North Hempstead Town Council Member - 2nd District

Lems, 63, of New Hyde Park, is running on the Green Party line. She is a former intellectual-property paralegal. Lems lost a race for Nassau County executive in 2017. She also ran for Nassau County Legislature in 2015 and State Senate in 2014, both unsuccessfully.

• Lems wants to reduce noise and air pollution generated by gas-powered leaf blowers and low-flying jets from Kennedy Airport. Gas-powered leaf blowers should be banned, she said.
• She opposes banning the sale of recreational marijuana. The town “loses out on revenue” while police and jail resources are wasted on enforcement, she said.
• She wants to overturn the town’s decision to not conduct business with companies that boycott Israel. She said the law violates the First Amendment and “favors the State of Israel over people’s right to peacefully boycott.”

Srivastava, 45, of New Hyde Park, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines. It is the first time the businesswoman, who owns a frozen yogurt store in Merrick, is running for public office.

• Srivastava said the most significant issue the town faces is “financial mismanagement,” citing the lawsuit the town faces from Gramercy Group Inc., a Wantagh-based contractor North Hempstead hired in 2017 to renovate the pool in Clinton G. Martin Park. “It was approved hastily and not planned well,” she said.
• She said she would push for better quality of life for residents and increase government efficiency.
• She said she would work to make the town more attractive by supporting and retaining businesses and talents.

Zuckerman, 51, of East Hills, is running on the Democratic, Working Families and Independence lines. He is seeking a second four-year term after being appointed to fill a vacancy on town council in 2014. Before that, the real estate attorney was a trustee on the East Hills village board since 2003.

• Zuckerman said that during his nearly six years on the six-member town council, North Hempstead trimmed its debt by $32 million and repeatedly received a Aaa bond rating.
• He said he has helped expand Project Independence to offer seniors free transportation to the supermarkets and discounted rates to nonemergency doctor appointments.
• He said the town’s budget since 2014 has stayed below the state-mandated tax cap of 2%.