Major Initiatives As Supervisor
As Supervisor, Lesko has made it a priority to take the politics out of Brookhaven government. Lesko has forged a partnership with a Republican Councilwoman, Deputy Supervisor and Councilwoman Kathleen Walsh, and has appointed a new bi-partisan management team.
Lesko has applied fiscally conservative principals to Town government. He has froze property taxes for three years in a row and has cut spending in the General Fund by 26%.
Lesko supported a property tax cap, a spending cap, and a debt management cap for Brookhaven Town, and voters overwhelmingly approved all three measures, which were referendums on the ballot in November 2010. Wall Street Rating agencies have affirmed Brookhaven’s high bond ratings eight times since Lesko has taken office.
Lesko has focused on economic development in the Town and is the brainchild of "Accelerate Long Island", an initiative to connect research conducted at Long Island's major universities and research institutions and connect them with entrepreneurs to create start-up companies on Long Island.
Lesko has also focused on redeveloping the blighted areas of the suburbs and redirecting development away from virgin land through a program he developed called "Blight to Light".
A hallmark economic development project of Supervisor Lesko is the Ronkonkoma Hub Transit-Oriented Redevelopment, which seeks to create a live-work destination 50 acres of Brookhaven owned property adjacent to the busiest train station on the entire Long Island Rail Road and proximate to Long Island's major commercial airport, Long Island MacArthur Airport.
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