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| Patrick Donnelly |
County Finance Office Deputy Commissioner Patrick Donnelly
will step down in September after two decades as a former county legislator,
county legislative chair and county finance commissioner.
“I said I would leave when they found someone to take my
place,” Donnelly told the county Legislature Monday. “Well, they have. And so I
will.”
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| Mitch Alger |
Donnelly’s position will be filled by former county Deputy
Manager Mitch Alger, who left his county position in January 2019 to become
Assistant Director of Municipal Utilities at the Bath Electric, Gas and Water
Systems.
A Bath native, Alger earned a bachelor's degree in legal
studies and psychology from SUNY Fredonia and a master's degree in public
education from SUNY Albany. Before being hired as county deputy manager, he
worked as an administrator in Allegany County. Donnelly, a county legislator
for the Town of Bath for eight years, serving as vice-chair and chair of the Steuben Legislature. He resigned in late 2010 after he was
picked in the November General Election to head the county’s finance department.
More recently, he stepped down as commissioner to work as a deputy under
current Finance Commissioner Tammy Hurd-Harvey.
In his remarks to the county Legislature Monday, Donnelly
noted the legacy of his predecessor, county Treasurer Carol Whitehead, who died
unexpectedly in 2009.
