The mayoral positions in three of the five villages in the Roslyn community will be up for election this March, with several trustee and village justice seats rounding out the ballots.
Roslyn Mayor John Durkin, Roslyn Estates Mayor Jeff Schwartzberg and East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz have all reached the conclusion of their latest terms in office.
Only in Flower Hill, where Mayor Elaine Phillips was re-elected to a second term last year, is the mayoral position not up for election.
The five Roslyn mayors, in addition to Old Westbury Mayor Fred Carillo and several other local elected officials, met in December to discuss potential consolidation efforts on supply contracts and determine eligibility in the state’s new property tax rebate program, under which municipalities would have to stay under the 2 percent cap and achieve cost savings of 1 percent each year for three years.
Roslyn-area village elections will take place on Wednesday, March 18. They are typically held the third Tuesday in March, but were moved to the 18th, a Wednesday, to accommodate the observance of St. Patrick’s Day, a federal holiday.
Old Westbury holds its village elections in June.
The filing deadline for petitions of candidates who wish to be placed on the ballot is Feb. 10.
Terms in each village except for East Hills are for two years. In East Hills, terms are for four years each.
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.
The trustee positions currently held by Marta Genovese and Sarah Oral, a former member of the village’s planning board who was elected in 2013, will also be on Roslyn’s ballot.
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 trustee seats occupied by Deputy Mayor Jeff Lindenbaum and Eyal Isaac, who replaced former Trustee Stacy Carus in 2013, are also up for election.
In addition to Koblenz, the East Hills mayor since 1994 and a village trustee for six years before that, the trustee positions of Gary Leventhal and Brian Meyerson and the village justice seat occupied by Gino Papa are also up for election.
While Leventhal has been a trustee since 1994, 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.
East Hills resident Scott Fishkind, who in November was elected to a trustee position on the Roslyn Rescue Fire Company, has said he will seek a trustee position.
Leventhal, Roslyn Rescue’s vice president, will not seek another term.
East Hills officials said Stacey Siegel, chair of the village’s Kids in the Park committee, will seek one of the trustee positions in his Leventhal’s place.
East Hills is the only Roslyn village to compensate its elected officials.
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.
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 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.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story inaccurately stated the positions of Roslyn Harbor Mayor David Mandell and Trustee Sandy Quentzel were up for election this year. The village has no positions up for election this year, according to Village Clerk Valerie Onorato. Mandell’s position, she said in an e-mail, is up for election in 2016, while Quentzell will not face election until 2018. Terms are for four years.
