COUNTY OF ROCKLAND - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Dep Majority Leader
- Majority Leader
- Member of the Business
Alden H. Wolfe has a notable record of service to the Rockland County community. He is well known for his work to protect educational quality at Rockland Community College as Past Chair of the Rockland Community College Foundation, and is also responsible for the construction of affordable housing in Spring Valley and Hillburn through his former position as Vice President of Habitat For Humanity of Rockland. Since 2000, he has served as a Panel Member and Chair of the New York State Surrogate Decision-Making Committee, helping to ensure that disabled persons receive proper and adequate health care.
Alden is also an active member of the business community in Rockland County. He is an attorney in private practice in New City, with a general practice focusing on estate planning, probate and estate administration, elder law, disability and guardianship law, business law and real estate. A member of the New York and Rockland County Bar Associations, he also served as a director of the latter from 2002-2003. In 2002, Alden was recognized by the Rockland Business Association and the Rockland Economic Development Corporation as one of "Forty Under 40" business and community leaders of significance in Rockland County. He is also a member of the 2004 class of Leadership Rockland.
In 2005, Alden was selected for inclusion in Marquis' Who's Who in America, and in 2006 was selected for inclusion in Who's Who in Emerging Leaders and Who's Who in Finance and Business.
In 2007, Alden was nominated for the EPA's Environmental Quality Award, recognizing his advocacy on environmental issues.
Alden is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship, where he received a Masters degree in Public Administration. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Management/Finance from Binghamton University and attended Ramapo High School, graduating in 1987.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Detectives of the Baltimore Police Department
- County Executive
- Rockland County Executive
Rockland County Executive Ed Day was born in 1951 in a housing project in Brooklyn to Edwin and Jane Day. Growing up as the eldest of three children, Ed graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1968. He continued his education with an Associate's Degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Kingsborough Community College in 1971, further pursuing his education at Pace University while working full time in sales. Eight years later, he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983, Ed moved north to Rockland County.
Ed's career with NYPD took him from Patrol Officer to Sergeant in 1985, where he oversaw one of the nation's first Community Policing Units. He earned the rank of Lieutenant in 1989 and Lieutenant-Commander of Detectives in 1999, holding several key positions before serving as Commanding Officer of two Detective Squads in the Bronx.
Ed retired from the NYPD in 2000, having earned 40 citations for meritorious and conspicuous actions in the line of duty. He then joined Phipps Houses Services, a New York-based property management corporation as their Director of Corporate Security.
In 2003, County Executive Day became Chief of Detectives of the Baltimore Police Department, where he held executive command responsibility for all detective operations, personnel and administrative matters within the entire 3,200 member force. He oversaw a budget in excess of $7 million and implemented a series of reforms, resulting in a 50% increased success rate for violent crime investigations and reducing overtime expenditures by over 10%. He then moved back to the private sector, working as a Senior Security Consultant for American Security Systems, Inc.
County Executive Day is dedicated to the community, both in and out of politics. He's volunteered as a youth baseball, basketball, and football coach since the early 1990's. Seeing a need to better unite and represent his local community, he reconstituted and served as president of the Little Tor Neighborhood Association in 1997. Ed also grew involved in our schools, creating the PTA Child Personal Safety Course Pilot Project, a curriculum still in place today in the Clarkstown Central School District. He's been honored as a Lifetime Member of the PTA and served as co-president of the Clarkstown North Football Fourth Quarter Club. In 2003, his dedication to the community was recognized when he earned the Rockland County Distinguished Service Award.
After having served as a volunteer on a variety of town committees, Ed realized that he could better fix government from the inside. In 2005, he announced a run for the County Legislature. Ed's tireless efforts fighting for public safety, fiscal responsibility and a common sense approach to government led to his election in November, 2005 and reelection in 2007 and 2011, a clear endorsement of his tireless efforts to actively represent his district and his fight for more responsible fiscal policy.
Running on the Republican and Preserve Rockland lines, he was elected Rockland's third County Executive with 52% of the vote to his opponent's 46% in 2013, in an election that saw historically high voter turnout. By all accounts, his first term was a rousing success and his leadership is widely acknowledged for bringing Rockland County from the brink of financial collapse to an increasingly successful and up and coming county. The voters clearly recognized these accomplishments by returning him to Office for a second term by a 12 - point, 10.,000 vote margin over two opponents, a contest that broke all records for a local election and in 2021 Ed was again returned to Office for a third term, winning 72% of the vote.
Ed is recently married to the former Donna Pascucci and resides in the Village of Haverstraw.
Job Titles:
- President and CEO of Taconic Builders Inc
Vincent Downey Tyer III is a Boston native who moved to Rockland County in 1991 and has lived in Pearl River since 2004. He is serving his second term in the Rockland County Legislature, representing the residents of District 16.
Vince graduated with distinction with a degree in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1990. He completed his master's of Business Administration at the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2002.
Legislator Tyer is President and CEO of Taconic Builders Inc., with 100 employees in offices in New York and Los Angeles.
In his spare time, Legislator Tyer is a bagpiper and has played with the Rockland County AOH's pipe band for more than 10 years. Vince also currently serves as Chairman of the Rockland Gaelic Athletic Association and as a Coach for eight years.
Job Titles:
- Sheriff
- Rockland County Sheriff
Job Titles:
- Deputy Minority Leader
- Member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
Vince is an active member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. During his six years as President of the Rockland County AOH, Vince succeeded in bringing the New York State Convention to Rockland for the first time, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Rockland County St. Patrick's Day Parade, with participation by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan. Vince was named Grand Marshal of the 2015 Rockland County St. Patrick's Day Parade.