Primary Election June 24th, 2025
Jeff Gordon for Trustee
My Piermont Friends & Neighbors:
The Village of Piermont is at a crossroads. As a proud member of this community, I am committed to ensuring that our Village takes the right path forward towards a responsible and sustainable future.
Like many of you, I have watched with concern over the past year as our Village has drifted off course. Decisions, certain to affect our daily lives have been made without our input, without our knowledge, and without the interests of the residents at heart. I am committed, with your help, to turning that around and ensuring that Piermont remains a great place to live, work, and raise our families. Piermont deserves transparent leadership, responsible governance, and a clear vision for the future, and I share that vision with all of you. I have been a practicing attorney for over 40 years, having spent my early career with the village attorneys for Port Chester, Tarrytown, Irvington and Briarcliff Manor. In those roles, I became very familiar with how a small municipal government should operate and act for, and answer to, its residents. Now in retirement, I volunteer my time providing pro bono divorce mediation for the New York Supreme Court. For the past seven years I have sat on the Board of LSNYC, the country's largest non‑profit provider of free civil legal services to the indigent of New York City. Additionally, for six years I sat on the Board of the HOA of Rising Hills Estates, in Stony Point. I have spent my entire professional career, together with my volunteer endeavors in retirement, in problem solving and dispute resolution, tools that are particularly invaluable, at this crucial time in Piermont's history. I will bring that experience and those tools to the table, if I am honored with your vote and my election to the Village Board as your Trustee.
About Me:
I am the proud father of two adult sons and have been a Rockland County resident for over 10 years. I retired in 2020, as an attorney and founding Partner of a NYC Divorce litigation firm, established in 1988.
I have always held a particular fondness and interest in Municipal government and small villages in particular. I grew up in Yonkers and have lived in numerous river towns and villages in Westchester before moving to Rockland County. While in my third year of law school, I was a founding student member of the Municipal Law Resource Center at Pace University School of Law. The MLRC provided subscription based legal research services to local municipalities, too small to have their own full time attorneys. In 1981, while at the MLRC, I researched and prepared a feasability study and “roadmap” on how a small unincorporated area of Rye could secede and form its own village. Utilizing that research study, in 1982 the Village of Rye Brook was formed, the first such Village formation in over 50 years. For two years during law school, I worked as an Intern, in the Office of Corporation Counsel, for the City of New York.
As a former attorney with Village counsel for Port Chester, Tarrytown, Irvington and Briarcliff Manor, I am very familiar with how efficient, transparent, engaged, and responsible small municipal government should run. We have not had that here in Piermont for sometime. It is time to get it back and it is why I am asking for your vote in the June Democratic Primary for Village Trustee.
WHAT I STAND FOR:
* Promoting Fiscal Responsibility to ensure that your tax dollars are spent wisely.
* Enhancing Public Safety by supporting our first responders with the tools and resources that they need, in addition to improving community‑based programs.
* Responsible Development while preserving the character and charm of our Village. Progress and tradition can and should go hand‑in‑hand.
* Improving Communitcation between Village government and the residents by bringing a greater level of transparency to Village matters and Village government.
* Saving Our Pier by working to pursue grants at the State and Federal levels and by working with those in our Village who can get the job done.
* Exploring innovative flood remediation methods by working closely with the Waterfront Resiliency Commission and local, State and Federal agencies.
