SC Legislature Announces Organizational Meeting January 2, 2018

Suffolk Legislature Sets Organizational Meeting

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.  –  Suffolk County Legislators will hold their Organizational Meeting on Tuesday, January 2, at 11 a.m. in the Rose Y. Caracappa Legislative Auditorium located at the  William H. Rogers Legislature Building at 725 Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge.

The annual meeting will feature the Presentation of Colors, followed by a performance of the Star Spangled Banner by Patchogue-Medford High School students and an invocation by Rev. Steven J. Hannafin, Pastor of St. Francis De Sales Parish in Patchogue. 

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone will offer remarks. Election of a Presiding Officer and Deputy Presiding Officer will follow. Ceremonial Oaths will be before Honorable C. Randall Hinrichs, Suffolk County District Administrative Judge.

Legislators will appoint a Counsel to the Legislature, Clerk and Chief Deputy Clerk, adopt a schedule for general meetings, and designate depositories and official county newspapers. 

Legislators will also adopt the Rules of the Legislature, sign the official record, lay bills on the table and set the requisite public hearings.

For additional information, please visit www.scnylegislature.us.