With the exception of one trustee race in Flower Hill, three incumbent mayors, 12 incumbent trustees and two incumbent village justices won re-election in municipalities across the Manhasset area on Tuesday.
MUNSEY PARK
Mayor Lawrence Ceriello won a second term against former Trustee Anthony Sabino, village Clerk Tara Gibbons told Blank Slate Media via email.
Sabino, an attorney and law professor, had been elected to a two-year term as a trustee in 2018 on the Residents for a Better Munsey Park ticket after serving on the village’s Building Advisory Committee, but lost a re-election bid in 2020 when his seat and that of outgoing Trustee Jennifer Noone were taken by Regina Im and Gregory LiCalzi.
Ceriello, an attorney and partner in the real estate group of the Manhattan-based firm Morrison and Foerster, is also a former trustee, having won one term in 2017 before succeeding Frank DeMento as the village’s mayor in an uncontested race 2019.
The incumbent mayor received 253 votes, while Sabino received 77.
Trustee Joseph Williams, who was elected to Ceriello’s vacant seat in 2019, won a second term with 280 votes, and Deputy Mayor Antonio D’Angelo won a third term with 279 votes. Both trustees were uncontested in their races.
Gibbons did not report any write-ins for either position.
PLANDOME HEIGHTS
Trustees Daniel Cataldo, Gus Panopolus and Norman Taylor each gained another for two-year term, and village Justice Cye E. Ross was elected to a four-year term.
Cataldo received 54 votes, Taylor received 53 votes, and Ross and Panopolus each received 58 votes. All four incumbents were uncontested for their seats.
PLANDOME
Mayor Thomas Minutillo won re-election to a second two-year term, having won via a write-in campaign in 2019. Deputy Mayor Don Richardson won a two-year term and Trustee John Kurkjian won a one-year term. Village Justice Jim Kiley was also re-elected.
Former Trustee Andrew Bartels received two write-in votes for mayor, and residents Ed Mitby and Tim Murphy received one apiece for the same position. For the trustee positions, the only write-in vote came in for Brian Record, with one.
Minutillo received 58 votes, Richardson received 59, Kurkjian received 60, and Kiley received 54.
PLANDOME MANOR
Mayor Barbara Donno and Trustees Matthew Clinton and James Baydar were re-elected to two-year terms.
Donno received 41 votes, Clinton received 40, and Baydar received 39. All three ran unopposed and no write-in votes were reported.
FLOWER HILL
Trustee Frank Genese won a third term, Trustee Mary Jo Collins won her first full two-year term after serving the rest of Mayor Brian Herrington’s term as a trustee, and Trustee Claire Dorfman, who was appointed last November after the late Mayor Robert McNamara was elected a trustee, won a one-year term.
Financial professional and Flower Hill native Max Frankel, running on the Flower Hill Party line with the three incumbents, won to succeed retiring Trustee Jay Beber. He is the village’s first second-generation trustee in recent memory, with his mother, Ann Frankel, having served in the role in the 1990s.
“I’m happy to join the board, and for my three other trustees,” Frankel said in a phone interview. “It was a big win for the Flower Hill Party, and we’ll be glad to keep working to making the village a better place.”
In addition to the four registered candidates, four additional write-ins were given. Jing Sun received two votes, and Brad Schwartz, Geovanny Fernandez and Donald Trump each received one vote apiece.
Dorfman received 125 votes, Frankel received 124, Collins received 121, and Genese received 120.
