«   A Proven Leader

• Supervisor, Town of Brighton

• Won 9 consecutive elections; served 16 years

• 1^st Democrat and 1^st woman to hold the post

• Secured and maintained an all-Democratic Town council for 16 years, for the 1^st time in 177 years

• Achieved a Democratic enrollment edge in the town for the 1^st time in 1998

• Commissioner, New York State Governor's Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness

• Endorsed by the Working Families Party

• 1998 Democratic & Working Families Parties Nominee for Lt. Governor

• Won 55 of 62 counties in Democratic primary

• Received nearly 51% in a three-way race

• Past President, New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal Board of Governors

• An insurance company for approximately 600 New York counties, towns, villages & small cities

• Past chair, New York State Democratic Party Task Force on Domestic Partnership / Civil Union

• Past Brighton School Board Member - 6 years; Vice President, 3 years

• Past President, Monroe County School Boards Association

• Past Monroe #1 BOCES Board of Education Member - 10 years; Vice President

• Former Speech Language Pathologist in the public schools and private sector, 23 years

• Community Service: Brighton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Brighton Kiwanis, Rochester Rotary, Children Awaiting

  Parents Board of Directors, National Organization for Women (NOW), past member Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester

  Board, Rochester Bi-Racial Partnership Program, Odyssey for Humanity Board of Directors, past Temple Sinai Board of Trustees,

  past member of the Jewish Community Federation Interfaith Committee, League of Women Voters, Hillel Foundation for Rochester

  Area Colleges Board of Directors

   

«  Notable Accomplishments and Initiatives

 

RESTORED FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:

• Restored Brighton’s fiscal integrity and stability and fixed an inherited structural budget deficit

• Earned a high-level Moody’s credit rating upgrade to Aa3

• Held average annual property tax increases to less than the rate of inflation since 1993

• Reduced property tax four times

STRENGTHENED PUBLIC SAFETY:      

• Implemented Community Policing, put more officers on the street, and increased the uniformed force to 41

• Implemented a Town Emergency Response Plan

• Supported police department participation in the multi-agency Drug Task Force

• Approved an active role in the County Task Force on Terrorism

• Formed a Public Safety Committee to improve coordination between municipal and emergency services

• Strengthened fire services and provided critically needed inter-municipal support for the West Brighton Fire Department

• Created the Special Ambulance District to support volunteer ambulance services

CREATED A TOWN-WIDE PARK SYSTEM, EXPANDED RECREATION FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS:

• Created a town-wide park system for active and passive recreation and to protect environmentally sensitive areas

• Added and developing hundreds of acres - including Corbett's Glen Nature Park, Meridian Centre Park, Buckland Park, Lynch Woods Park,  Persimmon Park, and Lawrence Stowell Nature Conservatory

• Passed a public bond referendum by four-to-one with resident approval for a major town-wide parkland acquisition and development plan

• Acquired and developed the Lehigh Valley Trail with a Federal Grant in cooperation with the Town of Henrietta

• Improving the Erie Canal Trail with a $450,000 state-private grant 

• Partnered with the Brighton schools to build a new year-round community/school swimming pool

• More than doubled recreational program offerings

SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITY'S OUTSTANDING SCHOOLS AND LIFELONG LEARNING:

• Built a new library, doubling its size and adding public computers and children's discovery room

• Increased staffing and the collection in the Brighton Memorial Library

• Worked in close partnership with the Brighton schools, including creating an inter-municipal agreement for cooperative use of the new pool

UPDATED AND IMPLEMENTED THE COMMUNITY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

TO PRESERVE THE RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER OF THE TOWN AND REVITALIZE COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS:

• Updated the Comprehensive Plan and initiated an inter-municipal economic development effort to grow jobs in the town’s main

  retail/commercial corridor

• Revitalized Monroe Avenue, and initiated an inter-municipal committee to plan and coordinate future improvements along our

  "Main Street for Monroe County"

• Instituted a Business Improvement District to help businesses save money on building and site improvements

ADDRESSED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING THROUGH "GREEN" INITIATIVES:

• Established the Green Brighton Task Force to educate and guide actions that individuals, businesses, institutions and government can take to conserve energy, save money, reduce our community’s carbon footprint, and decrease our reliance on imported oil

• Adopted a Tree Preservation Law, created a Tree Council, and implemented a tree planting program; received the designation of “Tree City U.S.A.”

• Created Environmental Protection Overlay Districts

• Acquired green space to create parks and preserve environmentally sensitive areas

• Implemented water quality and watershed protection policies

• Prohibited the use of pesticides on public property for general maintenance

February, 2008

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