Paul Haney

23rd District (Rochester, Brighton)

Committees: Ways & Means (RMM), Environment & Public Works

Monroe County Legislator Paul E. Haney represents the 23rd Legislative District in southeast Rochester and northeast Brighton. It is roughly an arc that includes the Park Avenue and Monroe Ave areas, Cobbs Hill, the South Winton Road area, Browncroft and the WintonVillage areas of the City. Paul serves as the ranking member of his caucus on the Ways and Means Committee and is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee. He also serves on the County's Audit Committee. Paul was elected to the Legislature in 2005. He was a member of the Rochester City Council from 1974 to 1985 and was County Director of Finance from 1988 to 1992.

Paul is a life long resident of Rochester except for four years spent in New York City after he finished college. He has lived in the 23rd District for 25 years. Paul is currently on the Boards of the Aquinas Institute of Rochester (former Chair and Treasurer of the Board) and the Rochester Primary Care Network (former Chair and current Treasurer of the Board). He is also a member of the Accounting Advisory Committee of St. John Fisher College and the Finance Committee of St. Boniface Church. In the past, he has served on the Boards of Directors of the National League of Cities, the Alzheimer's Disease Association, the Rochester District Heating Co-Operative and the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency.

He has also served on the New York State Temporary Commission on the Real Property Tax, the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council, the Committee on Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting of the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada and was a Charter Member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board Advisory Committee.

Paul is a retired Certified Public Accountant, initially licensed by the State of New York in 1968. He does consulting work for the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration, working with federally supported community health centers across the United States. He has worked with community health centers in 46 states and territories.

Paul received his Master of Business Administration degree from Syracuse University in 1964. He earned his undergraduate degree from St. John Fisher College in 1963 and graduated from the Aquinas Institute of Rochester in 1959.