A Vote for Tom means:
- A better quality of life for the Babylon community
- Eliminate wasteful spending
- Create a safer environment for our youth
Goals of Tom Gargiulo as Babylon Town Councilman:
Accountability
I will be accountable to the people of the Town of Babylon. If needed, I will be available to the people to help them work out their problems. In regards to local businesses in our town, too many of them are waiting long periods of time for permits. I will help to expedite and streamline this process. As a result, the business can open sooner, which will bring more tax revenue to the town. This will ease the tax burden for the residents of Babylon Township and bring more jobs to the people.
Increasing Job Opportunities
The Town of Babylon has the highest rate of unemployment in Suffolk County. I would like to connect local businesses and high school students as well as the young adults in our community to give our youth work skills. I will be their mentor and begin a work study program, as I do now with BOCES. This will facilitate job opportunities with our young community. If I need to meet with either the business owners or the Town of Babylon residents that are seeking employment I will open town hall on Saturdays to make this program work.
Quality of Life
I believe in strong family values. I will work hand in hand with our local police and public safety in keeping our streets safe for the whole town of Babylon. This goal can be achieved by establishing community watch programs, investigating cameras for the high crime areas and educating the local community on various gangs on Long Island.
Patronage Jobs
I believe that all town jobs should be held by Babylon tax payers. Do you know that over 75 percent of our town commissioners that make over $90,000 per year do not reside in the Town of Babylon? Our town attorney is a perfect example of someone employed by the town and living outside of it. If the employees were from the town I believe they would have a true interest in the well being of our community.
Equal Representation
When I am elected with Matt Groh, my running-mate, will be the first time in the history of the town that there will be a representative from each of the major political parties. One Republican, one Conservative, one Independent and one Democrat. This will empower us and we will be able to work together as one and make the best decisions for the town of Babylon and its residents.
Matt Groh and I will be giving back 20 percent of our councilman's salary, which go towards senior citizen's and student scholarships.
The time for change is now!
DID YOU KNOW?
My Opponents and Their Colleagues:
- Raised your town general fund tax by 13.82% this year?
- Increased your town general fund tax by 9.39%, your town highway tax by 17.99%, and your lighting district tax by 9.99% one week after the November 2007 election, bringing total tax increases to over 35% during over the last four years?
- Overcharged for garbage collection for 8 years in a row and accumulated as much as $41 million of taxpayer money in a slush fund?
- To this point, voted in favor of $40 million in new debt in 2010 and 2011 to take property away from rightful landowners (eminent domain) and sewer downtown Wyandanch at your expense?
- As reported in Newsday, are in favor of spending $500 million (that is half of $1 billion) on the Wyandanch Rising project?
The current administration wants to keep you in the dark. Standard "Freedom of Information" requests are ignored. Town Board meetings are not broadcasted on television or the internet. It was only after Matt Groh exposed the town's abuses and demanded a refund that garbage taxes were reduced. Moreover, to now claim that taxes were "cut" this year is deceptive. Same old Babylon! Since when is paying back money wrongfully taken from you a "tax cut." It is not a "tax cut". It is a "refund!"