Candidate for Board of Finance | 2023
I am Bill Kosturko, and I am running for election to the Killingworth Board of Finance. A 10-year resident of Killingworth, I live with my wife, Jane, on Bethke Road.
The simple reason that I am running for the Board of Finance is that I’d like to serve the community in which I live and do so in a cooperative and constructive way. I believe my career experience has prepared me to capably serve as a member of the Killingworth Board of Finance. For 30 years I worked as an executive in the Connecticut banking industry. During my career, at various times I managed the finance, audit and legal departments of People’s United Bank. This experience provided a working knowledge of budgeting, auditing, accounting, finance and planning issues. In addition, my responsibility for government relations at the bank required me to interact with federal and state regulatory authorities, as well as with local and state elected officials.
Since my retirement, I have enjoyed spending much of my time in volunteer activities. I remain a trustee at Saint Martin de Porres Academy in New Haven, where I have also served as board chairman and a girls’ basketball coach. Tuition-free and entirely self-funded by donors, St. Martin’s provides robust educational and cultural opportunities to inner-city children. I also am a member of the board of trustees of The Connecticut Hospice in Branford, an institution that has great personal meaning to me. In my retirement I have also been privileged to act as a volunteer and member of the AARP’s National Policy Council in Washington, DC.
I’d appreciate the opportunity to direct my energies here in my home community of Killingworth through service on the Board of Finance.
Jane and and I have three children and two grandchildren in our lives. While they and their families all live well beyond the Killingworth town limits, we greatly treasure our time with them.
A Bridgeport, Connecticut native, I graduated with a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, from Yale University, and also have a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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