Bernadin Fleurima

Bernadin Fleurima

Republican

Background

• Bernadin Fleurima, 53, of Valley Stream, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines. He immigrated to the United States from Haiti in 1990.

• Fleurima currently serves as pastor of Shalom Ministries Foundation Seventh Day Adventist in Valley Stream.

• Fleurima�s career has focused on helping those in need, particularly with housing issues and those battling substance abuse.

ISSUES

• Fleurima supports allocating special funding from the county�s recent opioid settlements toward treating those fighting drug addiction.

• He wants to build relationships between police and community in the Third District.

• Fleurima would use the county�s budget surplus to deliver tax cuts to residents who are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.