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Bellone aide to remain on Suffolk Water board
Photo credit: Newsday / David Pokress
The Bellone administration’s new $120,000-a-year assistant deputy county executive Errol Toulon has decided to remain as an $18,500-a-year board member of the Suffolk Water Authority after the agency’s counsel issued an opinion there is no conflict in him doing both roles.
Authority counsel Timothy Hopkins, a Republican, in a two-page opinion said the state public authorities law specifically...