Enhancing your quality of life

Fostering Innovative Development & Preventing Overdevelopment

Working with property owners and investors to attract innovative development in vacant previously developed malls/storefronts/sites.

Launched the Wappinger Protection Act, a series of local laws to protect the Town's character and prevent overdevelopment.

Expanded agricultural programs through conservation easements and agricultural overlays.

Led the adoption of a moratorium on large-scale multi-family housing developments. Ensuring that we do not contribute to traffic, crowd our schools, and overburden our police, ambulance, or volunteer fire companies.

Investing in our Parks and Infrastructure

Expanded Town parks system with the purchase of 2513 Route 9D, marking the first addition in nearly 25 years.
Launched Wappinger Parkland Infrastructure Improvement Act which authorized funding for improvements such as completing the Challenger Inspiration Field; Enhancing amenities at Martz Field (e.g., Memorial, light towers at tennis/pickleball courts), Activating the wellhead at Airport Park to provide water for soccer for the first time in 30 years; Paving Rockingham Park; Funding the completion of the nearly decade-long Spook Hill Park project

Streamlining Government Operations & Restoring Accountability

Saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating wasteful spending on government contractors, employing in-house resources to complete projects.

Generated nearly $1 million annually by diversifying Town funds into high-interest earning depositories.

Ended a two-year-long arbitration between the CSEA members of the Highway Department and the Town.

Launched “Quality-of-Life Taskforce”, through our Code Enforcement Office. Efforts will be focused on removing blighted abandoned buildings.

Keeping our Families and Community Safe

Developed "Safe Streets Initiative" by installing new street lighting at critical intersections.
Set groundwork for new digital speed signs throughout the Town.
Passed legislation for school zone safety enhancements.
Restructured the Wappinger Patrol by introducing new cycled targeted patrols in neighborhoods.
Passed legislation restricting truck traffic in residential areas.

Functionality You Will Love

Town Supervisor Joseph D. Cavaccini is tested, tried, and true and has dedicated most of his life to bettering the quality of life for the people of Wappinger. Having started his public service career at age 12, he was appointed to his position within the Office of Town Historian for the Town of Wappinger. This appointment made him the youngest person to be appointed to a post within a municipal historian’s office in New York State, as well as the youngest official to serve in a public capacity in the State.

Cavaccini has worked on the front lines of local government throughout his career. In working alongside five different administrations across three Towns, he has seen what works and what does not work for municipalities, and brings this innovative approach to Town Hall today. Throughout Cavaccini’s tenure, he has proven to be a transparent and accessible public official, communicating and engaging with dozens of residents each week. He has worked daily to preserve the quality of life of the residents of the Town and continues to look out for the best interests of those who live here. He has strongly supported, sponsored, and passed legislation that works on behalf of the taxpayer rather than against, lowered taxes, and brought back over $2million in grant funding to projects here in the Town of Wappinger. Locally, he has worked to promote innovative economic development and eliminate blighted properties, in working to fill empty storefronts and eyesore plazas before building new malls and demolishing unsafe/unsightly structures. Cavaccini has a proven record in support of small businesses, conscious development, first responders, and fiscal conservatism...

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