Susan Siegel
Passionate for local government. Good government. Efficient government. Transparent government.
This website exists to communicate with town residents and provide transparency in your local government. It is a personal site, and not an official Town of Yorktown site.
Meeting Blog
The meeting blog provides summaries of the major agenda items discussed at Town Board and Planning Board meetings. You can automatically receive these summaries in your Inbox by using the subscribe box at the bottom of the page.
Issues
The Issues page provides background information about current and upcoming town issues as well as explanations about how our town government works, like the town budget and how development proposals are reviewed by the Planning Board.
Recent Meeting Summaries
Town Board, October 20, 2026
Tax Exemptions. The Board opened and closed the hearing on four tax exemptions and voted 5-0 for the exemptions for active duty military (up to 25% with a $$20,000 cap) and spouses of police and volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who died in the line of...
Planning Board, October 19, 2026
Creative Living, aka Navajo Fields. (See Town Board, September 8, 2026). This was a referral from the Town Board for a stormwater permit. After Chairman Fon read a memo from the Planning Department noting that the department did not have an approved site plan for the...
Town Board, October 13, 2026
Accessibility Advisory Committee. Kathleen Macias-Torres, the Committee’s co-chair, highlighted some of the issues the group hopes to explore in the coming months_ - Making pavement markings more visible - Providing sign language interpreters at town meetings -...