{"id":5780,"date":"2020-01-01T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cityofbeacon.org\/?page_id=5780"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:49:39","slug":"mayor-lee-kyriacou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beaconny.gov\/index.php\/government\/mayor-lee-kyriacou\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lee Kyriacou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p>Lee Kyriacou became Beacon\u2019s mayor on 1 January 2020, after serving nine terms on the Beacon City Council beginning in the 1990s and helping lead Beacon\u2019s dramatic economic revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is the son of Greek Cypriot immigrants, and is in the first generation of his family to attend college.\u00a0 He attended public schools in Detroit and California, got his BA at the University of California Davis, and came East on scholarship to earn degrees in law and economics from Yale.<\/p>\n<p>Kyriacou has worked in financial services, strategic planning, and consulting for most of his professional career \u2013 including at Chase and Fleet banks and the Boston Consulting Group.\u00a0 He currently works for a payments network in Midtown, and will continue to be the Council\u2019s only New York City commuter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee and his spouse Elizabeth Barrett moved from Astoria to Beacon in 1992 \u2013 they fell in love with the City during the hard times when many were avoiding Beacon.\u00a0 Together they bought and renovated an old Victorian, raised two daughters in Beacon schools, and got involved \u2013 with local arts and environmental organizations, autism\/disability advocacy, and restoring a Main Street building that helped spark revitalization along Fishkill Creek. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee has had a lifelong commitment to public service \u2013 combining progressive social views with fiscal responsibility.\u00a0 He was first elected to the Beacon City Council in 1993, serving three six-year stints \u2013 1994-99 in Ward Two, and city wide in 2002-2007 and 2014-2019.\u00a0 In 2007, Lee took a two-year professional leave to work for Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who appointed him to lead the state agency that oversees local property taxes and policy director of a Governor\u2019s Commission on property tax relief. Lee is possibly the only state agency head ever to merge his own agency into another one, saving millions in taxpayer dollars while improving property tax services.<\/p>\n<p>The critical issues facing Beacon have been and remain focused around zoning, community vision and better planning.\u00a0 In the 1990s, it was about reversing impediments to revitalization \u2013 e.g., zoning out Main Street storefront apartments and closing the city\u2019s riverfront incinerator.\u00a0 In the 2000s, it was about establishing a new vision for our community, and documenting that vision in a new Comprehensive Plan.\u00a0 In the late 2010s and now the 2020s \u2013 in light of Beacon\u2019s amazing success \u2013 our challenge is to control development through focused zoning, addressing rapid development\u2019s repercussions through better planning, and setting our sights on an even bolder community vision for our future.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lee Kyriacou became Beacon\u2019s mayor on 1 January 2020, after serving nine terms on the Beacon City Council beginning in the 1990s and helping lead Beacon\u2019s dramatic economic revitalization. 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