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Dedicated. Determined. Dependable — that’s Larry LaMora, a man destined to be highway superintendent for the town of Rotterdam. Born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Larry and his family moved to Rotterdam when he was one. “I was raised by my mother and stepfather,” he said. “We lived one mile from the highway department.” A graduate of Schalmont High School, Larry was in the vocational services program as a mechanic during his junior and senior years. “I wasn’t much of a college person.

I was more of a hands-on-type guy. I could dig a ditch, fix a pipe, do the most common sense things that are required on the job. Before I graduated, my stepfather bought a service station on Campbell Road in Rotterdam. I was 16 and just got my driver’s license. I’d drive there and work on cars after school. Some of the high school teachers would bring their vehicles in to be inspected or have new brakes put on.” Before entering vocational school, Larry was already experienced in automotive repair. “My stepfather worked on heavy equipment. He also was in the trucking and excavating business. I learned how to paint vehicles and equipment. I was 12 years old running a small Cat front-end loader around our property. In vocational school, the teachers always made me a class leader. I’d watch over the other kids repairing stuff. The teacher was surprised at how much knowledge I had.” School wasn’t always easy for Larry. “I was pretty much a “skate through” type of kid. Even if it were Cs and Ds, I got through it. When I got to 12th grade, I buckled down. I went to all my classes. I was getting 90s. The teachers were impressed. There was an awards ceremony at the end of the year. Senior skip day was the same day. My friends and I were going to skip and go to the park. I remember my mother asked me to go to the assembly instead. I told her I didn’t want to, but she said my guidance counselor needed to talk to me about something. It would only take a few minutes. “So I went, and all of a sudden, I was called up for the greatest achievement award. I looked out in the crowd and saw one person,” he said, choking back tears. “My mother. Every time I see her I think back on it. She knew what was going on. She knew about senior skip day. That made me feel good. I saw her there … she was proud of me.” After vocational school, Larry went to work for LBJ Auto. “It was me, my brother and stepbrother. My father bought the service station for us. I was there about five years. My interests were growing. I got married. I moved on to heavy equipment and some excavating.” In 1985, he joined Standard Stone Construction, where he worked on heavy continued on page 12

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equipment and machinery and did road infrastructure. “The owner was a development builder. He did everything from taking trees down to putting in his own water mains. He also had his own water pump facility in Saratoga. I helped maintain all the company’s equipment. I’d make sure the vehicles were ready for winter and then during the winter, I’d get all the equipment and foreman’s trucks repaired or rebuilt so we’d be ready for summer.” Larry stayed with Standard Stone for about five years before venturing out on his own. “I worked on heavy equipment and did some excavating. I still own some excavating equipment. My equipment repair shop is still going in Rotterdam. It’s been 20-plus years. We’re light on excavating now. It’s mostly repairing bulldozers, backhoes and trucks. We do a lot of work for the general builders and masons in the area.” So what brought Larry to the highway department? “There were times during a winter storm when my guys had to go home and the roads weren’t plowed. I thought, ‘How come this road isn’t plowed?’ I was in the service truck and called them up. I told them they better leave early. I’m in the four-wheel drive service truck and was having a heck of a time getting down the streets. By the time I got to my business, the guys were snowed in. I came by the highway department around mid-afternoon and all the snow and salt trucks were parked around the building with lights flashing and everyone’s inside. I was furious. I wanted to go inside and ask what everybody was doing. “That was one of the issues. Living so close here I knew a few people in the highway department and things were brought to my attention. continued on page 18

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Things that weren’t really right. Why doesn’t somebody do something? Nobody wanted to step up to the plate. The gentleman who was running for town supervisor called me and said, ‘Larry, why don’t you run for highway superintendent?’ Why not? I wish I had run 10 years ago. It wouldn’t be the disaster it is now that I’m trying to repair.” Larry first ran in 2011 but “didn’t get that many votes. It was an unknown ticket, not really Republican or Democrat. The second time I was backed by the Republican and Conservative Parties. Now with major backings and a small line, I got enough votes. It was more than five friends voting. People were interested and wanted me to run. I never liked the political part of it — kissing babies, going door-to-door. I did what needed to be done to get the win. The second time running I wanted it to be close. Even if I got beat by a couple hundred votes, I’d be happy. I won with just over 100 votes.” Changing the way the highway department operated was Larry’s top priority. “My predecessor wasn’t always around. Residents would call here looking for him and he wouldn’t return their calls. That was the first thing I did. I’d come in here on a Saturday morning and check the answering machine. Once I called a resident who had an issue at 8 a.m. I thought she was upset with me the way she was talking. I said, ‘Ma’am, I’m sorry. Is it too early to call you?’ She replied, ‘Not at all. I just can’t believe I got a call back.’ I told her there was a new chief in the house and if you call here, you’re going to get a response. I’ll make sure of that.” Larry has one daughter, Christina, and a four-year-old grandson, Lorenzo. “They swore me into office for my second term.” Larry’s quick to admit he hasn’t had free time in a long time. He likes continued on page 22 18

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to spend what little time he has for himself fishing on his boat. “I also have an antique car collection. I enjoy riding my motorcycle in the country and I like going to equipment auctions. Any kind of auctions, really. They’re exciting.” When it comes time to pass the baton, how would Larry like to be remembered? “For trying to get things done and standing up for the needs of the employees and residents. I believe it’s just as important to stand up for the people who work here as it is to stand up for the residents.” Larry chuckles when asked about retirement. “I honestly don’t see me ever retiring. I’ve been active all my life doing something and I think I’ll always be active.” All in a Day’s Work The highway department works out of one building that was built in the 1950s. It houses Larry’s and his secretary’s offices and the garage itself. “It’s a big building, but it’s outdated. In the night, during the winter when we know it’s going to snow, we can put 12 plow trucks and a frontend loader inside. That’s stuffing them in there. There aren’t actual bays. Then, during the day, we pull out half the equipment so we have room to work inside.” As for the department’s salt shed, well, they don’t have one. “I’m looking for one. We’re not in compliance with the Department

of Environmental Conservation [DEC]. Our salt/sand pile is totally exposed. I don’t know where [the town] gets their ideas from. I also don’t know how we’re getting away with it. We should be fined. I want to call DEC and tell them to come over and fine me. It should have been done years ago. Even little towns have salt sheds.” As superintendent, it is Larry’s job to maintain the town’s 220-plus lane miles of road, all of which are paved. That translates into 12 plowing routes that take about three and one-half hours to complete, depending on the storm. Larry depends on his crew of 27 full-time and six part time employees to serve the town’s 28,000 residents. “I don’t have a foreman. I have two senior crew leaders, Frank Hernandez and Ed Dixon.” The rest of his crew includes: HEOs Carl Schellenger, Tod Nadler, Joe Reynolds, Ed Dixon and Joe Disco; MEOs Conrad Johnson, Steve Voller, Paul Peniston and Steve Skoda; senior laborers Jeff Gemmett, Jonathan Ginter, Gary Costanzo, Alan Bursor, Mark Fretto, Nick Raucci, Josh Leary, John Longo, Tom Zink, Lou Sangovani, Luke Quay and Chris Mclea; mechanics Rick Phillips, Joe Marsello and Tim DeCocco; and water and sewer employees Jerry Guidarelli, Rick Kaiser, Rick Rorick and Matt Lupi. “I’m getting ready to post a few more jobs to move some of the laborcontinued on page 28

Nick Ranucci, Carl Schellenger and Matt Lupi of the Rotterdam highway department work on water main repairs in the town. 22

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ers up to MEOs and the MEOs to HMOs,” he said. Larry recalls the first time he met his crew. “I hadn’t even started the job yet. I got my first emergency call before I even walked through the door. I called guys I’d never met before to come in and plow the roads. Almost a week went by. We’re working late nights. We had a water main and sewer truck line break. Over a week goes by and I never got a chance to introduce myself. I was thankful that happened because I saw what they could do and what they were doing. It changed the speech I was going to give. Then I went out and introduced myself. I said, ‘I see what has to be done around here. I look at this building. I drove by it for several years now. We need a new one. You guys need a better facility. We need to upgrade our equipment. I see you out there doing what you’re doing with what you have. When we work here, we work together. I’m not any better than you. Nobody is. We work together. Anything I ask you to do, I’m going to do. That’s how it’s going to go. Don’t bring up what happened in the past. We’re starting with a clean slate.’ That’s when morale changed. “There’s less arguing and fighting,” he said. “Before, they were directed like cattle. Some of the guys would be put on the same job the entire summer. Doing the same thing over and over or running the same continued on page 32

The town of Rotterdam highway department’s compost yard, where they process yard waste into useable material to be sold to venders.

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the board gave me? Zero. Whatever figures I put down … you might as well forget it. We’re getting nothing. For 2016, I argued for $500,000 to catch up on paving thinking maybe they’ll give me $250,00. Zero again.” The same goes for equipment. “I’m fighting on that one, too. I’m arguing with the board to get some bonding for equipment. I’m asking for $1 million. I know it sounds like a lot of money, but $1.8 million is what should have been spent here in the last three years, but it wasn’t.” To help get the job done, the department uses a fleet of mostly antiquated equipment that includes: • Dump truck crew cab (2009) • Bobcat road grinder (2004) • Packers (1996, 2002, 2003, 2005) • Road sweepers (2004, 2007) • Plow truck and sanders (1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2014) • Dump truck with air compressor (1993) • Generator continued on page 42

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thing on the job or off. When the hole or trench is dug and they’re trying to put a collar on the 20-inch pipe, I’ll go down that ladder and give them a hand. No screaming or yelling. That’s not going to help them. Working alongside them will.” About the Town of Rotterdam Rotterdam is a town in Schenectady County, N.Y. It was founded by Dutch settlers, who named it after the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where many immigrants last touched European grounds. Situated near the eastern end of New York State’s Heritage Corridor at what is known as the “Gateway to the West,” the town of Rotterdam is closely linked with the early development of Schenectady. At that time the present town of Rotterdam served as the outlying farmlands and wood lots for the settlers. With few exceptions, these settlers made their homes in the stockade in Schenectady but went to their farmlands during the daytime. The lands now known as Rotterdam became Schenectady’s third ward when that city was incorporated in 1798. Rotterdam retained that status when the county of Schenectady was chartered in 1809. During this period, a council of aldermen and assistants from each of the four wards governed the city of Schenectady. In May 1819, the city council recommended that the third and fourth wards be separated out as towns, and on December 31, a petition to the state legislature was drafted. The legislation was passed on April 14, 1820, the final day of the legislative continued on page 62

Town of Rotterdam Highway Department Secretary Donna Larson (also known as the “mother of the highway department”) answers another phone call.

The town of Rotterdam highway department has an annual Christmas Eve lunch with Highway Superintendent Larry LaMora playing the role of Santa Claus. 52

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A grapple truck helps with picking up trees that the highway department had cut down from the edge of roadway.

The Rotterdam highway department works out of one building that was built in the 1950s. It houses Larry’s and his secretary’s offices and the garage itself. 62

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Crowds wandered the many equipment displays and gathered information on what best-suited their specific needs.

Wade Marvin (L) of Milton CAT discussed equipment needs with Gary Cole, highway Superintendent, town of Cato, N.Y.

Ted McKeon (L), president of Superintendent’s Profile, presents grand prize winner Terri Walsh of the Cicero Highway Dept., a pair of tickets to Watkins Glen International Racetrack for the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR Sprint Cup races. 66

One thousand visitors enjoyed a hearty pork barbecue lunch.

Pat Lodini (L) of the Rockland County Highway Department checked out the new features of the Viking Cives truck bodies with Justin Sullivan.

Ted McKeon (L), president of Superintendent’s Profile, presents grand prize winner Edwin McGraw of NYSDOT in Binghamton, N.Y., a pair of tickets to the Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets game on January 3, 2016.

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adjustable wings in the front allows it to corral and push the skimmed off asphalt forward and continue to cover and spread the asphalt in a specifically defined area before compaction. The side-shift feature is advantageous so the skid is not running over the asphalt or if there may not be a drivable path for the skid. The wings can be adjusted at different angles as well. “A lot of the guys really like that side-shift functionality, especially being able to shift it over 5 feet or more,” said Giberson. “It’s excellent for backfilling the dirt into trenches, too. The videos on our website continued on page 76

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