Nassau Educational Chapter of the Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Great Neck Union Free School District

Lazer, J. P.,

dissents and votes to affirm the judgment, with the following memorandum, in which Rabin, J., concurs: The issue here is the legitimacy of *735the Great Neck school district’s effort to replace civil service personnel by employees of a private agency which contracted to provide security services for the district. In this article 78 proceeding, the discharged employees and their union assert that the district’s action violates the civil service provision of the State Constitution (NY Const, art V, § 6) because the arrangement with the private agency masks an illegal scheme under which…