Joseph Burns is a Deputy Administrative Director at Erie County Water Authority. He possess expertise in public policy, legislative research, political campaigns, legal research, election law and 21 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have met few people in my career in academia or in politics who have as much expertise and drive as Joe Burns. His strategic thinking and focus on both the short term and long term goals of any organization lucky enough to employ him has always benefitted from his counsel. As a colleague with me in a collegiate political organization, Joe had no peer, in my view, when it came to the interrelation of state, local, and national politics, and the relation of each to our organization.… Show more" and "Joe Burns is the very definition of a class act. He has the ability to be forward thinking, while always on aggressively attacking the task at hand. I'm pleased to call Joe a personal friend and look forward working with him on many more occasions."