Frank Argento unopposed for Sanitary District 1 commissioner

Voting at Lawrence office on Wednesday

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Identical to the June village elections, there is no challenger to incumbent Sanitary District 1 Commissioner Frank Argento who is on the July 8 ballot for his third five-year term as part of the six-member board, which helps to oversee an entity that has more than 100 full-time employees and picks up about 39,000 tons of solid waste annually.
“I think we have done a lot of good things in the community,” said Argento, a Lawrence resident who is the general manager of the Rockaway Hunting Club, also in Lawrence. “We are continuing finding ways of improving service the last few years.”
One of the improvements Argento pointed to is shifting from a biweekly to a weekly collection of recycling items and establishing separate crews of workers to handle that task.
The district, headquartered in Lawrence, does the trash and recycling collection for more than 50,000 residents and a variety of businesses and institutions in the villages of Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck and Woodsburgh, and in Hewlett, Inwood and Woodmere, along with the unincorporated areas of Lynbrook and Green Acres.
“Continuing to improve service is challenging and run this operation with the mandates from the state such as pension costs and staying within our budget without extreme tax increases requires out of the box thinking that as a board we have done,” Argento said.
Voting is from 6 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday at the S.D. 1 office at 1 Bay Blvd. in Lawrence.