Who We Are

Members Municipality

• David Newman - County Task Force Chair & EMC Ghent

• Open - Ancram

• Lisa Bouchard Hoe - Real Estate Broker Austerlitz

• Will Powers - Town Board liaison to Town Task Force Canaan

• Deborah Conrad - Town Task Force Co-chair Chatham

• John Bradley - Town Task Force Coordinator & EMC Claverack

• Jennifer Phillips - Bard Center for Environmental Policy Clermont

• Cara Boyle - Town Task Force & EMC Copake

• Matthew Stinchcomb - Partners for Climate Action Gallatin

• Matthew Mercier - Town Task Force Chair Germantown

• Open - Greenport

• Open - Hillsdale

• Joshua Cohen - Strategic Partnerships Consultant Hudson

• Sean Casey - Kinderhook Town Board Kinderhook

• Stan Yarian - County EMC Livingston

• Steve Powers - Town Task Force Chair New Lebanon

• John Leone - Stockport Town Board Stockport

• Kathy Schneider - Town Task Force & Planning Board Stuyvesant

• Betsy Albert - Town Task Force and Town Board Taghkanic

• Open - Chatham Village

• Bill Mancini - Village Task Force Coordinator & EMC Kinderhook Village

• Tom Paino - Village Task Force Coordinator Philmont Village

• Laura Cannamela - Artist, Village Task Force Valatie Village

Non-voting members Role

• Don Meltz, Columbia County Planning Dept. County Task Force Coordinator

• Brenda Adams, Town Supervisor Canaan Board of Supervisors Representative

• Donal Collins - Town Supervisor Chatham Board of Supervisors Representative

Other Regularly Attending Guests

Terence Duvall - Columbia Land Conservancy

Christina Bohnsack - Capital Region Clean Energy Hub

Lindsey Strehlau-Howay - Cornell Cooperative Extension

Tara Donadio - CDRPC Assistant Director of Sustainability, CSC and CEC Coordinator

Haley Balcanoff - CDRPC Sustainability Planner, CSC and CEC Coordinator