About the Commission
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New York State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and
Competitiveness Stan Lundine, Chair
John
Clarkson, Executive Director
Commission Chair
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 Stan
Lundine is former Lieutenant Governor of New York, serving
under Governor Mario Cuomo. He has also served as the Mayor
of Jamestown, New York and as a United States
Representative. He currently serves on the board of
Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua County, New York. [Full
Bio] |
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Executive Director
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 John Clarkson served at the State Comptroller’s Office from
1995-2006 as Assistant Comptroller and in various other
capacities directing research on local government, state
budget and education issues. He has also worked at the NYS
Division of the Budget, the NYS School Boards Association
and the Office of Real Property Services. [Full Bio] |
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Commission Members
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 Gerald
Benjamin is the Dean of SUNY New Paltz’s College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences and Director of the newly-created Center
for Research, Regional Education and Outreach. He is a
former member of the Ulster County Legislature and former
Director of the Center for New York State and Local
Government Studies.
[Full Bio] |
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 Al
DelBello served as Lieutenant Governor during the
administration of Gov. Mario Cuomo. He is currently a
partner at DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Wise &
Wiederkehr, LLP in White Plains, NY, and has been on the
Board of Directors of Signature Bank since January 2003. He
also serves on the Board of Directors of the Westchester
Land Trust and the Westchester County Association.
[Full
Bio] |
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 Jonathan Drapkin is President and Chief Executive Officer of
Pattern for Progress, the regional planning organization in
the Hudson River Valley. He is a former Sullivan County
Manager and former Executive Director of the Gerry
Foundation. [Full Bio] |
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 Kate
Foster is Director of the University at Buffalo Regional
Institute, SUNY. Prior to assuming her current position in
2005, Foster was associate professor and chair of the
University at Buffalo Department of Urban and Regional
Planning. [Full Bio] |
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 Sandy
Frankel currently serves as the Brighton Town Supervisor in
Monroe County. She is former President, Treasurer, and
Finance Committee Chair of the Board of Governors of the New
York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal and was a candidate for
Lt. Governor in 2002. [Full Bio] |
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 Sam
Hoyt is a New York Assemblyman representing the 144th
District. He is the former Western New York regional
director for U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. [Full
Bio] |
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 Craig
M. Johnson is a New York State Senator representing the 7th
District, elected in a historic Special Election in 2007.
Prior to being elected to the Senate, Johnson served four
terms in the Nassau County Legislature. [Full Bio]
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Comments on the Final Report |
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 William
A. Johnson, Jr. is former Mayor of Rochester, serving from
1993-2005. He is currently a professor of Public Policy at
Rochester Institute of Technology. [Full Bio]
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Comments on the Final Report |
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 Elizabeth
O'Connor Little is serving her third term representing the
residents of the 45th Senate District, which comprises
Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren and Washington
Counties. Prior to first winning election to the State
Senate in November 2002, Senator Little served in the New
York State Assembly for seven years. [Full Bio] |
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 Mark
P. Pattison was recently appointed to the position of
Executive Deputy Comptroller for the Office of State and
Local Government Accountability at the NYS Office of the
State Comptroller. For 3 years, he served as the Deputy
Comptroller for Local Government Services and Economic
Development . He also served for eight years as the Mayor of
Troy, New York.
[Full Bio] |
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 Dr.
Walter L. Robb is a former General Electric Senior Vice
President, and is presently a mentor, director and angel
investor to many Tech Valley start-ups. He also owns the
Albany River Rats AHL hockey team and the Conquest AFL
football team, which compete at the Times Union Center in
Albany. [Full
Bio] |
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 Jamie
Rogers is currently Mayor of the Village of Lake Placid and
a Board Member of the New York Conference of Mayors. He is a
former Village of Lake Placid Trustee. [Full Bio] |
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 Tom Tranter, Jr.
is President and Director of Government
Affairs for Corning Enterprises. Prior to joining Corning,
Tom served as Chemung County Executive, a position he was
elected to for three 4-year terms. [Full Bio] |
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 Howard
Weitzman is currently the Nassau County Comptroller, first
elected in 2001. He is a former national healthcare partner
of the accounting firm KPMG. He founded and served as Chief
Executive of Healthcare Capital Resources, Inc., as well as
EPIC Health Group, Inc., a mail-service pharmaceutical
company. [Full Bio]
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