CSEA Teams up with County to Clean up Probation Center and JDC

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WESTBURY- The CSEA Local 830, in cooperation with the County Executive’s office, and the CSEA members from the Nassau County Department of Public Works, completed a significant project together, by cleaning up the office at Nassau’s Probation Department Family Division at 1200 Old Country Road in Westbury as well as the Juvenile Detention Center on Carman Avenue.

The office was hit with a major flood in early January, causing ceiling tiles to be disbanded, creating unworkable conditions for CSEA members at the facility.  Local 830 President Jerry Laricchiuta quickly got in touch with Nassau County Deputy County Executive John Donnelly to make sure that the problem would be rectified.

Pictures were taken initially on January 8th with missing ceiling tiles, wet rugs and tarps galore. Then a revisit on January 29th showed night and day improvements, as the ceiling tiles were back in place, the rugs were sanitized and all workers seemed to be pleased.  The only improvement that remains would be the installation of new rugs. 

This job could not have been done without the work of Probation Department Unit President Marla Rowe, who was instrumental in getting the job done as quickly as it was.

Similar measures were taken right across the street from the Probation Department, at the Nassau Juvenile Detention Center on Carman Ave.  Back in March of 2006, CSEA was joined by numerous county legislators, as well as CSEA Long Island Region One officials in a tour of the old JDC building. 

This has been a huge initiative for CSEA, and now major progress has finally been done as DPW was at it again, cleaning up, and painting the building.

Laricchiuta was very pleased with the undertaking of both of these projects, and said, “I am glad that we were able to call on Nassau County, and that we were able to work together with them on this project. It’s important to know that we can work with the County and get these sorts of things done in such short order.”