South Shore Estuary Reserve Council Members/Designees

Randy Daniels, Council Chair/George R. Stafford

Robert J. Gaffney, Suffolk County Executive/George Proios

Thomas S. Gulotta, Nassau County Executive/Dan C. Fucci

Bruce Nyman, City Manager, City of Long Beach/Joe Fabrizio

Richard V. Guardino, Supervisor, Town of Hempstead/

Ronald Masters/Mike Foley

John Venditto, Supervisor, Town of Oyster Bay/

James M. Byrne, P.E./Nancy Kearney

Richard H. Schaffer, Jr., Supervisor, Town of Babylon/

Richard Groh

Peter McGowan, Supervisor, Town of Islip/Anthony Limoli

John Jay LaValle, Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven/

Jeffrey Kassner

Vincent Cannuscio, Supervisor, Town of Southampton/

Marty Shea

William Glacken, Mayor, Village of Freeport

Jeff Fullmer, Chair, Citizens Advisory Committee

Cornelia Schlenk, Chair, Technical Advisory Committee

Robert Grover, Great South Bay Audubon Society

Jill Ozarski, Long Island Chapter of the Nature Conservancy

Marvin Geller, Dean, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook/William M. Wise

Patrick H. Augustine, New York Sportsfishing Federation

Mitch Pally, Long Island Association/Marion Cohn

Robert Wieboldt, Long Island Builders Institute, Inc.

Christopher Squeri, New York Marine Trades Association

Carole Neidich-Ryder, North Shore Audubon Society

Gregory LoVece, Brookhaven Bayman's Association

Ex-officio Council Members

Erin M. Crotty, Commissioner, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation/Gordon Colvin/Karen Chytalo

Bernadette Castro, Commissioner, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation/Gary Lawton

New York State Department of State

Division of Coastal Resources

George R. Stafford, Director

Rodney McNeil, Project Manager

Dennis Mildner (Water Resources)

Jeffrey Zappieri (Living Resources)

Nancy Rucks (Land Use/Embayment Use/Underwater Lands)

Peter Lauridsen (Geographic Information System)

Other Contributing Staff: Fred Anders; D. Peter Berical; Paul R. Churchhill; Fitzroy Collins; Susan DiDonato; John Herring; Jeffrey Herter; Nik Nikiforov; Laurissa Parent; Kenneth Smith; Lee York; and Thomas Zyskowski

Other Contributors

Patrick Dooley (Technical Advisory Committee support)

Veronica Kemler (Citizens Advisory Committee support)

SUNY Albany: Floyd Henderson and Matthew Kohberger (Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing)

Previous Council Members/Designees: Ken Cynar (Nassau County); Felix J. Grucci (former Supervisor of the Town of Brookhaven);

Anthony Limoli (Town of Islip); Nick Manzari (Captree Boatman's Association); George Nussbaum (former Mayor of the Village of Massapequa Park); and Adeline Quinn (City of Long Beach)

Former Department of State Staff: Robert Crafa; Diane Hamilton-Bell; Susan Dzurica; Thomas Hart; and Joseph Sicluna

The South Shore Estuary Reserve Council acknowledges the dedication of former Secretary of State Alexander "Sandy" Treadwell over the last five years to bring the Plan to fruition.