NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- Voters in Newburgh have a choice in who will lead their city for the next year, between incumbent mayor and Newburgh Free Academy teacher Torrance Harvey, and former city councilwoman and psychotherapist Gay Lee.

Harvey says that jobs are priority, and to bring jobs the city must continue rebuilding. 

"To bring meaningful employment back to the city, and the way that you bring meaningful employment is to fix the infrastructure, and to make sure crime is down to make sure businesses will be attracted," said Harvey. 

Lee wants more financial investment in the city.  

"I think it's important to bring the city of Newburgh  to a place where it's self sufficient," said Lee. "So that the burden is not so heavy on the taxpayers, and when we do that we'll be offering some relief to families. Generating revenue will bring jobs."

Lee says she will build more collaboration with city planning, the mayor's office and the community. 

"Work with them to make sure they're planning for the development of the city," said Lee. "And, the areas that we're looking at to develop, we're looking at the proper development."

Harvey says the key to economic development and jobs is making Newburgh more attractive. 

"We've already started with infrastructural work, roads curbs, sidewalks, bridges," said Harvey. "We've also gotten crime down."

Related to development is the debate about housing, market rate versus low-income, or both. 

"Market rate housing is not a reality for us today," said Harvey. "So what we have to do in the interim to bring the market back is have mixed rate housing." 

Lee says places like the waterfront should be developed for business, to get the highest income for the city. 

"We have enough property in this city that's abandoned, that's a brown field, that we can develop housing," Lee said.

Both candidates want to see more opportunities for skills building and education at all ages. Lee wants  more community opportunities for youth.

"We take care of our future, we take care of this city, we take care of the state," said Lee. "We take care of everything when we take care of our children." 

Harvey wants to get them ready to meet the technology workforce demand by creating a tech hub. 

"We want our young people in this community to be ahead of the curve, not behind the curve with technology," said Harvey "And we gotta move fast."