LEE TU: CANDIDATE FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR

Welcome

I bring to this campaign broad experience as a private-sector and municipal auditor, coupled with educational training as an accountant and administrator.

As senior audit manager at Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP in Manhattan, I perform financial audits of private, public and not-for-profit entities. In addition, I have counseled publicly-traded companies on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance issues.

I gained invaluable governmental experience as an auditor in New York City's Department of Real Estate Services. In that role, I performed compliance and contract audits for an agency with one of the nation's largest municipal real estate portfolios, resulting in millions of dollars in savings for taxpayers. I earned a degree in accounting in finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.

My administration would take proactive steps to limit the general fund property tax increases, excessive spending, and lax management that have too often been a staple of North Hempstead town government since I moved to Albertson in 1993.

I have found that property taxes are one of the biggest issues on the voters' minds. Jon Kainman has increased the town's property taxes by more than 40% since being elected seven years ago. I will work with residents and business owners to perform a top to bottom financial audit and reassessment of Town services.

Key components of my platform:

• Overhaul and reform of the town's grossly mismanaged buildings department which has suffered through indictments, arrests and convictions which have detracted from its business and functionality.
• Enact a "Property Owner's Bill of Rights" aimed at ensuring that building applications filed by residents and business owner are processed in a timely manner. Too often, applications can sit for months, even years without any meaningful action, which has a negative financial effect on our community. Under my administration it be evident that the building department works for the people of the town.
• Utilize my experiences in accounting and finance to ensure that the town has sound financial controls that will prevent instances such as the perpetual "accounting errors", at the town operated Clinton G. Martin pool.
• Reduce the town's bloated payroll which is filled with unqualified patronage hires, costing taxpayers millions of dollars each year.
• Increase and enhance the number of town sponsored concerts, firework displays and other quality of life initiatives.
• Protect local governments, such as villages, water and parks districts, and volunteer fire departments, government entities which have proven cost effective and ensure local control of municipal affairs.
• Work with our residents on important local issues such as protecting Alvin Petrus Park in Port Washington, taking the lead on the long overdue project to eliminate the flooding in the various streets in the Carle Place and Mineola communities, making sure that streets are swept more than four times a year from Manhasset to New Hyde Park to Roslyn, and get community input on how best to revitalize the down town areas from Great Neck to Westbury. My goal is to work with residents, civics associations and other concerned groups and make them a part of the decision making process.

On November 8th, I ask you, the residents of this town to cast your vote for me and choose a new beginning. I believe that town government is about serving the community and not about the same old party politics. Only together we can preserve our quality of life and make the town that we love a better place live.