Bob and his wife, Lynn, moved to Kingston in 1987 and raised two sons in our community. Bob is a retired civil engineer with nearly 40 years working in the public sector. He served as the Regional Director of Transportation for the Hudson Valley Region of the NYS Department of Transportation for eight years. He retired from NYSDOT as Chief Engineer and Assistant Commissioner in 2011. Following his career at NYSDOT, Bob was a consulting engineer until 2023 when he decided to retire once more.

Bob has served as Chair of the City of Kingston’s Complete Streets Advisory Council. He also volunteered his time to serve on Kingston’s Public Works Commission and was a Board Member of the Kingston City Land Bank. Additionally, he served on the Kingston City Consolidated School District Board of Trustees briefly in the late 1990s.

In 2023, Bob was appointed by Mayor Noble to the Common Council to represent Ward 6, to fill out the remainder of the term of outgoing Council member Tony Davis. Bob was elected in his own right to the Council in November of that year. “I am looking forward to continuing to work for the Council. I am proud to be the Democratic nominee for Ward 6 this year and hope to receive the voter’s support this November,” Bob said.