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In the words of President John F. Kennedy, “…Let the word go forth…that the torch has been passed to a new generation…” Fast forward to 2015. “I’m the new guy. I was handed the torch and I’m carrying it.” Those are the words of Ray Smith, highway superintendent of the town of Niskayuna, on taking over the reins from longtime super (20 years to be exact) Frank Gavin. Due to Frank’s recommendation, Ray was appointed to his first two-year term last March. “Fact be known, if you would have bet me when I started here that I’d be the highway superintendent I would have laughed. It was always looked at as a very pristine position with a lot of responsibility. It was quite an honor even to be considered. “Frank mentored me for years. It wasn’t set in stone. He said he was going to retire for a long time. It was like he was crying wolf. We had a good working relationship [during that time] so it wasn’t a

difficult transition.” After graduating from Niskayuna High School, Ray worked for local builders. “I was a laborer right out of school. Construction is sort of in my blood. My father worked in the Water and Sewer Department for 30 years. I started here as a laborer in 1986 and became a heavy equipment operator in 1988. I tried to get in right after high school but there weren’t any vacancies. To tell you the truth, my father didn’t want me to come here. He worked here and he wanted better for me than what he had. He would always tell me that ‘whatever you do, you do to the best of your ability.’ I still live by those words.” In 2000 Ray became road maintenance supervisor for the town, which, at that time, was basically a deputy sans the title. “We still don’t have a deputy but I made one of my crew leaders, Pete Rakvica, assistant for highway affairs. I have another supervisor directly under me, Ken Williams. He’s in charge of maintenance and the Parks Department. I’ll be losing him to retirement in January.” Ray grew up in Alplaus, N.Y., with his three younger sisters and brother. His parents and siblings still live locally. He and his girlfriend of 21 years, Michelle, raised four children together: Dion, 29; Andrew and Reuben, both 28; and Joseph, 21. Ray also is the proud Pop-Pop of three-year-old Grace. “She’s the light of my life — my everything. My office is covered with her artwork.” To this day, Michelle is one of Ray’s biggest cheerleaders. “I’ve known Raymond for the past 21 years and I’m very proud of his accomplishments. He is very dedicated to his job and strives to be better every day.” continued on page 12

Ray Smith is the proud Pop-Pop of three-year-old Grace. “She’s the light of my life — my everything. My office is covered with her artwork.”

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Ray Smith (C) with Supervisors Ken Williams (L) and Pete Rakvica.

A member of the New York State Highway Superintendents and the Saratoga Highway Superintendents Associations, Ray loves hanging out in the Adirondacks. “That’s where I go to hunt and fish and spend time with my granddaughter.” When it comes time to retire, Ray would like to “have a decent size piece of property somewhere between here and there where there are open spaces and I can mind my own business. I’d like to get a big enough place so my grandkids can have horses or whatever they’d like to have.” All in a Day’s Work Ray’s crew helps serve the town’s 21,781 residents. In addition to Pete and Ken, his staff includes five crew leaders, four mechanics, two machine equipment operators (heavy), nine machine equipment operators (medium), one tree trimmer, five laborers and a secretary. Three members of the town’s Parks 12

Department also work under Ray. “I pretty much have the same crew as Frank. We’ve lost to retirement. One thing I’ve noticed is the willingness of the older staff to teach the younger ones. It works the other way, too. I’m proud of my men. They’re second to none.” Coming from a working background, Ray doesn’t take his position lightly. “I’m their boss, but I also came from where they are so I can relate to what they’re going through. I have a few that literally thank me every day for their job. Being in charge is big for me. I’m looking out for 37 people.” As the department’s “top dog,” Ray is responsible for maintaining the town’s 170 lane miles of paved road. That translates into nine plow routes that take between three and one-half to four hours to complete. Ray also oversees the town’s Facilities and Parks Department. The highway department functions on an operating budget of “We mow 400-plus acres a $3,492,352, which includes salaries and benefits for employees and an annual CHIPS allocation of $157,183.85.

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The Niskayuna highway department’s equipment yard.

The second building (60 by 100 ft.), built in the early 1990s, is used for storage and by the Parks maintenance crews. Three additional buildings located around town are used for winter storage. There also is a salt storage facility built in the early 1990s that holds up to 3,000 tons of salt. Like most highway departments these days, money for new equipment is hard to come by. “We always have an ongoing list. The biggest things we need to upgrade are the older plow trucks. We’ll go to the board in January and ask again.” Since the cap on government spending was enacted [in 2011] Ray doesn’t have an equipment budget. “The law says you can’t raise the taxes above two percent. If a municipal- The department’s spring/summer budget takes care of capital improvements, paving, stone and ity chooses, they can go over it by a pub- drainage work, such as storm drain repair. lic vote but we don’t. We budget within, which is very challenging,” Ray explains. “We bond everything have the authority to just go out and buy it. We’re fortunate, we buy. The interest rate is reasonable. I think it’s somewhere though. Frank put us in a good place with the town board and the around one percent. We purchase a lot of small pieces by generat- supervisor. They’ve been very supportive.” Maintaining the town’s vehicles is a top priority for Ray and his ing money within our budget. Last year we had issues with trucks failing so the town let me move some money within my budget to crew. “I have three mechanics, a mechanic supervisor and a buy a 2008 truck. It upgraded us by about four years from the mechanic auto body man. We recently experienced a turnover in vehicles we were having issues with. “Everything I buy has to go through them [the board]. I don’t continued on page 34 28

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The town of Niskayuna’s highway department has nine plow routes that take between three and one-half to four hours to complete.

our mechanic’s shop. There are some younger mechanics who learned newer technology and brought that here. The newer trucks are easier to run but working on them gets harder, mostly because of the computers. We rarely send anything out. We do as much as we can in-house. There have been instances that were beyond us but not very often. My guys go above and beyond to get it fixed. “We have our own body shop where we sand blast and repair our truck bodies. We try and do two a year to maximize the equipment’s longevity. In addition, an auto body mechanic is on staff who paints and repairs the vehicles.” That’s not to say Ray’s job isn’t without its challenges. “You can’t make everybody happy. You do your best. Unfortunately, like life, you can’t tell everybody, ‘Yes, I can do it.’ There are times when things are on private property and we have don’t have the right to do it. I try and talk to the residents and give them an idea of what they could do and tell them why we can’t help. “At the same time, the most rewarding part of my job is whenever I get a letter or phone call from a resident saying we’ve done a good job. For someone to take the time to write or call means you’re doing something right.” So what’s next? “The town’s working on a Parks Master Plan, which is reconfiguring and utilizing the parks we have and the park plans. It involves upgrading the facilities, maybe adding more parking and 34

fields. The board is looking at the needs and wants of the town. We have good bones. This is just a way to enhance what we have. I’m pretty excited about that.” On a personal note, Ray plans to keep doing what he’s doing. “I’m still new to it all. I wouldn’t change anything. It’s good being me. I hope it only gets better.” About the Town Niskayuna is one of the five towns and one city, Schenectady, which comprise the county of Schenectady. Niskayuna lies in the northeast corner of the county, bounded on the west by the city, on the south by the town of Colonie and, separated by the Mohawk River, by Clifton Park on the north and east. The town is about 15 miles northwest of Albany. Its principal points of entry are from Route 7, the Troy-Schenectady Road, and Route 5, the AlbanySchenectady road, continuing north along Route 146, Balltown Road, at Mohawk Commons. The town is predominantly a residential community, consisting of 6,372 single-family homes, 1,415 apartments and a modest number of town houses and condominiums. Although much green space has been preserved, there are few large tracts of land left for future development. About 80 percent of the town’s 1.2 billion assessed valuation is residential. Only a small part of its 20 percent commercial development is devoted to retail use, most continued on page 38

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Crews perform some tree trimming in Niskayuna.

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The average family income in Niskayuna is the highest in the Capital District. Its full-value assessment per capita is the largest in Schenectady County and allows town taxes to be the lowest in the county and among the lowest in the region. The town is home to four major parks, one of which houses the town pool, a skateboard park, driving range, 20-acre soccer complex, a baseball complex with seven fields, four girls softball fields, one football field and almost 9.5 miles of bike path that follows the Mohawk River from the town of Colonie to the city of Schenectady. P

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There is a new class of surgeons operating across New York State. Their place of work is the street, not the operating room, and their instrument is not a scalpel but the lance of a purpose-built hydro excavator. Instead of digging a large Hydro excavation’s popularity has increased A hydro excavator can dig holes with surgical precision, which hole that requires road clo- due to heightened awareness of deteriorating is an ideal method for numerous applications where mechansures, safety shoring, tons of underground infrastructure. ical excavation is not only inefficient but also dangerous. backfilling and exposes the operator to the risk of damagoccurrences caused damage ing underground utilities such to a natural gas line. Across as gas lines, a hydro excavator the country, 51.7 percent of utilizes pressurized water to all events involved a backhoe; break up and remove the soil only 0.1 percent were reportvia air conveyance. Also ed for vacuum equipment. known as an HXX, made by Safety and increased efficienIllinois-based market leader cy are the main reasons why Vactor Manufacturing, a the vacuum excavator market hydro excavator can dig holes in North America has skywith surgical precision, which rocketed from $985M in 2011 is an ideal method for numerto $1.3B in 2015. ous applications where New York State Vactor mechanical excavation is not dealer Joe Johnson only inefficient but also danEquipment also has noticed gerous. the trend toward hydro excaSurgical excavation using vation units over mechanical pressurized water and air conexcavators. veyance allows locating and “Many of our municipal exposing buried utility lines; Surgical excavation using pressurized water and air conveyance allows locating and contractor customers the rehabilitation and restora- and exposing buried utility lines. have used the Vactor 2100 tion of sewers, waterlines and Plus Combo for both sewer pipelines; repairing water valve boxes; telecommunication maintenance cleaning and hydro excavating”, said Regional Sales Manager Aaron and repair; slot trenching; sign and pole installation; landscaping (dig- Gieseke. “Lately though, there is an increasing demand for the purposeging holes for trees and shrubs); potholing; and excavation in tight spaces built Vactor HXX models as there is a greater understanding and appreor congested areas. ciation for the benefits of this type of excavation now. In fact, most of my Most importantly, hydro excavation’s popularity has increased due to customers started out with a combo unit and were very impressed with a heightened awareness of deteriorating underground infrastructure and the capabilities of the HXX components, so when larger jobs come the need to safely expose and repair it. While New York implemented the around they move on to an HXX, which we currently have in stock and OneCall System to request locates prior to the start of an excavation proj- ready-for-work.” ect, the only sure way to know where a utility actually runs is to expose With an increasing awareness of the dangers of mechanical excavait. This is even more crucial since the occurrence of cross bores (when a tion and the impact of utility strikes, not only from a financial perspecgas line intersects a sewer main) represents a ticking time bomb. The tive but more so as a matter of public safety, hydro excavation is quicklocation, repair and prevention of cross bores can be accomplished effi- ly becoming a best practice for all types of excavation projects. Both ciently and safely using hydro excavation. contractors and municipalities are increasingly finding value in dedicatAccording to the 2013 DIRT report issued by the Common Ground ed hydro excavation units for any project involving digging, trenching or Alliance (CGA), the trend toward alternative excavation methods over excavation for job optimization and the safety of their operators and the use of a backhoe is evident in a steady decline of reported events (the everyone involved. occurrence of downtime, damages and near misses). Region 1 (includFor more information, visit http://www.jjei.com/. ing New York State) reported 14,130 events for 2013, a decrease over (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s previous years even with increased excavation activity. Of that, 6,024 Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) 58

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