It was while screening potential candidates for East Hampton Town Trustee as a member of the town Democratic Committee that Tim Garneau became interested in running for the post himself. An outdoorsman who loves to fish, bike, camp, and hike, he decided it was time to throw his own hat in the ring for trustee.
He managed the horseshoe crab monitoring research project here with the Cornell Cooperative Extension, and “I basically had all kids,” he said. If elected to the trustees, he would work to “engage the next generation of environmentalists,” and would like to see the trustees “set up a junior trustee program. That would be a great way to engage high schoolers.” Clean water is a big concern for him.
He has lived in Northwest Woods since 2001 and has two sons at East Hampton High School and a daughter at the middle school.
Mr. Garneau is a member of the East Hampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force and worked hard for passage of New York’s Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act earlier this year, which allows people to obtain licenses regardless of their immigration status. He is a past member of the East Hampton Little League board of directors and is on a town committee looking at alternate sites for the Little League fields on Pantigo Place, which will be displaced when a hospital satellite is built there. A member of the town’s Democratic Committee for the past year, he is also a member of the Surfrider Foundation, Citizens for Access Rights, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, and the Accabonac Protection Committee.
Mr. Garneau graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is an evening wear dress wholesaler, a business he has run for the past 24 years.
In part because of their close review of the proposed offshore South Fork Wind Farm, and possibly because their meetings are now on the local public access channel, he said that “more people are paying attention to what [the trustees] do.”
“It’s a perfect time to get involved,” he said. “It’s an exciting time for the trustees.”
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