Degnan’s final sources of income are listed as DxC Inc. his own glass contracting firm, and W&W Glass Inc., a large glass contractor located in Orange County. In some published accounts, Degnan has stated he is a Project Manager for this company.

In his sister’s “Master Plan” for Brewster, which Degnan sheparded as co-chair of Team Brewster and adopted as a Village Trustee, there was a recommendation for a 24-foot-long by 8-foot-wide and 13-foot high shelter for illegal alien day laborers built out of plexiglass. The choice of materials was likely no coincidence just as it was no coincidence (although it certainly received little note) that the plan included a recommendation to replace the Southeast Veteran’s Honor Roll with a newer structure.

Degnan did not have to rely on his sister for a conceptual design for the new monument, and took pride in submitting designs himself. He did, however, enlist the aide of the Village Engineer, a fellow contractor, who had collaborated with Degnan’s sister on “The Master Plan” and had also been employed by her as an "instructor" at Columbia University.

When the plan for the new monument was submitted to the VFW, it called for private donations only. But when the VFW took it back before the Village Board, the board decided to contribute a taxpayer funded grant to defray the cost. Although Degnan made a show of recusing himself from voting, like so many stories, the good stuff is at the end. And at the very end of the monument proposal one finds the list of the subcontractors for Degnan’s design: the Village Engineer’s own private construction firm, responsible for the bulk of clearing the site and erecting the monument, and Degnan’s own DxC Inc. for the glass, and donated engraving of the names of our honored veterans on the monument.

The initial cost of the proposal (and the amount requested by the VFW) was $12,000. When all done, the project raised $50,000 for “overruns” and a perpetual fund to continue to engrave names on the monument. Much of this funding and yearly stipend came from taxpayer dollars.