By
SHERRY HALBROOKIn July, Bob Gamache won a runoff election to fill PEF Executive Board Seat 125, which represents some members at the state Office of General Services. This was the final contest of the triennial PEF elections to be resolved.
In October, the first quarterly special elections will be held following the triennial elections. Nominees will be sought for five Executive Board seats for which no candidates were certified in the triennial elections.
Nominating petitions will become available October 1. Petitions must be returned to the PEF Special Elections Committee by October 22.
If more than one candidate for a seat is certified, a special election will we held, with ballots mailed by the American Arbitration Association November 10 and returnable by December 1.
Seats to be filled in these special elections are:
• Seat 25, which represents certain PEF members at the state Department of Correctional Services working at the following facilities – Albion, Elmira, Camp Monterey, Rochester, Groveland, Southport, Orleans, Livingston, and Willard;
• Seat 155, which represents certain PEF members at the state Office of Real Property Services and at the Adirondack Park Agency;
• Seat 325, which represents certain PEF members in Region 9 at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center (PC) and at Mid-Hudson PC: and at Central NY PC, and the state Office of Mental Health (OMH) Main Office;
• Seat 360, which represents certain PEF Region 10 members at the NY Psychiatric Institute, at the OMH Washington Heights Unit and at the OMH Main Office; and
• Seat 555, which represents certain PEF members at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, NYS Canal Corporation and the NYS Canal Authority.
