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Superintendent of Highways

Daniel P. Losquadro and the Town of Brookhaven H By Giles Lambertson PROFILE CORRESPONDENT

When a snowfall is measured in feet of accumulation or a thunderstorm blows in at 90 mph, the anxiety of a highway superintendent can be measured in consecutive sleepless nights. Yet Superintendent Daniel P. Losquadro says he never has wished he were somewhere else on snowy or windy nights other than in the superintendent’s hot seat. “You know, this is by far the hardest job I have ever had and the most gratifying,” said the Brookhaven superintendent of highways. After two and a half years overseeing New York State’s third-largest highway department (after NYC and the state DOT), Losquadro said his personal reward is watching a job get done. “Seeing the tangible results of your work, whether it is a cleanup after a storm, or a massive snow removal, or the repaving of roads, I get to see tangible results and it is very gratifying.” A superintendent’s job is full of tangibles. There are the usual storm images and sounds — snow, ice, salt, rushing water, downed branches and uprooted trees, steel blades scraping and bumping along concrete, whining blowers moving frozen water and beep-beeping trucks reversing and clanking away to spread more sand. But everyday nonemergency highway department labor also is rife with work you can see and touch, ranging from hot rolled asphalt and fresh road surface paints to newly poured and broomed sidewalks and free-flowing stormwater and drainage systems. Losquadro has plenty of opportunity to get his hands dirty if he wants — and he frequently does. “It’s funny,” he said. “People used to see me in a suit and tie and were surprised when I ran for the superintendent of highways. But people who really knew me were not surprised at all. The job fit my background and people who really knew me knew my background.” A Superintendent’s Background Losquadro is a Brookhaven native, growing up in Wading River and still living in the Shoreham-Wading River community about three miles from his childhood home. Because his father operated an automotive body shop, he learned one end of a wrench from the other and apparently got some oil mixed in his blood. “The machinery side is part of the job I really enjoy. I probably spend more time in the mechanic shop than most superintendents do. My mechanics know that during a snowstorm, I will visit the yards and I always make time to stop in my mechanical shop.” continued on page 12 Superintendent’s Profile • www.superintendentsprofile.com • October 2015

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The town of Brookhaven is where Daniel Losquadro and his wife Lynn, and their young children Joseph and Meghan, are happily rooted.

He calls the mechanical shop staff “the lifeblood” of the department. “We have a very talented team of mechanics, welders, and fabricators. They never cease to amaze me, how they can get equipment back on the road. I know how valuable they are.” The department’s maintenance facility, which is charged with maintaining all of the town’s vehicular equipment, has separate lubrication and tire shops, as well as a welding and fabrication shop that lets the department repair and modify equipment inhouse. While enrolled at Stony Brook University where he earned a degree in history, Losquadro worked in construction as a member of Local 66 of the New York State Laborers Union. He had grown up around people in construction so it was a familiar work option and let him broaden his experience as an equipment operator. “I would laugh when someone would say he was going to Panama City or somewhere for Spring Break, and I would say, ‘I got night differential!’ [for higher-paying night work].” Looking back, said Losquadro, the union labor “really taught me a work ethic.” After college, Losquadro became a senior property claims estimator for State Farm Insurance. He became thoroughly acquainted with the propensity of some people to defraud whoever has the money, in this case an insurance company. He was instrumental in the conviction of several people for making fraudulent claims. It was good training for a future manager of multi-million-dollar township budgets. Elected to Office In 2003, Losquadro took his blue-collar labor and white-collar investigator credentials onto the ballot as a candidate for Suffolk County’s 6th 12

District legislative seat. He won and for the next seven years was chairman of the Environment, Planning and Agriculture Committee and the Veterans & Seniors Committee. Three years later, Losquadro was elected by his peers as the county legislature’s Republican Conference Leader, a position he held for the remainder of his time in the legislature. He served on every major budget working group, holding the line on country general fund taxes every year he was in office. In 2010, the then-38-year-old Suffolk County legislator won election to the NY State Assembly representing the 1st District (now the 2nd District). Losquadro’s legislative agenda for the next two years focused on tax issues. He helped pass revenue measures that spurred small businesses to create jobs, capped property tax growth for home owners, repealed the MTA payroll tax on small businesses, and increased state aid to local schools. During his tenure, the Assembly lowered the middle-class tax rate to its lowest level in 58 years, passed consecutive ontime budgets and closed a $13.5 billion deficit without raising taxes. Then things really blew his way in 2012 in the form of Superstorm Sandy and, in February 2013, a massive blizzard that struck during his campaign for highway superintendent. The seat had been vacated when the former superintendent became a judge; Losquadro was encouraged to run to fill the position. He did and was elected in a mid-cycle election in March 2013 and again in a regular election in November of that year. That balloting culminated a rigorous political schedule for Losquadro that totaled eight elections in 12 years and three elections in 12 months. “When the Pope visits, my wife is up for canonization,” Losquadro quipped in acknowledging the electioneering stress. continued on page 16

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Overhauling a Department Losquadro is a believer in the old adage that you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. “I need people who can complement my abilities, who will either make up for my weaknesses or complement my strengths.” To that end, the new superintendent plucked some capable people from other positions to strengthen his administration. To tackle evident administrative challenges in the department, Losquadro pulled into his administration as his chief deputy the township’s emergency management director and public safety commissioner, Anthony J. Gallino. Gallino is a former NYC police officer and a fire district commissioner for 17 years. He currently is first vice president of the Association of Fire Districts for the State of New York. Losquadro leans on his chief deputy’s broad emergency services experience in formulating and implementing crisis plans. To supervise budgetary issues in his office, Losquadro named Steve Tricarico his deputy superintendent. Tricario had directed the coordination of major post-storm efforts between the Long Island Power Authority and Brookhaven. “Steve is one of the best budget people I have ever worked with,” Losquadro said, “and I worked with Ways and Means in Albany. He is only 31, has master degrees in public policy and business administration, and is a part-time college professor. I don’t know where he finds the time. He and I handle the budget ourselves and any time we sit down to run those budget numbers, he’s on top of it.” The budget is a monster by New York town highway superintendent standards. Brookhaven’s department operating budget this fiscal year is more than $80 million, its capital budget $40 million. Large, yes, but 16

commensurate with the size of the town: Brookhaven contains 531 square miles and is geographically the largest town in the state, bigger than the entire neighboring county of Nassau. Almost a half million people call Brookhaven home. To keep all 500,000 residents happy, the department employs about 280 people and operates more than 200 pieces of heavy equipment. The department’s work is divided into major categories besides administration, including highways and bridge maintenance, traffic safety and streetlighting, vehicle and equipment maintenance, signage, and engineering. It is a sprawling enterprise. “That’s why I work very closely with Mr. Gallino,” Losquadro said, the two executives being the lodestar for all the supervisory work going on beneath them. “We strive to know what the maximum effective supervisory capacity is of each individual supervisor. Then we have to delegate them authority, and trust that they are overseeing the employees in their areas of responsibility. Finally, we have to give them the tools to do the job.” The superintendent said he found when he started work in the department that it had been run for years as if it were a much smaller organization. Some standards had been relaxed, some essential procedures outgrown. “When I came into the job,” he recalled, “I found that some people in work areas had not been issued hard hats and safety equipment. When I worked as a laborer with Local 66, if I showed up for work and I didn’t have a hard hat, I got sent home and that’s all there was to it. The lack of safety equipment was one of the first things I rectified, not only to be in compliance with OSHA but for the employees’ safety.” continued on page 34

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The department also was IT deficient, relying on paper-passing systems reminiscent of 1980s workplaces. A service request was put in a mail slot for a foreman who then forwarded it to a local crew foreman who would check out the situation and send the paper back up the chain of command where a work order was generated and sent back down the chain. This was way too slow for a former insurance claims man who worked for a company that went paperless 17 years before. “I saw no reason why the department couldn’t do the same,” Losquadro said. “The lack of a timely response in constituent service was a frustration for me, so I essentially started considering constituent complaints as insurance claims. As a county and then state government representative, I could only talk about implementing private sector technologies in government offices. In my capacity now as a department executive, I could actually implement those technologies.” And he did. Instead of passing notes, general foremen were given iPads to receive complaints, then go out in the field and photograph and otherwise document situations and, finally, electronically forward their conclusions for action. Eventually, area foremen were assigned the iPads as well — partly because they were clamoring for them! “Some people thought there would be resistance, but soon the other foremen were asking for their own iPads and it was an easy transition.” The bottom line is that the use of technology trimmed five days off the work order system, according to Losquadro. The electronic pathway to greater efficiency was introduced and both employees and constituents saw the difference. As a county legislator, Losquadro saw how adoption of an 800 MHz radio system improved some Suffolk County operations. The radio system blends two-way radio technology and computer-controlled transmitters for expanded coverage and greater reliability. Brookhaven has hilly areas on the north shore and in the middle of the island, so line-of-

sight radio broadcasts had dead spots. Losquadro and Gallino decided that an 800 MHz system was the solution and had the system installed. Severe weather subsequently tested the system and didn’t find it wanting. Losquadro acknowledged that selling constituents on radios and iPads can be harder than rolling out shiny new trucks that taxpayers can see working the roads. Yet Losquadro found the sale to be relatively easy because residents soon recognized the difference the strategic investments were making in shortening response times. While storms and urgent constituent service challenge highway officials, they also give a department the chance to demonstrate how IT equipment speeds the work. No. 1 Job: Highways Highways are the principal focus of the highway department, of course. Brookhaven contains 2,200 linear miles of roadway. They translate into 3,350 lane miles, which is how the state DOT considers the trafficways in allocating Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding. Roadways in the town range from one-lane paths in Long Island Sound hamlets like Sound Beach and Rocky Point to the Long Island Expressway. “These are very different, obviously, in terms of how to maintain them, with some being cleared of snow in a single pass and others requiring several passes. That’s how DOT looks at the roads in its CHIPS funding,” Losquadro said. Not all the pavement in Brookhaven is the department’s responsibility, with principal arteries in commercial areas and the main east-west highways mostly maintained by state DOT equipment. The Suffolk County highway department tends the larger north-south arteries. continued on page 38

The Brookhaven highway department is working to clear recharge basins throughout the town as part of an ongoing effort to increase drainage capacity. This recharge basin is located in Holtsville. 34

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Once a recharge basin is cleared, it significantly increases drainage capacity. While the size and scope of work inside these basins varies greatly, these jobs can often take several days.

“Other than those main corridors, everything else is mine,” said the superintendent. “I have some town roads with very high traffic counts, mostly in urban or suburban areas, and lesser traveled roads in more rural areas. We have a lot of open space in Brookhaven and are very fortunate to have it.” Brookhaven and some other towns entered into agreements with Suffolk County more than 60 years ago when the county didn’t operate a full highway department. The upshot is that the town still maintains some roadways belonging to the county, including paving and removing snow from them. Since taking office, Losquadro has overseen more than $50 million in paving work, all of which was contracted out. By letting private contractors complete major resurfacing projects, the department can focus on being a service-oriented department. “I have a crew doing sidewalks and other maintenance. They work all day every day, but they generally are responding to complaints for service, to reports of damaged curbing, collapsed sidewalks, or drainage issues. We divide work into what we can do in-house and what we can contract out.” Losquadro also budgets time and resources to managing the town’s water resources — “we have a tremendous focus on drainage and stormwater,” he said. After all, more than half of Brookhaven’s 531 square miles are covered by water. The town contains large lakes and extends from the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay inside Fire 38

Island, which borders on flood-prone low-lying properties, all the way across the island to Long Island Sound to the north. The town is finalizing a contract with an outside firm to map the town’s storm drains so GPS technology can more effectively manage the system. Relatively unexciting work such as highway signage and traffic safety is not ignored. Honking horns and dented fenders would result if it were. As parts of Brookhaven evolve from places of summer residences to full-time residency, Losquadro has responded with significant upgrades in turn lanes and traffic easements. Studies are under way to determine how to alleviate congestion and employ GIS technology to build a data base on traffic flow. “And our sign shop is very important,” said the superintendent. “When a sign is down, replacing it in a timely way is important. It is a quality of life thing.” Equipment for the Job The machines a highway department needs don’t come cheap. In the next few weeks, Losquadro will take delivery of four 10-wheel Mack dump trucks. Total price tag: $900,000. This is the latest tab in an ongoing investment in the department’s fleet. The Brookhaven town logo already emblazons two dozen new Freightliner six-wheel dump trucks, more than a dozen heavy-duty dual-wheel Ford trucks, 30 pickups, a vacuum truck and a variety of heavy construction equipment. continued on page 42

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Still on Losquadro’s wish list are three more vacuum trucks so that the drainage and stormwater work in each of the town’s four work quadrants will have a unit designated for it. The trucks cost $385,000 apiece, so Losquadro must acquire them one at a time. Also needing to be replaced are aging wheel loaders, street sweepers, and yet more dump trucks. “When I took over, the equipment fleet was not set up properly,” Losquadro said. “When I bought the four 10-wheelers, I doubled the department’s inventory of the machines. Having that kind of capacity inhouse is very important, which was borne out when the August storm moved through on the north shore. Thousands of trees were downed in a small area. The damage actually was worse than in Superstorm

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Sandy.” After the August storm, the department collected more than 30,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris. At the peak of clean-up, trucks each day were hauling to a mulching center more than 1,000 cubic yards of debris. “Having the resources to flood into a stricken area and clear streets of vegetative debris is a good start in recovering from a storm,” said Losquadro. So the superintendent has focused on rehabilitating the fleet, a task he realizes is going to take some time. “It’s not going to happen overnight. In the next budget year, we are looking to replace more equipment. The department budget accounts for 45 to 48 percent of the town budget, so what I do has significant impact on town finances. My job is to stretch those dollars as far as possible.” One of the more unusual pieces of equipment on the superintendent’s list is replacement of the department’s military surplus landing craft. Think Iwo Jima or D-Day landings on the Normandy coast, with open flat-bottomed boats reaching a beach area and lowering their entire front panels to disgorge GI’s and jeeps. For a town to maintain and operate that sort of craft might seem frivolous, but it turns out the landing craft is a staple of the department’s equipment. It is used to supply material and machines across the Great South Bay to Fire Island, much of which lies within Brookhaven’s town limits. Some towns contract for barges, but Brookhaven’s regular offshore work makes the landing craft the more practical option. “I really need to replace that boat,” the superintendent said. Under New York State highway regulations, Fire Island’s boardwalks and concrete crossovers for vehicular traffic are the responsibility of a jurisdiction’s highway department. So the landing craft will be used to support contracted repair work on Fire Island resulting from Hurricane Sandy. More significantly, the craft is vital for the department’s regular maintenance of boardwalks. “My crews stationed on Fire island do the routine maintenance work every day, year round, so that landing craft is an essential piece of equipment,” said Losquadro. “The boat is being kept afloat with bubblegum and baling wire. I have talented people in my welding and fabrication continued on page 46

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Brookhaven contains 2,200 linear miles of roadway, which translates into 3,350 lane miles. As a result, full-depth reclamation projects that involve complete removal and replacement of roadway are an integral part of the highway department’s responsibilities.

shop and if it were not for them, that boat would be at the bottom of the bay.” The plan is to buy a new military surplus landing craft, rid it of the triple-redundancy systems that are vital to military maneuvers but tend to wear out easily, otherwise refurbish the boat, and replace the craft’s diesel engines with new John Deere units. The department already is deep into researching where it can pick up a replacement military landing craft for its civilian work. Less unusual pieces of equipment are procured through more usual channels. However, procurement by New York State government entities through the statewide contract system has been problematic in recent years. Losquadro said he shops freely until he finds the best deal. The department has bought pickup trucks off the state contract, solicited and awarded local bidders in other purchases, and bought equipment through the National Joint Purchase Alliance. “We are not married to any one channel. Whatever route works best for me in terms of costs and delivery in timely fashion is the method we use.” Ups and Downs of Storms The whole idea of emergency management is being ready for an event that may or may not come and, if it does come, will arrive fairly quickly. It is all about being prepared for any eventuality. In the past two winters, more than 50 individual storms hit parts of Brookhaven, and last winter, monthly records for cold were set last January and February. Part of Losquadro’s preemptive response to emergencies is to have the equip46

ment he might need ready to go and to situate it in places it might be needed. To that end, the department operates 12 equipment yards and materials centers situated around the town. Because Brookhaven has diverse terrain and conditions, matching machinery to the needs of the surrounding area is carefully calibrated. “Placing the appropriate equipment in each area sometimes is as important as having more equipment,” Losquadro said. Snow-handling equipment is readied for winter beginning at summer’s end. Smaller equipment on shelves is maintained so that when it is loaded up in an emergency it can be expected to start. Once a storm hits, Losquadro wants to minimize recovery time. One continued on page 48

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way he does this is by avoiding handling of storm debris more than once. He has arranged for the department to use the waste management department’s $800,000 grinder that normally is stationed at the town landfill. When a storm strikes and branches and trees litter roadways, the department moves the grinder to a central receiving location and all downed materials are trucked to it for mulching. “It worked exceptionally well after the August thunderstorm. If we don’t do that, cleanup work will impact operations longer than the storm did.” The struggle to recover from damaging events is another downside of storms, of course. The aftermath of Sandy perfectly illustrates the problem. Working with FEMA authorities was, in Losquadro’s words, “slow and arduous.” Brookhaven engineered and submitted reconstruction and mitigation plans to FEMA, appointing a point person to the task, yet the process dragged on interminably. However, a new director of the FEMA region has been appointed and the process seems to be moving forward again, according to Losquadro. The upside of storms is that they sometimes expose an unknown weakness in a town’s highway or drainage system. Those can be opportunities for improving infrastructure and systems. Losquadro said that’s what happened in yet another August storm — “Steve and I kiddingly say we are going to put a line item in the budget called ‘August Weather Events.’”

The August 2014 thunderstorm set a single-day record for New York state, dumping 13 inches of rainfall in four hours. The downpour exposed the inability of the town’s recharge basins, of which the town has more than a thousand, to deal with that much runoff. The basins are supposed to handle up to eight inches of rain, containing it until the rainwater can percolate back into the ground. However, the basins were way overwhelmed because they had been neglected. Compacted sediment had reduced percolation and roots of trees and bushes clogged the soil. Said Losquadro: “Many of them looked like nature preserves. We’re now devegetating them and removing sediment. It is going to take several years, but the storm exposed the problem and continued on page 70

Snow removal, like everywhere else in New York State, is a significant responsibility for Brookhaven’s highway department. “When my department is successful, it makes the entire town look good,” Daniel said. “People don’t differentiate: If their street doesn’t get plowed, they blame the whole town government.” 48

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GEORGE & SWEDE SALES & SERVICE

TRACEY ROAD EQUIPMENT INC.

7155 Big Tree Road Pavilion, NY 14525 (800) 724-8722 Fax: (585) 584-8853 email:gregnewell@rochester.rr.com www.georgeandswede.com

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571 Route 212 Saugerties, NY 12477 (845) 247-0206 Fax: (845) 247-9321 www.amontanoco.com

ALL ISLAND EQUIPMENT 39 Jersey Street West Babylon, NY 11704 (631) 643-2605 Fax: (631) 643-4060 www.allislandequipment.com

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markings. Everett J Prescott Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area 33 Fire Service Safety Testing Hilton, NY Exhibit Area 23

Fire Service Safety Testing Inc. is a full-service life safety equipment and inspection company that assists with inhouse inspection as well as annual competent inspection. Five Star Equipment E. Syracuse, NY Area 122 Offering John Deere loaders FleetPride Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area 81 Force America Inc. Burnsville, MN Exhibit Area 43 Fort Miller FAB3 Corp. Greenwich, NY Exhibit Area T-1

TARCO V-Box spreaders, all-season dump bodies & leaf loaders. Franklin Paint Franklin, MA Exhibit Area 15

Manufacturer of traffic and field marking paint. Sales of equipment and supplies. Gearcor Inc. Conklin, NY Exhibit Area 37

Gearcor is a full-line distributor of work footwear, specialty boots, work clothing, (custom logo work) Hi-Viz clothing and rainwear, FR clothing and PPE. Plus, Footwear 50

Voucher Programs. One-Day free shipping in New York. www.gearcor.com . NYSWBENC - 800-517-5970 GovDeals Inc. Montgomery, AL Exhibit Area 25 GovDeals Inc. is a leading online auction solution for government entities to sell their surplus items online. All state and local agencies are eligible to sell their surplus vehicles, equipment and other items on www.govdeals.com. Hawk Frame & Axle Inc. Fairport, NY Exhibit Area 46 Heavy equipment repair: body work, refinishing, frame repair, welding, mechanical, suspension, alignments. Henderson Truck Equipment Watertown, NY Exhibit Area F Snow & ice control equipment: Combination bodies, dump bodies, anti-ice systems, deicing systems, salt slurry systems, pre-wet systems, sand & salt spreaders, brine making & truck fill systems, snowplows, wings, underbody scrapers, hitches (all styles), precision spinners, snowplow Squee-G, hooklift hoists, tarp systems, lighting, and more. Hybrid Building Solutions LLC Clarence Center, NY Exhibit Area 36 Steel and fabric buildings — hot dipped galvanized postfabrication with high density polyethylene fabric and stamped by third-party engineers makes Calhoun buildings an ideal choice for salt and sand storage.

Innovative Surface Solutions o/a Innovative Municipal Products U.S. Glenmont, NY Exhibit Area 90 Premium deicing and dust control liquids. Fertilizers and industrial liquids. Magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, chlorides with organic-based performance enhancers.

Joe Johnson Equipment Inc. Rochester, NY Exhibit Area G

Elgin, Vactor, Tiger, Envirosight, Toro Underground, Labrie, Leach, Wittke, New Way, Stetco, Harben, Epoke, Enz Kenworth Northeast Lackawanna, NY Exhibit Area M

Ironhawk Management LLC Euclid, OH Exhibit Area 21

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Ironhawk is a distributor of snow removal and road maintenance wear parts to State Departments of Transportation and other government entities. The company’s product mix includes snowplow blades, blade protectors, plow shoes, snowplow hardware, plow marker kits, and spinners.

Pressure washers from Landa, Karcher and Mi-T-M. Portable diesel fired infrared heaters from VAL6.

J.C. Smith Inc. Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area 67, 68 J.C. Smith Inc. is certified DBE/WBE of the state of New York. Since 1976, the company has grown to five locations across the state. Signs, construction roadway supplies and light equipment for sale or rent. Show specials at the Expo. For more information, visit www.jcsmithinc.com. J & J Equipment Brewerton, NY Exhibit Area 76, 77 J & J Equipment will be displaying its latest lineup of municipal equipment including Tymco street sweepers, Loadmaster refuse trucks, Aries sewer equipment, Flacon asphalt hot boxes, Superior Broom road sweepers, US Jetting sewer jetters.

Kepner Equipment Canandaigua, NY Exhibit Area 56, 57

KH Industries Hamburg, NY Exhibit Area 30

Located in Hamburg, N.Y., KH Industries manufactures temporary lighting and power solutions. Some of the products include portable LED area lighting, hazardous location lighting (explosion proof) and remote-control spotlamps. KH Industries also makes portable power products such as Power Drop Pendants and cord reels. Kinetic Fuel Technology Youngstown, NY Exhibit Area 26

K100 Fuel Treatment was developed in 1965 to remove water from fuel. Because ethanol fuels attract water, which can badly damage equipment if it is not removed from the fuel, K100 Fuel Treatment seeks out water in fuel and encapsulates it, altering the chemical makeup of continued on page 54

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Pine Bush Equipment Co., Inc.

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DANBURY OFFICE Edward Ehrbar, Inc. 42 Kenosia Ave. Danbury, CT 06810 203/743-0088 Fax: 203/743-0266

HOLBROOK OFFICE Edward Ehrbar, Inc. 601 Coates Ave. Holbrook, NY 11741 631/563-7600 Fax: 631/218-1069

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Pine Bush Office 97 Rt. 302 P.O. Box 106 Pine Bush, NY 12566 845/744-2006 • Fax 845/744-2900 www.pbeinc.com Holmes Office 24 Sybil Court Holmes, NY 12531 845/878-4004 • Fax 845/878-9626 www.pbeinc.com

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electrical products, hydraulic and industrial hoses, and a broad range of fleet related products. Key suppliers include Eaton, Gates, Parker, Zep, Loctite, 3M, North Supply, Grote, Littlefuse, Lenox and Norton.

Krown Rust Control Schomberg, ON, Canada Exhibit Area 48

MDI Truck/Marietta Diesel Auburn, NY Exhibit Area K-1

The company provides vehicle rust-proofing products.

2015 Ford F550 XL reg Cab 4 x 4 141-in. WB 60-in. CA upfitted with Western 9-ft., 8in. plow, 8-in. JJAG side wing, Smith stainless steel platform w/hoist, central hydraulic controlled Smith stainless steel spreader w/top screen and poly fenders. 9 ft., 2 in. Boss stainless steel DXT v-plow; 9 ft., 6 in. Western stainless steel MVP3 v-plow; 6 ft., 6 in. Boss UTV steel XT v-plow; 5-ft. Boss ATV poly straight blade.

Lakeland Equipment North Chili, NY Exhibit Area H

Lakeland Equipment is a full-line John Deere equipment dealer with sales, service and parts for all John Deere agricultural, lawn and garden, commercial mowing equipment and commercial worksite products. Lakeland Equipment Corp. has six locations throughout western New York. For more information, visit www.lakelandequipment.com. Lakelands Concrete Lima, NY Exhibit Area 124 (Outside)

Precast concrete products: strong retaining wall system, utility buildings, utility vaults for site drainage and electrical, box culvert and bridge systems, architectural precast and custom precast structure. www.LakelandsConcrete.co m. Lawson Products Chicago, IL Exhibit Area 39, 40

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Midland Asphalt Materials/Barrett Tonawanda, NY Exhibit Area 93 Milton CAT Milford, MA Exhibit Area J Mohawk Ltd. Chadwicks, NY Exhibit Area 79 Established in 1959, Mohawk Ltd is a NYSWBE business that supports municipalities, utilities, cable, contractors and telecommunications industries with the highest quality equipment repair, calibration, and products. Visit Mohawk Ltd. at the Expo for a chance to win a set of Mag-Lok Long Handle Tools.

Mohawk Lifts Amsterdam, NY Exhibit Area 49

Northern Supply Bloomfield, NY Exhibit Area 22

Mohawk, a leader in lift technology, offers environmentally safe above-ground lifts ranging from 6,000- to 240,000-pound capacities. Mohawk is the number-one lift supplier for garages, independent shops, government, state, utility and fleet lifting requirements. Mohawk Lifts are proudly designed, welded, and manufactured in the United States.

Kennametal carbide plow blades, Kuper high performance plow blades, Northern SBR rubber blades. Nihard, Steel & Carbide plow shoes & related accessories. Sign posts, custom signs, and safety products. 40-plus years of municipal supply experience.

Montage Enterprises Blairstown, NJ Exhibit Area 80 Parts for roadside mowing equipment and sand and salt spreader parts. Also introducing KUT-MOR — the company’s own brand of flail mowers. MSC Industrial Direct/MSC Industrial Supply Rochester, NY Exhibit Area 60 MSC Industrial Supply has more than a million MRO and metalworking products available, ranging from material handling to cutting tools, safety, hand tools, power tools and fasteners, all with a same-day shipping guarantee. North American Signal Wheeling, IL Exhibit Area 69 North American Signal Company is an American manufacturer of auto, truck and industrial warning lights and accessories. The company features a complete line of LED, strobe and halogen warning lights. Products include arrow lights, back-up alarms, beacons, corner lights, light bars, grommet and surface mount warning lights.

Nu-Look ProFinish Ontario, NY Exhibit Area 79

Nu-Look ProFinish specializes in fleet, truck and heavy equipment refinishing. Now, with a brand new sandblasting building, ProFinish can handle all repair needs. Need to upfit a commercial vehicle? From customizable lighting, to racking, dump bodies and more, Nu-Look Accessories has customers covered. NYSAOTSOH Albany, NY Exhibit Area 65

The association seeks to: • Act as a medium of instruction in highway construction and maintenance; • Ensure better and safer highways; • Provide efficient public service; • Realize economies, through exchange of ideas, cooperation and coordination; • Promote and support legislation that will benefit the best interest of the people in the towns; • Promote the principle of Home-Rule; and • Defend the town form of government. With more than 1,100 members, the association is the largest transportation association in New York State. Your continued on page 58

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participation ensures that your voice is heard by state lawmakers. Onspot Automatic Tire Chains Stratford, CT Exhibit Area 66 Onspot Automatic Tire Chains allow the operator to engage and disengage tire chains at the flip of the dashboard switch without stopping to enhance traction and reduce braking distance on snow and ice in forward or reverse. On-Trux Ltd. Ayr, ON, Canada Exhibit Area V-2 Optronics International Muskogee, OK Exhibit Area 92 12V automotive lighting and LED work lights.

Patch Management Inc./Pothole Killers Fairless Hills, PA Exhibit Area 50 The Pothole Killer’s PK2000 provides the most cost effective, environmentally conscious and safe method of pothole and roadway repair via spray injection patching in the industry. The company provides leasing and contract services to best fulfill your needs either as a preventive measure before “pothole season” or during the season. Peirce-Eagle Equipment Co. Branchburg, NJ Exhibit Area 35

QPR (Quality Pavement Repair) Alpharetta, GA Exhibit Area 1 QPR is a leader in asphalt repair materials. QPR’s permanent and easy pothole repair has become the standard for cold patch companies across the United States and Canada. QPR is a DOT approved material in all 50 states and throughout Canada. The company guarantees a quality product, with a superior sales, support and customer service staff. Riccelli Northern Inc. Fulton, NY Exhibit Area 75 Trucking; ReadyMix manufacturing & sales; blacktop manufacturing & sales; concrete blocks & sales.

Pipe cleaning-excavation and pipe inspection equipment

Rocrents Webster, NY Exhibit Area U-2

Roy Teitsworth Inc. Geneseo, NY Exhibit Area 13

Live & Internet Auctions — government surplus; construction and farm equipment. Sealmaster Buffalo, NY Exhibit Area 5 (inside) and 121 (outside)

Asphalt maintenance products. Shur-Co Yankton, SD Exhibit Area 84

Shur-Co LLC products include the genuine Shur-Lok roll tarp system, Shur-Trak II cable tarp system, the ArmMatic aluminum flip-arm, DuraPull semi-automatic pull tarp, Ox arm system, IronSide electric roll tarp for side dumps, and many others. Shurcontinued on page 60

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Co has 10 service centers and more than 1,200 dealer/distributors across the United States and Canada. Skyworks LLC Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area 2 Husqvarna construction products, JLG aerial lifts, EcoQuip abrasive water blast equipment, Butterfield concrete products. Snap-Tite Culvert Liners/ISCO Louisville, KY Exhibit Area 51 The Snap-Tite Culvert Liner team specializes in the analysis of aging culvert infrastructure. Snap-Tite is a solid wall HDPE culvert liner available in 8-in. to 63-in. The team also has expertise in materials above 63-in. diameter; ranging all the way up through 144-in. The No-Dig Solution. Spaulding Mfg. Inc. Saginaw, MI Exhibit Area U-1 Spaulding Mfg. Inc. has been manufacturing asphalt repair equipment since 1982. Its product line includes asphalt heated haulers on trailers, skidmounted or chassis-mounted; melting kettles; crack sealers; tack distributors; and the Bulldog vibratory roller, dispensing options are dump, auger or belt. S & S Tractor Parts Inc. Marcellus, NY Exhibit Area 9 Heavy equipment parts and service — full-service repair center — equipment sales and rental. Work on undercarriage, transmission parts, final drives parts. The company sells rub60

ber tracks for skid steers and excavators. Track press work. STS Trailer & Truck Equipment Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area R Full-line municipal and truck equipment supplier. The company offers dump bodies, combo spreader, stakes, vans landscape, highway snowplows, detachable tag trailers, paro hook lifts, cranes, liftgates, tarping systems, pintle hooks, pick-up truck accessories, hoists, spreaders, Wayne refuse packers, Smith metals, Air Flo, Fisher, Boss, Meyer, Galion-Godwin, Reading, American Rolloff, Trail King, EBY, Morgan, Switch-n-Go. Stadium International Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area S The company International trucks.

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Steel Sales Inc. Sherburne, NY Exhibit Area 3 Steel Sales Inc. has a huge inventory of steel, aluminum and stainless products along with snowplow blades and shoes, construction edges, ADS drainage products, stabilization fabric, Hardox wear plate, sander chains, tire chains, hardware and more. The company’s experienced fabricators cut, form, weld, punch, and mill to your specifications. Sunnycrest Inc. Auburn, NY Exhibit Area 4 The company offers manholes, catch basins, pipe and fittings, retaining wall blocks, and landscape blocks.

Team Eagle Inc. Tilton, NH Exhibit Area 27, 28, 29 Team Eagle is an airport municipal company with three locations. Its home office is in Campbellford, Ontario, Canada; Pacific Washington; Tilton, New Hampshire. Equipment the company sells and services in North America include Oshkosh, Multihog side walk machine, Riako Ice Breaker, Metal Pless Live edge plows, Epoke sanders, Rover Roll Over Warning system. Tech-Mix (Bauval Group) Varennes, QC, Canada Exhibit Area 7 Top-Mix Cold Patch Asphalt — the long-lasting and convenient solution for road and pothole repair. Produced 12 months a year for year-round usage. Available in 50-lb. and 60-lb. bags and in bulk. NYSDOT approved. Tenco Industries Lakeville, NY Exhibit Area E Tenco is a leader in snow and ice control products for airports and highways. Tenco Industries is an Alamo Group company that provides installation of equipment and service after the sale. Tenco Industries also is a parts depot. Tenco would like to say thank you to its customers, inviting them to visit Ken Brink, Shane Chapman and Glenn Plaisted at Booth “E.” THT Sales & Rentals Albany, NY Exhibit Area 31, 32 Remote control steep incline mower.

The ODB Company Old Dominion Brush Co. Richmond, VA Exhibit Area C

A source for municipal products since 1910. Leaf collectors and repair parts. Street sweeper brooms and replacement parts. Tracey Road Equipment East Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area P, Q

Tracey Road Equipment offers a complete range of new and used sales and rental equipment, as well as full service, parts, warranty and financing capabilities. Serving municipalities and highway and construction professionals in the Capital District, Central, and Western New York markets, the company represents a full range of trucks, trailers, equipment, and attachments from some of the leading manufacturers in the industry. Traffic Safety Products/Eberl Iron Buffalo, NY Exhibit Area 17, 18

Traffic Safety Products, a division of Eberl Iron Works Inc., is a one-stop shop for traffic safety products. The company provides aluminum and roll-up signs, square tubular, round and U-channel sign posts, sign brackets, barricades, flexible and steel delineators, barrels, cones and much more. For more information, visit www.trafficsafetyproducts.net. Trius Inc. Fort Edward, NY Exhibit Area D-2

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Truck-Lite Falconer, NY Exhibit Area 14

For more than 50 years, Truck-Lite has proudly manufactured quality LED, sealed and bulb replaceable safety, forward and warning lighting as well as harness and mirror systems. Trux Outfitter Binghamton, NY Exhibit Area T-2; 71, 72, 73 Unique Paving Materials Corp. Cleveland, OH Exhibit Area 54

Unique Paving Materials is a leader in the asphalt and concrete pavement repair and preservation industry, providing high-performance products 64

for the repair and preservation of asphalt and concrete surfaces.

Vellano Corporation Latham, NY Exhibit Area 89

Upstate Sweepers Rochester, NY Exhibit Area D-1

Drainage pipe erosion control water and sewer pipe & fittings.

Valk Mfg. New Kingstown, PA Exhibit Area 61, 62, 63, 64 Vantage Equipment Syracuse, NY Exhibit Area L Volvo construction equipment; Gradall excavators; Stewart-Amos sweepers; BTI hammers; Terra Select trommel screens; Blaw-Knox pavers; road wideners and brooms; Maclean municipal vehicles; Globe trailers; Kinshofer attachments.

Viking-Cives USA Harrisville, NY Exhibit Area O Whelen Engineering Company Inc. Chester, CT Exhibit Area 88 Whelen manufactures vehicle warning signals and signaling systems. Its product line consists of beacons, warning lights, stop-tailturn lights, clearance/marker lights, backup alarms, lightbars and sophisticated warning light systems. Technologies used in these products range from halogen, strobe, LED and Super-LED.

Whites Farm Supply Waterville, NY Exhibit Area U-4 & U-5 Kubota tractors, excavators and track loaders. Winter Equipment Company Inc. Willoughby, OH Exhibit Area 24 Snowplow wearparts and accessories. Woodford Bros. Apulia Station, NY Exhibit Area 55

The company is a structural renovation company specializing in concrete lifting and leveling using the Polylevel system and foundation repairs using Helical/push pier systems.

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gave us the opportunity to fix it.” Working Relationships The first-term Brookhaven highway superintendent seems to be succeeding in his executive role. Part of the success surely must be attributed to his ability to cultivate and maintain productive relationships at various governing levels. As a former recent member of the state assembly, Losquadro has floor access in both chambers during assembly sessions where he can quietly lobby for highway support. This also gives him additional credibility in his work with the Suffolk County and New York State Highway Superintendents Associations. “I understand the challenges the county and state governments face and I think that gives me a clear advantage in being able to navigate the corridors to make our case,” he said. In addition, two sitting town council members worked for and with Losquadro prior to their election to council, which at the least gives them valuable insight into his thinking and in all likelihood makes them sympathetic to his long-term goals for the department. When Losquadro decided to meet with utility companies to talk about mitigating street disruptions for utility work, he was accompanied by Tricarico. His deputy superintendent’s presence lent immediate credibility to the superintendent because of Tricarico’s success with the Long Island Power Authority. Consequently, a moratorium of one year was placed on new pavement. “Any kind of repair is a compromised roadway, and coordinating projects is in the best interests of the taxpayer and the infrastructure itself,” the superintendent said of the agreement established with utility engineers. “This way, the utility companies don’t have to pay the costs of restoring the roadway and traffic isn’t disrupted. The superintendent has a good relationship with the Brookhaven council, which largely has bought into his belief that maintaining infrastructure is a transcendent good.

“When my department is successful, it makes the entire town look good,” he explained. “People don’t differentiate: If their street doesn’t get plowed, they blame the whole town government. My department provides a fundamental service. It’s where the rubber hits the road, no pun intended.” Still, Losquadro is anything but satisfied with how much money the department has to spend on equipment and services. He estimates that he has $120 million in outstanding road work, yet is allocated only $17 million annually from the town and state CHIPS fund. He ends up moving money around to get ahead of constituent requests to remove trees and to replace concrete pavement that has been heaved and broken by freeze-thaw cycles. “I have to look at this like a business. I have 3-, 5- and 10-year business plans and it is going to take that long,” he said. “We want to get to the point where we are doing regular maintenance. Right now it is a matter of worst first.” Other relationships maintained by Losquadro are with some of the nine incorporated villages in the town limits. Brookhaven is responsible for snow removal, striping, pothole repair and other basic highway maintenance work in those villages. Also, when major storms strike the town, the department augments its 200 to 250 pieces of equipment with up to 500 pieces of equipment from contractors. Losquadro maintains a “substantial” list of contractors ready to respond in an emergency. One of the more curious facets of the highway superintendent’s job is its maintenance of the Brookhaven Ecology Site, Park, and Animal Preserve. The facility is essentially a zoo. One of Losquadro’s predecessors in the highway department started it on a former landfill with the idea that it could supply town-grown flowers for landscape projects. Then it became a home to abandoned or injured wild animals and today is a communal flower-growing haven, a compost-pickup spot, a walking continued on page 76

In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy caused severe damage to the outfall site located at the northern end of Riverhead Drive in Sound Beach. The erosion control improvements Superintendent Losquadro made to the site protects the bluff from further damage, ensuring that the Long Island Sound Estuary is protected from potential harm while also providing adjacent property owners with peace of mind. 70

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trail, and a petting zoo for such animals as a buffalo and a pair of bears — Honey and Poo. “It really is incredible and unique,” said Losquadro. “My employees run the whole facility. Brookhaven is the only highway department in the state with the category of ‘Animal Caretaker’ in its budget. I went there as a kid and my kids go there.” The zoo-park is another part of a town that Losquadro clearly loves. He described Brookhaven as a series of closely-knit communities, most of them identifying with a local school district. It is a place where the superintendent, his wife Lynn, and their young children Joseph and Meghan, are happily rooted. All in all, Brookhaven is a constituency as a whole that Losquadro is committed to representing. “Brookhaven is a very diverse town demographically and socioeconomically,” he said. Census figures peg the town at 70 percent white and 25 percent African-American. About 8 percent of residents identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino. “For me, in representing the entire town, I made a commitment that I would break funding equally among the six council districts, rich and poor. I represent half a million people and it is very important that I represent them all.”

As a practical matter, added Losquadro, who is back on the ballot this fall, if he is successful in working for the entire town, people in each area will see progress near their homes and be more apt to wait for the rest. “They will have more understanding of the problems of my budget and be more patient.” Brookhaven is situated about 50 miles from Manhattan and is the largest of the state’s 932 towns. It dates from 1655, with the town of Brookhaven officially coming into being in 1686. The name is an anglicized rendering of the town’s first settlement, Setauket. The land was formed by glacial movement, with its hills the consequence of a glacial moraine and its lakes glacial kettleholes that filled with water. Lake Ronkonkoma is Suffolk County’s largest lake. Tall timber cover areas near areas near north and south shores and the town relies solely on Long Island’s aquifer for potable water. Barrier beaches form the town’s southern edge. Stony Brook University is the town’s largest employer, employing four times more people than the second largest employer, the IRS. Three small airports serve the community and ferries connect the town to Fire Island and across Long Island Sound to Bridgeport, Conn. Estimated median household income in 2013 was about $80,000. P

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