Description of the ECC
The Edgemont Community Council (ECC) was founded
in 1947 to determine community opinion on civic matters, coordinate
community action thereon, and to plan and promote the general welfare
of the Edgemont community. That is still the purpose of the ECC today.
The Edgemont community is the area embraced by Union Free School
District #6, commonly known as the Edgemont School District. Edgemont
is in the Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, State of New York.
Edgemont is a community
whose legal identity is as a school district (Union Free School
District #6 at Greenburgh) and a fire district (the Greenville Fire
District incorporated in 1913) with nearly co-terminus boundaries.
Edgemont lies entirely within the unincorporated portion of the Town of
Greenburgh, and as such, has no independent municipal government.
Because the Town’s council members are elected “at large,” there is no
member of the Town Board directly responsible for representing
Edgemont’s interests at the municipal level. The Edgemont Community
Council (ECC) was incorporated in 1947 to serve as the focal point for
the community’s active, neighborhood-oriented civic associations,
giving the residents both a community-wide forum for discussions and a
non-partisan representative voice at Town Hall.
The ECC is the sponsor of
the non-partisan School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC), providing
the impartial chairperson and underwriting the associated costs.
ECC representatives
regularly attend Town, Planning and Zoning Board meetings and take
positions on traffic, planning, zoning and budget matters at the Town
level.
The ECC annually presents the “Silver Box Award”
to an Edgemonter in recognition of her/his commitment and exemplary
service to the community.
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