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The Legislation Committee of the Westchester County Board of Legislators convened on Monday, October 5, 2026, at 1:16 PM (agenda time 1:00 PM) with Chair Smith presiding. All nine committee members were present, including Legislators Puja and Ulaj participating remotely. The meeting covered two major discussion items—dissolution of the Deferred Compensation Board and the Charter Revision Commission Report—followed by the approval of several routine receive-and-file items. The meeting adjourned at 2:34 PM.
Dissolution of the Westchester County Deferred Compensation Board (2026-486 and 2026-487)
Discussion on the Charter Revision Commission Report
This meeting is being recorded and summarized. So good morning. Uh good afternoon, everyone, and uh welcome to our Monday, October 5th, 2026 meeting on legislation. We have a couple of items on for today. Um, and our first item uh will not be the uh committee report. We're saving that for a second because we're figuring we're gonna have a nice long discussion on that. Okay, but you guys are already at the table, so please feel free to stay. Our first item on for discussion today. Oh, I gotta take a 10 phone. All right. Can I can I see your pen again? Thank you. All right, so let's uh first let's take attendance first. Well, we don't need those M and Ms or a little in the clear. Uh I am here, uh Committee Vice Chair Elmore, uh Board Vice Chair Clemens. Here uh Minority Leader Cunzio, Legislator Barr. Legislator Nolan, yeah, legislator Puja. Here Legislator Uli. Peter and uh Chairman Gosh here. Okay. So everybody is here. So now I believe we can start the agenda and take up the item. Our first item on the agenda, which as I think most of the people sitting at this table already uh said in the floor earlier, is uh public hearing and a local law regarding the dissolution of the Westchester County Deferred Compensation Board. We're taking this up again only because this matter was referred both to the uh budget committee as well as the legislation committee. So here to just walk us through this again briefly uh is uh Justin Aiden from the county attorney's office agreed. Um thank you. So uh as was discussed at the BA this morning, this law would repeal chapter five forty-three, which establishes the county's department compensation board. As you will know, last year the board authorized the county to go to the New York State deferred compensation plan. Um prior to that we had been running our own through various third-party administrators and how was our last one. Um basically all the functions of the deferred compensation board um has been doing for the county, the new York State deferred compensation board does now. So there really aren't any functions left for the county deferred comp board to do. We had our last quarterly meeting, we had the state reps come down, we talked about the transition that occurred last year, how everything's been going, it's been very smooth, uh people have been very satisfied. That's the feedback. State gotten the finance department has gotten so um the deferred compensation board voted to recommend dissolution. Umanimous among those who voted uh point of clarification. Uh Mr. Casciato, because he knew this was going to be coming to the full board legislators. So he decided the same before. Um but it was the recommendation of the deferred comp board to dissolve, and that's what this would do. Thank you for that uh explanation. I know this was discussed previously, but are there any questions? Uh oh, before I continue, let me just note we're we're also joined today by uh several legislators, uh non-members of the first uh legislator Eric Pierce, um, our minority, our majority with name Williams. Our uh chair of uh uh board vice chair.