Wade Beltramo is General Counsel for the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials (NYCOM), a voluntary membership association which represents villages and cities in the State of New York. As NYCOM General Counsel, he oversees the NYCOM legal department and amicus program. He is also responsible for handling general municipal legal matters as well as building code, planning and zoning, cannabis, property maintenance, justice court, parking and traffic regulations, community and economic development, housing, and local government consolidation and dissolution issues. He has been with NYCOM since April 2002. Mr. Beltramo joined NYCOM after serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department. Prior to working for New York City’s Corporation Counsel, he was an analyst in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations. Mr. Beltramo graduated from Grinnell College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School.