Mike Spano (born April 22, 1964) is an American politician who serves as the 42nd

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Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as en ...

. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A former

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, he served as a member of the New York State Assembly.

Biography

Born and raised in

, Spano is the ninth of sixteen children born to Josephine and Leonard Spano (1930–2019). Spano was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1992 as the assembly's youngest member. Due to the state's reapportionment plan, his seat was eliminated later that same year. However, he ran again in 1994 and continued to serve in the New York State Assembly for nearly a decade until he chose not to run for re-election. Within the

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, Spano worked for a New York governmental relations firm and served on the Board of Directors for

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. After his children became school-aged, he decided to return to public service and ran successfully once again for the State Assembly where he represented the people of Yonkers in the 93rd Assembly District. On November 8, 2011, Spano was elected as mayor of the City of

. During his tenure, Spano has passed two consecutive bipartisan budgets that included historic investment in education and kept taxes within the New York State property tax cap. He was reelected to a second term as mayor in 2015. In 2019, Spano was reelected to a third term as mayor following a revision in the city charter which overturned term limits by the Yonkers City Council. Spano had previously said he would not seek a third term, stating, “even if they did overturn term limits, as much as I love being mayor, I wouldn’t seek a third term.” Spano is also a member of numerous community organizations such as th
Yonkers Chamber of Commerce
Access Westchester, Exchange Club of Yonkers, Sons of Italy, and an Honorary Member (non-veteran) of the Armando Rauso AMVETS Post. He is also a former member of the board of directors of Westchester School for Special Children and donor to the Luis Pani foundation. Spano appeared on the TV show '' Impractical Jokers'' during Murr's punishment that took place at Yonkers City Hall in the episode "Speech Impediment". A lifelong Yonkers resident, Spano is married to

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and has three children.

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* * http://www.yonkersny.gov/ *https://www.facebook.com/MayorMikeSpano/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Spano, Mike Living people Members of the New York State Assembly Mayors of Yonkers, New York New York (state) Republicans New York (state) Democrats Politicians from Westchester County, New York 1964 births 21st-century American politicians