When William Lindsay (left), presiding officer of the Suffolk Legislature, came back from his February break late last week, a new office in Hauppauge awaited him — just down the hall from his old corner office quarters.
Aides say Lindsay’s old digs were located right above the building’s basement heating and air-conditioning units, which were noisy and made the place shake. “It made meetings and phone conversations difficult,” said Kara Hahn, Lindsay’s spokeswoman.
Public works officials suggested it would be more “cost effective” to move Lindsay’s office to a nearby conference room than to spend “several hundred thousands of dollars” relocating the heating unit, Hahn said. Aides emphasize there are no large-screen TV’s....
Rick Brand
... like those at the Nassau Legislature — only paint, carpeting to cover a former kitchenette area, plumbing to cap its pipes and a new vanity for an existing bathroom. In-house workers also cut a doorway between Lindsay’s new office and what had been another office, and is now the reception area. Lindsay’s old office has been turned into a conference room with a kitchenette and keeps its existing bathroom. The former reception area will become cubicles from which lawmakers can make phone calls.
Public Works initially estimated a cost of $20,000, but aides say Lindsay made cutbacks, axing a retiling of the bathroom and ordering that the kitchenette unit be moved rather than replaced. Hahn said the boiler problem persists but hopes it won’t be as much of a problem in the new conference room, where there will be larger meetings and where people can talk across a table face-to-face.
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The office should have bars so the crooks working there will feel at home.