Accomplishments

Transparency & Accountability

• Livestream Town Board meetings
• Brought back public agenda review meetings
• Put more town documents online
• Conducted an independent financial audit of the town’s finances
• Opened Town Hall’s community rooms for public use and rental by community groups
• Reinstated the Historic Preservation Board
• Reinstated the Environmental Board
• Ended a 2022 change to the managers’ benefits policy that benefited just 3 employees at a cost of $347,000
• Cleaned up past misconduct that embarrassed our town, including eliminating taxpayer-subsidized retirement health care for a former town official convicted of two felonies related to her duties
• Reinstating the Ethics Board

Public Safety

• Filled the police staffing shortage
• Negotiated a new contract with the mall — paid for by the mall — to increase police presence from 5 to 7 days a week
• Secured a grant for police body cameras

Infrastructure & Environment

• Allocated $6 million for failing roads, sewers and sidewalks
• Prepared the lakeshore for high water levels to help prevent flooding from negatively impacting the entire Town sewer system
• Contracted with a professional grant writing service to aggressively pursue grants to fund town projects
• Applied for the Water Chestnut Grant
• Applied for a grant to reconstruct the 390/Parkway Bike Trail
• Stopped using chemical weed killer near play areas at Town Hall

Community Services

• Continue funding library programs
• Continue funding recreation programs
• Making it easy for businesses to move in
• Supporting existing small businesses
• Earned Age Friendly Community designation
• Working to improve trash collection for residents
• Working to clean up neighborhoods and remove zombie homes
• Brought back the document shredding event for residents

Making Decisions Locally

Standing up to Albany policies that could negatively impact our Town and quality of life — including efforts to:

• Outlaw the use of gas appliances
• Protect open space from large-scale foreign-owned solar fields
• Mandate that school districts purchase costly and unreliable electric buses
• Make it more difficult for law enforcement to keep our communities safe