Opening Village Hall–Hempstead.

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NCVOA’s Early Days

For those who do not know the history of the NCVOA, here is a little primer of its earliest days — In June of 1925, officials from four villages – Freeport, Lynbrook, Rockville Centre and Hempstead – including each of their presidents (that’s what village mayors were called back then) met mainly to discuss traffic problems — does that sound familiar. At the meeting, they had a presentation (also familiar) from a company that proposed adoption of three-color traffic signals to avoid some of those traffic problems. Importantly, they agreed that a close association of those and other villages should result from that meeting. At the next meeting, the traffic committee issued its report and by-laws were adopted for the Village Officials Association of Nassau County. Significant among its provisions was its purpose — “the promotion of mutual community welfare” — and a provision that there were to be monthly meetings. During the first year of the NCVOA: Speakers at some of the meetings included the Deputy State Comptroller and a Deputy Attorney General. The NCVOA president was appointed by the New York State Conference of Mayors and Other Officials (NYCOM) as a member of a committee to advice with […]