Amy’s First Term Work

Amy is focused on practical, local solutions that make Ulster County more affordable and help people build a stable life here. Her work connects housing, good local jobs, transportation, small-business opportunity, public services, environmental protection, and accountable government.

Affordability, housing, and homeownership

  • More Homes on the Market Act (H.R. 1340): Sponsored a county resolution supporting the federal bipartisan bill. The federal capital-gains exclusion for the sale of a primary home has not kept pace with housing prices. Updating it and tying it to inflation could help longtime homeowners—especially seniors—downsize without a large tax penalty, freeing up more homes for families and workers.

  • Employer-Assisted Housing: Exploring ways employers can help workers with down payments, closing costs, rental assistance, or other housing needs—helping local employers recruit and retain workers while helping employees live closer to their jobs.

  • Workforce housing and the “missing middle”: Focusing on working households who earn too much to qualify for many programs but still cannot comfortably afford local housing costs.

  • ADUs and homeownership: Supports responsibly expanding accessory dwelling units when they add genuinely affordable housing and help homeowners, seniors, and families.

  • Good Cause Eviction: Approaches tenant protections with attention to both housing stability and the realities facing small property owners.

  • Short-term rentals: Supports using accurate local data to understand how short-term rentals affect housing supply before adopting broad solutions.

  • Habitat for Humanity: Co-sponsored a $400,000 county contract supporting Habitat for Humanity’s housing work.

  • Targeted property-tax relief: Supports relief for residents with disabilities and limited incomes, qualifying seniors, veterans, and active-duty combat-zone service members.

  • Protecting seniors from tax foreclosure: Co-sponsored enhanced notice and additional services for seniors who fall behind on property taxes.

Transportation and community access

  • Bus shelters: Working to bring safe, accessible bus shelters to more locations. The Town of Lloyd has approved a resolution to cooperate with Ulster County on shelter installation throughout the town.

  • UCAT: Co-sponsored authorization for the county to seek and administer Federal Transit Administration funding for Ulster County Area Transit.

  • Better transit access: Views dependable public transportation as an affordability, workforce, senior-access, and climate issue—not simply a transportation issue.

Environment, clean water, and resilience

  • Protecting drinking water: Supports strong water-quality protections and careful review of development or policy decisions that could affect local water resources.

  • Antidegradation protections: Supports preserving high-quality waterways and preventing avoidable pollution.

  • Pesticide preemption: Opposes federal measures that would weaken state and local authority to protect residents and the environment from pesticides.

  • Climate and public health: Treats climate action as a public-health, infrastructure, and affordability issue.

  • Local farms: Co-sponsored support for federal agricultural assistance after the April 2026 freeze damaged Ulster County farms.

  • Food resiliency: Supports practical, well-managed efforts to strengthen local food access and community resiliency.

Healthcare, education, and community services

  • Nurses and healthcare workers: Supports safe staffing, fair contracts, protections against hospital closures and service cuts, and strong safety-net funding.

  • SUNY Ulster: Co-sponsored the 2026–2027 community college budget and supported amendments intended to strengthen the college and its workforce.

  • Public schools: Supports strong public education, career and technical pathways, and partnerships among schools, BOCES, employers, and community institutions.

  • Cancer support services: Co-sponsored opposition to the closure and sale of the Reuner Cancer Support House and urged continuation of cancer-support services there.

Local jobs, workers, and economic development

  • Good local jobs: Focused on economic development that produces stable employment, supports working families, and allows people to remain in Ulster County.

  • Supporting the workforce: Supports prevailing wages, project labor agreements where appropriate, apprenticeships, responsible-bidder standards, wage-theft protections, and meaningful oversight of publicly supported development.

  • Small-business access to county contracts: Sponsored the updated county Procurement Manual, including local-vendor outreach, clearer guidance, recurring training, and easier ways for small and local businesses to learn about county contracting opportunities.

  • ALICE households: Centers residents who are Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed—people who are working but still struggle to afford housing, transportation, childcare, food, and other necessities.

  • Artist Corporations: Asking New York lawmakers to develop Artist Corporation legislation modeled on Colorado. The concept would help artists and creative workers move from isolated 1099 work toward shared business ownership, retained intellectual property, pooled resources, investment opportunities, and better access to benefits.

  • Arts and the creative economy: Supports arts as both community infrastructure and economic development; co-sponsored county support for Arts Mid-Hudson.

  • Transparent public incentives: Supports stronger IDA accountability, clear public benefits, and clawbacks when promised jobs or community benefits are not delivered.

Seniors and veterans

  • Supports targeted property-tax exemptions that help seniors and veterans remain in their homes.

  • Co-sponsored measures advancing a full qualifying veterans exemption and the maximum combat-zone service exemption.

  • Co-sponsored stronger notice and assistance for seniors facing delinquent property taxes.

  • Supports services that help older residents maintain independence, mobility, and access to healthcare and necessities.

Public safety, civil rights, and accountable government

  • Federal immigration enforcement policy: Co-sponsored a county policy restricting the use of county property for federal immigration-enforcement operations and supporting clear identification and accountability for agents, including opposition to masked, unidentified enforcement activity.

  • Domestic-violence response: Co-sponsored development of countywide standards for a Lethality Assessment Program to help identify high-risk domestic-violence situations.

  • Government transparency: Supports clear public information, advance review of significant agreements, accessible meetings, and policies residents can understand.

  • Community policing: Supports de-escalation, body cameras, community trust, and alternatives to incarceration where appropriate.

  • Tobacco sales: Co-sponsored a requirement that licensed tobacco retailers check identification for every tobacco sale and post clear signage.

Constituent and community advocacy

  • West Park Post Office: Advocating for restoration of convenient postal access for West Park residents, many of whom lack home delivery and rely on the post office for medications, benefits, and essential correspondence.

  • Accessible representation: Prioritizes listening to residents, responding to local concerns, and explaining county policy in plain language.

  • Arts and community building: Brings experience as an artist, pottery-studio owner, and founder of the Highland Open Studio Tour to work on economic development, creative opportunity, and vibrant community spaces.

2026 sponsored resolutions

The following list reflects the sponsorship record shown on the Ulster County Legislature’s official Amy Dooley page as of August 22, 2026.

  • Resolution No. 454 — More Homes on the Market Act: Supporting H.R. 1340, the federal More Homes on the Market Act.

  • Resolution No. 447 — Disability and limited-income property-tax exemption: Setting a public hearing on proposed Local Law No. 15 of 2026, which would amend the county’s partial tax exemption for residences of people with disabilities and limited incomes.

  • Resolution No. 239 — Procurement Manual: Adopting the updated Ulster County Procurement Manual and expanding efforts to make county contracting more accessible to local vendors.

2026 co-sponsored resolutions

  • Resolution No. 448 — Volunteer firefighter and ambulance-worker tax exemption: Adopting Local Law No. 10 of 2026 and opting Ulster County into the partial real-property-tax exemption authorized by RPTL § 457-a.

  • Resolution No. 413 — UCAT federal funding: Authorizing an application for Federal Transit Administration Section 5307 funds for Ulster County Area Transit.

  • Resolution No. 390 — America’s 250th commemoration: Authorizing intermunicipal agreements for public programming and durable interpretive materials or exhibits.

  • Resolution No. 372 — Habitat for Humanity: Approving a $400,000 county contract with Ulster County Habitat for Humanity through the Department of Planning.

  • Resolution No. 370 — Combat-zone service exemption hearing: Setting a public hearing on the proposed maximum combat-zone service property-tax exemption.

  • Resolution No. 369 — Veterans property-tax exemption hearing: Setting a public hearing on the proposed full qualifying veterans exemption authorized by RPTL § 458-a(11).

  • Resolution No. 360 — Universal tobacco carding: Requiring licensed tobacco retailers to check proof of age for every tobacco sale and post signage explaining the requirement.

  • Resolution No. 359 — Arts Mid-Hudson: Approving a $105,000 county contract with Arts Mid-Hudson through the Department of Tourism.

  • Resolution No. 347.1 — Domestic-violence Lethality Assessment Program: Establishing a countywide policy to develop standards for training and implementation.

  • Resolution No. 342 — Freeze assistance for farms: Supporting a USDA disaster designation and federal assistance for Ulster County farms affected by the April 2026 freeze.

  • Resolution No. 310 — Volunteer exemption hearing: Setting a public hearing on the proposed volunteer firefighter and ambulance-worker property-tax exemption.

  • Resolution No. 300.1 — SUNY Ulster budget: Approving the 2026–2027 Ulster County Community College budget.

  • Resolution No. 293 — Senior property-tax protections: Requiring enhanced notice and additional services for qualifying seniors delinquent in property taxes.

  • Resolution No. 291 — Sales-tax agreement transparency: Requiring advance submission of proposed sales-tax agreements between Ulster County and the City of Kingston.

  • Resolution No. 280 — The Mod Squad Team: Approving a $150,000 county planning contract with The Mod Squad Team, LLC.

  • Resolution No. 276 — Reuner Cancer Support House: Opposing its closure and planned sale and urging Westchester Medical Center to continue cancer-support use of the property.

  • Resolution No. 233 — Motor-fuel sales-tax cap: Electing a cents-per-gallon sales- and use-tax rate on motor and diesel fuel in place of the percentage rate.

  • Resolution No. 189 — Federal immigration enforcement: Establishing Ulster County policy concerning federal immigration enforcement.

  • Resolution No. 157 — Town of Lloyd Planning Board: Appointing Salvatore Cuciti as member and Gerry Marion as alternate to the Ulster County Planning Board.

  • Resolution No. 119 — Town of Lloyd Planning Board (withdrawn): Proposed reappointment of Scott McCarthy and Charly Long; the resolution was withdrawn.