Priday’s schedule includes @
state university chapters meeting
and an educational seminar on
the New York State Retirement
System. Saturday's activities will
Include various committee meet-
ings, a state workshop, a gen-
eral Region meeting and a boat
trip through the Thousand Is-
lands,

‘The two-day meeting will be
held at the Edgewood Resort.
Pees are $70 per person double
occupancy and $85 per person
single occupancy, They include
dinner Friday evening, all meals
on Saturday and breakfast on
Sunday plus lodging for the two
nights, The only additional cost
is $5 for the boat ride and on-
board cocktail party.

Reservations, which should be
accompanied by a $5 deposit and
are due May 28, may be sent to
Jeff Herbert, Manager, The
Edgewood Resort, Alexandria
Bay, N. Y. 13607, Reservations
for the boat tour and cocktail
party should be sent, along with
$5, to Elizabeth Gartland, 104
Municipal Building, Watertown,
N. Y. 13601

Springtime Dinner
At Buffalo District

BUFFALO—The Department
of Labor's Buffalo District chap-
ter 352, Civil Service Employees
Assn., will hold its spring dinner-
dance Friday evening, June 18

‘The event, set to begin at 6:30
p.m., will be held at John’s Flam-
ing Hearth, 1830 Abbott Rd.
Lackawanna.

Saratoga Springs DPW
Unit Headed By Burdick

SARATOGA SPRINGS—New-
ly elected officers of the Civil
Service Employees Assn.'s De-
partment of Public Works unit
here were installed recently by
Edward Wilcox, president of the
unit's parent group, Saratoga
County chapter 846.

Jack Burdick was sworn in as
unit president, with George Ody
as vice-president and Alton Wa-
ger as secretary-treasurer.

V Will Meet June 4.

YY

Making plans for next meeting of Syracuse Region V of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. are these leaders of Jefferson chapter 823,
which will host the function June 4 and 5 at the Edgewater Resort,
Alexandria Bay. From left are William Murray, Marsha Coppola,
chapter president Eleanor Percy, Peter Grieco and Richard Brown.
Ms. Coppola is also treasurer of the Central Counties Workshop
and Mr. Grieco is vice-chairman.

Two-Day Conference Set

For Western

Region VI

BUFFALO—Several workshops and an address on legal
assistance problems will make up the Friday-Saturday, June
4-5, conference of Western Region VI (Buffalo), Civil Service
Employees Assn. Co-hosts for the event will be the Erie

County chapter and the Brie
County Educational chapter,
CSEA.

The conference will begin at
7:30 pam. Friday evening with
an address by CSEA attorney
James Roemer on legal assis-
tance available to CSEA chap-
ters and members. This will be
followed by an open house spon-
sored by the hosting chapters.

Saturday morning will hold

both & county and state work-
shop. After lunch, a Region busi-
ness meeting will be held.

The

two-day conference will
at the Regency Hotel,
The hotel is located
near New York State Thruway
Exit 56.

Potsdam Treasurer

The name of Thomas Curry
was inadvertently left out in
photo caption in March 14 issue
of The Leader. Under picture, on
page 8, he was identified only as
SUNY College at Potsdam chap-
ter 613 treasurer.

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Guilderland Rifle Range, Gild
31-June 2—New York City chapter
Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake.

»yees chapter meeting: 10 a.m.

iderland

annual workshop and convention

JUNE

—SUNY at Buffalo chapter 602
Cavalier Restaurant, Buffalo

4-5—Syracuse Region V meeting: Th

quarterly membership meeting

@ Edgewood, Alexandria Bay

4 5—Western Region VI meeting: Regency Inn, Blasdale
7—West Seneca DC chapter general meeting: Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post, 299 Leydecker Road, West Seneca,

8-SUNY at Buffalo chapter 602 '

Night at the Races.’

10—-New York State Thruway chapter (Western Division) buffet dinner

meeting: Becker's Family Resta
Street, Buffalo,

rant, Bailey Avenue and William

5 CSEA's Wenzl Attacks «

Carey Recommendations

(Continued from Page 1)
said Dr. Wenzl, “One has the
potential of stripping union rep-
resentation rights from thou-
sands of public employees, and
seriously reducing the size of
CSEA, The other would enable
an employer to unilaterally ter-
minate benefits and conditions
of employment simply because
negotiations had reached a state
of impasse.

“CSEA is vidlently opposed to
both proposals, We'll fight with
everything we have to prevent
such legislation from becoming
enacted.”

‘The proposal to remove super-
visory personnel from collective
bargaining representatives “is ex-
tremely vague as to.the defini-
tion of supervisor, and could be
interpreted in such @ way that
the entire CSBA - represented
State Police Supervisory Unit, a
big piece of the Thruway Auth-
ority Unit, much of the present
Professional, Scientific and Tech-
nical Bargaining Unit, and thou-
sands of people in remaining
State Bargaining Units would be
left without representation and
at the complete mercy of the
employer,” Dr. Wenz) said.

“In essence, the Carey Ad-
ministration is seeking to deprive
public employees of their right
to union representation and to
put them at the mercy of the

employer while weakening the
union which would continue to
represent the remainder of the
employees.

“Giving the employer the right
to untlaterially terminate bene-
fits and conditions of employ-
ment once an impasse has been
reached would mean the em-
ployer could simply stall nego-@
tiations until the existing con-
tract expired, declare an im-
passe, and take away whatever
they wanted. Obviously the em-
ployer would never bargain in
good faith if he knew all he had
to do was stall and then take
away everything.

“It’s an outrageous proposal
that must be rejected at all
costs.”

Political observers in Albany
say neither proposal has much
chance of passage in the State
Legislature.

NYC Chapter
Convention Set

MANHATTAN — The an-
nual workshop and conven-
tion of New York City chap- e
ter, Civil Service Employees
Assn., will be held Monday
through Wednesday, May 31-
June 2, at the Concord Hotel,
Klamesha Lake.

South Region Steps Up Political Action

(Continued from Page 9)
have retired from public employ-
ment in the Southern Region
area.

“Retirees provide a valuable
pool of volunteer help and ad-
vice for all CSEA chapters,” Mr
Cassidy said.

Ellis Adams, president of the
Dutchess chapter, reported that

William George, first vice-presi-
dent of SUNY College at New
Paltz chapter 610, was active
participant at meeting.

@ total of $1,000 was pledged to
pay the cost of last summer's
Dutchess County strike. President
Lennon reported that a total of

$439.20 was raised through the
operation of a hospitality room

at the Hotel Concord during the @
recent CSEA convention.

Charles Schatt, left, member of Letchworth Village Developmental @
Center chapter 412 board of directors, listens to chapter's new presi-
dent, Robert Watkins, during Southern Region III meeting.
State Agencies Need State Seeks Name Mediators, Fact-Finders
Clinical Physicians

161 and $31,055 a year.

New York City area and Mon-
Toe County appointees receive an
additiénal $200 annual salary
differential.

Candidates must have « state

WHERE TO APPLY
FOR PUBLIC JOBS

NEW YORK CITY — Persons
seeking jobs with the City
should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Special
hours for Thursdays are 8:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

‘Those requesting applications
by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be
received by the Department at
least five days before the dead-
line. Announcements are avail-
able only during the filing period.

By subway, applicants can
reach the filing office via the
IND (Chambers St.); BMT (City
Hall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn
Bridge). For information on
titles, call 566-8700.

Several City agencies do their
own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court St.,
Brooklyn 11201, phone; 596-
8060; NYC» Transit Authority,
370 Jay St. Brooklyn 11201,
phone: 852-5000.

‘The Board of Higher Educa-
tion advises teaching staff ap-
plicants to contact the individ-
ual schools: non-faculty Jobs are
filled through the Personnel De-
partment directly

STATE — Regional offices of
the Department of Civil Service
are located at the World Trade
Center, Tower 2, 55th floor, New
York 10048 (phone: 488-4248: 10
am.-3 pm.); State Office Cam-
pus, Albany, 12226; Suite 750, 1
W Genesee St. Buffalo 14202:
9 am.-4 p.m. Applicants may ob-
tain announcements by writing
(the Albany office only) or by
applying in person at any of
the three.

Various State Employment
Service offices can provide ap-
plications in person, but not by
mail.

For positions with the Unified
Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
contact the Staffing Services
Unit, Room 1209, Office of Court
Admin, 270 Broadway, N.Y,
phone 488-4141,

FEDERAL — The US. Civil
Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007. Its hours are 8:30

(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 301 Erie Blvd. West,
Syracuse 13202, Toll-free calls
may be made to (800) 522-7407.
Federal titles have no deadline
uniess otherwise indicated.

Color guard winner was Troop

est unit award went to the Ards-
Jey auxiliary police.

Fire Dispatcher
Test June 25

The City Department of Per-
sonnel has cleared the way for
@ new promotional job this
month,

Fire Department chief fire
alarm dispatchers may file ap-
plications unt] May 28 for ad-
ministrative fire alarm dispateh-
er, Exam 5524.

Former city employees on the
chief fire alarm dispatcher pre-
ferred list may also apply for
the $20,568-a-year post. A June
25 technical-oral exam 4s set.

SITKIN TO BOARD

acting chairman of the New York
State Unemployment Insurance
Appeals Board. He succeeds the
late Gregory J. Pope, of Lock-
port, who died May 3.

“gipeoneyanam,

Consultants
_ In Nutrition

ALBANY—Applications are
accepted continuously for
nutrition services consult-
ants in the New York State
Department of Health.

In order to qualify for the
$13,404 positions, applicants
must have a bachelor’s degree in
foods and nutrition; have com-
pleted a dietetic internship or
its equivalent; and have four
years experience as a dietician
in @ health facility, two years of
which was within the last 10
years. A master's degree in nu-
trition may be substituted for
one year of experience. Ap-
pointees In the New York City
area and In Monroe County re-
ceive an additional $200 annual
salary differential.

Application forms can be ob-
tained from State Office Bulld-
ing Campus, Albany; Suite 750,
1 W. Genesee St., Buffalo; 55th
Ploor, 2 World Trade Center,
Manhattan; or at local offices
of the NYS Employment Service,
Completed forms should be sent
to State Department of Civil
Service, The State Office Bulld-
ing Campus, Albany.

State Seeks
2 Engineers

ALBANY —The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
continuously recruiting state
workers for promotional
posts of assistant sanitary en-
gineer and senior sanitary en-
gineer in the Environmental
Conservation Department. To
qualify, candidates must take an
oral test, which is frequently
held in Albany.

Assistant sanitary engineer,
No. 30-282, is open to Enyiron-
mental Conservation Depart-
ment employees with a year's ex-
perience as a junior engineer and
an intern engineer's certificate
A year's engineering experience
in @ grade 19 or higher position
is good for senior sanitary en-
gineer, No. 30-281,

‘The oral exam for both posts
is designed to test the appli-
eant’s ability to reason clearly
and make sound judgments, pre-
sent ideas clearly and establish
® satisfactory relationship with
others,

Application forms are avail-
able from department personnel
offices. Completed forms should
be sent to the State Department
of Civil Service, The State Office
Building Campus, Albany, N.Y
12239.

APPOINT PALMORE
ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey

@ day, up to $15,000 a year,

Buy American!

ALBANY—The State Pub-
lic Employment Relations
Board has announced the ap-
pointment of mediators and
fact-finders to various local gov-
ernment contract disputes in-
volving the Civil Service Em-
Ployees Assn.

Mediators include Theodore
Gerber, of PERB’s Albany office,
appointed to the dispute between
Warren County and the CSEA
Warren County Sheriffs’ unit,
and Eric Lawson Jr., of PERB’s
Buffalo office, named to the dis-
pute between the Village of Me-
dina in Orleans County and
CSEA.

Fact-finders named include
Irvine Kerrison, of Metuchen,

NJ, to the dispute between the
Village of Port Chester, West-
chester County, and the CBEA
blue- and white-collar unit, and
Sumner. Rosen, of New York
City, to the dispute between
CSEA and the Copiague Memor-
jal Library in Suffolk County.

TRUSTEE NAMED
ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey
announced the appointment of
Walter E. Neenan, of Holcomb,
to the Board of Trustees of the
Community College of the Finger
Lakes.

Federal
Job Calendar

Detailed announcements and applications may bs obtained by

visiting the federal job information center of the

S. Civil Service

Commission, New York City Region, at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan;
271 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn; 590 Grand Concourse, Brons; or
90-04 61st Street, Jamaica, Queens.

Applications for the following positions will be accepted

until

further notice, unless a aks cae is ren ied. Jobs are in various

federal agencies throughout

Agriculture

Title Salary Grade Exam No.
Meatcutter GS-8 NY-0-30
Warehouse Examiner GS-5, 7 CH-0-02
Business
Computer Operator and
Computer Technician GS-5 to 7 NS4-15
Engineering And Scientific
Enginesring, Physical Sciences and
elated Professions GS-5 to 15 424
Meteorological Technician GS-4 to NY-843
Technical Aide GS-2, 3 NY-0.22
Technical Assistant GS-5 to 15 421
General
Freight Rate Specialists GS-7, 9 WA-6-13
Mid-Level Positions GS-9 to 12 413
ae “Store Checker GS-3 NY-3-07
ior Level Positions GS-13-15 408
Ear Assistant f GSA, 5 NY-5-07
Telephone Operator 65-3, 4 NY-5.01
Teletypist 65.3 NY-4-02
. Medical
Autopsy Assistant NY-9-05
Careers In Th WA-8-03
Dental Hygieni: NY-5.09
Licensed Practical NY-5-06
Medical Machi: NY-3-02
NY-0-25
NY-3-01
NY-1-16
Nuesing Anistent (Psychiatry) 65-2 NY-5-05
GS-5 to 12 aig
eel Assistant GS-7 to Ht 428
Veterinarian Trainee GS-5 to 17 WA.0-07
Military
Air Reserve Technician (Administrative
Clerical /Technical) GS-5 to 15 AT.0-59
Army Reserve Technician GS-4 to 9 NY-9-26
Social And Education
Professional Careers for Librarians GS-7 to 12 422
Psychologist GS-11, 12 WA9-13
Recreational Therapist GS-5 to7 NY.5.09
Stenography Aad Typing
Keypunch Operator GS-2, 3 NY-3-01
eaore
fomepene - 632 : ‘ Wada
to
Sesreterios, Options 4,0, GS-5, 6 NY-5-04
Typist to4 WA901

9261 ‘82 “Ww ‘oped “HAGVAT AOIANAS TAD
16

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, May 28, 1976

Margo Sheeran gives a boost to Adriane Gross as Christina Gross
carries poster protesting umfair treatment of Rockland employees.
Hand-lettered sign carried by Adriane reads: “Average CSEA earns
$8,000, County Legislators carn $10,000 part-time.”

CSEA field representative Larry Scanlon stands by Rockland county
unit president Patsy Spicci as Mr. Spicei uses portable mike to rally
his people. Mr. Scanlon is attached to Southern Region II, and is
CSEA staff member assigned to coordinate employee action during
the labor dispute with county.

Bi
Public relations specialist Randolph V. Jacobs, imforms reporter
for radio station of problems encountered by employees as Patsy
Splcol listens, Mr, Jacobs, whe normally works out of New York

City Region 1, ts on special assignment during the Rockland dispute.

Hundreds of Rockland County employees turn out for protest to show their unity.

Rockland Employees March

NEW CITY — Chanting
“Two-Four-Six-Eight, Why
Won't The County Arbi-
trate?” almost 400 Rockland
County employees picketed the
County Office Building during a
regular meeting of the Rockland
Legislature last week

The Civil Service Employees
Assn., representing the 1,750 em-
ployees, has asked the county to
submit to arbitration the differ-
ences between the county and
the union.

A union spokesman said that
the workers are seeking a 7 per-
cent &eross-the-board salary in-
crease. The county has offered
regular increments and a flat
$150 to workers not eligible for
the increments.
membership rejected
county's “final offer by a
better than 3-1 margin and the
Legislature's proposed one-year
settlement embodying the offer,
after a public hearing

At the meeting last week,
CSEA field representative Larry
Scanlon asked the legislators to
reconsider their position and to
have an arbitrator settle the dis-
pute. Mr. Scanlon, who heads
the unit's negotiating team,
said, “We would not like to see,
in Rockland, the kind of action
which occurred in other counties
We would rather have labor
harmony.”

At a short CSEA rally, held

after the picketing, Patsy Spicci,
Rockland unit president, said,
“The union’s offer to go to ar-
bitration is a fair solution to all
concerned—the Legislature, the
public and the union.”

He urged the members to con-
tinue contacting the legislators
by mail and by telephone.

‘The workers have been with-

tounry
LEGISLATORS

UNFAIR

10 EMPLOYEES

out a contract since Jan. 1, and
have instituted @ pressure cam-
paign by picketing the business
places of the legislators, prin-
cipally the Hquor store operated
by Bernard Fallon, Chairman of
the Legislature, and the bank
where John Grant, Chairman of
the Budget and Finance Com-
mittee, is a vice-president.

Southern Region HI acting supervisor John Deyo, left, joins Rock-
land County chapter president John Mauro, center, and Manny
Ramirez, of Letchworth Village Developmental Center, in donning
picket signs to bring employees’ situation to public attention.

(Lender photos by Ted Kaplan)