Peter “Pete” Harckham is the state senator for the 40th district of the New York State Senate. A Democrat, Harckham was first elected in 2018, defeating incumbent Terrence Murphy. The district includes parts of Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties in the Hudson Valley
Pete Harckham (D)
Chairman of Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
Harckham began his career in the advertising sector.
Prior to elected office, Harckham served as President for a not for profit housing corporation that builds affordable housing in northern Westchester County.
Prior to that, Harckham served as Vice Chair of the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, a San Francisco based private foundation that supports the sustainable management of natural resources.
In 2015 he left the legislature to work in the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as assistant director of the Office of Community Renewal. In that position he helped administer grants in the lower Hudson Valley.
In 2018, Harckham ran against incumbent Republican state Senator Terrence Murphy, who had represented the seat since 2015.
In an overwhelmingly Democratic year, Harckham defeated Murphy, 51% to 49%.
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The 93rd Assembly District represented by Assemblyman Buchwald combines leafy suburbs, traditional small town main streets and many of the parts of White Plains that make it the fastest-growing city in New York State
100 S. Bedford Rd., Suite 150 Mount Kisco, NY 10549 Phone (914) 244-4450
Albany Office
LOB 331 Albany, NY 12248 Phone (518) 455-5397
Committee Membership
Chair, Subcommittee on Election Day Operations and Voter Disenfranchisement
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
Committee on Election Law
Committee on Governmental Operations
Committee on Judiciary
Committee on Local Governments
Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force
David Buchwald was born in Larchmont, New York. He attended Yale University, where he received a B.S. in physics. He later went on to receive a M.P.P. at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Before running for New York State Assembly, Buchwald worked at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He also interned for Congresswoman Nita Lowey.
Buchwald was first elected in 2012 when he unseated incumbent Robert Castelli. He has subsequently won re-election in 2014, 2016, and 2018.
Edward W. Brancati Being Sworn In With Mayor Michael Cindrich
1. Freedom Of Information Compliance And Knowledge Ratings:
Mount Kisco Village Manager / Clerk Edward W. Brancati runs a very efficient public records management office. All Freedom of information request we sent in were instantly acknowledged and filled with a couple of days.
All communications were professional and courteous. Mr. Brancati even followed up on our Freedom of information request and asked questions in the beginning of the process to make sure we got exactly the public records we requested.
This clerk’s office clearly sets the gold standard in Westchester.Mr. Brancati has experience in dealing with constituency services and his other professional roles in New York and Washington DC is one of the reason that the Mount Kisco Village Clerk’s Office is so responsive and customer service focused
Mr. Brancati is very sensitive and understanding to those with disabilities who need public records from his office.
The level of service was so high in Mt. Kisco we hound ourselves get annoyed at clerks in other communities who were slow or unresponsive.
Mr. Brancati is a former Lewisboro Town Supervisor and it is no surprise that his work is still bearing fruit today.
Lewisboro Town Clerk Janet Donohue Also Earned A 5 Stars Rating
Village/Town of Mount Kisco
Village Hall (2nd floor)
104 Main Street
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
4. Experience:
Mr. Brancati is a former Lewisboro town supervisor, having served from 2008-09. Prior to that, from 2006-07, he served as a town councilman after having been elected to fill an unexpired term.
Mr. Brancati has experience in dealing with constituency services. his other professional roles included serving as a staff assistant for Vice President Al Gore during the last two years of the Clinton administration, working for Congresswoman Nita Lowey for five and a half years at her White Plains office, and working for Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney for almost two years at his Newburgh office.
Village Board members paved the way for Mr. Brancati’s appointment when they voted to remove a requirement from the village code requiring a Village Manager to become a Mount Kisco resident within 90 days of taking office.
Mr. Brancati currently lives in Somers, although he still owns his home in Goldens Bridge, a hamlet where he grew up and where his parents live. His father, also named Edward Brancati, is chairman of the Golden’s Bridge Board of Fire Commissioners.
He is also a member of the Mount Kisco Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Brancati holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and a master’s degree from New York University.
Mr. Brancati is Mount Kisco’s first permanent Village Manager since James Palmer left more than a year ago to take a similar post in Bronxville. Gennaro Faiella, a retired New Castle Town Administrator, served as Interim Village Manager in the meantime.
Village Manager
Town/ Village of Mount Kisco
– Present (1 year 1 month) Mount Kisco, NY
District Director
Office of U.S. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney
– (1 year 9 months) Newburgh, N.Y.
Media Consultant
SuperMedia LLC
– (1 year 7 months) Purchase, N.Y.
Supervisor
Town of Lewisboro
– (2 years) South Salem, N.Y.
Councilman
Town of Lewisboro
– (1 year 2 months) South Salem, N.Y.
Deputy District Director
Office of U.S. Representative Nita M. Lowey
– (1 year 2 months) White Plains, N.Y.
District Scheduler
Office of U.S. Representative Nita M. Lowey
– (3 years 9 months) White Plains, N.Y.
Correspondent
Office of Vice President Al Gore
– (1 year 3 months) Washington, D.C.
Staff Assistant
Office of Vice President Al Gore
– (9 months) Washington, D.C.
Secretary to Village Manager/Deputy Town Clerk, 914- 864-0033
General duties of the Village Manager
The Village Manager shall be the administrative head of the Village government.
He shall see that within the Village, the laws of the state and ordinances, rules and bylaws of the Board of Trustees are faithfully executed.
He shall attend all meeting of the Board of Trustees and recommend for adoption such measures as he shall deem expedient.
He shall make reports to the Board of Trustees, from time to time, upon the affairs of the Village and keep the Board of Trustees fully advised of the financial condition of the Village and its future financial needs.
He shall prepare and submit to the Board of Trustees a tentative budget for the next fiscal year. He shall be the purchasing agent for the Village and its separate boards and commissions.
He shall supervise and control all expenditures, encumbrances and disbursements to ensure that budget appropriations are not exceeded and shall audit all claims against the Village.
He shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the Board of Trustees, by ordinance, resolution or local law.
THE EXAMINER: Former Lewisboro Super Takes Over as Mt. Kisco Village Manager
The importance of volunteering and public service was instilled in Ed Brancati from childhood.
His parents, Ed and Sue, were active at their house of worship, the Mount Kisco Presbyterian Church, and his father worked in the Westchester County Human Resources Department for 38 years.
Brancati, who was raised in Bedford and North Salem, said he has the same philosophy as his mother and father: to help improve the lives of others.
Brancati has brought his passion to serve others to his new job as Mount Kisco’s village manager. Brancati, 39, a former Lewisboro supervisor who now lives in Somers, started his $125,000-a-year position on July 13. He said his goal is to provide services to residents as efficiently and effectively as possible…..
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About Mount Kisco, New York
Mount Kisco is a village and a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The Town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,877 at the 2010 census.
The name Kisco may be connected to the Munsee word asiiskuw (“mud”), and the name of the settlement “first appeared in colonial records as Cisqua, the name of a meadow and river mentioned in the September 6, 1700 Indian deed to land in the area.” The spelling Mount Kisko was used by the local postmaster when a post office was opened in the village sometime after 1850.The current spelling of the name was adopted in 1875, with the settlement’s incorporation as a village. The town shares its name with the Kisco River, which traverses the town and goes into the Croton Reservoir.
As a village, Mount Kisco actually was half in the Town of Bedford and half in the Town of New Castle.[ Mount Kisco became a town in its own right in 1978.[
