VACANT COUNCIL SEAT FILLED

Local businessman Brian Fassett was recently appointed by the Peekskill Common Council to fill a vacancy on the council caused by Vivian McKenzie who vacated the seat when she was appointed Peekskill Mayor. The seat, filled by Fassett, will be up for election this November.  

Fassett is a founding partner of Eclectic Precision, a design firm established in 2000, and Vivid RGB Lighting, an LED product-development firm founded in 2011. Drawn by the beauty of Peekskill, Fassett and his husband Sepp Spenlinhauer purchased the historic Peekskill Evening Star building in 2015 and moved to Peekskill in 2016 after living in Crown Heights Brooklyn for 15 years. During his time in Peekskill, Fassett won a seat on the Peekskill Business Improvement District (BID) Board of Directors in 2018, and just completed his fourth year as president of the board. Fassett led the effort in 2019 to form Peekskill Pride, a nonprofit organization with a mission to create safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community, where he currently serves as president of the board.