Public Service:

Public service is a privilege and a responsibility, and our candidates embrace this concept in the work they do and the lives they lead. In discussing their values and principles, they use words such as fairness, compassion and empathy to describe how they approach their roles in public service, and in discussing the qualities they would bring to the Claverack Town Board they mention respect for all constituents, diversity in backgrounds and experiences, a desire to represent all constituents with integrity, ensuring fairness and equity in a government that is accessible to all.

​

Economic Development:

We will utilize our deep roots in the community to help strengthen and support local businesses, and to attract new business. Our combined work experience will enable us to identify, apply, and manage grants and funding to support Claverack's existing needs and future growth. We understand the need to balance the rights of individual property owners with the responsibility to protect and preserve our small town, farmland, and rural atmosphere.

A number of our neighboring municipalities have had success in building effective tourism efforts in their community, and we plan on duplicating this success in Claverack. Development of a Tourism Board made up of Town Board members and members of the community would begin this process.

We will commit to develop the section of the Albany-Hudson Electric Trail that runs through our town. The rail trail linking Claverack to other towns would be another way to bolster our growing and thriving community. 

The Town Hall:

We need to move forward with a new permanent town hall. The town hall project plan has not been presented to the community by the Town Board, and represents perhaps the best opportunity to engage and involve the community in developing a building that would satisfy not only the needs of town employees and court officials, but also provide a Claverack gathering space, a single location where all Town business is conducted, fostering a greater sense of community.

​

The Comprehensive Plan:

We understand that in order to achieve our goals and to get things done for the benefit of the town, we must work together to solve problems. The Town has been deficient in following its own Comprehensive Plan, last introduced to the public in April 2008 following a two and a half-year period of analysis, strategy and public hearings. The Plan states the expectation that a new Comprehensive Plan be developed every ten to fifteen years, with a review of the Plan every five years. Not only has there not been a review in this period, but many aspects of the Plan have not been followed. We pledge to bring a new Comprehensive Plan to the public that will be developed with the community’s input and implemented to guide development in the Town as intended.