Brookhaven Town Council Member - 2nd District

REPUBLICAN

Bonner, 55, of Rocky Point, is running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence party lines. She is seeking her seventh term.

• Bonner said Brookhaven has saved taxpayers millions of dollars by earning the top “AAA” rating from Standard & Poor’s rating service for four consecutive years.
• She said Brookhaven has removed more than 300 vacant and abandoned houses and cleaned and secured over 3,000 derelict houses over the past six years.
• Bonner said she’s proud the town has preserved more than 1,100 acres of land for open space and protected groundwater for generations to come.

DEMOCRATIC

Deonarine, 38, is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines. She is seeking her first four-year term.

• She said she’d make the town more accessible to the public by opening more Town Hall mobile sites and push council meeting start times to 7 p.m., allowing more residents to attend.
• Deonarine said planning and zoning board members would now go through an application process and none would be allowed to be in a position of leadership for other political organizations.
• She said she’d crack down on homelessness and crime in Coram.