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1. 1. Ex-Legislator William Brenner dies

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   Published on: 2/3/2003   Last Visited: 2/3/2003

   •Ex-Legislator William Brenner dies •Few Rockland blacks serve elected positions •Hillary Clinton to visit Rockland •White Plains property tax increase looms •Hillary Clinton to visit Rockland •Health-care proposal brings little cheer •Rockland honors Vietnam veteran honored
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   William Brenner, a former county legislator, Clarkstown councilman and shoe store owner, died Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla., where he retired. He was 81.
   
   Brenner, a longtime West Nyack resident, became active in Rockland government in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Clarkstown Town Board and later became chairman of the Clarkstown Democratic Party. He also served in the County Legislature.
   
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   Brenner helped create the first Rockland County public transit system. He was sanitation commissioner for Rockland for many years and also served as alcohol and beverage commissioner.
   
   In addition, he was president of the Dellwood Foundation and a past master of the Free and Accepted Masons Lodge.
   
   He founded Brenner Florsheim Shoes in Nanuet.
   
   His wife of 56 years, Muriel, died in 1999.
   
   He is survived by two sons, Alan, and his wife, Marie, and Stanley, and his wife, Karen; two grandchildren, Amanda and Jordan; a brother, Bernard Brenner, and his wife, Frances; a sister, Mae Novak; a sister-in-law, Elaine Schilling; and a brother-in-law, Seymour Shilling.
   
   A funeral will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Congregation Sons of Israel, 300 N. Broadway, in Upper Nyack. Burial will follow at Cedar Park Cemetery in Westwood, N.J.
   
   Hannemann Funeral Home in Nyack is handling arrangements.

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   Published on: 2/4/2003   Last Visited: 6/13/2005

   Quite yes, but Bill Brenner was a giant here with enormous capability and significant impact.
   
   Bill Brenner was one of the founders along with Legislator Sam Colman and Hezekiah Easter of TOR, Transportation of Rockland, our public bus and transit system. He served here with distinction on our committees at a time when there was no County Executive. Our responsibility was much sharper, immediate and direct with departments. Bill Brenner was instrumental in analyzing and improving our negotiations and relations with our unionized employees drawing on his extensive business knowledge. He came from a lifetime of business success as the founder of Brenner Florsheim Shoes in Nanuet, New York. He was a business genius with a lightening mind and a tempered and reasonable approach. He was also demanding and exacting in his standards and unflinching in his pursuit of excellence in this County government.
   
   Once you came to know Bill Brenner you would come to understand and appreciate the magnitude of his abilities, his knowledge, his skill, his generosity and his unshakable devotion and faithfulness to his god, family, community and his true friends.
   
   When I first served here with Bill Brenner I was in my twenties. I cannot for the life of me understand how he put up with my youth, my immaturity and my inexperience and yet he did.
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   In those special days of my youth, with Legislator Dusanenko, Legislator Damiani, Legislator Grogan and Legislator Brenner, Bill Brenner taught me what it was to behave as a mature adult. He taught me to be shrewd and tactical, but he also taught me to put honesty, friendship and loyalty before personal benefit. So much of what I am today as a public official I owe to his influence, teachings and example. In my adult life and since the death of my own father I am reminded that some parts of your life once they are gone can never be replaced. You may deal with others, but that place and that spot cannot be duplicated or substituted. That is how it will forever be for me, with my Bill, my dear friend Bill Brenner. I apologize to you for going on too long, but I am grieving for a dear, dear friend.
   
   If Bill was able to counsel me this evening about the length of what I have said, I know exactly what he would say. Bill once told me that the highest complement in the Navy for a job performed is ,Well Done,. I know that Bill would probably say that I had talked too long, but he would forgive me for extolling his very special life and I hope at the end he would say ,Well Done,. To sum up his friendship, his life, his dedication to his family and to Rockland County and what he gave to all and each of us I say ,Well Done Bill, Well Done,.
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   ADJOURNMENT IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BRENNER
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   RESOLVED, that the Legislature of Rockland County adjourn this meeting in memory of William Brenner.
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   RESOLVED, that the meeting of the Legislature is hereby adjourned in memory of William Brenner to Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at eight o,clock in the evening.