Carl Fulgenzi Jr.
Republican · NY · Town Supervisor, Town of Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant Town Supervisor since 2014, first elected to the Town Board in 1989, and former owner of a local plumbing and heating business. His priorities are controlling taxes while rebuilding the town's cash reserves, and reviving the Hawthorne and Valhalla business districts.
Where Carl Fulgenzi Jr. stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (1 record), Public Safety and Crime Control (2 records), Housing Affordability (2 records),
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (2 records), Civil Rights (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 1 support
Declared a town state of emergency on March 15, 2020 to help slow the spread of COVID-19, alongside state and county orders.
March 15, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 2 oppose
Voted for Mount Pleasant's $46.1 million 2017 budget, which passed 4-1 on Dec. 13, 2016. It added five police officers and went over the state tax cap.
December 13, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted with the unanimous Town Board on Nov. 27, 2012 to let Mount Pleasant exceed the state's 2 percent property tax cap. He said deeper cuts would mean losing vital services.
November 27, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 2 support
Voted with the unanimous Town Board on Nov. 30, 2021 to ban vehicles of 8,000 pounds or more from three residential shortcut streets near the Amazon site.
November 30, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted for Mount Pleasant's $46.1 million 2017 budget, which passed 4-1 on Dec. 13, 2016. It added five police officers and went over the state tax cap.
December 13, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Housing Affordability
Housing Affordability · 2 support
Voted with a 4-1 Town Board majority on March 11, 2025 to rezone 75 North Kensico Avenue in Valhalla for apartments. Councilman Mark Saracino voted no.
March 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted with the unanimous Town Board in March 2021 to rezone part of a Valhalla property for a 170-unit Brightview senior housing project.
March 15, 2021Supports Housing Affordability
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 2 oppose
Defended the town's fight against a 2024 state Voting Rights Act lawsuit over at-large council elections. In March 2026 the town settled, adding two village council seats and paying $1.425 million in plaintiffs' fees.
March 10, 2026Opposes Civil Rights
Source: theexaminernews.com
Declared a state of emergency on May 26, 2023 aimed at blocking migrants sent from New York City from being housed in Mount Pleasant. It was among the first such orders in Westchester.
May 26, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 2 support
Declared a state of emergency after heavy flooding on July 18, 2023. The town then hired an outside engineering firm to study flooding and seek grant money.
July 18, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: theexaminernews.com
Proposed in August 2018 a town drainage district funded by property taxes to pay for storm-drain repairs, instead of borrowing for each project.
August 16, 2018Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — General
General · 8 records
Under a June 2025 federal court settlement, the town agreed not to enforce its migrant emergency orders against children placed at the JCCA campus by the federal refugee office.
June 10, 2025
Source: theexaminernews.com
Led the town's fight to keep its e-mail subscriber list from a resident who requested it under the state Freedom of Information Law. A state appeals court ruled against the town in July 2024.
July 10, 2024
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted with the unanimous Town Board in November 2022 to adopt an updated town comprehensive plan and new hamlet zoning code, despite objections from some residents.
November 7, 2022
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted with a 4-0 Town Board in November 2021 to opt Mount Pleasant out of allowing cannabis dispensaries and consumption lounges, citing drug-abuse concerns.
November 9, 2021
Source: theexaminernews.com
Was endorsed for re-election as supervisor by The Examiner newspaper's editorial board in October 2021.
October 26, 2021
Source: theexaminernews.com
As chair of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Development Agency, backed about $3.8 million in sales tax breaks approved on April 21, 2021 for a large e-commerce distribution center.
April 21, 2021
Source: theexaminernews.com
Backed the Town Board's unanimous 2019 request for a 3 percent hotel tax to raise town revenue. Governor Cuomo vetoed the bill in December 2019.
January 6, 2020
Source: theexaminernews.com
Was appointed Mount Pleasant town supervisor by a unanimous Town Board vote on Oct. 28, 2014, after Supervisor Joan Maybury resigned.
October 28, 2014
Source: theexaminernews.com
Past race Carl Fulgenzi Jr. ran in:
- Town Supervisor, Town of Mount Pleasant · November 3, 2026 · Mount Pleasant town, New York · incumbent