Street new Region 9 coordinator

By DEBORAH A. MILES
As the only certified candidate for PEF Region 9 coordinator, Vivian Street was automatically elected in February to fill that mid-term vacancy. The term expires July 31, 2012.

Street is a developmental disabilities program specialist 2 at the Hudson Valley Developmental Disabilities Services Office.

PEF Region 9 includes members who work in Ulster, Sullivan, Orange, Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties.

As the only certified candidate for PEF Executive Board Seat 100, Paul DeFilippo was automatically elected to fill that mid-term vacancy which also expires July 31, 2012. Seat 100 represents certain members at the SUNY Health and Science Center at Stony Brook.

Following petitioning, no candidate was nominated to fill Board Seat 325, which represents certain PEF members in Region 9 at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center (PC), at Mid-Hudson PC, at Central NY PC, and the state Office of Mental Health (OMH) Main Office.

Nominees again will be sought for Seat 325 in the second-quarter special elections starting in April.
All mid-term vacancies on the Executive Board or in regional or statewide offices that occur before March 18 will be included in that special election.

The only other mid-term board vacancy now scheduled for the second quarter is Seat 230, which represents all PEF members at the state Labor Department in PEF Regions 5-7.

Petitioning to nominate candidates to fill these vacancies will begin April 1 and end April 22. If more than one candidate is certified for a position, ballots will be mailed to that constituency May 12. They must be returned to the American Arbitration Association by June 3, for counting June 4 in New York City.
– Sherry Halbrook