Goodbye, Ochacher
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- January
- 5
Perry Ochacher, onetime clerk and chief of staff at the Westchester County Board of Legislators, is leaving to take a job as a lawyer at the high-powered White Plains law firm of DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Tartaglia, Wise & Widerkehr, where one of the partners is former county executive and former lieutenant governor Al DelBello.
Ochacher’s last official day at his county job is a week from today. But first he needs to secure a waiver from the board to take his new gig, because the firm does significant county work. (He said his practice would primarily be in the areas of land use and real estate.)
The legislature’s appointments committee is scheduled to take up the waiver request at 10 a.m. Monday, in plenty of time to get it onto that night’s agenda.
Ochacher stepped out of the clerk’s job last March to become what was called the board’s legislative counsel, a new position. He kept his pay, but his office was literally cut in half when a wall was put up to make two offices out of what had been a single space.
He said he had been interested in returning to the private sector and told Board Chairman Bill Ryan about a year ago that, “in all likelihood I’d probably be looking for something early in 2007.” “But it wasn’t written in stone,” he added.
Ochacher said he worked for DelBello’s firm 15 years ago, so he has long relationships with many of the lawyers there. He also previously served on the New Rochelle zoning board.
With Ochacher’s departure (and other staffing changes detailed in an earlier blog post and an upcoming story)—Acting Clerk Tina Seckerson is expected to be elevated to the permanent clerk’s job.
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on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm by Liz Anderson.
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