CORTLANDT – Linda Puglisi served as a Cortlandt town councilwoman for four years and went on to serve as town supervisor for 30 years. For half of those two-year terms, she ran unopposed.
After all of those decades at town hall, Puglisi is passing the gavel to Supervisor-elect Dr. Richard Becker, a long-time councilman.
Puglisi is proud of her networking with the community, participating in many activities and organizations.
While her accomplishments are many, she is most proud of keeping taxes low and holding debt to a bare minimum.
“I am very pleased to say it is under $6 million, most of it is in water projects – water tanks and things like that, but we could borrow up to $400 million according to Moody’s. I always said to people that would never happen, so I am leaving with a very low debt. It’s only about one percent of what we could borrow,” she said.
Perhaps the biggest shock of her entire career was reading in the New York Times that then-Governor Andrew Cuomo had struck a deal with Entergy to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plants. The town was not given any advanced notice. The closure meant significant tax loss and unemployment.
