Though there are three Roslyn-area village mayors up for election in March, each seat will be uncontested at the polls.
Roslyn village Mayor John Durkin, Roslyn Estates Mayor Jeff Schwartzberg and East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz have each filed petitions for another term in office, according to village officials, but they will not be opposed on the ballot when voters go to the polls on March 18.
In fact, there will be no trustee positions formally contested in the election either, though a few new faces are running to join boards in Roslyn Estates, Flower Hill and East Hills.
In Roslyn Estates, Rodney Khazzam has joined 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.
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.
In East Hills, newcomer Stacey Siegel will seek one of two trustee positions on the ballot and Mitchell Stuckey will run for the village justice position.
They join Koblenz and Trustee Brian Meyerson on the Unity Party line, replacing incumbent Trustee Gary Leventhal and Justice Gino Papa, who have decided not to seek re-election.
Leventhal, the vice president of the Roslyn Rescue Fire Company, had been a trustee since 1994, while Meyerson was appointed to the board last year to fill the remainder of the term vacated by former Trustee Peter Zuckerman, who was appointed and later elected to the North Hempstead town council.
Siegel is the chair of the village’s Kids in the Park committee.
Roslyn Rescue trustee Scott Fishkind has expressed interest in seeking a trustee position but did not file a petition, according to East Hills Village Clerk Donna Gooch.
As mayor, Koblenz was set to make $60,000 during the 2014-15 fiscal year. Trustees in East Hills were set to make $21,524, though Deputy Mayor Manny Zuckerman was to receive $27,036. Papa as village justice was set to be compensated $10,500.
Terms for East Hills mayoral, trustee and justice positions are four years.
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, 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.
