Corrado joins East Rockaway's Pride Party ticket

East Rockaway resident Ed Corrado has announced his candidacy for trustee in the March 2011 village elections. He is seeking public office for the first time.

“Reviewing all village personnel expenses will shine light on what’s really going on with our money,” said Corrado, who will represent the Pride Party. “I’m all for fiscal responsibility and good government — that’s why I join our next mayor, Fran Lenahan, in seeking to see where our hard-earned money is going.”

Corrado, an 11-year resident of East Rockaway, is retired. He worked for 32 years as a manager at New York Telephone — now Verizon — and spent 10 years with Time Warner Cable as a senior interference engineer specializing in municipal telecommunication planning.

Corrado said he is in favor of instituting “responsible growth” in the village, and favors a comprehensive plan for measured, carefully directed expansion — “one which ensures that East Rockaway maintains its unique character and terrific quality of life in the face of inevitable growth,” he said. He pledged to join Lenahan, a candidate for mayor, in “cutting taxpayer-funded, highly paid administrators in order to ensure public salaries are on par with today’s economic realities, [and] promising to take the monies saved from salaries and associated fringe benefit and pensions costs to provide all homeowners with a village tax cut.” He also said he opposes creating any large-scale apartment complex on Ocean Avenue, and would like to bring more commerce and investment to the community.

Corrado is a past grand knight and a current trustee of the Monsignor Walsh/St. Raymond’s Council of the Knights of Columbus. He is president of the Holy Name Society of St. Raymond’s Church and drives for the Parish Social Ministry. He also volunteers for Dominican Village, driving retired clergymen to and from medical appointments. He is a supporter of the Proyecto Don Bosco project and has helped in “adopting” two parishes in Guatemala. As a local volunteer, he has worked with the Huckleberry Frolic, Oktoberfest and the holiday lighting ceremonies.

“Ed Corrado is a longtime community advocate and volunteer who has, time and again, put the needs of East Rockaway first,” said Lenahan. “I’m proud to be running with him on the Pride Party ticket and know that he will partner with me to evaluate and reduce non-Civil Service salary expenditures, oppose a high-rise apartment complex on Ocean Avenue and give a tax cut to all homeowners.”

Corrado and his wife, Elaine, have been married for 42 years and have two adult children, Wendy and Thomas, and a granddaughter, Valerie.