Editing Queensbury, New York (section)

==Government==
Queensbury is a town of the first class, and as such has a town board with a [[town supervisor]] and four [[Councillor#United States|councilmen]].<ref name="townboard">{{cite web|url=http://www.queensbury.net/Supervisor/government.htm|title=Town Government|publisher=Town of Queensbury|access-date=March 12, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324063818/http://www.queensbury.net/Supervisor/government.htm|archive-date=March 24, 2009}}</ref> Town residents petitioned to establish a [[Ward (United States)|ward]] system in 1981<ref name="townboard198110013">{{cite web|url=http://64.22.42.69/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=857|title=Special Town Board Meeting - October 1, 1981|page=3|access-date=February 13, 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and again in 1985<ref name="townboard198503265">{{cite web|url=http://64.22.42.69/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=656|title=Town Board Meeting - March 26, 1985|page=5|publisher=Town of Queensbury|access-date=February 13, 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> whereby the town would be divided into four wards. In a ward system, whereas the supervisor is elected by the entire town electorate, each councilman is elected by only the electorate of the ward he or she will be representing.<ref name="townboard"/> Having been approved by the voters by referendum in 1985, the first town board to be elected under the ward system convened in 1986.<ref name="townboard1986010310">{{cite web|url=http://64.22.42.69/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=591|title=Organizational Meeting - January 3, 1986|page=10|publisher=Town of Queensbury|access-date=February 13, 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Queensbury is one of only ten  of New York's 932 towns that had a ward system as of 2000.<ref name="electiveprocesses75">{{cite web|url=https://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/Local_Government_Handbook.pdf#page=71|title=Local Government Handbook|edition=6th|year=2009|pages=Handbook 63/PDF 71|format=PDF|publisher=New York State Department of State|access-date=February 13, 2010|archive-date=May 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527080423/https://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/Local_Government_Handbook.pdf#page=71|url-status=dead}} (section "Town-wide Organization and Services", heading "Elective Processes")</ref> The town has an ethics board, planning board, and zoning board of appeals.<ref name="boardlist">{{cite web|url=http://www.queensbury.net/Boards.htm|title=Boards and Committees - Town of Queensbury|publisher=Town of Queensbury|access-date=December 5, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801154612/http://www.queensbury.net/Boards.htm|archive-date=August 1, 2009}}</ref>

As of 2025, the town government officials are:

* John Strough – Town Supervisor
* Anthony Metivier – Deputy Supervisor; Councilman, Ward 1
* Scott Gushlaw – Councilman, Ward 2
* Michael Dixon – Councilman, Ward 3
* Timothy McNulty – Councilman, Ward 4

In county government, Queensbury is entitled to five of the 20 seats on the Warren County [[Board of supervisors|Board of Supervisors]]. (Glens Falls also has five seats, whereas the remaining ten towns in the county have one seat each.) Four of Queensbury's seats are filled by town-wide election, whereas the fifth is reserved for the town supervisor.<ref name="bos">{{cite web|url=http://www.co.warren.ny.us/gov/bos.php|title=Board of Supervisors|publisher=Warren County|access-date=July 11, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719131157/http://www.co.warren.ny.us/gov/bos.php|archive-date=July 19, 2010}}</ref>