George Oros, District 1 Minority Leader

George Oros was born in Trenton, NJ and came to Westchester to attend college. He has been a resident of Cortlandt ever since. He was elected to the County Board in 1995 to represent the 1st District and was Chairman from 1996 to 1997. He is currently the Minority Leader of the Republican Caucus.

George is known for his policies on fiscal reform and diligence when reviewing contracts and budgets. He is a determined tax-cutter and was instrumental in removing an unfair County sewer tax that thousands of Cortlandt and Yorktown residents were paying even though they had no sewers. George has also introduced a number of reform measures to increase budgetary accountability.

Prior to serving on the Board, George was an active member of the Cortlandt community. He was a Town Councilman and Chair of both the Cortlandt’s Zoning Board of Appeals and the Bi-Centennial Committee. He was Assistant to the Town Attorney, served on the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Board and co-founded the Heritage Foundation, a historical organization in Cortlandt.

For eight years, George was the Assistant to the Director of Pace’s Michaelian Institute of Sub/Urban Governance and was involved with projects ranging from the creation of new villages to welfare reform. He still sits on the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley Hospital Center.

George earned his BBA degree from Pace University in Pleasantville and his JD degree from Pace University Law School. He and his wife, the former Marianne Baggini, have two lovely children, John and Christina.

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