Donnery seeks re-election to county Legislature
HIGHLAND FALLS-Democrat Roxanne Donnery has announced her candidacy for re-election to a third four-year term to the Orange County Legislature's 14th district.
District 14 includes eight of ten districts in the Town of Woodbury and the Town of Highlands.
Donnery has served on the legislature's Human Services, Ways and Means, Physical Services, Health and Mental Health, and Public Safety and Emergency Services committees. She also is a member of the medical examiner study committee as well as the Interagency Collaboration County Team where administrators from local schools, courts, and government work together on behalf of children and families.
She also is a member of the Southeast Regional Traffic Task Force, which successfully lobbied for the $8.5 million included in the recently passed federal transportation bill that will bring improvements for the Routes 32/6/17 interchange, access to County Route 105, and Route 32 intersection in Harriman and Highland Mills.
Donnery, with legislator Frank Fornario, successfully pushed Orange County to get involved in the controversial Kiryas Joel pipeline with the creation of a $250,000 legal fund to challenge the village's SEQRA process.
Donnery was also instrumental in helping to secure more than 75 acres of foreclosed property from the county, at a minimal cost for the Town of Woodbury for open space.
Because of the sales tax revenue generated by Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, Donnery has described Woodbury is "Orange County's cash cow." But "the additional costs of being the host community to Woodbury Commons are not being fully met," she added. "Woodbury needs additional help."
"I'm not afraid to speak up or take on tough issues," Donnery added in her press release