Board of Directors

Our Board is comprised of a diverse group of professionals, citizens, and trail enthusiasts that reside in communities along the proposed trail. In addition to assisting with the planning and implementation of the trail, each serves as a local community liason to the respective towns or villages they reside in.

  

Executive Board

      President
      Anne Bergantz, Orchard Park
      Master of Urban Planning, University of Buffalo  

      Chairman Orchard Park Trails Task Force
      Orchard Park Conservation Board
      716-662-5159

      ABergantz@ecattrail.org

 

      Vice President

      Deborah H. Fenn, East Aurora

      Teacher, West Valley School
      DFenn@ecattrail.org

 

      Vice President
     
B.R. Latimore, Boston

      East Aurora Buick Cadilac

      BLatimore@ecattrail.org

 

      Secretary

      Bill Scott, III, Orchard Park
      Scott Danahy Naylon, Inc.

      BScott@ecattrail.org

 

      Treasurer
      Thomas P. Grogan, CPA, CFP, Orchard Park
      Brock, Schechter & Polakoff, LLP

      TGrogan@ecattrail.org      

 

      Assistant Treasurer / Information Technology

      Paul Cramer, MBA, Orchard Park

      Senior Vice President - Interactive Solutions, Triton Digital
      716-508-4104
      PCramer@ecattrail.org 
     

     Directors

      General Counsel

      Marc A. Romanowski, Esq., Orchard Park
      Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, Attorneys and Counselors
      716-844-3709 
      mromanowski@hselaw.com

 

      David G. Ellis, MD, Erie County
     
Immediate Past-president, Erie County Medical Center
     

      Rick LeFeber, Cattaraugus County
      Executive Director, Cattaraugus Local Development Corporation

      (Pat McGee Trail)
      716-257-3237
      cldc@netsync.net

 

      Thomas L. Hagner, Aurora/East Aurora
      President, Hagner Real Estate Corp.
      716-675-0751 Cell: 716-863-5331
      thagner@hagrec.com

 

      Howy Holmes, Orchard Park
      Highway Contractor (retired)
      President, Friends of Birdsong

      716-662-1743

      HOWYATOP@AOL.COM

 

      Roland E Pigeon, Orchard Park
      Member, Orchard Park Trails Task Force

      Member, Orchard Park Public Safety Committee     

      716-662-9354

 

      Peter Swartwout, Orchard Park

      Member, Orchard Park Trails Task Force

 

      Dwight Mateer, P.E., Orchard Park

      Civil Engineer