Joseph A. Rende
Democratic · NY · Town Supervisor, Town of North Castle
North Castle Town Supervisor since his 2023 election, a former Port Chester Village Board member and Westchester County deputy emergency management director who works in title insurance. He has focused on balancing development with community character and on a new or renovated Town Hall.
Where Joseph A. Rende stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Safety and Crime Control (2 records), Public Infrastructure (2 records)
Opposes
Anti-Corruption (1 record), Government Spending Reduction (2 records), Housing Affordability (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Anti-Corruption
Anti-Corruption · 1 oppose
Argued at an April 2025 hearing against a proposed ethics rule requiring officials to sit out votes involving their campaign donors, saying public disclosure of donations was enough.
April 18, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 2 oppose
Voted with a unanimous Town Board on Dec. 11, 2024 to adopt North Castle's 2025 town and special district budgets.
December 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: northcastleny.gov
Voted on Nov. 13, 2024 with a 4-1 majority to hire an architect to study moving Town Hall and the police station into the former Boies Schiller law office at 333 Main St. in Armonk.
November 13, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: northcastleny.gov
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 2 support
Wrote to state Sen. Shelley Mayer and Assemblyman Chris Burdick in summer 2024 asking the state to remove hazardous trees along Route 128 after a fatal crash, and the state began surveying the trees.
August 23, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: theexaminernews.com
Said in July 2024 that the fire risk of battery energy storage facilities outweighed their benefit to North Castle, whose volunteer fire department would have to respond.
July 3, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Housing Affordability
Housing Affordability · 1 oppose
Voted on June 12, 2024 to let the developer of the old lumberyard condos on Bedford Road cut the required affordable units from four to two; the measure passed 3-2.
June 12, 2024Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: theexaminernews.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 2 support
Voted on July 30, 2025 with a 4-1 majority to ask private firms for ideas on rebuilding or replacing North Castle's Town Hall, after the plan to buy 333 Main St. was put on hold.
July 30, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: theexaminernews.com
Voted on Nov. 13, 2024 with a 4-1 majority to hire an architect to study moving Town Hall and the police station into the former Boies Schiller law office at 333 Main St. in Armonk.
November 13, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: northcastleny.gov
Track record — General
General · 6 records
Won a second term as North Castle town supervisor without an opponent in November 2025, according to unofficial results.
November 4, 2025
Source: patch.com
Voted on July 10, 2024 to move the town attorney contract to the law firm Abrams Fensterman, which had represented him in his 2023 election case. The firm and two of its partners had given his campaign $3,000, which he told the board about two days later.
July 10, 2024
Source: theexaminernews.com
Was certified in December 2023 as the winner of the North Castle supervisor race, beating Councilwoman Barbara DiGiacinto by four votes after a hand recount.
December 19, 2023
Source: theexaminernews.com
Went to state Supreme Court in November 2023 to challenge five absentee ballots in his supervisor race, which he led by one vote, saying the voters no longer lived in town; the judge set them aside and the other side later withdrew them.
November 14, 2023
Source: theexaminernews.com
Served on the Port Chester Planning Commission and then a three-year term on the Port Chester Village Board in the 1980s, and was Westchester County's deputy director of emergency planning and management in the 1990s.
October 31, 2023
Source: theexaminernews.com
Received the North Castle Democratic Committee's endorsement for town supervisor in February 2023 while serving as the committee's co-chair.
February 13, 2023
Source: theexaminernews.com
Past race Joseph A. Rende ran in:
- Town Supervisor, Town of North Castle · November 3, 2026 · North Castle town, New York · incumbent