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May 23, 2025
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General News: Towns Keep Home Rule Over Positions

Town clerks, tax collectors and highway superintendents around New York State can breathe a little easier now that the governor has dropped a proposal to make their positions appointed instead of elected.

Last month, the town of Cornwall board passed a resolution opposing the move.  At the time, supervisor Kevin Quigley said he thought that people in these offices were more accountable to the residents if they had to face re-election.

State senator Bill Larkin (R-Cornwall-on-Hudson) announced that Governor Paterson had eliminated the language authorizing the change in the final budget proposal submitted last week. “I am pleased that this language has been removed from the budget,” said Senator Larkin, “My municipalities were overwhelmingly opposed to this action and I am relieved that it is no longer under consideration.”



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