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

Wade Beltramo
General Counsel
wade@nycom.org

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

Lynn M. Flansburg
Special Projects Coordinator
lynn@nycom.org

Analysis of surveys and research, program planner for Main Street Conferences, Labor Agreements Database Service(LADS), college-community relations ,and property tax issues.

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.

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.

Barbara VanEpps
Director of Intergovernmental Finance
barbara@nycom.org

Municipal finance, budget development and implementation, state aid, NewYork Municipal Insurance Reciprocal(NYMIR), and coordination of state legislative advocacy.

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; and human resources officer.

(Pictured standing l to r: Norma Jean Sheehy, Mary Carmel and Eileen Silva. Pictured sitting l to r: Ursula Cook and Lisa Earing)

Mary Carmel, Administrative Supervisor
Label requests, Fall Training School and Public Works certificates, and legislative bill tracking.

Ursula Cook , Receptionist
Publication orders, public service certificates.

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

Norma Jean Sheehy, Administrative Assistant
Database updates, accounts payable, receivable billings, and NYCOM web site.

Eileen Silva , Receptionist
Associate Membership, publication orders, and LADS contracts.

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