Urban Hirschey Man With a Mission

I pledge to make Cape Vincent a great place to live, work and vacation.

Re-elect
URBAN HIRSCHEYfor
TOWN SUPERVISOR
Experienced.

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Responsible.

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Responsive.

Qualifications

• Present SupervisorTown of Cape Vincent
  
• 6TH generation native of the North Country
  
• Member
  Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency
  
• Board member, past, and presidentJefferson County Job Development Agency
  
• Vice PresidentCarthage Industrial Development Corporation
  
• Retired PresidentClimax Manufacturing Company
  
• Past Board memberCarthage Central School Board
  
• Retired Captain, US Army Reserve479 Engineer Battalion, Watertown

As a proven leader with 45 years of management experience, I am well -qualified to guide the town through the complex issues that surround alternative energy sources.

As your Town Supervisor, I have:

• Provided complete transparency and documentation on all decision – making processes .


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  Worked to achieve consensus on issues through independent committees, professional advisors


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  Recruited active participation in town government.


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  Used an un- biased organization to conduct an updated survey of all residents (year-round and seasonal) to understand their opinions.

As your Town supervisor I will

Establish an open committee to review & draft good zoning laws.

In partnership with the Village of Cape Vincent, I will diligently work to:

• Insure safe accessible housing for our senior citizens.


• Increase job opportunities.


• Continue restoring our historical treasures.


• Develop the full potential of our recreational waterfront and agricultural resources.

When campaigning for the position of Supervisor in the fall of 2009 I developed some campaign promises. On the front of my campaign handout, the first one listed states, “If elected, I will provide complete transparency and documentation on the decision making process.”

To that end, I have:



• Increased the amount and timeliness of information posted on the Towns website
  
• Moved monthly Town Board meetings to the Recreation Center to accommodate more people
• Included Privilege of the floor sessions
  
• Held special open meetings

Very soon after taking office I looked into the Escrow accounts which up to then were not available to the public. Over the course of the next few months, I took steps to make accounts more transparent and to have more than one signature approving the invoices. Nonetheless, the brevity of the documentation astounded me. There was neither a correspondence folder nor one piece of written correspondence pertaining to the expenditure of over 100000. Billed by lawyers and engineering Company on the SEQRA process! Upon making inquiries to Whiteman Osterman and Hanna, I was told that there was not much written communication and that it was mostly just talk. Nonetheless, they would send me what they had. To this date even after several reminders, I have not received any copies of emails or written correspondence.

The Towns engineering firm Bernier and Carr and Associates has been more cooperative. After confirmation that there is no privileged information that had been requested by the Attorney General’s office. After reviewing some of the files, I gave them to the Town Clerk to release under the freedom of public information act so that the public would have a better idea how money from the escrow account was spent. During the remainder of my term(s) as your Supervisor I pledge to continue an open government policy.

Urban Hirschey

Cape Vincent Supervisor