5 Candidates Vying for 2 Greenport Trustee Seats Face Off in Forum
Greenport Village held a Meet the Candidates Forum on March 6 in advance of its upcoming elections on March 18, when two board of trustees seats are up for grabs, in what proved to be a cordial departure from the village’s recent cantankerous political debates.
All five candidates who are vying for the two board seats were in attendance, including two incumbents who are seeking re-election to new four-year terms. The candidates largely agreed on affordable housing, short-term rental policies, infrastructure projects, the village sewer system, overcrowding during the summer, and of course, local tax rates. All five candidates said that they were open — to varying degrees — to considering property tax increases to help raise revenue and pay for village improvements.
The upcoming election features five-term incumbent Deputy Mayor Mary Bess Phillips and four-term trustee Julia Robins facing off against each other and a field of three additional challengers: Margaret Rose de Cruz, Scott Hollid and Roric Tobin, all of whom are political newcomers.
Robins is a real estate industry veteran and property manager with long experience as a contractor who is running on the Greenport United party line. Phillips is in the local commercial fishing industry with her family and is on the Greenport Pride line. As for the challengers, Tobin is a contractor and interior designer on the Roric for Greenport, de Cruz is a holistic healthcare practitioner on the All Hands CommUnity line, and Hollid is a longtime village firefighter and a self-described stay-at-home dad on the Families First line.
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