A native to the Town of Wallkill, Frank has been living in the community nearly all his life. Spurred on to lead at an early age as an Eagle Scout, he has been a community advocate and compelled to key or leadership roles in most of his endeavors. In the early 90s he was an active member of Orange Environment, Sullivan Environment, and the Bashakill Area Association. By the late 90s his interests expanded to the national politics, and he became involved in the grassroots organization Third Millennium.
In 2001, a few short months after his daughter was born, Frank answered NYC’s call for volunteers, joining the first wave of non-affiliated first responders on the pile at 1 World Trade Center. He would spend five days away from his new family working at the site until the city released all non-contract volunteers from the operation.
After nearly a decade as the Production Manager and Resident Lighting Designer at the prestigious Lower East Side theater, Performance Space 122, famous for the likes of The Blue Man Group, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, and John Leguizamo and Eddie Izzard, Frank became a homeowner in the town of Wallkill.  He went on to grow 2 businesses in architectural and event lighting. As a professional lighting designer and stagehand, he has membership in two unions. He currently is the Director of Production at Production Resource Group in Orange County, overseeing the fabrication of multi-million-dollar scenery and automation for Broadway, Themed Entertainment the likes of Disney, Universal and Legoland as well as concert touring, museum and permeant installations.

In 2009, he learned the local public trust had been broken, as questionable local government practices and unchecked development threatened the community he called home.  As a result, he joined forces with others in the area to create the watch dog group Rural Community Coalition (RCC) and subsequently the Rural Heritage Party of Mamakating.
Having witnessed firsthand how inside politics conducted behind closed doors can quietly and quickly destroy environments, erode trust and fray the community, he chose to take the next step in his advocacy for transparent open government and bring his voice, knowledge and leadership to his hometown of Wallkill.  In an unprecedented win over the political Goliath, Edward Diana, Frank worked tirelessly during his freshman term to correct the neglected, over worked, underfunded town departments and more importantly, the broken and questionable town finance practices.  Facing a pandemic, social unrest, and the financial collapse of the local economy that created a projected multi-million-dollar budgetary short fall, he managed to retain full town services, expand the police, dig into the town finances while staying at the state tax cap.  This included blustering town staffing, initiating an audit of the town that discovered 12 substantial opportunities for fraud to occur, reorganize the town Accounting Department and adding a Deputy Comptroller position to aid in oversight.  He reformed the Master Plan Review Committee, added 61 acres to the town's conservation easement, added a new town historic and cultural center that included 27 acres of new park space, landed the Hotel Tax for the town, increasing revenue by roughly 1 million dollars.  All with a town board politicly bent on slowing or stopping this forward momentum at all costs.  Sadly, with the combined effects of a backlash at the national political level and a bogus scandal, Frank lost the 2022 town election. He was forced out of office and bogged down in years of litigation by those same political opponents to keep him silent.   

But the town can no longer hold him down and, feeling he was just getting started, and unsawed by the Town Boards nefarious actions, Frank has once again stepped into the ring.  Adding to his targets that included broken town finances, bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and cronyism, he plans to take on:

• Closing those opportunities for corruption and cronyism

• Re assessing the tax burden in favor of the taxpayer

• Sending surplus tax dollars back to the taxpayer

• Setting term limits for board members

• Opening ALL town votes to public referendum

• Increasing Green Space

• Adopting and using the Master Plan

• Increasing town services

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