2026 New York General Election

ANTONIO J GONCALVES

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Pursues grants for additional water filtration in town-owned water districts and works with county and state health agencies to protect drinking water.

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Education: Bachelor of Engineering, Hofstra University. Political experience: Town Councilman (2018 – 2021), Town Supervisor (2022-2023). Work experience: Worked for various companies in the private sector providing call center systems and also data aggregators and data compilers serving various verticals including Financial, Marketing, Automotive, and various information services. My roles ranged from systems support, to managing professional services, Project Management and then into Sales & Business Development including strategic partnerships. My private sector work included Domestic and International engagements.

Candidate Profile: Antonio Goncalves, Lewisboro Town Supervisor

Antonio worked for private-sector companies providing call center systems, data aggregation and data compilation services. His roles included systems support, professional services management, project management, sales and business development, and strategic partnerships.

Candidate Profile: Antonio Gonçalves For Lewisboro Town Supervisor

To: New York Independent Redistricting Commission. As of January 1, 2022, I will be the Town Supervisor for Lewisboro. I have been on the Town Board of Lewisboro since 2018 and have been a resident of Lewisboro since 1992.

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Antonio was scheduled to become the Town Supervisor of Lewisboro on January 1, 2022. He had served on the Lewisboro Town Board since 2018.

As town supervisor, adopted three budgets that did not exceed New York's tax cap to limit the effects on taxpayers.

The Recorder: What’s your view on the town’s current state of finances? How do you prioritize funding priority needs versus staying under the annual tax cap? Gonçalves: As chief fiscal officer for the town, I have to see that our finances are healthy. During my tenure as supervisor, we have successfully adopted three budgets that minimized the impact to the taxpayer by not exceeding the New York state tax cap. We have had an unprecedented amount of grants which helped us with funding important facilities improvements and capital purchases.

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What accomplishments in your past would you cite as evidence you can handle this job? 2. Fiscal responsibility including a good 2023 budget and an unprecedented $5M in grants in two years. 3. Community building; we have had a successful couple of years of great community events and I hope to keep those going and do more. 4. Negotiated 4 collective bargaining agreements with the unions.

Economy

What other issues do you intend to address during your campaign? Expanded cellular and communications services. It is critical that we have access to 911 and emergency services from every corner of Town. This cellular network is critical to our first responders including our Police Dept. I would also like to expand recreational options for residents such as pickleball and platform tennis.

Public Services

The Recorder: The Town Board has been discussing potential regulations for short-term residential rentals, such as Airbnb. Do you support legislation and if so, what should the law entail? Gonçalves: I support legislation that supports homeowners while protecting neighborhood character and the environment. We will need to make sure any legislation will not be a significant burden to the homeowner and will provide safety and zoning compliance, protect our environment including fragile lake ecology and limit proliferation. Short-term rentals will of course need to adhere to building codes.

Advocates for developing rental and mixed-use housing in hamlet centers and underused spaces, including Metropolitan Transportation Authority parking lots and shopping centers.

How would you address the affordable housing issue in the community? This is related to the question above, we would have to take advantage of our hamlet centers to create much needed rental housing with easy pedestrian access to amenities. We need to think smartly about using underutilized space for housing and maybe include some mixed use, such as MTA parking lots and shopping centers.

Housing & Urban Development

Gonçalves: One of my key criteria was to move away from paying rent. After paying rent at two different locations for many years, I felt that the town should own the space for all town offices, police department and court. The building we ended up purchasing wasn’t available until early this year, and we are currently working to adapt it to support a pleasant workspace for our employees and court. In parallel, we have taken the preliminary steps to develop a concept plan for the police department headquarters on town-owned property. What we are currently pursuing is the most fiscally sound way forward and with the least impact to our taxpaying residents.

Public Safety

What other issues do you intend to address during your campaign? Expanded cellular and communications services. It is critical that we have access to 911 and emergency services from every corner of Town. This is something that has been talked about since I joined the board in 2018, we made progress in this area with the installation of the cell tower at the LVAC location in Cross River, for the first time ever, we now have cell coverage at the John Jay campus but we need to do more. This cellular network is critical to our first responders including our Police Dept.

Gonçalves: During my tenure as supervisor, we have successfully adopted three budgets that minimized the impact to the taxpayer by not exceeding the New York state tax cap. We have had an unprecedented amount of grants which helped us with funding important facilities improvements and capital purchases. For 2025 we utilized Fund Balance, which has been growing for several years, to offset our estimated 2025 budget, mainly the road paving line, enabling us to pave a large number of roads while not exceeding the 2025 tax cap.

Transportation & Infrastructure

As a town councilman, led the initial development of Oakridge Water District treatment-system upgrades intended to eliminate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

The Recorder: What’s your view of how the town is addressing the PFAS contamination situation in the Oakridge Water District? Would you do anything differently? Gonçalves: The Oakridge Water District will benefit from a major enhancement to its water treatment system to eliminate PFAS. Prior to becoming supervisor and while councilman, I took the lead on this project during the early stages of its conceptualization and development. We are now at the tail end of a multi-million dollar expansion which will provide significant improvement to the water quality beyond the elimination of PFAS.

Gonçalves: The Oakridge Water District will benefit from a major enhancement to its water treatment system to eliminate PFAS. Prior to becoming supervisor and while councilman, I took the lead on this project during the early stages of its conceptualization and development. We are now at the tail end of a multi-million dollar expansion which will provide significant improvement to the water quality beyond the elimination of PFAS. The majority of the project cost is being paid for by federal and state grants.

Pursues filtration grants and coordinates with health agencies for town water districts, and plans to seek similar protections for private water systems.

How would you protect the drinking water in the community? I am doing this today with the water districts owned by the Town and this has included pursuing and successfully obtaining grant awards for additional filtration, working closely with various agencies such as County and State Dept of Health. With upcoming potential changes by the Federal EPA with regards to contamination resulting from “forever chemicals” such as PFOA/PFOS the hope is that the grant opportunities for municipal water systems can be applied to private residential wells.

How would you protect the drinking water in the community? I am doing this today with the water districts owned by the Town and this has included pursuing and successfully obtaining grant awards for additional filtration, working closely with various agencies such as County and State Dept of Health. With upcoming potential changes by the Federal EPA with regards to contamination resulting from “forever chemicals” such as PFOA/PFOS the hope is that the grant opportunities for municipal water systems can be applied to private residential wells. I will do all I can to potentially expand our successes to the protection of private water systems.

How would you protect the drinking water in the community? The other component tied to protecting drinking water is having proper wastewater management. I am currently engaged in what will ultimately be two major wastewater projects whose goal is to protect our lakes. If nothing is done the aquifers from where we source our well water will also be impacted by failing septic systems.