BEACON CITY ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTED

Mayor Lee Kyriacou recently appointted Chris White as the next city administrator. White is currently deputy director of planning for Ulster County and served on the Beacon City Council in the 1990s.  Outgoing City Administrator Anthony Ruggiero will be joining the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health in a managerial role at the end of January.

White has been the deputy director of planning for Ulster County for the past nine years, managing multimillion-dollar projects, including repurposing of an unused school into a satellite community college campus, as well as planning and constructing rail trails throughout Ulster County.  Previously, he spent 10 years managing the late Congressman Maurice Hinchey”™s district office. White served as Beacon”™s Ward Three councilmember from 1996-1997. he holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at SUNY Albany, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from New York University.

Beacon, New York, is located on the eastern shore of the Hudson River 60 miles north of New York City, with a population of 15,000. Originally a Native American settlement, the area was purchased from the Wappinger Tribe in 1683 and settled by Dutch and other Europeans, leading to the riverfront community of Fishkill Landing on the Hudson, and the mill community of Matteawan on Fishkill Creek. The two communities were incorporated together as the Ccty of Beacon in 1913, named for the Revolutionary War signal fires on Mount Beacon.