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Vol. 7, No. 48
BRUSHING UP-Bob Specht, a representative of Clarke Floor Machine Company, demonstrates the proper use of floor scrubbers to Co-op City maintenance supervisors at the first dass of an extensive training program for maintenance personnel. Representatives from the Norton Company, a cleaning equipment manufacturer, also at tended and provided instruction on the proper use of their products. Co-op City Executive Manager Edward Aronov was on hand to address the dass.
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Harold Ostroff, president of Riverbay Corporation, answered questions on the carrying charge increases from a hostil but orderly crowd or cooperators at a Town Han meeting Monday night in the Community Center Auditorium. He appeared at the invitation of "Co-op City's Advisory Council. Arthur Oshíns, chairman of the Council's Public Informa· il' tíon Committee presided. ·---· -------The meeting was prefaced he said, "to contribute its by remarks by Lawrence Si- hard earned money to as,. vak, chairman of the AC, sist in the rent fight. I think who charged Ostroff with a this is a damn shame." Co-op City maintenance and management supervisors Ostroff categorically deWednesday attended the first dass of a new and extensive lack of honesty in dealing with the cooperators here. nied any mis-management training program. The program is designed to bring about a more effi- "And this community will or corruption in United Delays, confusion and inFoundation. He cient and economic maintenance service to cooperators, ac· be called on next month," Housing convenience marked the first said the increases were due cording to Edward Aronov, -------------------school days for Co-op City to the tremendous inftation Co-op City executive manstudents this week. Many in the construction trades ager. children waited in the rain over the past few years, and Aronov spoke to the class for hours before a bus came the oxhorbitant increase in of supervisors Wednesday along to take them to school. the interest cost of housing and explained that the Significant saving for the month of August in the cost Busees would stop, check course was intended to give of supplies for Co-op City's Maintenance Department was bonds. He reiterated his ear- their schedules, and leave them a general, overall report ed this week by Merrel Wolff, director of a newly lier statements that he did without taking on passengnot know the magnitude of knowledge of the technical formed Purchasing Department. the increase when he a:)- ers. Dr. Paul Treatrnan, resources available to the The department was created five weeks ago after sev- peared before the cornmuprincipal of Jr. H.S. 127, said Maintenance Department. eral planning sessions by ------------·that the problem stemmed on March 22nd. "You are the ones· who high level Co-op City man- plies they need. for exfrom misinformation in the Mrs. Leonard Hanks, who have the responsibility and agement and maintenance ample, both the painters and identified herself ai- a rep- hands of Parochial Bus Comaccountability," he said, "to personnel. porters require turpentine, pany, the transportation resentative of the Tenants' see that the cooperators get "The department utilizes Wolff will consolidate the in- Council, charged that it was company handling the area's the kind of service they have a centralized purchasing sys- vento ry; buy enough for both known to people she knows school transportation. needs, and realize a greater a right to expect and we de- tem," commented Edward The bus companies for the in the City Housing Authsire to give them." Aronov, Co-op City execu- savings through the in- ority that Ostroff believed, City of New York signed a Representatives from the tive manager. "By consolid- creased multiple buying rate. five years ago, that $23 per contract with the Central "This is only one of the room was an inappropriate Clarke Floor Machine Com- ating all ordering in this one Board of Education based pany and Norton Company, department, the housing ways the new department on last year's school schedfigure for Co-op City. a scrub pad manufacturer, company is able to take ad- can save money." Wolff "I categorically deny that ules, according to Treatman. instructed the class o:n the vantage of less costly bulk claimed. The new purchas- I was aware, or anyone I However, last year 127 proper use and upkeep of buying rates and, at the same ing director also interviews know was aware, five years was on split sessions, and cleaning equipment. time, exercise greater con- sales representatives and re- ago, that $23 to $25 per this year the school switched Ernest Patterson, Co-op trol on expenditures. It's a searches records to determ- room would not be a reason- to single sessions. The oppoCity maintenance personnel major step forward in our ine the rnost economical cost able figure," Ostroff assertsite is true for LS. 13ô. Conmanager, is coordinator for efforts to bring about a to the housing company. Pre- ed. "If, five years ago, some- sequently the school bus the training program. He more efficient, less costly viously, the area supervisors one told me that non-taxable situation became chaotic. maintenance operation. The did their own buying. but state housing finance bonds, said that a similar dass "We understand the pardepartment's director is now they had little time for cost which were then selling for ents' problems," Treatman would be conducted shortlv said, "and we sympathize for porters who he selected able to investigate new prod- analysis. three and three quarters as "key men." "They will ucts, consolidate department An eye catching item on per cent. would rise to six with them. \Ve do care, and teach new porters the prop- inventories and check on the new department's Au- and one half per cent; I'd we are trying desperately to waste." gust report is the replace- say he was a damn fool." straighten out the problem." er methods learned in their ment lenses for portico fix- Ostroff further contended class," he said, "we call this Treatman conducted sevUnder the new system, all tures. The company had been the 'buddy system'." eral meetings with parents that no one, five years ago, area maintenance supervipaying $5.50 for Wolff and bus company officials. was predicting the enormous Harold Lefcourt, district sors are required to subon Page ( Centinued on mit a requisition for the sup(Continued on Page 3)
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