Nassau County Comptroller Howard Weitzman to Speak at C.W. Post

Brookville, N.Y. – Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller and “fiscal watchdog” will discuss Nassau County’s finances at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University on Monday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.

As comptroller, Weitzman oversees Nassau County’s annual budget of $2.4 billion. Now in his second term, Weitzman is credited with reinvigorating the comptroller’s office, focusing audits on the areas of county government with the biggest expenditures, where potential savings would be the greatest. Applying his many years of experience in the health care field to the problems of Nassau County residents, he also conceived and launched the NassauRx Card — an innovative prescription drug discount program that provides substantial savings off retail prescription prices.

In his first term, Weitzman worked with Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi to bring the county back from the brink of bankruptcy. Together, they achieved a historic financial turnaround, turning deficits into surpluses and providing balanced budgets without a tax increase for five years in a row. 

Weitzman is a CPA and former mayor of Great Neck Estates, where he and his wife Susan have lived for 28 years and raised three children. He is a former national healthcare partner of the accounting firm KPMG. Later he founded and served as chief executive of a healthcare financial services firm and a mail-service pharmaceutical company. A graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School and Queens College, he pursued management studies at Stanford University and Baruch College.

The lecture is sponsored by the College of Management and will take place in Great Hall of Winnick House on the C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville. For more information call 516-299-3017.

Howard Weitzman (left), Francis Bonsignore, dean, C.W. Post College of Management		Howard Weitzman addresses more than100 students, faculty and staff