URGENT: Anti-incorporation legislation is again being considered in Albany. We need your help.

Dear Edgemont Residents:

We need your help. Just weeks before Town Supervisor Paul Feiner faces a primary challenge from Tasha D. Young, he is once again inappropriately leveraging Town resources to thwart an Edgemont incorporation vote by lobbying Albany to change the state law on incorporation. If Feiner has his way, the law would impose even more obstacles to prevent a new village from ever again being formed in New York, including here in Edgemont. 

Squashing Edgemont’s voting efforts once and for all would be a win the Supervisor can campaign on while simultaneously distracting the electorate from the $9.5M Dromore settlement he just signed off on. However, the legislation can't pass without the support of our State Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins. 

Please call and email her office (linked here with sample text). Your support has stopped similar legislation multiple times since the incorporation process began in 2016.

Some of you may have noticed that Feiner himself is also protesting S1657A. That’s because he’s seeking an even more restrictive bill!

This last-minute legislation can't pass without the support of our State Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins. Ms. Stewart-Cousins has always listened to reason and her constituents, and she respects the right of a community to vote on its preferred form of governance. We need to reach out to her now as there are only a few days remaining in this legislative session.  

Thank you,

The Edgemont Incorporation Committee 

Senator Stewart-Cousins
Albany Office: (518) 455-2585
District Office: (914) 423-4031
scousins@nysenate.gov  

Please click here to send emails to Senator Stewart-Cousins (sample language is included).