2026 New York General Election

Mike Graziano

Mike Graziano is a lifelong Congers resident. He is an active volunteer firefighter in Congers. He lives with his wife, three daughters, and son.

Mike is employed by a publicly traded telecommunications firm that provides network services to financial firms. He also builds homes.

Mike was elected to the Clarkstown Town Council to represent Ward 2 in November 2019.

- Supports business development and says he helped bring Chick-fil-A to Clarkstown.

As of October 27, 2026, Mike Graziano’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Supports maintaining local roads through paving and coordinating utility work before resurfacing.
- As a town council member, worked with state and federal governments to fund a project including sidewalks, streetlamps, paving, and water and sewer infrastructure.

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MIKE GRAZIANO LOOKING TOWARDS REELECTION IN WARD 2 – Rockland Post

On business development, Graziano said: “While we’re working hard, Clarkston works hard to bring businesses in. I’m pro-business and one of my great things that I like is that I help Chick fil A to get in here. I pushed these things, these projects working with Jeff Gilly, you know, our business development individual working with them.”

Advocates for municipal efficiency, saying Clarkstown has done more with less during his six years in office.

Supports business development and says he helped bring Chick-fil-A to Clarkstown.

Economy

Public Services

Housing & Urban Development

Public Safety

In discussing town services and infrastructure, Graziano said: “But it’s just some of the things, but it’s also the roads. I believe in great roads. It’s unfortunate that I can’t control state roads. I guarantee if Clarkstown controlled the state roads, they will not be in the shape they’re in. Supervisor George Hoehmann is big on that as well as the town board and me, but all the local roads that are in Clarkstown, you can say they’re in great shape like 300 miles of road, and the great thing about it is that we pave the roads.”

Graziano described the town’s road-maintenance process and coordination with utilities before road paving: “We have a program and superintendent of highways has a program with Bob Malone and Robert Zinowski, our road inspector. He goes around and literally looks at roads and sees what’s got to be done. We work a lot with Veolia, Orange and Rockland, and you say, what do you mean you work with them? We ask them, well, you guys going to do any infrastructure work on these roads? They say no because once we pave it they can’t open up the road for 5 years unless it’s an absolute emergency.”

Discussing an infrastructure project, Graziano said: “We worked with the state to get us the money, federal government. They’re going to have new sidewalks, streetlamps, new paving, water and sewer infrastructure, along with lots of other infrastructure, so it’s all new. It’s going to be fantastic for them.”

Supports maintaining local roads through paving and coordinating utility work before resurfacing.

As a town council member, worked with state and federal governments to fund a project including sidewalks, streetlamps, paving, and water and sewer infrastructure.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Energy & the Environment

Sylke E. Jackson

Sylke E. Jackson grew up in Nyack. She graduated from Yale. She raised her children in Nyack and founded the Central Nyack Community Pollinator Garden, where she served as a volunteer coordinator.

- Proposes an independent review of town contracts and staffing to eliminate unnecessary spending.
- Plans to keep the town tax levy within the state cap and require line-by-line budget reviews.
- Proposes reducing permitting delays and fees for homeowners and small businesses and supporting business incubators.

- Plans to limit park and program fees, expand scholarships, and offer free community events.

- Proposes requiring developers to fund improvements needed to prevent projects from overburdening roads, water systems, sewers, or schools.
- Advocates revitalizing sites such as the Palisades Center for housing rather than adding development in areas with traffic problems.

- Calls for prosecuting building-code violations to the full extent of the law when harmful conditions endanger residents.

- Proposes allowing projects to proceed only when traffic and safety studies find local infrastructure can handle the projects' demands.

- Plans to represent residents at utility-rate meetings and promote energy-efficiency programs intended to lower bills.
- Proposes protecting drinking-water sources through zoning, limits on herbicides and road salt, and water-impact reviews for large developments.

Sylke Jackson for Clarkstown Town Council, Ward 2

Clean up waste and patronage jobs: Conduct a thorough independent review of Clarkstown's contracts and staffing, and streamline, eliminating unnecessary expenditures.

Hold the line on taxes: Keep the town's share of the tax levy within the state cap and require a line-by-line budget review.

Support small business: Cut permitting delays and fees for homeowners and small businesses, and back business incubators.

Proposes an independent review of town contracts and staffing to eliminate unnecessary spending.

Plans to keep the town tax levy within the state cap and require line-by-line budget reviews.

Proposes reducing permitting delays and fees for homeowners and small businesses and supporting business incubators.

Keep recreation affordable: Hold down park and program fees, expand scholarships and offer free community events.

Plans to limit park and program fees, expand scholarships, and offer free community events.

Make development pay its own way: New projects shouldn't overburden our roads, water, sewers or schools. Developers should pay for the improvements they require, not taxpayers.

Create the housing our community needs, in the right places: Revitalize failing sites like the Palisades Center that already have the infrastructure to handle more people, instead of piling more development onto areas with traffic problems.

Proposes requiring developers to fund improvements needed to prevent projects from overburdening roads, water systems, sewers, or schools.

Advocates revitalizing sites such as the Palisades Center for housing rather than adding development in areas with traffic problems.

Enforce building codes: Encourage prosecution of building code violations to the full extent of the law so that harmful conditions do not endanger the lives of residents. Ensure that projects do not proceed unless traffic and safety studies show results that are consistent with loads that local infrastructure can handle.

Calls for prosecuting building-code violations to the full extent of the law when harmful conditions endanger residents.

Helped secure public transportation and a pedestrian path on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Proposes allowing projects to proceed only when traffic and safety studies find local infrastructure can handle the projects' demands.

Fight for reasonable utility and energy costs: Speak up for residents at utility rate meetings and push for energy-efficiency programs that lower bills.

Protect and clean up our drinking water: Publish water test results online, so residents can see what's in your water. Use zoning to protect aquifers and wells. Restrict herbicides and road salt near water sources. Require water impact review for large developments.

Lobbied congressional leaders for clean energy and lower utility costs and worked with faith communities to divest $500 million from fossil fuels.

Plans to represent residents at utility-rate meetings and promote energy-efficiency programs intended to lower bills.

Proposes protecting drinking-water sources through zoning, limits on herbicides and road salt, and water-impact reviews for large developments.

Clarkstown Town Council Member, District 2

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