It has been our honor and privilege to serve as your mayor, and as a trustee over the years.

You have expressed your confidence in us by returning us to office several times and, as we leave those offices, we would like to ask you to vote for a slate of exemplary candidates running for mayor and for two open trustee positions – Dave Tanner, Bobby Shannon and Bonnie Parente.

The board on which we have served is more than a mere group of individuals – we have functioned together as a team. Each of us has brought a unique body of skill and experience to the job and, working together those skills have complemented each other with the result that the current board of trustees is even more effective than the sum of its individual members’ abilities.

We would need this to continue in the best of times but over the next four years, which will be difficult ones for all of us in New York State, it is even more important that the people who you elect have a demonstrable record of accomplishment. In an era of tax caps and cutbacks, good intentions will not be enough – our village will require the ability to convert good intentions and enthusiasm into the programs that make our village a special place.

Dave’s skills in municipal finance are broad, and best evidenced, we think, by the fact that even in a recession, with a chaotic real estate market, our village bond rating has improved to AA+.

Bobby Shannon and Bonnie Parente are equally gifted. Each brings the training and perspective of an attorney to the board.

In addition, Bobby has managed a business in a recession-battered industry, and made it grow.

Bonnie manages personnel issues for a public agency.

Each of them serves on fact finding boards for your village government, Bobby on the planning board and Bonnie on the board of zoning appeals. Each of them is heavily involved in community activities as well, including scouting, little league, charitable pursuits and service organizations.

While it is tempting to vote for someone who is familiar, our village will require much more over the next four years. We will need trustees who will be capable of assuming difficult responsibilities from day one.

Bobby Shannon and Bonnie Parente are by far the most qualified candidates to take up those responsibilities.

On March 15, please vote to continue our tradition of effective, competent and fiscally responsible government by voting for Dave Tanner for mayor, and Bobby Shannon and Bonnie Parente for village trustee.

Nancy Zolezzi,

mayor of the Village

of East Williston

Jim Daw,

deputy mayor of the

Village of East Williston