29 Bellport Lane
Bellport, NY 11713
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Village of Bellport
Community Center
4 Bell Street
Bellport, NY 11713
Tel: 631-286-0327
Board of Trustees
David J. Pate was born in Hornchurch, England. His family immigrated to Long Island in 1957 where his father worked as an engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory. David is a 1971 graduate of Bellport High School and a Vietnam era veteran who performed search and rescue missions while serving in the United States Coast Guard. David attended Suffolk Community College and the New York Institute of Technology. He graduated with a degree in Bachelors of Science in 1989.
David is a second generation employee at Brookhaven National Laboratory, working there since 1988 as a research engineer, and is currently part of the Super Conducting Accelerator and Electron Cooling Group, which is charged with the physics, design and construction of RHIC superconducting radio frequency accelerators and electron coolers. During his tenure with the lab, he spent 18 months working at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.
David has lived in and around Bellport for the past 50 years and is the past Chairman of the Village Zoning Board of Appeals. Throughout David’s career his leadership qualities have frequently helped him attain management positions and he has been very successful in meeting challenges that have come his way.
David learned to fly small aircraft while in the Coast Guard and presently holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate. This has afforded him the opportunity to fly small corporate jets in his 35 years as a licensed pilot.
David is presently married to Beth who he met while flying as a Charter Captain.
A native of Long Island, Scott Horsley moved to Bellport after graduating from Western New England College Law School in 1978. He found the friendly small town atmosphere very similar to the Village of Babylon where he grew up.
Scott began his career as a teacher at Bellport High School, where he currently teaches business law and government, while also developing a successful solo law practice. His dual careers helped him assimilate into the community and to develop the ability to analyze both sides of a situation and resolve issues which will serve him well as a trustee.
As his children have grown and developed their own lives, Scott and his wife Caryn decided that now is the time to become more service oriented. Always interested in politics, he felt the time was right to make the commitment to being a trustee of the Village.
As a trustee, he plans to maintain a balanced budget, with the mayor and other elected officials to obtain stimulus and grant monies to fund necessary capital projects, to market the Village and its amenities to help increase traffic and raise revenues and continue to make Bellport Village a great place to live and raise a family.
Jim Vaughan has been active in the Bellport community for many years. A native of the Village, he graduated from Bellport High School and has received degrees from Suffolk Community College and St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue.
A United States Army veteran whose service included a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1969, Jim is an active member of numerous Veterans Organizations. He serves on the Northport VA Advisory Committee, is the past Post Commander of VFW Post 8300, East Patchogue and is a Past President of the Calverton National Memorial Cemetery Committee.
A retired foreman for the Town of Brookhaven Parks Department, Vaughan keeps busy working with local organizations. He served two terms on the South Country School Board, 1994-1997 and 2004-2007, and is currently the chairperson of the South Country Schools Audit Committee. Jim belongs to the Bellport Fire Department’s Fire Police Company, the South Bay Art Association, Bellport United Methodist Church and the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society.
Jim and his fiancé, Sue Kahl, live on Bieselin Road with their Springer Spaniel Faith and their cat, Meatloaf.
Alison Neumann has been a member of the community for over 50 years. She and her husband, Paul, raised their three children in the Village, and are all graduates of Bellport High School.
Alison retired from the insurance industry where she worked for decades in various areas including personal and commercial insurance and her husband is currently an engineer and project manager for Motorola. Their two youngest children, Paul and Casey, are attending Suffolk Community College, as is their ward, Steven. Oldest daughter, April, is a graduate of Dowling and a teacher in the Sachem school district. April’s husband, Rob, is a quality control technician for a company with military contracts. They are also residents of the village, and Alison is pleased that it shows the continuity of generations that comprise this wonderful place.
Throughout the years Neumann has volunteered her time to organizations such as the South Country PTA, Emanuel Lutheran School, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, and served as a member and recording secretary of the village’s Architectural Review Board until her election to Trustee in June of 2010.
She looks forward to the next chapter of her life serving as a trustee on the Village Board. One goal is to work with the Chamber of Commerce so the downtown can succeed and thrive. Their success is the Village’s success.
Dorothy Terwilliger grew up in Westhampton Beach and attended college at St. Lawrence University, majoring in psychology and social work. She has been a resident of the Village since 1996 but has been involved with the Bellport Fire Department since 1982, when she married Richard Terwilliger, who is a former Chief of the Department.
The Terwilligers moved to Tennessee from 1988-1996 in order to purchase a campground but longed to return to Bellport. Upon returning to the Village, Dorothy became very interested in the village government and in 2003 was honored to be chosen as a member of the Architectural Review Board. She served on that board then moved to the Zoning Board of Appeals in 2007. Her tenure with the ZBA lasted until being elected Trustee in June 2010.
Terwilliger has been a social worker for the past 34 years and currently works for the Town of Islip as a case manager assisting young families to become independent and productive. Her two daughters, Alyson and Amanda, graduated from Bellport High School, attended St. Joseph’s College, and are now Certified Public Accountants. Husband Richard is a Bellport Fire Commissioner, having been a member of the department for 39 years. His family has been in Bellport for several generations. Dorothy is a past president and current treasurer of the Bellport Ladies Auxiliary.
As a trustee, she plans to listen to residents’ concerns and take input from organizations such as the chamber of commerce in order to help Bellport thrive as the special village everyone treasures. Terwilliger also plans to work to restore the Seniors program in the village and counts cutting back on excessive spending, such as the mounting legal fees, as one of her main goals.
She looks forward to serving the village residents in this new position.