Westchester County Elected Officials

Westchester County Executive
• Andrew J. Spano (D)
County Executive Andrew J. Spano became Westchester's seventh county executive on January 1998. He is the second Democrat to be elected to the County's highest office. Since his election, Mr. Spano has initiated dozens of programs to improve the quality of life in Westchester and at the same time had reduced the county tax levy for an unprecedented three years in a row.

Mr. Spano's major initiatives focus on preserving the environment and protecting children and families. He has preserved 2,300 acres of open space and instituted programs to protect water quality. Mr. Spano has adopted various measures to keep guns away from children and invested $5.2 million from tobacco settlement funds on a teen-age anti-tobacco campaign. He was also the driving force behind the creation of a new Department of Emergency Services that consolidated fire, disaster and EMS services to improve the delivery of emergency services to residents.

Click here to learn more about Andy Spano on Westchester Governments Web site.
Phone: (914) 995-2802

County Board of Legislators District 2
• Peter Harkham (D)

District 2 includes the towns of Bedford, Pound Ridge, Lewisboro, North Salem, half of Somers and the Village of Mt. Kisco.

Peter Harckham, a lifelong resident of the Hudson Valley, has been a leader in our community since he and his wife, Janet, moved to Katonah, N.Y. in the early 1990’s. His experience in building bipartisan consensus to address the challenges of creating affordable housing, protecting our fragile water supplies, preserving vital open space and historic structures, and creating sorely needed ball fields for our children has well served our community. Peter Harckham continues to serve Westchester as the representative for District #2 on the County Board of Legislators.