Village Trustees Elected in Scarsdale

A celebration was held at the Scarsdale Women's Club on Tuesday night March 18 to recognize Deb Pekarek and Marc Samwick who were elected to serve their first two-year terms as Village Trustee and David Lee who was elected to serve a second term. The candidates, all nominated by the Scarsdale Citizen's Party, ran unopposed and voting was light with just 207 votes cast on Tuesday March 18, 2014.

The two new trustees will replace Kay Eisenman and Jon Mark, both who completed four years of service on the Board of Trustees. The counts were 197 for Pekarek, 192 for Lee and 185 for Samwick. There were several write-in votes as well, with Robert Berg receiving 2 votes and John Bensche, Robert Harrison and William Silverman receiving one vote each.

Commenting on the election, Pekarek and Samwick said, "We are very excited and really looking forward to serving our community and working to uphold the very high standards of the existing board, the mayor and village staff. We are sorry that Kay and Jon are leaving the board. They set a high bar and we will miss their wise and valuable counsel."

David Lee added, "I'm looking forward to another term. And I'm so pleased that my fellow candidates who will be joining us. They bring a lot of experience and dedication that they have already shown toward community activities, so we're lucky to have them on the board."

Text and Photos by Sarah Schuman