Amber D. Wilson

BACKGROUND

• Wilson, 38, of Shelter Island, a registered Republican, is seeking her second term as town clerk. She is running on the Republican and Conservative lines.
• She volunteers with the town’s EMS unit and with the Shelter Island School’s PTSA.
• Wilson was appointed clerk in December 2022 after two years working in the office when long-time clerk Dorothy Ogar retired.

ISSUES

• Wilson said she would continue to update and digitize town records and is looking for grants to help with preserving documents and making records more accessible. She has updated the office’s software to Laserfiche, she said, a document management system. Scanned documents are indexed and uploaded to the town’s web site, she said, where they are then searchable online.

• She said she would work on community outreach to find the best ways to share information with residents, whether through the town’s web pages, via social media or an email newsletter about upcoming hearings. She said she is exploring ways to best reach the island’s owners of second homes.

• Wilson said she has been working to make processes transparent. She is trying to make online payment for permits possible and said she plans to submit a proposal in October to the board to add the CivicPlus online payment module. CivicPlus is the software that powers the town’s web site.