Page 8 - Work Force April 2020

Highway, DOT workers lend support to testing site
BROOKHAVEN — During this COVID-19 pandemic, some of our members providing vital services have been behind the scenes.
Our members at the Town of Brookhaven Highway Department have been providing essential support to the COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at SUNY Stony Brook through building and installing signs at the town’s in-house sign shop to
help motorists navigate the site. Town Highway Department
employees and state Department of Transportation workers delivered hundreds of barricades and traffic cones, as well as electronic signs, to be used at the site.
Here are some images from our members’ efforts.
— Wendi Bowie
Brookhaven Highway Department and state Department of Transportation workers deliver and unload hundreds of barricades and traffic cones,
as well as electronic signs, to be used at Suffolk County’s drive-through COVID-19 mobile testing facility located at Stony Brook University’s South P lot. CSEA members also manufactured, and installed, custom signs in the town’s in-house sign shop to assist drivers navigating the site. (Photo provided by the Town of Brookhaven)
Town of Brookhaven Highway Department Unit members Michelle Biondi-Baird and Joe Manzella are busy in the town’s in-house sign shop making signs for the SUNY Stony Brook COVID-19 testing area. (Photo provided by Wally Greene)
“We are professionals and our job is to provide essential services to the pu”blic daily and in emergency situations.
—Deborah Feinstein, nursing assistant, Stony Brook University Hospital (photo provided by Carlos Speight)
8 The Work Force
April 2020