The Long Island South Shore Estuary Reserve
Council Members

Council Chair
Cesar A. Perales, New York State Secretary of State

Council Members

Edward P. Mangano, County Executive, Nassau County
Steven Bellone, County Executive, Suffolk County
Jack Schnirman, City Manager, City of Long Beach
Kate Murray, Supervisor, Town of Hempstead
John Venditto, Supervisor, Town of Oyster Bay
Richard H. Schaffer, Supervisor, Town of Babylon
Thomas D. Croci, Supervisor, Town of Islip
Mark Lesko, Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven
Anna Throne-Holst, Supervisor, Town of Southampton
Andrew Hardwick, Mayor, Village of Freeport, New York Conference of Mayors
Maureen Dolan Murphy, Citizens Advisory Committee, Chair; Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Cornelia Schlenk, Technical Advisory Committee, Chair; Assistant Director, New York Sea Grant
Robert Grover, Conservation Co-Chairman, Great South Bay Audubon Society
Minghua Zhang, Interim Dean, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Jim Hutchinson, President, New York Sportfishing Federation
Matthew Cohen , VP for Government Affairs, Long Island Association
Mitch Pally, Long Island Builders Institute
Robert DeBona, Mastic Beach Property Owners Association
Christopher Squeri, Executive Director, New York Marine Trades Association
Carl LoBue, Marine Reserve Specialist, The Nature Conservancy, LI Chapter
Ken Budny, Brookhaven Bayman's Association
Michael Eagan, Captree Boatman's Association


Ex-officio Council Members

Joseph Martens, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Rose Harvey, Commissioner, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
Joan McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation