Riverhead Town Supervisor

REPUBLICAN

Aguiar, 60, runs as a retired NYPD counterterrorism sergeant and the first Latino vying for elected office in Riverhead. She is on the Conservative line.

• She would lower tax bills by using all of the $40 million from the sale of 1,600 acres at Enterprise Park in Calverton and make sure all parties fulfill the commitment to keep 1,000 of those acres as open space.
• Her 10-point plan for the school overcrowding “crisis” calls for a multiagency task force to tackle the problem from the streets to the courts, including identifying roadside signs of illegal rentals to escalating fines for repeat violators.
• She believes flexible land zoning is needed to bring vibrancy back to communities, including a mix of housing in downtown, such as assisted-living, co-ops and affordable housing for young adults.

DEMOCRATIC

Jens-Smith, 56, heads an all-female slate of town Democratic candidates as she runs for a second two-year term, with backing also from the Working Families and Independence party lines.

• She touted negotiations on expired or expiring contracts with unions, including the Riverhead Police Benevolent Association, and said the deals give workers much of what they want while requiring them to pay for part of health care, saving town funds.
• A key concern was the revitalization of downtown, where she launched a bike-sharing program with the county and worked with agencies to turn the shuttered empty train station building into a coffee shop.
• She led efforts to start updating a town master plan that was last touched 17 years ago and has her eye on flexible zoning for Route 58 to get businesses into the empty box stores.