Rebecca Edwards
TOWN SUPERVISOR Incumbent elected 2023
Interests & Priorities:
As Town Supervisor since January 2024, Rebecca Edwards has worked to:
Communicate with residents
Address the housing crisis by expanding affordable housing options, including those like home-sharing that also benefit resident homeowners
Protect and expand the town’s green spaces, walking trails, and wildlife preserves
Expand free and low-cost recreation programs for town residents of all ages
Stay below the tax cap, protecting property taxpayers by building new non-property tax revenue sources and increasing effciency
A top priority is developing a cost-effective plan to relocate the Town Police and Courts, which is located on an uncapped landfill and since the 1990s has been sinking into the ground
About Rebecca
Biography:
Born and raised in Virginia, Rebecca has lived in the town of Poughkeepsie for 30 years and raised her family here. A history educator and former Dutchess County legislator, Rebecca helped found the Dutchess-Poughkeepsie Land Bank to get vacant and abandoned properties into the hands of responsible new owners. She has worked with local groups addressing domestic violence and sexual assault and she co-founded the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project, to increase public knowledge of local Black and abolitionist history. She and her rescue pup Bella live in Ward 6.
