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Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, prints of which he

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When the sky darkened beyond belief and the windows start-ed shaking the third floor of City Hall on July 26, 2012, BrianBeasley, superintendent of buildings and grounds of the city ofElmira, was probably the only person in the meeting who knew

it was a tornado. The havoc blew through the city without any warning. Brian, now in hisearly thirties, grew up in Sioux Falls, S.D., where tornadoes are common. His childhoodhome had even been hit by one, and a neighbor was killed.In Elmira, the vortex touched down near Cottage Drive off of Route 352 and traveled

through Golden Glow and the rest of the city.“Nobody knows what tornadoes are here, but I did,” he said. “The color of the air is

like a green. Everything was creaking. I was running down the stairs because my fami-ly comes first. I said I’ll be back and clean up the city. And I did.” With the downtown urban environment clogged with downed trees and live power

lines, DPW managed to clear up 15,000 tons of debris in five days with the help of an out-side crew.Over this past winter Brian’s crew just finished stump grinding the remains from the

storm's devastation. His 2014 budget for all operations including highways is $4.2 million.Brian’s devotion to his family is what brought him to Elmira from South Dakota about

nine years ago. Just six months before the storm, he had been promoted from the electricaldivision in the city’s DPW to become superintendent of building and grounds. He has beenacting director for two-and-a-half years.

“I don’t care what people call me,” he said, “but I get the job done. I not only faceda literal mess from the EF1 tornado, but people were fighting and arguing in thedepartment. I put everyone in a room — nine supervisors and a total of 53 employ-ees, and I said, ‘This stops now.’ There were conflicts, power struggles, meaningless

titles. ‘Enough,’ I said, ‘you are all peers.’ There were titles that were strippedand not replaced. By creating a flat slate across the board, I made themrespect one another rather than telling each other what to do.”

Brian has a very focused, the buck-stops-here personality. Heknows how to get things done. He said that in the past two-and-a-half years since he became superintendent, there have been zerogrievances. He added, “Teamwork comes in when you are build-ing talent, not taking them to lunch.” He heads the sanitationcrew, the street crew, welding, engineering, traffic, buildings andgrounds, and two administrative assistants who take the calls.“What I do, and I am known for this, is to have an open

door policy. The response time I give is immediate, and thatstops the problems. Morale now? It’s good. I think people arereally excited about coming to work.”He said that by putting on work clothes and assisting his

crews, he began to understand the department from hisemployees’ point of view. Teamwork, he said, comes whenyou help employees build on their skill sets such as carpen-try and masonry. He believes that when people are proud ofthe work they do, it boosts morale and job satisfaction.

From the School of Hard KnocksBrian had a difficult upbringing. His life story is atale not often shared. “My mother was a nurse, and my father was a

Marine, a sniper, in Vietnam. I think combat did himin. He wasn’t treated right when he came back even

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“I was the kid with holes in my jeans, dirty, leather oxford shoes fromKmart because they were cheap. I couldn’t even play basketball becausethey left black streaks on the court. Our foster father owned a tire busi-ness where he would buy reclaimed tires. As kids we would go in andload up semis full of tires and then go and distribute them around theIndian reservations to make money. My brothers and I would work until1 or 2 a.m. scrubbing tires every night, including school nights. Therewere nights where we would be out working in the barn freezing, andwe would take plastic bread bags to put on our hands because it was socold. I grew up being silent because I knew nobody would understandwhat I was going through. I couldn’t even see the chalkboard becausemy vision was so poor. Geometry and algebra were really hard.”

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reservation was wild at night with gun shots. Deliberate explosions ofpropane tanks were commonplace. During the daytime older Indiansand families would prevail.“They resembled me because I was poor,” he said. “I was left behind

like they were. I saw a view of life at that age that I will never forget. Outthere it’s the American Wild West. I’d find Indians huffing paint througha piece of bread; fried out of their minds. I didn’t feel uncomfortable.Nobody cared about me.” At around age 10, he was befriended by a slightly older Native

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that he could not solve all of them, but if you disrespected the elders youwere banished from the reservation. People who had been banishedoften lurked around on the other side of the fence that defined the reser-vation, and Brian began noticing them. “You'd always see a few stragglers out there. I always looked for

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After returning to the foster home, Brian and one of his brothers tookdifferent paths. His older brother attacked the foster father with a screw-driver and plea-bargained entry into the military rather than face jailtime. Meanwhile, Brian endeavored to get himself emancipated at age17 with the help of a sympathetic school counselor. Finally, he got glass-es. Not that things got much easier. He remembered being deposited ona gravel country road in the middle of nowhere someplace in Iowa. Inhis duffel were a few things to wear and a sandwich. No money. Hewalked to a nearby farm and offered to work.

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Brian’s curiosity about electricity proved to be another critical turningpoint in his life. Ever since being accidentally electro-shocked in highschool, he had an abiding respect for electricity. He pursued his interestevery free moment he had by calling the electrical union in Sioux Falls.He said, “I’m a young kid [18], and I am persistent. After three monthsthey said, ‘OK, you can sweep the floors for guys on the project.’ WhenI swept, I did the best job that I could.”

After proving himself doing things like putting in outlets all day, theybegan to explain blueprints. After two years working with union electri-


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cians he was encouraged to go to work with an independent contractor.His new boss was a personal friend of the state governor, so Brian got todo personal work for the governor, and to travel around the United Statesdoing work for large commercial companies. By attending night school,he managed to get a license and become foreman of a crew of 21 elec-tricians.

“I worked on massive projects with every trade involved. Doing geot-hermal retrofits in high schools, substations, 60 wind turbines. When itcomes to this line of work — DPW — those are the kinds of skills itrequires.”

Around age 27, he said he felt he had to move away from the PlainsState area that held so many painful memories. By then he had metLaura, the mother of his two children. They first met when she was anursing assistant and he was in the emergency room with an eye injury.Brendyn, his son was born when he was 21. Their daughter, Brie, camealong a few years later. The two of them decided to relocate in upstateNew York where Laura’s mother resided. Laura’s continuing educationresulted in a masters in nursing. She now teaches the LPN courses atBOCES in Elmira. Her working goal is to become a nurse practitioner.

Living the Dream in Upstate Brian described Sioux Falls as being flat as a moonscape with 50

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“I wanted to identify problems. What were the existing contracts?What tariffs were in place? The signals were a mess. We were runningall the signals in Chemung County. We were on call two or three timesa week to fix a problem. I said, ‘I’ve got to have a guy to do traffic lightswith me.’”

On his hiring practices he said you have to know when you have theright person. In this case he hired a former Marine with a good workethic who was eager to learn everything Brian could teach him so thatwhen they talk about things, they can figure out a problem together.

The “new broom” then went and collected the keys from all employ-ees, followed by throwing out tons of hoarded “junk” from the shopareas.

“All we were doing was chasing a problem, I said. Let’s get to the

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Having worked in private and public sectors as an electrician, he said,“The problem with municipalities is that they get too far behind and theyare in disaster mode as a result.”

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college students. He was bereft when the state budget failed to re-fund aprogram called Shock Monterey that brought talented prison labor tosupport DPW tasks where the detainees learned how to lay bricks, pourconcrete and do commercial painting (the rapper 50 Cent was once amember of Shock Monterey.)

“We developed an unbelievable relationship with them. There are somany different ways that the program helped the city out. They really didmake a difference in the community, so it’s hard that, after two years, welost their help.

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BOCES. Thanks to internships, students have been exposed to howthings work with large equipment, fleet maintenance, and welding.”

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Brian said the city has saved about $200,000 on projects using someheavy machinery provided by BOCES and their collegiate crew. He said

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one very big, visible difference is in city parks, which number 21 andtotal 230 acres. Just one example was using students to help address adebris pile that had been cited by the DEC for remediation. The studentsearned college credit for reclaiming the site.

A Gem in the Community Elmira is exceptional in that a nonprofit community group is actively

and successfully rebuilding one special place called Eldridge Park. Thepark has 15-acres with a small lake for boat rides and once delighted vis-itors around the turn of the century with amusement rides and cottoncandy. The original park, privately owned by Dr. Edwin Eldridge,became a beckoning garden spot with a larger lake, marble statuary,flower gardens, fountains, driving and walking paths, and a labyrinth.Upon his death the city purchased the land, and it became a popularamusement park, which gradually fell into disuse. The amusement parkwas “torn apart” in the famous 1972 Chemung River Flood.Today, a new sidewalk amidst the midway, a miniature golf course,

and other amenities were helped by the DPW. “The carousel is back [the fastest in the nation at 18 miles-per-hour

and built in the late 1890s] and the flying saucers.” And if you prefer an 18-hole, Donald Ross-designed adult golf course

to miniature golf and its windmills, Brian’s department also is in chargeof the Mark Twain Country Club. In early spring, Brian and his crewwere tearing the clubhouse kitchen apart. While the greens were in top-notch condition, Brian found ways to open the space between food con-cessions, dining areas, and the greens. He said he was asked to reviewthe operation and make recommendations. He changed the kitchen for-mat, the menu, and the interaction with tournaments, and is adding socialmedia to the refurbished golf club’s Web site.Every item that is purchased for any DPW project comes to Brian’s

desk and his attention for details. He admits it’s a ton of paperwork, butno purchase, however trivial, can be approved without his signature.

Another Historic Goldmine for ElmiraLike so many other attractions in Elmira, it boasts many historic firsts.

The city-owned stadium — Dunn Field — was built in 1939, and onNov. 21, 1902, Dunn Field was the site of the first-ever professional foot-ball night game. Besides being the home field of the Elmira PioneersPGCBL (Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League) baseball team, a

variety of events have taken place here, even the Beach Boys in 1984.Some great baseball players had their home games on this fabled field intheir minor league years including Wade Boggs, Curt Schilling, and JimPalmer. Babe Ruth played here and former player and MLB managerDon Zimmer was married on home plate in 1951.Dunn Field is another in the DPW roster of responsibilities.Beginning in 2012, the city began to bring the old beauty back to the

well-used structure. They put in new bathrooms, new seating and evena beer garden just behind third base. Plus Brian insisted that the stadiumbe used for youth sports, including Little League. He reasons that ifstructures like Dunn Field are to have a bright future, they must meet theneeds of kids who are playing tetherball today.“Two years ago we had a new owner coming on board, so I said, we

have to do this together. There has to be teamwork. We had gone fromfamous baseball to the collegiate league; attendance was down to under1,000 a game. I looked at the field itself [a special mixture of brick dustand infield dirt], and it was a mess. The sprinkler system didn’t work.The bathrooms weren't functioning. I saw major liabilities. It didn’t looklike anybody had taken care of Dunn Field for at least 15 years.”Brian felt so committed to the restoration that he painted the whole

back end of the stadium a bright red on his own time and retiled theladies room. Then he began field maintenance and refurbishing —returning to old reel mowers so that they can cut the grass into thoseattention-getting patterns you see at major league parks. Various postedmemorabilia and the use of old-timey signage give a nod to the build-ing's positive historic roots without looking like Disneyland.The 2012 tornado blew the back fence down; insurance reimburse-

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New, blue plastic seats are replacing the old wooden ones in Dunn Field. Brian's son is an avid Little League player; Brian says it's a thrill to see hisson playing baseball on the field.

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ment saved the city the expense of a new one.With all the improvements, the market buzz, and a new outreach to

youth and Elmira College, the park now plays to a full schedule, andthe attendance has shot up to 3,000 per game. With a seating capacityof about 4,000, Dunn Field ranks second or third in the nation for sta-diums of its size. “We want to keep the spirit alive down here. With grants in place we

can do even more.”

Bridges Over Chemung’s WatersThe city’s budget for its four bridges that are on the DPW roster is

$300,000. Lake Bridge, one of the four, was recently flagged and intofailure. Brian said they shut it down; the costs of repair are astronomi-cal. They had consultants come in and analyze the situation rather thanhave politics debate what to do. “The group said we only need two bridges.” So Lake will either be

demolished or turned into a walking path.

Getting ClosureFor a relatively young man, Brian has a back story that is as disturb-

ing as his future prospects are for happiness. In July 2014, he and Laurawill marry. In attendance will be his biological father, with whom henow has a relationship, and two of his three sisters. Family memberswill be visiting upstate New York for the first time. Meanwhile, Brian has a long list of projects — from badly needed

inner city parks, bike trails, a robust baseball stadium, a rebuilt amuse-ment park, a designer golf course, 133 miles of streets, hundreds ofenergy-saving LED lights along streets and public facilities, an indoorparking garage, a historic cemetery, and much more to share with them.It’s more than the projects and the satisfaction they bring to him and

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