Photo:(LtoR):Thomas Buonaiuto-President of the Board of Directors, Child Care Council, Huntington Town Councilman Mark Cuthbertson, Rita O’Malley Murphy-Huntington Learning Center, Carol Slippen-Referral Coordinator, Child Care Cou
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Huntington Councilman Mark Cuthbertson
was presented with the Child Care Council of Suffolk's award, in recognition of
his work and support of quality child care, at the Council's annual meeting on
June 7th. Councilman Cuthbertson has initiated and supported a number of
significant projects that have improved the quality of child care and expanded
child care opportunities in the Town of Huntington during his five years on the
Town Board.
Cuthbertson said, "When I first took office in 1998, the Town
of Huntington was facing a child care crisis, with two of our major centers
about to close down. Since then we have those secured locations for those
centers, been an ongoing sponsor of the Parent Leadership Initiative and a
proponent of the "Baby Steps" program, which is a model for towns across Suffolk
County. Through the Town's efforts, babies and children in child care in the
Town of Huntington are getting off to a better start, being left with better
trained care givers, and their parents are given something that nobody can put a
price on: piece of mind." Cuthbertson has twice traveled to Albany with the
Child Care Council to advocate for more state funding for child care programs
and co-sponsored changes in the Town zoning laws to make it easier for child
care centers to locate in commercial corridors.
The award is one of several that the
Child Care Council of Suffolk, Inc, made at their Annual Meeting. The Rauch
Foundation and Steven Zimmer, Esq. received Outstanding Supporter Awards and
Rita O'Malley Murphy, of The Learning Center of Huntington, was named Advocate
of the Year.
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