There are no contested village races in the Roslyn community this year, but several new faces will be looking to maintain appointed trustee positions or earn a seat at the board table when voters go to the polls on March 18.
In addition, three village mayors are seeking uncontested re-election, a few trustees are stepping down from their board roles and an acting village justice will look to drop “acting” from his title in succeeding a recently deceased contemporary.
In East Hills, incumbent Trustee Brian Meyerson and trustee candidate Stacey Siegel will seek four-year terms on the Unity Party line to fill two trustee positions.
Meyerson was appointed to the board in early 2014 to fill the remainder of the term vacated by Peter Zuckerman, who joined the North Hempstead town board.
The village then tapped Siegel to run for the other trustee position, currently held by longtime Trustee Gary Leventhal, who is stepping down after serving 20 years on the board.
Joining Meyerson and Siegel on the Unity line are East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz and acting Village Justice Mitchell Studley, who is seeking the village justice position.
Former East Hills Village Justice Gino Papa, who was not seeking a third term to the position, died in late February at age 84.
East Hills village board positions are for four years, and its members are paid an annual salary. Koblenz as mayor was set to make in the 2014-15 fiscal year, while trustees were slated to earn $21,524.
The vote will take place at East Hills Village Hall, located at 209 Harbor Hill Road.
In Roslyn Estates, Rodney Khazzam has joined Mayor Jeff Schwartzberg and Deputy Mayor Jeff Lindenbaum on the Team Vision RE Party line to run for the seat currently held by Eyal Isaac, who has decided not to seek re-election.
Terms of Roslyn Estates mayoral and trustee positions are for two years.
Isaac replaced former Trustee Stacy Carus in 2013.
Schwartzberg was elected mayor of Roslyn Estates in 2011 after defeating 12-year incumbent Susan Ben-Moshe. He was re-elected in an uncontested election in 2013.
The vote will take place at Roslyn Estates Village Hall, located at 25 The Tulips, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
In Flower Hill, the trustee positions of Brian Herrington and Jay Beber, who each joined the board in the last six months, will be up for election, as well as that of Deputy Mayor Bob McNamara, who is coming off his first term.
Herrington, Beber and McNamara are running on the Flower Hill Party line for two-year terms.
Herrington was appointed to the board in November to serve the remainder of the term vacated by former Deputy Mayor Tab Hauser, who resigned from the village board in June after moving to Glen Cove. Beber joined the board in December to fill the trustee position vacated by former Trustee Eileen Mills, who resigned in November due to family issues.
Mills and McNamara were each elected in 2013. McNamara was previously the chairman of the village’s finance committee. He was appointed deputy mayor in December.
The vote will take place at Flower Hill Village Hall, located at 1 Bonnie Heights Road, from noon to 9 p.m.
There are no positions up for election in the Village of Roslyn Harbor. Its next election would take place in 2016, when the term of Mayor David Mandell reaches its completion.
In the Village of Roslyn, Mayor John Durkin and Trustees Marta Genovese and Sarah Oral are running unopposed on the Community Party line.
Durkin, who with his wife Diane has owned Diane’s Desserts since 1982 and Diane’s Trattoria since 1996, has served seven terms as the Village of Roslyn’s mayor.
Oral was first elected in 2013 after serving on the village’s planning board.
Village of Roslyn mayoral and trustee terms are for two years.
The vote will take place at the Village of Roslyn’s Village Hall, located at 1200 Old Northern Blvd.
