Saturday, October 31, 2015

STEVE TRICARICO HAS WORKED FOR LIPA...FROM HIS OWN LINKEDIN ACCOUNT





District Manager

Long Island Power Authority
 –  (1 year 9 months)Eastern Suffolk County, NY
Served as primary contact in governmental and community affairs for 148 elected officials, 60+ civic associations and 48 chambers of commerce in the eastern Long Island district.

Developed close working relationships with the town supervisors and highway superintendents of the following municipalities: Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, and Shelter Island in addition to all state senators, state assemblyman, county legislators and village mayors within those jurisdictions.

Served as primary contact for elected officials for road clearing and electrical restoration following Hurricane Sandy, “Nemo” Blizzard and other storms and Nor’easters throughout the year.

Worked with elected officials’ staff members on all constituent issues with regard to the Long Island Power Authority.

Met monthly in Albany, New York with the Suffolk County State Senate and Assembly delegation during session in order to maintain dialogue.

Observed State Senate, Assembly, Suffolk County Legislature and Town committee meetings and general sessions.

Created communication policy with elected officials within the eastern Long Island district.

Developed relationships with our private-partner National Grid management and facilitate the completion of requested work as per elected officials and community leaders.

Participated in bi-weekly work plan meetings with lead designers and construction managers to stay abreast on ongoing and upcoming capital projects within the division.

Partnered with elected officials and community groups to present more than 25 presentations on hurricane preparedness and the policies and procedures of the Long Island Power Authority.

Represent the Authority in public forums on the East End; often speaking on the company’s behalf.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevetricarico





Thursday, October 15, 2015

FOLLOW THE MONEY FROM CAITHNESS TO JANE BONNER...AND THIS IS ONLY WHAT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY REPORTED !

CAITHNESS ENERGY
565 FIFTH AVENUE; 29TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10017
100.0011-OCT-07FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2007 11 Pre GeneralBTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
500.0022-JAN-15FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2015 July PeriodicCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
250.0027-JUN-13FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2013 July PeriodicCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
500.0004-APR-13FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2013 July PeriodicCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND, LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11798
250.0001-MAR-11FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2011 July PeriodicCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND, LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
250.0027-SEP-11FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2011 32 Pre GeneralCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND, LLC
565 FIFTH AVENUE; 29TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10017
600.0005-JUN-08FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2008 July PeriodicBTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND, LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
150.0014-DEC-09FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2010 January PeriodicCTown Council2
CAITHNESS LONG ISLAND, LLC
50 ZORN BOULEVARD
YAPHANK, NY 11980
250.0009-SEP-09FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2009 10 Post PrimaryCTown Council2

http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/plsql_browser/CONTRIBUTORA_COUNTY?ID_in=C32491&date_From=&date_to=&AMOUNT_From=&AMOUNT_to=&ZIP1=&ZIP2=&ORDERBY_IN=N&CATEGORY_IN=ALL

KEYSPAN ENERGY STATE PAC
1 METROTECH CTR
BROOKLYN, NY 11201
200.0005-JUN-08FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2008 July PeriodicCTown Council2
KEYSPAN ENERGY STATE PAC
1 METROTECH CENTER
BROOKLYN, NY 11201
100.0023-AUG-07FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2007 11 Pre PrimaryCTown Council2
KEYSPAN ENERGY STATE PAC
1 METROTECH CTR
BROOKLYN, NY 11201
100.0001-AUG-08FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2009 January PeriodicCTown Council2

http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/plsql_browser/CONTRIBUTORA_COUNTY?ID_in=C32491&date_From=&date_to=&AMOUNT_From=&AMOUNT_to=&ZIP1=&ZIP2=&ORDERBY_IN=N&CATEGORY_IN=ALL


SOMEHOW IS THERE IS SOME KIND, OF A 'CONNECTION', WITH THIS 2008 'CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION'

WEHRAN ENERGY CORPORATION
730 RT 202
MAHWAH, NJ 07430
300.0005-JUN-08FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER2008 July PeriodicBTown Council2
http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/plsql_browser/CONTRIBUTORA_COUNTY?ID_in=C32491&date_From=&date_to=&AMOUNT_From=&AMOUNT_to=&ZIP1=&ZIP2=&ORDERBY_IN=N&CATEGORY_IN=ALL


                             AND THIS .....

D-5 2012-644 

AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF THE COMBINED OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE LANDFILL GAS SYSTEMS FOR CELLS 1-6 BETWEEN THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN AND WEHRAN ENERGY CORPORATION (1) MAZZEI (2) PANICO

http://www.brookhaven.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=5559&language=en-US&PortalId=0&TabId=134

Long Island school administrator receives whopping $625,214 in pay, benefits in single year

Long Island school administrator receives whopping $625,214 in pay, benefits in single year

October 12, 2015

Victor SkinnerVICTOR SKINNER

Victor is a communications specialist for EAG and joined in 2009. Previously, he was a newspaper journalist.
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NEW YORK – More than half of New York State’s top 100 highest paid public school employees work on Long Island, and many rake in well over $300,000 a year.
The highest paid public school employee in New York is Joyce Bisso, a 69-year-old superintendent at Hewlett-Woodmore schools, took home a total of $625,214 for the fiscal year ending June 30, which included salary, benefits and payouts for unused sick and vacation days, Newsday reports.
In total, a dozen of the top 20 highest paid school officials, 32 of the top 50, and 57 of the highest paid 100, worked in schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties, including former East Meadow’s school superintendent Louis DeAngelo at $454,527, Jericho superintendent Henry Grishman at $371,374, Syosset deputy superintendent Jeffrey Steitman at $371,124, and Locust Valley superintendent Anna Hunderfund at $355,833.
The ever-growing salaries have raised the ire of taxpayers in recent years, primarily because they have no say in how much of their tax dollars are spent on salary and special perks for the public officials.
moneyblackholegreen“As a taxpayer, you don’t have a chance to comment on (new superintendent contracts) before it’s too late to do anything about it,” Empire Center for Public Policy executive director Tim Hoefer told Newsday. “I don’t know why you have to hide it.”
The New York State Council of School Superintendents attempted to justify the massive payouts by highlighting the fact pay increases for school chiefs statewide has increased by less than 1 percent each of the last five years, though the average increase this year was 1.7 percent.
Superintendents themselves have also attempted to explain why their salaries are sky high.
“You work as hard as you can in what is essentially a 24/7 job,” Bisso told the news site, pointing to controversial issues like Common Core and teacher evaluations. “I would just tell you the job is a major challenge, very challenging.”
“Most school administrators and university faculty listed in the upper ranks of compensation have decades of experience. The careers of many began in the 1970s,” according to Newsday. “DeAngelo, the former East Meadow superintendent, worked 30 years in that district as a superintendent, assistant superintendent and director of special education after teaching special education classes in private schools and at Western Suffolk BOCES.”
“We’re never without our cell phones,” DeAngelo told the site.
Newsday collected the data on school administrator salaries through a public information request to the state’s teachers’ retirement system. The data contained pay information for about 250,000 New York teachers and school employees.
Others to top the list included State University of New York obstetrician Ovandia Abulafia, who took home $539,076 from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn; emergency physician Michael Lusshesi who earned $506,590 at the same place; as well as Esther Takeuchi, a chemical engineer with Stony Brook University, who was paid $418,936 last year.
From Around The Web

http://eagnews.org/long-island-school-administrator-receives-whopping-625214-in-pay-benefits-in-single-year/

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Vanderbilt Women's Center to Lecture Men on 'Healthy Masculinities'

Vanderbilt Women's Center to Lecture Men on 'Healthy Masculinities'

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Vanderbilt University’s Women’s Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have “healthy masculinity.”
The “Healthy Masculinities Week” is sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, whichclaims to be devoted to “Celebrating Women” while “Empowering All.”
The mission of the Women’s Center is to affirm a “space for all members of the Vanderbilt community that acknowledges and actively resists sexism, racism, homophobia, and all forms of oppression while advocating for positive social change.”
The “core values” of the Women’s Center includes the idea that, “progress toward gender equality calls all of us to be champions for change” while simultaneously claiming to “celebrate the unique differences among all persons and work to build community in diversity.”
Healthy Masculinities Week” hopes to encourage men to “[e]xplore healthy masculinity through various lenses,” such as “American society, the gay and bisexual community, fraternities, and more.”
The first event as part of the “Healthy Masculinities Week” is called, “The Macho Paradox: Why some men hurt and how all men can help.” The title is a reference to a book by Jackson Katz, who is a self-proclaimed “anti-sexist activist” and the speaker for the event.
The full title for Katz’s book is, “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help.” It is unclear why the word “Women” was removed from Vanderbilt’s event listing.
According to a review for Katz’s book, “Katz explores those aspects of American culture that promote violence against women, focusing separate chapters on pornography, prostitution, and other sex-related businesses as well as sexual violence in the military, the music industry, and athletics.” It also “offers advice on how men can ally with women to curb violence and change those aspects of the ‘boys will be boys’ attitude on male aggressiveness and masculinity that can lead to violence and abuse.”
In 2012, Katz gave a TED talk with the title, “Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue.” In his talk, Katz asserts we need to “change the socialization of boys and the definitions of manhood that lead to these current outcomes [violence against women].”
Other events as part of “Healthy Masculinities Week” include “Maintaining ‘Bro’ Status: Fraternity men discuss masculinity and mental health,” “Masc 4 Masc: Policing masculinity in the gay and bi communities,” “Masculinity XXL? The portrayal of manhood in Magic Mike,” and a screening and discussion of the film, “The Mask You Live In.”
The advertisement for “Healthy Masculinities Week,” which was emailed to members of the student body, includes a portrayal man with a thought bubble, thinking, “Don’t cry,” “Have sex,” “Major in business,” “Play sports,” and “Man up.” Allegedly, these are examples of unhealthy masculinity.
Vanderbilt’s “Healthy Masculinities Week” is scheduled to run from Sept. 10-17.
In addition to the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, “Healthy Masculinities Week” is also sponsored by a host of other departments at Vanderbilt, including Vanderbilt Athletics, Dean of Students Project Safe Center, Women’s and Gender Studies, Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, Office of Greek Life, Office of LGBTQI Life, Bishop Joseph Black Cultural Center, and the Interfaith Council.
The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center did not respond to a request for comment on the major topics covered during the event.
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/vanderbilt-womens-center-lecture-men-healthy-masculinities#.ywuopp:66Rh

Monday, July 13, 2015

WILL SOMEONE...ANYONE...TELL ME... WHAT IS A PORT WASHINGTON NY LANDSCAPING COMPANY, DOING CLEANING UP 25A IN ROCKY POINT ????

WILL SOMEONE...ANYONE...TELL ME...

WHAT IS A PORT WASHINGTON NY LANDSCAPING COMPANY, DOING...

....... PERMANENTLY, IT SEEMS, SINCE                THE 'RUN FOR LIFE' EVENT...

CLEANING & KEEPING CLEAN A STATE HIGHWAY INTERSECTION IN                    ROCKY POINT NEW YORK ?

I GUESS, THERE ARE NO BROOKHAVEN LANDSCAPING COMPANIES AVAILABLE?

MOST OF ALL...WHO IS PAYING FOR IT !

YOU KNOW, IF IT'S IN BROOKHAVEN NY, TAX PAYERS ARE BEING STUCK FOR IT




SOMEHOW THEY GET "STUCK" FOR IT ALL THE TIME, WHILE THE CAMPAIGN 'CONTRIBUTOR' GET THE TAX GRAVY !



HOW DOES A BROOKHAVEN TOWN IN JANE BONNER'S DISTRICT, ESCAPE THE TOWN'S 2003 'MAIN STREET' PLAN ??? 

 http://brookhaven.org/Portals/0/Documents/Planning/Manuals/MAIN%20STREET%20BUSINESS%20DISTRICT%20DESIGN%20MANUAL.pdf

                               HMMMM ?




IF THIS EYESORE, PLUS THE DECAYING STREET LAMPS, UP & DOWN 25A, IS ANY EXAMPLE OF WHAT JANE BONNER CAN DO FOR YOU, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE !





REMEMBER THOSE STREET LAMPS ARE MILLION DOLLAR STREET LAMPS......
ALL COURTESY OF YOUR HARD MONEY!

A MILLION DOLLAR 'MAKEOVER', ALL COURTESY OF KEN LAVALLE, DANDY DAN LOSQUARDO, & GOOD OLE JANEY....AND YOUR TAX MONEY !


Senator LaValle Secures $500,000 for Rocky Point Downtown Revitalization Project



    New York State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle today announced that after many months work he has secured $500,000 for the Rocky Point Downtown Revitalization Project.
    Senator LaValle was joined by Town Councilwoman Jane Bonner at a morning news conference announcing that the funds had been secured.
    In addition, Brookhaven Superintendent of Highways Dan Losquadro has committed $720,000 of 2014 Capital Budget monies from both the Traffic Safety and Street Lighting Divisions to the project.
    “Downtowns play an important role in our communities,” said New York State Senator Ken LaValle. “I am pleased to have been able to secure $500,000 for the revitalization of downtown Rocky Point. A vibrant downtown gives the community and region a sense of pride and positive self-image. It also serves as an anchor that holds the community together and provides the stability necessary for economic growth and job creation.”
    Councilwoman Bonner said, “I want to thank Senator LaValle, who has worked tirelessly to make sure that the State funding would come through, and I also want to thank Dan Losquadro. Because of their efforts, I can assure the Rocky Point residents and business owners that our plan to revitalize the downtown business district will continue to move forward.”
    The funding from the State, the Town Highway Department and the county will allow the Town to proceed on the following proposed capital construction projects:
    1) Broadway at King Rd, Rocky Pt.
    Out dated traffic signal (designed and built in the 80s) doesn’t meet Federal or State design or accessibility standards, with a history of crashes, requires redesigning and building to include pedestrian enhancements, such as countdown timers, access ramps (ADA compliant), colored crosswalks, curb extensions (bulb outs), emergency vehicle pre-emption, etc., required to improve intersection safety and accessibility
    A) Design plans for upgrade, including Fire Preemption, LED’s, video detection

    B) Construct new design with pedestrian “Hand/Man” countdown signals, colored crosswalks and new standard ADA ramps, curb and sidewalk.
    2) Broadway at Prince Rd, Rocky Pt.
    Intersection with limited sight distance and crash history requires improvements to include curb extensions (pedestrian bulb outs), colored crosswalks, accessible ramps (ADA compliant), etc. Traffic calming devices to improve safety and access.
    A) Design bulb outs, sidewalk with other traffic calming measures to reduce speeds and volumes
    B) Construct new design, colored crosswalks and new standard ADA ramps, curb and sidewalk.

    3) Broadway between Old Route 25A and 150’ north of King Rd, east and west sides, King Rd and Prince Rd 50-350’ in Rocky Pt.
    Traffic calming required for both sides of the roadway to include sidewalk, ADA compliant curb cuts, driveway aprons, roadway resurfacing, pavement markings, on street parking, etc., to accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists (shared roadway) and vehicles in a safe efficient manner.
    A) Design sidewalk with other traffic calming measures to reduce speeds and volumes
    B) Design to include access for bicyclist and pedestrians
    C) Construct concrete sidewalk system, highly visible crosswalks and shared roadway bike route.
                                                                                                            ### 
    http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senator-lavalle-secures-500000-rocky-point-downtown-revitalization-project

    WHEN YOU SEE KENNY, DANNY & 

    JANE,  THANK THEM FOR A BEAUTIFUL 
                           
                             ROCKY POINT !