Call for Candidates for the Citizens Nominating Committee and the School Board Nominating Committee

The Procedure Committee invites eligible Scarsdale residents to run for election to the Citizens Nominating Committee (CNC), the caucus of the Scarsdale Citizens Non- Partisan Party that selects candidates for mayor, trustee and village justice. Once elected, the newest members of the CNC will join 20 sitting CNC members in four or five meetings to consider and choose candidates to run for any open positions in the March Village election. These candidates run under the banner of the Scarsdale Citizens Non- Partisan Party. This year's CNC will select candidates for the three open Trustee positions and Village Mayor.

CNC members are expected to attend all CNC meetings, to serve on the CNC for three years and to serve for one year on the Procedure Committee after their service on the CNC. The meeting dates for 2016-2017 are: organizational meeting on Sunday, December 4, Wednesday, December 14; Wednesday December 21 (optional), Wednesday, January 4; Wednesday, January 11; and, if necessary, Wednesday, January 18.

Eligibility is governed by the Non-Partisan Resolution which can be found at the Procedure Committee website: www.scarsdaleprocedurecommittee.org. A candidate for the CNC must be a qualified voter and a resident of Scarsdale for at least two years. A CNC candidate may not be a member of the Procedure Committee, the School Board Nominating Committee, the School Board Administrative Committee, the Scarsdale School Board or the Village Board.

Candidates run for the open CNC positions in their elementary school district: Edgewood, Greenacres, Fox Meadow, Heathcote and Quaker Ridge.

Candidates must file a short biographical sketch and a nominating petition with 10 signatures of residents from their elementary school district. Forms for both are available as downloads here. Hard copies may be obtained at Village Hall and the Scarsdale Library as well. Filing instructions can be found on the forms.

The deadline for filing both forms is September 30 (Fri); after this date, additional candidates for any school district will be accepted only if there are fewer than two candidates for each position in that school district. The CNC election will be held at Village Hall on November 16 (Wed).

Potential candidates are welcome to contact individual members of the Procedure Committee: Edgewood: Elissa Bookner, Charles Chestnut, Linda Killian, Eli Mattioli, Ed Morgan, and Matthew Martin. Fox Meadow: Max Grudin, Joan Mazur Kapner, Mary Louise Perlman and Bruce Wells. Greenacres: John Baer, Barry Klayman and Carrie Fishman. Heathcote: Laurent Mintzer, Daniel Finger, David Irwin, Amy Cooper. Quaker Ridge: Diane Chesler.

For more information please contact Procedure Committee Chair Max Grudin, via mgrudin@gmail.com.

School Board Nominating Committee

The School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) is an elected group of 30 members who identify, propose and nominate qualified candidates to run for the Scarsdale Board of Education. The 30 voting members represent each of the five elementary school neighborhoods. Each year, 10 new members are elected (two from each neighborhood) to serve a 3-year term on the SNBC.

The SNBC urges all qualified residents to help maintain our excellent Scarsdale schools and serve our community by volunteering to run for the SBNC. To become a candidate, residents should complete a biographical form and submit it with a candidate petition with signatures from 10 residents in their elementary school area by November 21, 2016 to SBNC Administrative Committee Co-Chair Alison Singer (alisonteppersinger@gmail.com) or Co-Chair Jeannine Palermo (Jeannine.palermo.22@gmail.com) These forms can be downloaded from www.scarsdaleSBNC.com. The forms are also available at the Scarsdale Library and Village Hall.

The election of SBNC members will be held on Tuesday January 10, 2017 in the Scarsdale Middle School auditorium lobby from 7:00am to 10:00 am and from 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm.