Just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, Village of Flower Hill administrator Ronnie Shatzkamer burst into the conference room at Village Hall, where trustees were concluding a budget work session.
“Two more years, two more years,” Shatzkamer announced, inciting a few chuckles from the officials seated at the table.
Shatzkamer went on to say that Village of Flowe Hill Mayor Elaine Phillips and trustees Karen Reichenbach, Randall Rosenbaum and Gary Lewandowski had each been re-elected to their positions in unopposed races and without a single write-in vote contesting them.
Phillips, who was elected mayor in 2012 after serving one term as a trustee, received 60 votes.
“It’s good to be back,” said Phillips, who congratulated Reichenbach and Rosenbaum on their re-election and welcomed Lewandowski to the board for his first two-year term.
Reichenbach received 59 votes in her bid for re-election, while Rosenbaum and Lewandowski each received 52 votes.
Reichenbach, of Port Washington, and Rosenbaum, of Roslyn, were each elected to the board in 2012. Lewandowski, of Manhasset, joined the board in January to finish the term of former Trustee Scott Siller, who in November was elected as a District Court judge.
The Village of Flower Hill encompasses areas of Roslyn, Manhasset and Port Washington.
Flower Hill was one of four villages in the Roslyn area to hold village elections on Tuesday, though not a single race was contested.
In Roslyn Estates, incumbent Trustees Sandy Joel Siff and Brian Feingold were each re-elected to their positions.
Siff received 20 votes, while Feingold received 18 votes. There were no write-in votes. There are 889 registered voters in the village.
Siff, a 42-year resident, has served for five two-year terms. Feingold, a physican with a private practice in Manhasset, has served four terms.
In the Village of Roslyn, longtime trustees Marhsall Bernstein and Craig Westergard were each re-elected to two-year terms.
Bernstein received 32 votes, while Westergard received 34. There were no write-in votes. The village has 1,875 registered voters.
Bernstein, Roslyn’s deputy mayor, has served as a trustee since 1995. Westergard, who serves as president of the Roslyn Landmark Society, was elected in 2000.
In addition, personal injury lawyer Andrew Weitz was elected the village’s new justice, receiving 34 votes.
He takes over the position from the departed Milton Grunwald, who did not file a petition by the Feb. 11 deadline.
Roslyn Harbor trustees James Friscia and Sandy Quentzel and Village Justice Charles E. Parisi are each seeking re-election on the Roslyn Harbor Party line.
Friscia, Quentzel and Parisi each received 34 votes. Officials said there are 900 registered voters in the village.
Quentzel last year was elected to serve the remainder of the term vacated by former Trustee Cheryl Mora, who resigned from the board in 2012. She received 28 votes last year.
The Village of East Hills did not have a trustee position up for election this year, though the board did replace former Trustee Peter Zuckerman, who in February was appointed to the fill North Hempstead 2nd town council position that had been vacant since former Councilman Thomas Dwyer’s resignation in November.
In Zuckerman’s place, the board appointed Brian Meyerson, who previously served as the village’s prosecutor.
Meyerson, who was sworn in during the board’s Feb. 26 meeting, will serve until next March, when the position for a full two-year term will be up for election.
The 2nd town council district he represented includes Albertson, East Williston, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Heights, East Hills, north New Hyde Park, Greenvale, Searingtown and Manhasset Hills.
