On Tuesday night, Brookhaven Town Clerk Kevin LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) was re-elected, winning a full, four-year term after winning a 2023 special election.
LaValle addressed supporters alongside Suffolk GOP Chairman Jesse Garcia (R-Ridge), colleagues, and family.
“I am so excited to come back into office; it’s going to be a great term we have ahead of us,” LaValle told supporters at the GOP’s watch party in Patchogue, adding his thanks for support from volunteers and staff. He was joined on stage by Brookhaven Town Supervisor Dan Panico (R-Center Moriches), Deputy Supervisor Neil Foley (R-Blue Point), and Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R-Shoreham).
“I don’t get the ability to do my job every day without the funding they [Town officials] give me and the work they do every day,” said LaValle. “This business is twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”
LaValle was re-elected over Tricia Chiaramonte (D-Manorville), garnering 34,885 votes to her 28,728 – a 54.82%-45.14% margin. Chiaramonte did not actively campaign.
LaValle was joined on stage by his fiancée.
“The mission hasn’t changed for me from the moment I stepped into the Town Clerk’s office,” said LaValle. “The mission has always been to produce, secure, modernize, and innovate our office to make it an office that you’re proud of and that is the best in New York State.”
LaValle ran on his accomplishments over the last two years, which include, but are not limited to, modernizing and digitizing Town records and processes, working with the Town IT Department to safeguard the Town’s records and systems against the growing cyber threats, barnstorming across the Town’s thirteen libraries on a yearly basis with his mobile office hours, and implementing quality-of-life improvements for the layman. One such example includes placing QR codes on land use application signs so passerbys can get the most up-to-date information on a project, avoiding the social media echo chambers that often whip up fear over new developments.
As the “cover on the book” of Town government, the Clerk’s office processed, in the last year alone, over 10,000 disability parking passes, over 1,500 dog licenses, over 4,000 birth certificates, over 3,500 death certificates, and over 2,100 marriage licenses. Over 700,000 pages of documents have been scanned online in-house over the last year as well.
