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General News: Consolidation Concerns Republican Candidate
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| Kevin Quigley |
September 17, 2007
This article is a reprint from June 14, 2007, when Kevin Quigley first won the Republican nomination for town supervisor.
Kevin Quigley, who last week won the backing of the Cornwall Republican Committee for his bid to become the next town supervisor, says that consolidation of the town and village governments is an issue that the town leadership must face.
“I personally believe that consolidation is going to come down from the state,” Quigley explains, “and we should get ahead of the curve and do it to our benefit.”
New York governor Eliot Spitzer is pushing villages to look at consolidation with neighboring towns in an effort to cut the property tax burden. He created a commission in April to study this and has asked local governments to submit their own plans by early 2008.
Quigley says that it would be common sense for the town to tackle the issue now rather than wait until the state mandates changes that may not benefit Cornwall.
While consolidation is clearly on his mind, Quigley has other ideas for the town as well. He would like to revitalize downtown Cornwall, with restaurants featuring outdoor dining on a spruced up Main Street. He would like to see a study of traffic flow and a possible change in the traffic patterns. He would look for outside sources of funding for the project.
Quigley say that if elected he will draw on his experience as a town council member in the 1990s when he worked closely with the town planning board.
He will also draw on his knowledge that he has accumulated in a lifetime spent in Cornwall and the village where he has owned a business for 32 years. Quigley founded Quigley Brothers Funeral Home in Cornwall-on-Hudson with his twin brother, Gerard, shortly after they graduated high school.
Eight years ago, Quigley added another dimension to his experience when he became an Orange County coroner. “I’ve dealt with all the police departments in the county and all their chiefs,” Quigley says. “I also learned how precious life is.”
Quigley, who drives a shiny blue 1972 Buick Skylark convertible that he restored himself, lives next to the funeral home in the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson with his wife and two daughters. While he is eager to serve and believes that his chances of winning are good, he also notes that his life will go on, win or lose.
The Democratic party of Cornwall has yet to announce who it is backing for supervisor. Former supervisor Jim Sollami, a Democrat, has said he intends to run but has not formally requested the party’s backing. Two weeks ago current supervisor Dick Randazzo announced that he would not seek another term in the November 2007 election
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