Richard L. LaMarca

Credit: James Escher

LaMarca, 62, of Oyster Bay, is a registered Republican and is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election. He was elected town clerk in 2019 and took office in January 2020.
LaMarca was born and raised in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, where he attended Oyster Bay High School before receiving a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University in business administration with a concentration in international business and an MBA from St. John’s University. LaMarca worked for more than 20 years at a Fortune 500 company in human resources, including international work helping with due diligence and joint venture partnerships, before joining the Town of Oyster Bay as director of labor-management relations.
He is involved with several local organizations, including the Oyster Bay Civic Association, Oyster Bay-East Norwich Chamber of Commerce and Oyster Bay Main Street Association.

LaMarca said that digitizing the town’s vital records remains a priority, with marriage and birth certificates already scanned and death certificates next in the project.
He added that digitizing records will make it faster for his staff to locate and provide documents while also helping preserve older records that are becoming increasingly fragile.
LaMarca said he is working to make Town Clerk services more convenient by moving services such as parking permit applications online

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