Meet the NYCOM Staff

Peter Baynes
Executive Director
Chief executive officer,including: overall responsibility for managing the association and implementing NYCOM policies.
peter@nycom.org

Barbara VanEpps
Deputy Director
barbara@nycom.org

Municipal finance, budget development and implementation, state aid, property tax issues, New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal (NYMIR), and coordination of state legislative advocacy.

Wade Beltramo
General Counsel
wade@nycom.org

General legal inquiries, including: property maintenance, unsafe buildings, traffic and parking, economic development, and zoning and planning.  Oversees legal department and amicus curiae program.

John H. Galligan
Employee Relations
john@nycom.org

Civil service and employee relations issues, collective negotiations, prevailing wage, state and federal laws affecting a municipality as an employer, and volunteer fire department issues.

Katie Hodgdon
Counsel
katie@nycom.org
    
General legal inquiries, including: ADA, cable TV, cell towers and telecommunications, justice courts, and village elections.

Jennifer L. Purcell
Publications and Advertising Editor
jennifer@nycom.org
    
NYCOM publications, including the Municipal Bulletin and NYS Directory of City & Village Officials, publication & conference advertising, photography, and administrator of the NYCOM Web site.

Richard J. Sinnott
Counsel
richard@nycom.org
    
General legal inquiries, including: first amendment, parks and recreation, libraries, games of chance, and animal issues.

Deanna M. Walker
Director of Administration & Finance
deanna@nycom.org

Chief fiscal officer, coordination of NYCOM’s administrative, publication and research functions; manage training events and conferences; Labor Agreements Database Service (LADS) contracts; and human resources officer.

Ursula Cook, Receptionist
Publication orders, public service certificates.

Lisa Earing, Executive Assistant
Executive Assistant to Executive Director, membership dues, receivable payments, and legislative bill tracking.

Norma Jean Sheehy, Administrative Assistant
Label requests, database updates, accounts payable, receivable billings, NYCOM Web site, and Fall Training School and Public Works certificates.

Eileen Silva, Receptionist
Associate Membership, publication orders, and Labor Agreements Database Service (LADS) contracts.

Thomas Burns
In-house Printer
Printing of NYCOM newsletters, management series and special reports.