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Connor Exum

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MT. EAGLE: “What has prepared you to serve as Windham town supervisor?

EXUM: “My business career [in a family enterprise] and education [at Louisville University] offer a solid base. I have worked with State entities and understand the underpinnings of local government.”

BETTER THAN HEARSAY - The Windham Town Supervisor Race

Connor Exum attended Louisville University.

MT. EAGLE: “What has prepared you to serve as Windham town supervisor?

EXUM: “My business career [in a family enterprise] and education [at Louisville University] offer a solid base. I have worked with State entities and understand the underpinnings of local government.

“During my 12-year tenure as the Operations Manager of my family corporation, I was able to grow the business by more than 350% before the pandemic.

MT. EAGLE: Why should voters give you their support?

EXUM: “I am semi-retired and can be dedicated completely to the job.
We are losing generational families and families that came to Windham over the years because of what we offer.

Connor is semi-retired. He previously served as operations manager of his family corporation.

Exum said Hoyt was upset with him "because I point out his problems," including in his Substack newsletter. He said he "absolutely" did not engage in conduct such as calling Hoyt on his phone. Windham is heavily Republican, giving Exum little chance of winning November's election. He lost to Hoyt in 2024.

Windham supervisor tears up newspaper in clash with election challenger

Connor previously ran for Windham town supervisor in 2024 but did not win.

Windham supervisor tears up newspaper in clash over mountain ...

We must, as a community, come together and create solutions that will sustain our community for generations.

Imagine a community with a town-financed small business incubator that helps our residents find the funding they need to grow? Imagine a community with a program for home efficiency, where grants and assistance are provided to the most vulnerable members of our community, low-income families, and those on fixed incomes, to reduce the costs of winter and summer utilities.

Letter: What Is at Stake in Windham's 2026 Election

How do you see your role as supervisor intersecting with the Mountain Club’s role as a tourism driver in town?
Exum: My role is to balance their oversized abilities right now and offer and build an alternative revenue stream into the community. We have to start financing incubators and accelerators, getting local entrepreneurs back into the game here. If they cut more and more of the skiers, you get fewer and fewer reasons for people to come here and rent housing or go to our hotels, shop in our few stores and eat in our restaurants. We have to build up that local base.

Meet The Candidates: Connor Exum on Affordable Housing, Transparency and Gentrification – The Overlook

Exum: We have to look at outsourcing. From my studies of outsourcing of services such as our water treatment, we run somewhere between an eight to 15% profit margin on that to our company that runs it, Cedarwood. We’re paying for everything. They’re just the managers. Why don’t we hire some engineers, which are good-paying, local jobs, keep those jobs inside, save eight to 15%. We’re outsourcing our roads to contractors that have 15 to 20% right on the top.

Proposes a community SHARE program to make loans to startup and expanding local businesses.

Imagine a community where investments in local businesses are made by residents in our business sector through a community partnership between businesses, the town, local banks, and residents; this is known as a SHARE program. The SHARE program would put our money to work in the business sector, making loans to startups or existing businesses to expand. Thus creating the vital local investments we need to grow our local economy.

Proposes pursuing a tax-neutral, town-owned ski operation financed through revenue bonds.

The way I’m going to tackle that is by having the local government change the way in which it sees itself in the marketplace. One of my big goals is to do something that has happened in Colorado.
A small town called Nederland, which is basically analogous to us, they’re purchasing their ski slope. It’s now a town-owned operation. I think we can do the same thing here. They did it through revenue bonds, so it was tax-neutral. As town supervisor, I would like to start that process and make a real offer.

Proposes town-financed business incubators and accelerators to help local entrepreneurs access funding and grow.

Proposes hiring local engineers instead of outsourcing water-treatment services, which he says could retain jobs and reduce costs.

- Proposes town-financed business incubators and accelerators to help local entrepreneurs access funding and grow.
- Proposes hiring local engineers instead of outsourcing water-treatment services, which he says could retain jobs and reduce costs.

Economy

How would you help residents learn about town decisions and have a say before those decisions are made? Please identify a specific change you would make to improve transparency or communication.
Exum: There are a lot of ways we can attack transparency. One of the things I want to do is introduce a policy of more public hearings. When you have a board like the planning board, the Zoning Board of Appeals, that’s really a black box-type operation.

If they want to remove one of them, ironically, they have to have a public hearing and explain why they want to remove this member. I think that’s kind of backwards. Let’s put out a list of positions that are open. Let’s advertise, let’s have a public hearing. Let’s have everyone who wants to come and be a part of the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Appeals bring their full resume and we’ll ask them questions.
Let’s find out what boards they serve on, what businesses they’re involved with, so we all have an idea on what kind of conflicts of interest they may or may not have.

Let’s have everyone who wants to come and be a part of the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Appeals bring their full resume and we’ll ask them questions.
Let’s find out what boards they serve on, what businesses they’re involved with, so we all have an idea on what kind of conflicts of interest they may or may not have. We also need to make sure the minutes of meetings are reliable and on time. I don’t know if I’ve seen Planning Board minutes posted on time in the past three years. We also have to make the meetings more accessible. Every other small town is putting their meetings on Zoom, at least. Shandaken puts theirs on YouTube. We can do that, too.

Plans to adopt a policy of holding more public hearings on town decisions.

Proposes publicly advertising Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals openings and holding hearings with applicants.

Calls for timely meeting minutes and making town meetings accessible through Zoom or YouTube.

- Plans to adopt a policy of holding more public hearings on town decisions.
- Proposes publicly advertising Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals openings and holding hearings with applicants.
- Calls for timely meeting minutes and making town meetings accessible through Zoom or YouTube.

Public Services

But if you go with a three-acre minimum, you use up all the land with very large houses, which require a lot of energy resources which is bad for the environment. I promote what is called cluster housing, right around state Route 296, Main Street, on connecting roads. Housing can be denser there. We’re not going to touch the periphery of the town. That’s still going to be open and wide. The town also has to be a part of the process.

The town also has to be a part of the process. I know a lot of people like the RUPCO solution.
I’m not a big fan of that, since RUPCO has most of their jobs in Kingston and most of their engineers and architects tend to be out of Syracuse or Albany, so those jobs aren’t going to be local. I would prefer to see a housing authority right here in Windham with people who are from Windham.

Opposes Windham's proposed zoning law and calls for land-use regulations that do not economically segregate residents or shift costs to businesses and residents.

MT. EAGLE: Identify 3 key issues in Windham and your view on them.

EXUM: (1) “Lack of transparency in local government, based on a lot of personal experiences. There have been issues for me, asking for and receiving public documents that should be available to all citizens. Documents should be easily accessible.
(2) “Zoning. I am opposed to the current zoning law [being considered by the town] for several reasons. As I read the proposal, [I believe] it segregates the community economically. We need a more organic method [of land use regulations], one that doesn’t push costs down to our Main Street business owners and our residents.”

Affordable housing is a growing concern on the mountaintop as prices increase along with the number of short-term rentals. What would you do to ensure Windham remains affordable and accessible for everyone?
Exum: We’ve got to get rid of our zoning plan. This might sound odd, because I’m on the left-hand side, and everyone says the left loves zoning, but we need planning, not zoning. We have to make sure we’re not limiting our people by having ridiculously sized minimums. Three acres is just two big. You can’t buy a house out of college here, even five years or 10 years out of college. The only way to fix that is to build a lot more housing in the area.

Promotes denser cluster housing near Route 296 and Main Street while keeping the town's periphery open.

Prefers a Windham-based housing authority staffed by local residents.

- Promotes denser cluster housing near Route 296 and Main Street while keeping the town's periphery open.
- Prefers a Windham-based housing authority staffed by local residents.

Housing & Urban Development

As of October 28, 2026, Connor Exum’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

Transportation & Infrastructure

Imagine a community with a town-financed small business incubator that helps our residents find the funding they need to grow? Imagine a community with a program for home efficiency, where grants and assistance are provided to the most vulnerable members of our community, low-income families, and those on fixed incomes, to reduce the costs of winter and summer utilities. Imagine a community where investments in local businesses are made by residents in our business sector through a community partnership between businesses, the town, local banks, and residents; this is known as a SHARE program.

We also have to look at what we’re doing with energy resources at our water treatment plant.
Last year, we were paying about $29,000 in hauling off sludge, which has to go all the way up to western New York to dump it. We can turn that sludge into methane gas and create a cogeneration plant there. We can power the entire wastewater treatment plant plus the ambulance center with the electricity. We’re creating clean energy for ourselves.

Proposes home-efficiency grants and assistance for low-income residents and people on fixed incomes to reduce utility costs.

Proposes converting wastewater sludge into methane to power the wastewater treatment plant and ambulance center.

- Proposes home-efficiency grants and assistance for low-income residents and people on fixed incomes to reduce utility costs.
- Proposes converting wastewater sludge into methane to power the wastewater treatment plant and ambulance center.