Frequently Asked Questions

  • More than most people realize. The supervisor is four jobs in one: the town's chief executive, its chief fiscal officer, one vote of five on the town board, and Hamden's representative on the Delaware County Board of Supervisors. Day to day, that means preparing and managing the budget, running board meetings, signing the town's contracts, and being the person residents call when something isn't working. And the job serves the whole town: Hamden, DeLancey, and Mundale alike.

  • Because the job is mostly work I've already done. I've spent fourteen years building and running small businesses, managing budgets, payroll, contractors, and multi-million-dollar projects, and negotiating with developers and vendors across six states. The biggest piece of the supervisor's role is fiscal, handling public money carefully and transparently, and that's work I do every day. I'm not a career politician. I'm someone who knows how to read a budget, hold a contractor accountable, and keep a complex operation running without losing sight of the people it serves.

  • First, what I wouldn't change: the steady, careful stewardship this town has had. I'm running to continue that work, not to undo it. What I would add is access. Town records posted in one searchable place, a monthly update on decisions and spending, a modernized town website, and a supervisor you can always reach. The town has been well run; I want to make sure every resident can see that for themselves.

  • My commitment is to stay under the state tax cap, and to treat any override as an absolute last resort. What a supervisor can actually control is the other side of the ledger: honest budgeting, chasing every grant dollar available to towns like ours, making sure any big project pays its fair share before it’s approved, and earning interest on the town’s own funds instead of letting them sit idle. And one piece of straight talk: the 2027 budget will be adopted this November, before the next supervisor takes office. The first budget I’d truly write is 2028’s, and I’ll spend my first year learning this town’s books line by line in public before I write it.

  • I want Hamden to stay Hamden. I support small-scale and rooftop solar in the right places, on homes, barns, and businesses, but I draw a hard line at commercial-scale solar or industrial development on watershed and conservation-easement land. That land was protected for a reason, and I intend to keep it that way. I live on protected DEP land myself, so this isn't abstract for me. On big projects generally, including battery storage, my approach is the same: the town should set clear rules ahead of time and hold any project to them fully, in writing, before anything is approved. No rubber stamps, and no decisions made without residents knowing what's on the table.

  • Almost none of it does, and that's by design. Posting records online, sending a monthly update, publishing a plain-language budget, and building a guide to watershed and energy programs cost time and attention, not tax dollars. Where real money is involved, roads, culverts, broadband, my platform says the same thing every time: pursue the county, state, and watershed funding that exists for exactly these purposes, so Hamden's share of the bill gets smaller, not bigger.

  • Yes. The supervisor doesn't just run the town, they sit on the Delaware County Board of Supervisors and vote on decisions that affect every town in the county. Too often, small towns like Hamden get treated as an afterthought in those rooms. I've spent years in meetings where decisions get made, and I've learned that the people who prepare, show up, and speak plainly are the ones who get heard. I'm not afraid to ask a hard question or push back when Hamden's interests are on the line. I'll be a clear, prepared voice for our town at the county level, and the same discipline I'd bring to our books, I'll bring to the table in Delhi.

  • Fair question, and I'd never pretend otherwise. I first came here eleven years ago, my partner and I bought our home in DeLancey four years ago, and this is where we intend to stay. I'd just say this: everyone in Hamden's story starts with someone who chose this valley. What matters is whether you show up, do the work, and stay. I'm asking for the chance to prove that the way anyone proves it here, one year and one kept promise at a time.