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Vol. 5 No. 24
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Thursday, April 22, 1971 10c par copy
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I Photos-In-The-News I Environmental
Council
FROM OUT OF THE PAST Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso (r) explains historical background of
items of sale in gift shop of the county's Old Bethpage
Restored Village to Henrik Boumeester, agricultural
technician from Gestel, Holland. The latter was one of
56 local government officials from The Netherlands
who attended a luncheon hosted by Caso and conducted
on a tour of the restored pre- Civil War farm com­munity
and other county facilities.
SECRETARIAL SALUTE: Oyster Bay Town Super­visor
John W. Burke presents Town proclamation to
Mrs. Ruth Kah, left, of North Merrick and Mrs. Ruth
Dalpiaz of Bethpage, representing the Long Island
Chapter of the National Secretaries Association. The
week of April 26 through April 30 has been proclaimed
as "Secretary Week" in the township.
Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso's proposed local
law creating a county En­vironmental
Management
Council was presented to the
Board of Supervisors today, the
first day of Earth Week.
"In keeping with my ad­ministration's
goal of 'part­nership
government', the En­vironmental
Management
Council has been designed to
provide a unified, coordinated
governmental effort in solving
environmental problems," Caso
said.
The council will consist of nine
members appointed to two year
terms by the county executive
with Board of Supervisors con­firmation,
plus a representative
from each established town and
city conservation committee.
^fHSesfe people will be designated
^ by the Ideal governing body. The
commissioner of health, the
executive director of the planning
> commission, the commissioner of
. public works and the county
attorney will be ex-officio council
members. Al will serve without
pay-
Under the proposed law at least
one, and as many as four of the
county executive's appointees
will be between the ages of 16 and
21.
Based upon the council's own
. recommendations, it will be
provided with the staff and funds
necessary to carry out its work.
The council's duties and
powers will be:
1. Advising the county
government on all matters ef­fecting
the environment.
2. Enlisting the assistance of
all local governments in the
development of inter-municipal
cooperation for environmental
planning and action.
3. Engaging in studies
separately or with public and
private agencies to develop
programs.
4. Maintaining liaison with the
Nassau-Suffolk Planning Agency,
Regional Planning Association,
water resource agencies and
other private or public agencies
to encourage area development
of desirable environmental
conditions.
5. Preparing and distributing
literature o.n environmental
matters.
6. Recording and indexing all
open areas and natural and man-made
senic features in the
county; recommending which of
these should be considered for
public ownership.
7. Cooperating and coor­dinating
with all county depart­ments
and agencies involved in
environmental activities.
"If we don't dedicate ourselves
. to making and keeping our planet
liveable, everything else we
attempt as a society will be
meaningless," Caso said.
Sal Mosca,To Sit
On Oyster Bay
Town Board
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SALVATORE MOSCA. COUNCILMAN -
TOWN OP OYSTER BAY
The Oyster Bay Town Board is expected to name
Salvatore Mosca, a 39-year-old attorney and engineer
from Bethpage, to the post of Councilman at the
Board's public hearings of Tuesday, April 27th.
Mosca will fill the vacancy that opened when Ed­mund
A. Ocker recently resigned to take a position as
Deputy Commissioner of the Nassau County Depart­ment
of Recreation and Parks. Ocker served the Town
in various capacities, including terms as Deputy
Supervisor, Majority Leader and senior Councilman,
for more than 13 years.
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John W. Burke said the
selection of Mosca would "provide a man with a broad
background who will bring much in the way of ex­pertise
to the already distinguished group of men
sitting on the Town Board."
Mosca resides at 665 Plainview Road, Bethpage, with
his wife Margaret and three children. Mosca is a
familiar figure to many who attend public hearings at
Town Hall where he frequently officiates as counsel to
the Town Board. He has been a member of Town At­torney
Bernard F. McCaffrey's highly-respected legal
staff since 1966.
Mosca's duties with the Town Attorney's office in­cluded
reviews of proposed State legislation relative to
its applicability to Town government, preparation and
review of ordinances and local laws; and experience
with the multitude of municipal legal duties that in­clude
work on leases, applications, pleadings, motions,
memorandums of law and trial work. He provided
legal advice and opinions to all Town departments,
agencies and offices, as well as to special boards
created by the Town Board.
His responsibilities frequently called for ap­pearances
as a representative of the Town in
proceedings and hearings before State Boards,
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