 The Charter form of Government went in to effect in 1968 given the favorable outcome of a 1967 special election dedicated to the question.Since 1713, the County Government had been managed by a Board of Supervisors, made up of the locally elected leaders.The Cities of Beacon and Poughkeepsie; Towns of Fishkill, Hyde Park, Pine Plains, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Red Hook, and East Fishkill and Villages of Millerton, Wappingers Falls, Millbrook, and Fishkill have their own Police departments.