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Trak Patel: Candidate profile

Posted March 11, 2019 12:00 am

Bio

Name: Trak Patel

City: Lindenhurst

Office sought: Village Trustee

Age: 44

Family: Wife, daughter and little puppy

Occupation: CPA

Education: Bachelor of Science in Accountancy and MBA in Marketing from NIU

Civic involvement: Volunteer with the YWCA of Chicago in providing financial/tax educational services to small businesses and individuals.

Previous elected offices held: Board Member for Millburn District 24 - Secretary for 2 years

Incumbent? No

Website: http://lindenhurstunited.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindenhurstUnited/

Twitter: None listed

Issue questions

What are the most important issues facing your community and how do you intend to address them?

The most important is financial transparency, community development and improving the financial health of the Village of Lindenhurst.

What makes you the best candidate for the job?

I have served on the school board just after the financial crisis and was involved in bringing the school to financial stability. Additionally I have worked for multi-national companies and have my own CPA practice that allows me to bring financial strengths to the position.

Describe your leadership style and explain how you think that will be effective in producing actions and decisions with your village board or city council.

I strive to provide results to the community by getting the community to involved to provide input in how they want to improve the community. With my business I and relationships I can utilize those relationships to help improve the community.

How would you describe the condition of your community's budget, and what are the most important specific actions the town should take to assure providing the level of services people want?

We have a great plan to provide new Village leadership for our community, by bringing more development to the community while maintaining our small town identity, providing more financial oversight of Village finances, and improving financial processes to improve the financial health of our Village.

What's one good idea you have to better the community that no one is talking about yet?

Making Lindenhurst a place where people come to transact business.

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