Greenport Village held a Meet the Candidates Forum on March 6 in advance of its upcoming elections on March 18, when two board of trustees seats are up for grabs, in what proved to be a cordial departure from the village’s recent cantankerous political debates.
All five candidates who are vying for the two board seats were in attendance, including two incumbents who are seeking re-election to new four-year terms. The candidates largely agreed on affordable housing, short-term rental policies, infrastructure projects, the village sewer system, overcrowding during the summer, and of course, local tax rates. All five candidates said that they were open — to varying degrees — to considering property tax increases to help raise revenue and pay for village improvements.
