Catherine Borgia on the issues that matter to Ossining

Saving Costs

Catherine Borgia with Ossining Mayor Bill Hanauer and County Representative Bill Burton at Memorial Day Parade
  • Catherine Borgia has experience creating municipal and professional budgets
  • Catherine Borgia has initiated shared service in order to reduce duplication of services and costs to taxpayers
  • Catherine Borgia led the charge to reduce Ossining Village’s 2008 budget when it became clear that economy was turning
  • Catherine Borgia has reviewed the Ossining Town budget and will cut costs, particularly in top-heavy administration
  • Catherine Borgia will work with other municipalities to find innovative ways to share services

Good Government

  • Open government
    Catherine Borgia led the charge to have Village Board Work Sessions televised so that municipal decision making was apparent to all
  • Public participation
    Catherine Borgia created many opportunities for public participation in government and will increase those opportunities in the Town

Professionalization of Services

  • Catherine Borgia has worked to professionalize services in all village operations, leading to more efficiencies, better customer service and cost savings in overtime, operations such as the water treatment plant.
  • As Supervisor, Borgia will continue to work for higher professional standards and accountability, more government transparency, more community engagement, more efficient project management

Catherine Borgia is committed to maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure of Ossining

  • Borgia oversaw the follow through to completion of the beautiful Ossining pool, renovations and repair of municipal building, upgrading of roads, sewers, garbage services.
  • Along with her colleagues, Borgia worked steadily upgrade the water treatment plant — to increase capacity, safety, efficiency of operations, thereby saving taxpayer’s money, and providing a revenue stream

Catherine Borgia will carefully pinpoint areas in the budget where there continue to be duplication of services in order to reduce overall costs

Catherine Borgia will seek to professionalize and systematize the planning and zoning processes to make sure they run smoothly and are consistent with other communities