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Senior Staff Biographies


Andrew A. SanFilippo, City Comptroller
Asanfilippo@city-buffalo.com

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In addition to serving as the City Comptroller, Andrew served as the Investment and Debt Management Officer, a position he has held since 1980. In that capacity, Andy is responsible for the day-to-day management of the city's cash expenditures and the investment of the idle funds for both the City and the Board of Education. Other duties include administration of the City's General Fund, Capital Projects and Debt Service Funds, the issuance of short and long-term notes and bonds, and cash flow forecasting. The investment of funds for the Buffalo Water Board and Authority, Buffalo Sewer Authority, and Solid Waste Fund all are administered through the debt manager's office. Andrew first joined the Comptroller's office in 1973 as an Assistant to Comptroller George D. O'Connell. He is a long-time member of the New York Government Finance Officers Association's Banking and Investment Committee, is active in numerous community groups, and has a bachelor's degree from Brockport State College. 


Jeanette Mongold, Deputy Comptroller
jmongold@city-buffalo.com

Anthony (Tony) A. Farina, Executive Assistant
Tfarina@city-buffalo.com

Before his appointment as Executive Assistant to the Comptroller, Tony served as communications director in Anthony Nanula's State Senate office. Prior to that, Tony was the chief speechwriter and a communications specialist for former New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco. Before joining government service, Tony worked for more than 30 years as a newspaper and television reporter in Buffalo, winning numerous honors. In 1991, he won a prestigious Radio and Television News Directors Association first-place award for investigative reporting while working at Channel 7, one of four national winners. He is a former assistant city editor at the old Buffalo Courier-Express. Tony was an English major at Niagara Community College and Niagara University and served four years as an U.S. Navy journalist.

Michelle Frazer, Special Assistant to the Comptroller
mfrazer@city-buffalo.com

Anne Forti-Sciarrino, City Accountant
Afs@city-buffalo.com

Prior to her appointment as City Accountant, Anne served as the principal accountant in the Division of Accounting, a position she held since 1992. In that capacity, she assisted the city accountant in management and daily operations of the Division of Accounting. She specializes in technical research of complex accounting issues and development of new or revised accounting procedures with emphasis on the computerization of accounting records. From 1988 to 1991, she previously served as City Accountant, responsible for the overall management of the division and 24 employees. The division's functions include general accounting and the posting of all ledgers, cash reporting and reconciliation of all bank accounts, accounts payable and receivable, and payroll tax reporting for the City of Buffalo. Anne has worked as an assistant corporation tax auditor for the state and earned a master's degree in business administration, focusing on accounting, from Canisius College.


Darryl McPherson, City Auditor
DMcPherson@city-buffalo.com

DARRYL McPHERSON is currently the City Auditor for the City of Buffalo’s Department of Audit and Control. As a deputy of the City’s elected Comptroller Andrew SanFilippo, Darryl heads the Division of Audit, which audits all City accounts and approves all checks issued by the City, including payroll. He made this move after serving for almost two and half years as Chief Counsel to the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, the control board created by the State to oversee the City of Buffalo’s finances in 2003.
 
McPherson graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1992. While at the Law School, he served on the Student Bar Association for two terms and became Features Editor for the School’s newspaper, the Opinion. He previously graduated from Canisius High School and the State University College of New York at Buffalo.
 
After a short stint in private practice, he was appointed by Mayor Anthony Masiello to work for the City of Buffalo’s Law Department as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in 1994. During the majority of his time there, he served as counsel to the Common Council, researching and drafting legislation and legal opinions and advising numerous departments, including the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication, the Office of Licenses and the Zoning Board of Appeals. He was appointed as staff attorney to the Charter Revision Commission, which drafted the new City Charter approved by the electors of the City in 1999. In addition to his advisory duties, he negotiated cable and other utility franchises, litigated Charter and other municipal issues, personal injury matters and prosecuted violations of City ordinances. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Corporation Counsel, the third ranking managing attorney in the department.
 
A member of the Erie County Bar Association since 1992, Darryl is a member of the Municipal and School Law Committee. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, the Minority Bar Association of Western New York and the New York State Government Finance Officers Association.
 
Darryl was named one of Business First’s Forty Under 40 in 2001. He is a member of Leadership Buffalo, having graduated from the Class of 2003.   He has served on the boards of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Society, Inc., the New Group at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and is currently Vice President of the City Centre Condominium Association Board of Managers.
 
A lifelong City resident, Darryl enjoys living in downtown Buffalo.

Richard Calipari, Investment & Debt Management Officer
rcalipari@city-buffalo.com

Richard was appointed as the city’s Investment and Debt Management Officer in 2004 and is responsible for the day-to-day cash management of city’s financial resources.

Prior to joining the city, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Community Action Organization of Erie County where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the goals, policies and procedures relating to financial management, including cash flow analysis, budget, accounts payable & receivable and the procurement of banking relations.

Previously, Richard had served for 20 years as the Cash Management Manager for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA). In that position, he was responsible for the supervision of all cash management staff, directing the NFTA’s investments and banking functions, and overseeing the preparation and analysis of various reports relating to those investments.

Today, as the Investment and Debt Management Officer for the City of Buffalo, Richard is responsible for the issuance of debt for the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo City Schools, the Buffalo Municipal Water Finance Authority and the Sewer Authority. He works cooperatively with credit rating agencies, financial advisors, bond counsels, investment bankers, and other related City Departments to solidify all of the financial resources that flow through City Hall on a daily basis.

Richard is a 1982 graduate of Niagara University and has been a certified government financial manager since 1996.  Mr. Calipari is also a member of the NYS Government Finance Officers’ Association and the Association of Government Accountants.