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IN THE MATTER OF COUNTY OF ERIE, PETITIONER, V STATE OF NEW YORK PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD, AND ITS CHAIR JEROME LEFKOWITZ, AND CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, INC., LOCAL 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, ERIE COUNTY UNIT OF LOCAL 815, AND ITS PRESIDENT JOAN BENDER, RESPONDENTS.

146 TP 10-01869

Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

February 10, 2011

PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., FAHEY, PERADOTTO, LINDLEY, AND MARTOCHE, JJ.

GOLDBERG SEGALLA LLP, BUFFALO (ELISHA J. BURKART OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER.

NANCY E. HOFFMAN, ALBANY (TIMOTHY CONNICK OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, INC., LOCAL 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, ERIE COUNTY UNIT OF LOCAL 815, AND ITS PRESIDENT JOAN BENDER.

DAVID P. QUINN, ALBANY, FOR RESPONDENT STATE OF NEW YORK PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD, AND ITS CHAIR JEROME LEFKOWITZ.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department by order of the Supreme Court, Erie County [Donna M. Siwek, J.], dated August 10, 2010) to review a determination of respondent State of New York Public Employment Relations Board. The determination, among other things, ordered petitioner to stop replacing full-time positions with regular part-time positions to perform the same level of services.

It is hereby ORDERED that the determination is unanimously confirmed without costs, the petition is dismissed and the counterclaim for enforcement of the order of respondent State of New York Public Employment Relations Board dated April 22, 2010 is granted for reasons stated in the decision of that respondent.

Entered: February 10, 2011

Patricia L. Morgan

Clerk of the Court