Elliot S. Conway, Mayor
Elliot is a former New York structured finance Investment Banker. He retired after 34 years at Citigroup as a Senior Credit Officer and Managing Director based primarily in New York. During this period he managed five different businesses. The common thread was transactions with tax, accounting, rating and regulatory components.
Elliot first served the Village of Upper Brookville in 2012 as a volunteer consultant and, later, as an Alternate on the Board of Zoning Appeals. In 2012 he successfully appealed a BZA decision to the New York State Supreme Court, protecting the village from a dangerous precedent that could have significantly eroded setback laws.
In 2016, he was elected Mayor by a one vote margin. He was re-elected twice in uncontested elections. During his first seven years, Upper Brookville lowered property taxes each year, generating over $8 million in cumulative savings while at the same time upgrading infrastructure and expanding services for residents. With a new website, the village began posting meeting minutes online along with topical historic and local information.
Elliot worked with the Board of Trustees to strengthen local police protection following the break-up of the Old Brookville Police Department’s six-village partnership in 2022. In a new partnership with Muttontown, Upper Brookville now enjoys first class, 24 hour/365-day police protection with faster response times and more targeted policing. Elliot also serves as the village police commissioner.
Elliot recently served as President of the Nassau County Village Officials Association (NCVOA). The NCVOA represents Nassau County’s 64 villages with 450,000 residents. During his 2023-2024 term the NCVOA joined with other elected officials and constituents to stop the Albany-proposed housing mandates that threatened to override local zoning and environmental laws in our villages. The Board advocated for many important issues, including laws preventing squatting, the roll back of Bail Reform and Discovery Reform, increasing penalties on repeat offenders, Fentanyl dealers and other criminals, increased AIM funding by NYS for municipalities, EMS Cost Recovery for fire departments, Stop Sign Cameras and deer migration management. They joined with Comptroller DiNapoli to advocate for the mandatory teaching of financial literacy in grades 9-12.
Elliot also serves on the New York Conference of Mayor’s Finance Policy Committee. NYCOM is an association of New York cities and villages representing about 12 million residents. The Finance Policy Committee provides general guidance and policy recommendations to the NYCOM Executive Committee and staff, develops positions on various pieces of legislation, and considers new legislative proposals that will benefit cities and villages.
Elliot serves as a member of the Nassau County Police Commissioner’s Community Council (CCC). The objective of the CCC other than crime reduction is to improve the effectiveness of Nassau County police service by better addressing specific community needs as well as to better provide the police with support.
In October 2024, the Nassau County Legislature appointed Elliot to the Nassau Community College Board of Trustees.
Elliot earned a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He was raised in Brookville and has lived in Upper Brookville for 28 years with his wife Ann. He has two grown daughters and one granddaughter.
Helen Solomon, Trustee
As a lifelong resident of the North Shore of Long Island, and longtime resident of Upper Brookville, I am honored to serve as Trustee. I grew up in Locust Valley, and have lived in Upper Brookville for 25 years with my husband Steven Solomon. We raised our three children in this beautiful Village. I have been honored to give back to Upper Brookville by serving on the Zoning Board of Appeals for 3 years, and prior to that on the Beautification Committee. I also ran Upper Brookville’s program to restore the dogwoods (the Village’s official tree) a few years ago.
Outside of my service for Upper Brookville, I am currently a member of the Women’s Board of Fresh Meadow Country Club and an avid canasta and bridge player, who has achieved Life Master status. I also have a passion for interior design and gardening.
Innis O’Rourke III, Trustee
Innis grew up in Upper Brookville when his parents moved to the Village in 1954. He and his wife, Allison, and their three children moved from Glen Cove to Upper Brookville in 2000. They live in his childhood home.
Innis graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English. He then received his medical degree from The Universidad Central Del Este in the Dominican Republic, and then completed a Pediatric Residency program at what is now NYU Langone-Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola.
Since 1983, he has been in private practice Pediatrics in Glen Cove. He serves as the school physician for the Locust Valley Central School District.
Innis became a member of the Village’s Zoning Board of Appeals in 2005 and was appointed the Board’s chairman in 2015. His Father, by the same name, served the Village for many years as a board member, commissioner, trustee, and Deputy Mayor.
Peter Pappas, Deputy Mayor
In 1985, Mr. Pappas earned his B.S. degree in Business Management and Administration from Syracuse University. Over the past thirty-eight years with P.J. Mechanical Corp., Peter J. Pappas, Jr. has helped make P.J. Mechanical the largest mechanical contractor in the New York Metropolitan area. Working alongside his brother James, Mr. Pappas handles the Chief Executive Officer responsibilities of the firm by determining the long-range overall growth strategies, generating sales, customer development, and maintaining multi-million-dollar accounts while handling all the firm’s internal structure decisions.
In addition, he serves as the President of Delta Sheet Metal Corp., the largest sheet metal company in the Northeast area, and executes critical decisions for the fabrication and installation. He is actively involved in overseeing key personnel, including construction and service personnel, and maintains an expansive existing client base through direct involvement. Mr. Pappas ensures a high level of quality by personally interfacing with all project management teams and reviews the performance and execution of all project-related items. Additionally, he produces conceptual budgets with architects, engineers, and owners for development purposes.
Joseph Burns, Trustee
Joseph (Jody) Burns has been a resident of the Village of Upper Brookville since November 1996. He lives here with his wife, Hannah, and has raised two daughters here. He moved out to the north shore of Long Island from NYC in 1988 after selling his hologram anticounterfeiting manufacturing business to a credit card manufacturer.
Before being elected a trustee of the village in June 2023, he was a Zoning Board of Appeals member and continues as the village representative to the Oyster Bay-Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee (OBCSHPC), a consortium of twelve north shore villages concerned with the health of our drinking water aquifers and the Long Island Sound waters. As a member of the OBCSHPC, he was responsible for initiating, and seeing through to completion, the first comprehensive aerial thermal mapping of the area’s watershed as a means of determining sources of water pollution. The project was made possible by a funding grant from the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation Board to the Oyster Bay based Friends of the Bay.