Southold Town Board Accomplishments
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Supervisor candidate Bill Edwards has served on the Town Board since January 2004. Tom Wickham, who served as Councilman and then Town Supervisor in the 1990’s, is seeking his re-election to the Board after having been returned there by the voters in 2001. With current Board member Dan Ross, they have been instrumental in the Board’s many accomplishments over the past two years:

	Land Preservation
		Over 500 acres of farmland and open space permanently preserved
		Ensured preservation of 11 acres for every new building lot authorized
		Passed new subdivision code to encourage preservation while protecting landowner equity
		Raised preservation requirement in all subdivisions to 60% minimum
	Housing
		Passed legislation to enable small, permanently affordable housing units in hamlets for workforce
		Worked to transfer development rights from farm field to hamlets, a SmartGrowth essential
		Mandated 25% of all new full-buildout subdivisions be affordable
	Environment
		Acted to assure that all electricity purchased by Southold Town comes from renewable sources
		Aggressively preserved sensitive wetlands in the critical Pipes Cove area
	Public Safety
		Reorganized Police Department for greater efficiency
		Doubled police coverage for Greenport and east
	Government
		Kept tax rate stable
		Maintained small, responsive government that works for the public
		Passed Ethics Code to keep Town Hall free of patronage

Town Board of Trustees Accomplishments
Al Krupski, now running for Town Board, has served on the Board of Trustees since 1985 and currently serves as its president. Peggy Dickerson, elected to the Board of Trustees in 2001, is seeking her second term. Both have played crucial roles in the Trustee’s accomplishments over the past four years:

• Rewrote Town Code Chapter 97, updating and modernizing the 30-year-old wetland code to afford the town better environmental and legal protection
  
• Worked with the New York State Department of Transportation, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, and local highway departments to remediate road runoff into our service waters and wetlands
  
• Added Environmental Technician position to board’s office staff to help the Board of Trustees be more efficient by making better science-based decisions
  
• Continuing work on revising and updating codes governing moorings and shellfish