What Village of Webster voters are deciding Tuesday, June 16

The Village of Webster holds a special election on Tuesday, June 16. Polls are open from noon to 9 p.m. at a single location: the Community Meeting Room in Village Hall, 29 South Avenue. Voters will decide a contested seat on the Village Board of Trustees and a ballot proposition that would shift two portions of a vacant industrial parcel out of the Village and into the Town of Webster.

One point matters before anything else: only people registered to vote at an address inside the Village of Webster may cast a ballot in this election. The Town of Webster is much larger than the Village, and most residents with a "Webster, NY" mailing address live in the Town, outside the Village line. If you live in the Town but not the incorporated Village, you are not eligible to vote on Tuesday. This is the single most common source of confusion in a Village election, so it is worth checking your registration before you go.

Here is what is on the ballot and how to vote.

Who can vote, and where

• Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
• Hours: Noon to 9 p.m.
• Location: Community Meeting Room, Village Hall, 29 South Avenue, Webster, NY 14580
• Eligibility: Registered voters who live inside the incorporated boundaries of the Village of Webster only

The Monroe County Board of Elections administers the vote. Its office is at 435 Smith Street in Rochester, and its general line is (585) 753-1550. The Village information line is (585) 265-3770.

If you are unsure whether your home falls inside the Village boundary, the Board of Elections can confirm your registration and polling eligibility.

The contested trustee seat

The ballot includes a contested race for a seat on the Village Board of Trustees. The term is one year, and voters are instructed to vote for one.

Two candidates are on the ballot:

• Michael J. Morency, listed on the Republican and Conservative lines, of 118 Judson Street, Webster.
• Brian McGraw, listed on the Webster Neighbors line, of 71 Corning Park, Webster.

A write-in option is also available.

Both candidates' names and ballot lines are drawn from the Monroe County Board of Elections sample ballot and the Board's certified candidate list for the June 16 election.

The boundary proposition

The second item is a proposition asking whether the Village's boundaries should be reduced by removing certain territory and placing it in the Town of Webster. Voters choose Yes or No. The ballot opens:

Shall the boundaries of the Village of Webster be diminished by exclusion of the following territory...

The full text then describes the territory in detail by its boundary lines.

What the proposition covers is narrower than it may sound. The territory is two portions of a single industrial parcel, identified by Tax ID number 065.19-1-1.1, which Xerox Corporation owns. Several other Tax ID numbers appear in the ballot language (parcels 080.02-1-54, -55, and -62), but those are neighboring parcels already located in the Town. They are named only to describe the boundary lines, and they are not being moved.

The Village describes the larger of the two portions as roughly 32 acres off Phillips Road, Mitcheldean Drive and Resende Road, and the smaller as about 1.3 acres along Ridge Road near Route 104. Both are zoned for general industrial use.

Xerox filed the petition that put the question on the ballot. In the petition, the company ties the request to the Reimagine Webster Brownfield Opportunity Area Plan, a redevelopment framework that the Town and Village jointly asked New York's Department of State to designate in April 2025 and that the state certified in June 2025. A Brownfield Opportunity Area is a New York State program for redeveloping vacant, abandoned or underused (often formerly contaminated) industrial land, and this parcel is part of the former Xerox industrial campus. The petition states that the boundary change "is a key step to implementing the vision established in the BOA Plan" and that Xerox "is supportive of the BOA Plan and its objectives and wishes to assist the village and town in reaching such objectives." Xerox is also the petitioner, and its sworn filing states the company owns 100 percent of the assessed value of the territory and that no residents live there. The petition was filed under Village Law section 18-1804, which allows a village boundary to be reduced by petition and referendum.

What changes if it passes

The central effect is jurisdictional. If the proposition passes, the territory leaves the Village and sits entirely within the Town of Webster, which would become the sole authority for zoning, land use and permitting there. The Village's special-election materials describe the purpose as consolidating that authority in the Town so that future redevelopment moves through Town approvals alone rather than requiring both Town and Village sign-off. In mechanical terms, the change removes the Village as a second approval body for that land, leaving the Town as the only municipal sign-off on future land-use decisions there. A No vote keeps the territory inside the Village, so it would remain subject to both Town and Village approval for future land-use decisions.

The tax effect is small. According to the sworn assessment table in Xerox's petition, the territory has an assessed value of about $909,800 and paid $1,928.77 in Village taxes in 2025. That figure, roughly $1,929 a year, is the Village's annual revenue from the territory and what it would forgo if the measure passes. The parcel would remain on the Town, county and school tax rolls; it is only leaving the Village. The petition also swears that the number of residents in the territory is zero and that Xerox owns 100 percent of its assessed value.

No organized opposition to the proposition surfaced in the public record reviewed for this article, including Village materials, Board of Elections filings, the petition itself and local news coverage. The petition states that a majority of the Town Board has already consented in writing to the change, an item referenced as an exhibit to the filing.

The bigger picture

The proposition is one procedural step inside a larger effort to reuse vacant industrial land in Webster's north end. As Xerox has consolidated its operations, it has left significant empty industrial space, and the Town and Village have pursued the state Brownfield Opportunity Area process to make redevelopment of those properties possible. Moving this slice of the former Xerox footprint fully under Town control is intended to put a redevelopment-targeted site on a single approval track.

For voters on Tuesday, the practical questions are simpler: whether to approve the boundary change, who should fill the one-year trustee seat, and, first of all, whether you live inside the Village and are eligible to weigh in.

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