As a Village Trustee, I know all too well the monumental costs facing our municipalities when it comes to addressing aging infrastructure. From water & sewer, to road or broadband, we need a radical reinvestment into our infrastructure here in New York. I will champion a dedicated fund to support infrastructure upgrades and modernize outdated systems to keep our communities safer and support our business community.

• Broadband & Internet Access: How are we still having this conversation? Internet access has become an essential part of life. We should be talking about providing high-speed fiber to every address in New York, not just the bare minimum in coverage. As your Assemblymember, I will not just fight to expand broadband access to every address in AD 102, but to high speed internet as well.

• Municipal Water & Sewer: Water and sewer improvements are needed in nearly every municipality in the state. We have aging infrastructure unsuited to our current needs, environment or business climate. The costs to address these challenges are astronomical, and the programs designed to offer support are an avalanche of paperwork and red tape.

• Roads & Bridges: We need to continue reinvesting in our roads and bridges to keep people safe.

• Business Needs: Our aging infrastructure is making it hard to meet the needs of our business community. Many of our communities are facing water and sewer systems with limited capacity that throttle business attraction efforts, not to mention our outdated electrical grid.