Citizens Nominating Party Announces Candidates for Mayor and Village Trustee

The Citizen’s Nominating Committee of Scarsdale has announced their selections for Mayor and Village Trustee: Dr. Miriam Flisser, who has served two terms as a Village Trustee from 2007 - 2011 has been nominated to succeed Carolyn Stevens as Mayor of Scarsdale. A pediatrician in Bronxville, Flisser is the mother of three graduates of Scarsdale High School and also has three grandchildren. Her husband Harvey Flisser has taught science at the Scarsdale Middle School for 24 years.

Flisser is a life long volunteer and been the chair of many of the Village Advisory Councils. As a trustee, she served as the liaison to the Advisory Council on Parks and Recreation, Technology, Youth, the Board of Architectural Review, the Committee on Historic Preservation, the Council on People with Disabilities and the Cable Television Commission. Dr. Flisser has lived in Fox Meadow for 35 years and in addition to her professional career and her volunteer work in town, she has served in leadership positions on governing boards at Montefiore and Lawrence Hospitals.

This year, there were three vacancies on the Board as both Trustees David Irwin and Miriam Flisser completed their two terms and Trustee Robert Steves had completed one two-year term. Steves was nominated by the committee to serve a second term on the Board. Steves is currently the Assistant Treasurer of Fordham University and from 2000-2004 he was the Treasurer of CUNY. He has been a very active member of the Scarsdale Community and served on the School Board and as School Board President. Steves and his wife Kathy have lived in Greenacres for 24 years.

For the two open positions, the Citizens Nominating Committee selected Stacey Brodsky and Robert Harrison.

Brodsky is a graduate of Vassar College and Hofstra School of Law where she graduated first in her class. She is also a certified teacher. She began her law career at Schulte Roth and Zabel and then worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She later was a partner at Lankler, Siffer and Wohl in New York.

In Scarsdale she has volunteered as a member of the Board of Architectural Review, the School Board Nominating Committee, as the President of the Heathcote PTA, on the Board of the Scarsdale Library, as Vice Chair of the Scarsdale Task Force on Drugs and Alcohol, on the Board of the League of Women Voters Scarsdale and as a member of the Scarsdale Bowl Committee.

She is the mother of two daughters, Isabel and Nell, both graduates of Scarsdale High School and is married to David M. Brodsky.

Commenting on her nomination Brodsky said, “I'm very excited to have been nominated to serve as a village trustee. I hope to combine my professional experience as a lawyer with my years as a Scarsdale resident to help to decide the issues that the village faces over the next several years. I have always liked working as part of a team and I am looking forward to being part of a team that is committed to our community."

Bob Harrison has a long history of involvement in civic affairs. He currently serves on the Scarsdale Village Board Advisory Council on Technology and is a member of the Scarsdale Forum Board of Directors. He is passionate about tennis and is the founder and director of the Scarsdale Summer Youth Tennis League.

He has lived in Scarsdale for 31 years and currently has children and grandchildren living in town. In his professional life he worked at Goldman Sachs for 28 years and is now the President of Harrison Capital Management.

Bob is well known to many as he frequently attends both Village Board and School Board meetings and is vocal about his views. Most recently he challenged the School Board Nominating Committee Candidate Suzanne Seiden for her seat on the School Board in an election in May, 2010. Though he did not win, he did receive 941 votes which was remarkable for an independent candidate. In 1999 Harrison launched the Scarsdale Voter’s Party to challenge the CNC candidate and Joseph A. Zock, the Scarsdale Voter’s Party Candidate was elected.

If Harrison is elected on March 15th, for the first time he will find himself in an official chair at the Board of Trustees meeting, rather than at the microphone in the audience. Though it is surprising that Harrison has received the nomination after so many years as the Village watchdog, perhaps the nominating committee recognized the need for a fiscal expert as the Village faces decreased revenues and a tax cap from New York State.