On more than one occasion, I have heard Ted say that a village should be involved in many aspects of life and that of course, a village should perform well general municipal services, such as cleaning the streets, repairing the roads, collecting the garbage, etc. U,n der the leadership of Ted and his colleagues in village government, the Village of Great Neck Plaza has performed and continues to perform these municipal services well.
It is part of the reason why my wife and I are happy to live here. It is part of the reason that homes and apartments in the Plaza are in high demand. But, I have heard Ted also say that he believes that a village should do more than these municipal services – as important as they are – and
Ted explains that is why Great Neck Plaza provides such things as an annual poetry program and contest, a weekly schedule of summer concerts and art shows in the Village Hall.
Ted is also a fair person. A number of years ago, the village had to place a street sign on our street, on which there had not been any such street signs.
Working with the village’s Department of Public Works Department, Ted could have had the street sign placed on the lawn of any one of a number of homes on our street. Instead, knowing that none of the residents of the street wanted the sign on their lawn, Ted had the sign placed on his own lawn, where it is to this day.
More recently, in the past several years, the village has undertaken a multi-year street repair project. Rather than select our street to be repaired in the first year of the project, Ted and his colleague in village government had a professional engineering firm rank the village streets in the order of their condition, with the streets in most need of repair being repaired in year one of the project.
Our street is scheduled to be repaired in the last year of the project.
Ted has the intelligence, work ethic, dedication and character required of a Mayor.
For all of these reasons, I am voting for Ted Rosen for mayor of the Village of Great Neck Plaza.
Lawrence Raphael
Great Neck
