[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 26, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        HONORING POLICE CHIEF ROBERT LUCCHESI ON HIS RETIREMENT

  (Mr. RYAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor a pillar of our New Paltz 
community, Police Chief Robert Lucchesi, as he retires after over three 
decades serving our community on the force.
  Chief Lucchesi is everything a community could want in a leader: He 
brought a zeal for service to every moment spent in uniform, a devotion 
to neighbors and strangers alike, and the profound ability to 
constantly reflect on how his team could better protect, serve, uplift, 
and empower our community.
  He set the standard and built a culture based on trust not only in 
his department, but throughout our entire region by serving on the 
Police Chiefs Association of Ulster County and Mid-Hudson Chiefs of 
Police Association.
  Chief Lucchesi has more than earned a relaxing retirement, but that 
is not who he is. Fully grounded in a life of service, he is already 
back in public service sitting on the New Paltz Zoning Board of 
Appeals, serving as a volunteer firefighter, and in his spare time, 
somehow, coaching youth sports in New Paltz and our community.
  Mr. Speaker, it has been an honor to serve and work with Chief 
Lucchesi. On behalf of our entire community, I thank him for his 
decades of service past, present, and future.

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