Kevin Geraghty has chaired the Warren County Board of Supervisors for nine of the past 13 years, steering a tourism dependent county through a comprehensive planning overhaul, a Lake George winter economy push, and now, the aftermath of a multi-million dollar fraud that drained cash from its treasury.
So, who is Kevin Geraghty, and what does he actually believe the county should be doing with its money and its future?
Quick Facts
- Party
- Not specified in available records
- Hometown
- Warrensburg, N.Y.
- Current Positions
- Town Supervisor, Warrensburg; Chairman, Warren County Board
- Background
- Former manager, International Paper Co.; former county budget officer
- In Office Since
- 2006 (Warrensburg); 2022 continuously as chairman
EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
Public detail on Geraghty’s life before politics is limited. Before running for office, he worked in management at the former International Paper Co. mill in Corinth. He has served as Warrensburg’s town supervisor since 2006, a two year seat he has held through repeated reelection ever since.
The Warren County Municipal Center in Queensbury, where the Board of Supervisors meets.
AS WARRENSBURG SUPERVISOR
Geraghty has run on a record of local infrastructure work in his own town. Seeking a fifth term in 2021, he pointed to keeping taxes low, obtaining $2.4 million in grant funding in a single year, building roughly 10,000 feet of new sidewalk, constructing a new highway garage, and upgrading the town’s water and sewer systems. He also led efforts to reopen the Warrensburg Museum of Local History, clean up two brownfield sites, and restore the town bandstand.
He has pushed for townwide broadband and, alongside other North Country supervisors, has advocated for taller cell towers within the Adirondack Park to close coverage gaps. In 2022, the county secured Northern Border Regional Commission funding for a multi-use trail connecting Lake George, Glens Falls, and Hudson Falls, which Geraghty said would “modernize tourism infrastructure” across the region.
WARREN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CHAIRMAN
Warren County is governed by supervisors from its 11 towns, plus five supervisors representing Glens Falls’s city wards, with Queensbury alone sending five given its larger population. Geraghty has chaired the board for nine total years, from 2013 to 2016 and continuously since 2022, including a fifth straight term starting January 2026.
Between his two stretches as chairman, he served six years as the county’s budget officer and 18 months as acting county administrator, giving him an unusually deep hold on the county’s finances even in the years he wasn’t formally in charge.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors, the 20-member body Geraghty has chaired for nine of the past 13 years.
A COUNTYWIDE PLAN
Under Geraghty, the board adopted Warren County 2040, a comprehensive plan built around housing, transportation, economic development, infrastructure, and environmental protection. “The plan will provide a critical roadmap, enabling us to navigate the county’s future with an aging population, workforce shortages and a moderate housing crisis,” Geraghty said when the board adopted it. “Strategic planning is essential to ensure sustainable growth and economic resilience.”
BETTING ON WINTER TOURISM
Warren County’s economy runs on Lake George tourism, and Geraghty’s board has pushed hard to extend that season into winter. The county committed \$3 million in occupancy tax revenue to the Lake George Winter Coalition’s “Winter Dreams” event at Fort William Henry, an effort to make the region a year round destination rather than a summer only one.
That push comes as the county’s traditional visitor base has shifted. County officials say Canadian tourism to Lake George, once a much larger share of visitors, has dropped to roughly 2 to 3 percent of the total in recent years, down from a much higher share two decades ago, pushing the county to market harder to domestic travelers.
FISCAL STEWARDSHIP
Geraghty has presided over a county budget that grew from roughly \$192 million in 2024 to about \$215 million by 2026, driven in part by the same aging-population and housing pressures identified in Warren County 2040. As a former county budget officer himself, he has generally emphasized holding the line on the tax levy even as the county absorbs new costs from tourism infrastructure and, more recently, fraud recovery efforts.
A \$3.3 MILLION FRAUD
Geraghty’s latest term as chairman opened in crisis. In December 2025, the county treasurer’s office was tricked by a phishing scheme into wiring \$3.3 million to a fraudulent account, after someone posing as a real paving vendor requested a change to its payment information. Warren County Sheriff Jim LaFarr, who investigated alongside state and federal agencies, called it “a very basic act of fraud that was easily preventable.” Roughly \$1.5 million has since been recovered.
Geraghty pushed for accountability. “It’s a huge deal. Any amount of money, \$50, is a big deal to Warren County,” he said. “And that’s why we need to get to the bottom of it to make sure it never happens again.” A subsequent forensic audit examined both the fraud and the county’s broader accounting practices, and found the failure went beyond any single office.
By mid-2026, the county had clawed back roughly \$1.5 million of the stolen funds, including an additional \$256,000 recovered in one week alone, with the Secret Service and other agencies continuing to pursue the remainder.
CONTROVERSY OVER COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Geraghty’s chairmanship has not been free of friction. In January 2022, Johnsburg Supervisor Andrea Hogan resigned as chair of the county’s American Rescue Plan Act committee, accusing Geraghty of being consistently disrespectful toward her in meetings he chaired. “He has been so discourteous and demeaning, most particularly in committee meetings he chaired in 2021, that, unsolicited, my family and members of the public who witnessed this, remarked on it,” she wrote. Hogan and other female supervisors also argued the committee assignments themselves sidelined women from the board’s real decision making.
Geraghty has disputed the characterization, saying he never intentionally treated any board member unfairly and that appointments are the chairman’s prerogative. The tension has resurfaced periodically since, including at the board’s January 2026 reorganizational meeting, when Hogan again raised concerns about personal attacks even as the board reelected Geraghty chairman for a fifth straight term.
REGIONAL ADVOCACY
Geraghty also represents Warren County on the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board, a body that pushes back on state land use rules within the Blue Line on behalf of local governments, reflecting a broader tension in Adirondack counties between conservation rules and local development goals.
LOOKING AHEAD
WARREN COUNTY FRAUD: DOLLARS LOST, RECOVERED, OUTSTANDING
Geraghty has not signaled any plan to step down from either the Warrensburg supervisor’s seat or the county chairmanship. Recovery from the fraud, the county’s winter tourism push, and the rollout of Warren County 2040 all continue under his watch.
The committee-assignment dispute with Hogan remains unresolved and could resurface at the board’s next reorganizational meeting in January 2027, alongside the county’s ongoing recovery efforts and its winter-tourism push.
Warren County shares its state senator, Dan Stec, with neighboring Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties. For ongoing coverage of Warren County government, check PagPol’s Warren County page or subscribe to our newsletter.
