Candidates Needed for Scarsdale Citizens Nominating Committee

The Scarsdale Procedure Committee invites eligible Scarsdale residents to run for election to the Scarsdale Citizens Nominating Committee (CNC) on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. The CNC is a non-partisan group of residents that each year nominates candidates for Village office (i.e., Mayor, Trustees, and Village Justice) where an incumbent office holder's term will end the following year.  The CNC is one of two venues for citizens to participate in the non-partisan electoral process in Scarsdale (the other being the School Board Nominating Committee election).

There are 30 voting members of the CNC. Ten CNC members retire and are replaced each year. So there will be 10 new voting members elected in November.

CNC members are expected to attend four or five meetings, to serve for three years and to serve on the Procedure Committee for one year after their retirement from the CNC. The meeting dates for 2013-2014 will be Sunday, Dec. 8; Sunday, Jan. 12; Sunday, Jan. 19, Wednesday, Jan. 22 and, if necessary, Sunday, Jan. 26.

Eligible CNC candidates have to be registered voters and to have lived in Scarsdale for at least two years. In addition, CNC candidates cannot be currently on the School Board Nominating or Administrative committees, the Scarsdale Board of Education, the Scarsdale Village Board of Trustees or the Procedure Committee.

Candidates run for one of two CNC positions in their respective elementary school districts. A minimum of two candidates are needed per position, four candidates for each of the five elementary school neighborhoods and a minimum total of 20 candidates to run for the ten CNC positions to be filled this year.

To run, candidates must file a nominating petition with 10 signatures of registered voters from their elementary school area, as well as a short biographical sketch. Forms for both are available as downloads from the Procedure Committee website: http://scarsdaleprocedurecommittee.org/forms.php. They may also be obtained at the Scarsdale Library, Village Hall, and from the Procedure Committee's chair (Eli Mattioli, elimattioli@gmail.com, 472-6558) and vice-chair (Howard Nadel, hlndln@aol.com, 722-6608).

The deadline for filing both forms is Sept. 30; after this date, candidates for any school area will only be accepted if there are fewer than two candidates for that district. The nominating petitions must be filed as hard copy with original signatures, while the biographical sketches must be filed as MS Word or text files, preferably as email attachments.