Two mayor seats, 11 trustee seats and one village justice seat in municipalities across the Manhasset area will be uncontested on Election Day, Tuesday, March 16.
With one exception in Flower Hill, incumbents are seeking re-election in every seat.
PLANDOME HEIGHTS
Trustees Daniel Cataldo, Gus Panopolus and Norman Taylor are up for two-year terms, and village Justice Cye E. Ross is up for election to a four-year term. All four incumbents are uncontested for their seats.
PLANDOME
Mayor Thomas Minutillo is up for re-election to a second two-year term, having won via a write-in campaign in 2019, as is Deputy Mayor John Richardson to a two-year term and Trustee John Kurkjian to a one-year term. All three incumbents are uncontested for their seats.
PLANDOME MANOR
Mayor Barbara Donno and Trustees Matthew Clinton and James Baydar are up for re-election to two-year terms. All three incumbents are running uncontested.
FLOWER HILL
Trustees Frank Genese, seeking a third term, and Mary Jo Collins, seeking a first full term after serving the rest of Mayor Brian Herrington’s term as a trustee, will run for election to two-year seats. Trustee Claire Dorfman, who was appointed last November after the late Mayor Robert McNamara was elected a trustee, is seeking a one-year term. All three, representing the Flower Hill Party, are running unopposed.
Notably absent from the ballot this year is Trustee Jay Beber. A resident of the village’s Roslyn area, he has served on the board since 2014 and chose to retire after serving three terms.
Financial professional Max Frankel has filed a petition to run for Beber’s seat under the Flower Hill Party. According to his bio on the Flower Hill Party’s website, Frankel grew up in the village’s Roslyn area and moved back in 2012.
Beber endorsed Frankel in a statement to Blank Slate Media. “I couldn’t be happier with the nomination of Max Frankel,” Beber said. “He will bring his energy and unique perspective to what is a very well run and organized village.”
Efforts to reach Frankel for comment were unavailing.
