DawnMarie Kuhn

Kuhn moved authorization for a public hearing on a proposed data-centers moratorium after the Supervisor said she had been advised that the proposal did not comply with Town or state code; the hearing authorization passed.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved an intermunicipal agreement with the East Islip school district for sand and soil during winter storms and seconded a state environmental grant for drainage mapping and inspections.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved approval of a license for an organic farm and ancillary farm stand.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the Islip Resource Recovery Agency's extension of its leachate-disposal contract with Clearflow Technologies.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded HummusFit's IDA inducement and the Islip Resource Recovery Agency's Winter Brothers bulky-waste contract after the prior meeting's tabling.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

After questioning the three-year term, price history, and departmental review of Winter Brothers' bulky-waste disposal contract, Kuhn moved to table it until a new deputy commissioner could review the proposal; tabling passed over the Supervisor's opposition.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's PaintCare drop-off-site agreement, bid-option resolutions, Eastern Suffolk BOCES cooperative bidding, and Clayton Street Community Park paving and improvements.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's solid-waste collection contract, which passed over one opposing vote.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved renewal of a Great South Bay bay-bottom license for Long Island Blue Point Oysters.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn advocated protecting Islip's sole-source aquifer and water quality, preserving open space, refurbishing blighted properties before clearing woods, improving development-related traffic planning, and building a constituent-service app.

April 25, 2025For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn opposed an amended IDA authorization for R Squared Bay Shore LLC and stated that, in her view, IDA incentives should not be used for apartment projects; the measure passed 4-1.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted against tabling and then seconded approval of a renewed computer-equipment maintenance agreement with NPA Computers; the contract passed 3-2.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted against tabling midyear salary increases for Islip's elected town clerk and receiver of taxes, criticized the Supervisor's use of the garbage contract as a fiscal objection, and voted for the raises; the resolution passed 3-2.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn sponsored Patrick Fife's appointment to the Islip Planning Board and voted for the appointment; the official packet identifies her office as the contact for the resolution.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded HummusFit's IDA authorizing resolution and moved a sole-source recycling-facility control-panel contract with Lexington Technologies.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted against delaying Gina Marie Caputo's appointment as Department of Environmental Control commissioner, then moved the appointment and voted for it; it passed 3-1-1 after other members objected to the notice and process.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved a Suffolk County agreement for a Motor Parkway traffic signal and a public hearing on an Administrative Adjudication Bureau code amendment.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved to waive the rules and convene the Islip Resource Recovery Agency, then moved Caputo's appointment as agency president and voted for it; both motions passed 3-1-1.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn publicly argued that the outgoing environmental-control commissioner relied on fewer than five of roughly 70 garbage districts for a contract analysis, had allowed equipment and facility problems, and disparaged board members to rank-and-file staff.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded HummusFit's IDA inducement and the Islip Resource Recovery Agency's Winter Brothers bulky-waste contract after the prior meeting's tabling.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn publicly supported OpenGov permitting software, citing transparency, shorter permit times, constituent reports of departmental improvement, and the need to modernize town processes; she voted for extending the contract.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

After questioning the three-year term, price history, and departmental review of Winter Brothers' bulky-waste disposal contract, Kuhn moved to table it until a new deputy commissioner could review the proposal; tabling passed over the Supervisor's opposition.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's PaintCare drop-off-site agreement, bid-option resolutions, Eastern Suffolk BOCES cooperative bidding, and Clayton Street Community Park paving and improvements.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved agreements for Town programs and events and a professional-services agreement for property acquisition and demolition.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved Anne M. Danziger's reappointment as assessor; the motion passed with the Town Supervisor abstaining.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved Patricia Baragga's Planning Board appointment; the appointment passed with one abstention and one opposing vote.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's solid-waste collection contract, which passed over one opposing vote.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved to table a MacArthur Park Local Development Corporation matter; the tabling motion passed over one opposition and the Supervisor's abstention.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip budget-adjustment and auditing resolutions, a Uniform Traffic Code hearing, and three Suffolk County Office for the Aging applications covering shopping assistance, essential transportation, and home-maintenance repair.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded adoption of the IDA's 2026 meeting schedule.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Stephen A. Ruland's five-year appointment as director of administrative adjudications and publicly praised his qualifications.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the Foreign Trade Zone Authority's year-end auditing-services authorization.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved extensions for airport rental-car services and the HVAC preventive-maintenance contract at Long Island MacArthur Airport.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded organizational resolutions governing accumulated-time documentation, controller administration of the Supervisor's Account Section, and payroll-production digital signatures.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

At Islip's organizational meeting, Kuhn seconded adoption of the 2026 Town Board meeting schedule.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the organizational resolution defining the Town Attorney's powers and authority.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved Islip's designation of official radio stations for 2026.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

The Islip Town Board appointed Kuhn to the Industrial Development Agency, Economic Development Corporation, and Foreign Trade Zone Authority boards.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's depository and financial-services designations, authorization to accept donations under $1,000, and changes to the Town's FOIL application form.

January 5, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn advocated protecting Islip's sole-source aquifer and water quality, preserving open space, refurbishing blighted properties before clearing woods, improving development-related traffic planning, and building a constituent-service app.

April 25, 2025For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded acceptance of approximately $60,000 in Thanksgiving food from Islip Food for Hope, the outdoor movie-series contract, and the Good Samaritan Hospital 340B renewal.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted against tabling midyear salary increases for Islip's elected town clerk and receiver of taxes, criticized the Supervisor's use of the garbage contract as a fiscal objection, and voted for the raises; the resolution passed 3-2.

June 16, 2026Against

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded a motion to table authorization for a hearing on piercing the 2027 property-tax cap; the tabling motion passed over the Supervisor's opposition.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

After questioning the three-year term, price history, and departmental review of Winter Brothers' bulky-waste disposal contract, Kuhn moved to table it until a new deputy commissioner could review the proposal; tabling passed over the Supervisor's opposition.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted for ten of eleven capital bond resolutions covering town improvements, heavy equipment, parks, facilities, sidewalks, roads, drainage, traffic signals, golf-course irrigation, and parking lots, but voted against the turf-field improvements bond; that bond passed 4-1.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted for the Department of Homeland Security statement of work permitting firearms qualification and training at Islip's range; it passed 4-1 after protections restricting the facility's use were discussed.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

At her Assembly campaign kickoff, Kuhn advocated local zoning control, repeal of New York's bail reform, public-safety and law-enforcement support, and revision of Tier 6 public-employee pensions.

April 30, 2026For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

During Women's History Month, Kuhn publicly honored Deputy Police Commissioner Belinda Alvarez-Groneman for four decades of public service, police-community relations, youth outreach, and leadership.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded a JetBlue option year and a New York State Department of Transportation grant for 23 airport security cameras.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted to schedule a public hearing on a partial property-tax exemption for surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty.

February 18, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved approval of nuisance-abatement work at 1222 Townline Road in Hauppauge and 1795 Lincoln Avenue in Holbrook.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

At her Assembly campaign kickoff, Kuhn advocated local zoning control, repeal of New York's bail reform, public-safety and law-enforcement support, and revision of Tier 6 public-employee pensions.

April 30, 2026For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded an IDA inducement for a 130-unit, fully affordable senior and special-needs housing project at 255 Carlton Avenue.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

At her Assembly campaign kickoff, Kuhn advocated local zoning control, repeal of New York's bail reform, public-safety and law-enforcement support, and revision of Tier 6 public-employee pensions.

April 30, 2026For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded acceptance of approximately $60,000 in Thanksgiving food from Islip Food for Hope, the outdoor movie-series contract, and the Good Samaritan Hospital 340B renewal.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn read the first group of Islip Student Community Service Award honorees and described their youth, community, and ambulance-service work.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded an IDA inducement for a 130-unit, fully affordable senior and special-needs housing project at 255 Carlton Avenue.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded agreements for Golden Flashes parking, bus-shelter and bench maintenance, and Island Harvest's community supplemental-food program.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted to schedule a public hearing on a partial property-tax exemption for surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty.

February 18, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip budget-adjustment and auditing resolutions, a Uniform Traffic Code hearing, and three Suffolk County Office for the Aging applications covering shopping assistance, essential transportation, and home-maintenance repair.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded acceptance of Suffolk County youth-development, delinquency-prevention, and runaway-homeless-program funds.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn read the first group of Islip Student Community Service Award honorees and described their youth, community, and ambulance-service work.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded a motion to table authorization for a hearing on piercing the 2027 property-tax cap; the tabling motion passed over the Supervisor's opposition.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn opposed an amended IDA authorization for R Squared Bay Shore LLC and stated that, in her view, IDA incentives should not be used for apartment projects; the measure passed 4-1.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved or seconded permanent sewer-maintenance easements in Great River and Oakdale.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved authorization for a public hearing on a proposed data-centers moratorium after the Supervisor said she had been advised that the proposal did not comply with Town or state code; the hearing authorization passed.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved an intermunicipal agreement with the East Islip school district for sand and soil during winter storms and seconded a state environmental grant for drainage mapping and inspections.

July 14, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the Islip Resource Recovery Agency's extension of its leachate-disposal contract with Clearflow Technologies.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved or seconded applications for Suffolk County downtown-revitalization grants covering streetlights and municipal parking in Bay Shore, East Islip, Bayport, Islip, and Brentwood.

June 16, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved a Suffolk County agreement for a Motor Parkway traffic signal and a public hearing on an Administrative Adjudication Bureau code amendment.

May 19, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved acceptance and maintenance of West Golf Street in Bohemia and a state license for athletic fields and parking at Bayard Cutting Arboretum.

April 21, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's PaintCare drop-off-site agreement, bid-option resolutions, Eastern Suffolk BOCES cooperative bidding, and Clayton Street Community Park paving and improvements.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved agreements for Town programs and events and a professional-services agreement for property acquisition and demolition.

March 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded a JetBlue option year and a New York State Department of Transportation grant for 23 airport security cameras.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved acceptance of highway deeds and dedications from GNI X21 East Crossways LLC and RLP Third Venture Park ISP Owner LLC.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved an intermunicipal funding extension for streetscape improvements at East Islip Veterans Memorial Park.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded agreements for Golden Flashes parking, bus-shelter and bench maintenance, and Island Harvest's community supplemental-food program.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted for ten of eleven capital bond resolutions covering town improvements, heavy equipment, parks, facilities, sidewalks, roads, drainage, traffic signals, golf-course irrigation, and parking lots, but voted against the turf-field improvements bond; that bond passed 4-1.

February 24, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip budget-adjustment and auditing resolutions, a Uniform Traffic Code hearing, and three Suffolk County Office for the Aging applications covering shopping assistance, essential transportation, and home-maintenance repair.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the intermunicipal agreement funding streetscape improvements tied to the Central Islip Downtown Revitalization Initiative.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn moved extensions for airport rental-car services and the HVAC preventive-maintenance contract at Long Island MacArthur Airport.

January 27, 2026For

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn advocated protecting Islip's sole-source aquifer and water quality, preserving open space, refurbishing blighted properties before clearing woods, improving development-related traffic planning, and building a constituent-service app.

April 25, 2025For

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

At Kuhn's Assembly campaign kickoff, Suffolk GOP chair Jesse Garcia, Assemblyman Doug Smith, and Assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo publicly backed her candidacy and described her as their recruited successor for the open district.

April 30, 2026

Source: messengerpapers.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted to table the International Asbestos Removal IDA inducement after local opposition.

March 24, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Suffolk Republican leaders formally nominated Kuhn for New York Assembly District 7.

February 18, 2026

Source: cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded the IDA's marketing agreement with JVC Broadcasting, which passed 4-0.

January 27, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn abstained from the IDA's proposed programming-services contract with Mike Siniski at $85 per hour and a $5,000 maximum; the measure passed 3-0 with her abstention.

January 27, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn was elected to Islip Town Council District 2 on November 4, 2025 and assumed office on January 1, 2026, becoming the fifth woman and first millennial elected to the council.

January 1, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn voted against delaying Gina Marie Caputo's appointment as Department of Environmental Control commissioner, then moved the appointment and voted for it; it passed 3-1-1 after other members objected to the notice and process.

May 19, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn publicly argued that the outgoing environmental-control commissioner relied on fewer than five of roughly 70 garbage districts for a contract analysis, had allowed equipment and facility problems, and disparaged board members to rank-and-file staff.

May 19, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn publicly supported OpenGov permitting software, citing transparency, shorter permit times, constituent reports of departmental improvement, and the need to modernize town processes; she voted for extending the contract.

April 21, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Kuhn seconded Islip's depository and financial-services designations, authorization to accept donations under $1,000, and changes to the Town's FOIL application form.

January 5, 2026

Source: islipny.gov · researched July 18, 2026