Supervisor, Town of Hempstead: Olena Nicks
Olena Nicks, Democratic candidate for Hempstead Town supervisor, at the party's countywide campaign headquarters in Garden City on June 8. She is also running on the Working Families Party line. Credit: James Escher
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OLENA NICKS
Democratic
BACKGROUND:
- Nicks, 30, of Uniondale, is seeking her first term as town supervisor. She ran for town clerk in 2021.
- She is a financial analyst, a Uniondale firefighter and a trustee of the library and community council there. She also works with Uniondale Community Land Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on creating affordable housing opportunities.
- She has a bachelor’s in business operations from CUNY Baruch and an MBA with a specialty in consulting from American University.
ISSUES:
- Nicks said she would work to address what she described as an acute housing shortage, creating a task force to evaluate opportunities for new housing in neighborhoods across the town.
- She said some town departments should be reconfigured, citing resident complaints about building department permit requirements and difficulty getting code enforcement to respond to requests for service.
- Town government should ease the property tax burden on homeowners by encouraging small-business development and aggressively seeking federal grants, she said.
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