Floral Park Trustees Archie Cheng and Kevin Fitzgerald were re-elected to two-year terms on the village board on Tuesday in an uncontested race.
Fitzgerald received 259 votes and Cheng received 257.
The voter turnout was high compared with some villages across the island with uncontested races.
In the Village of Thomaston, two uncontested trustees each received 19 and 30 votes.
In the Village of Roslyn Estates, two trustees each received four votes.
Fitzgerald and Cheng both ran as members of the Citizens Party.
Cheng was appointed as trustee in February 2016 after the death of Trustee James Rhatigan.
Fitzgerald was first appointed to the village board in 2011 and was made deputy mayor following Rhatigan’s death.
Fitzgerald first got involved in village government as a member of the Third Track Task Force, fighting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan for a third Long Island Rail Road track in the mid-2000s.
Cheng was tapped to lead the committee when the MTA revived the proposal.
Efforts to reach Cheng and Fitzgerald were unavailing.
Fitzgerald previously told Blank Slate Media he thinks the board functions well because of the diverse perspectives of the members.
Cheng is an attorney and Fitzgerald is an executive director at JPMorgan Chase.
“There’s a sense of teamwork and openness where if you have an opinion you can freely express it and can have meaningful … discussions regardless of what your opinion is,” Fitzgerald said.
Ultimately, Fitzgerald said, he loves his community and wants to continue to make it a great place to live.
