1 race under way; more seats open
Two Exec. Board vacancies filled

By SHERRY HALBROOK
Two new members of the PEF Executive Board have been elected automatically as the only certified candidates to fill those vacancies.

Ballots are being counted December 1 in a race between two certified candidates to fill a third board vacancy.

And no candidates were nominated for three other vacant board seats. Nominating petitions will be available for those seats and at least one new board vacancy when the 2007 first-quarter special elections process begins in January.

Please, be seated
As the only certified candidate for Seat 125, representing PEF members at the state Office of General Services, Greg McBride will fill that vacancy.

And Robert Montalbano was the lone certified candidate for Seat 350 representing members at the Hudson Valley Developmental Disabilities Services Office.

Making a race of it
Two candidates — Paul Cecilia and Joseph Greenfield — were certified for Seat 50 representing members at the state Department of Correctional Services facilities — Sing Sing, Green Haven, Bedford Hills, Arthur Kill, Queensboro, Taconic, Bayview, Edgecombe, Lincoln, Fulton and central administration offices in New York city.

Balloting ends November 30 and votes will be counted December 1.

More seats still available
Since no nominations were received by October 24 for the following three seats, that opportunity will begin again in January:
• Seat 85 representing members (other than teaching and research nurse 2s) at the state University of New York Health and Science Center in Syracuse, and all members in SUNY at central administration, and the following campuses — Albany, Alfred, Binghamton, Brockport, Buffalo State, Buffalo University, Canton, Columbia-Greene, Cortland, Delhi, Empire State, Environmental Science and Forestry, Fredonia, Geneseo, Morrisville, New Paltz, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, and Purchase;

• Seat 180 representing members at the state Health Department (including those on the main office payroll) working in PEF Regions 1-7 (except Saranac Lake), in Herkimer, and at the Oxford and Batavia Veterans Homes; and

• Seat 190 representing state Health Department members (including those on the main office payroll) who work in Region 8, at the Wadsworth Centers, Axelrod, Griffin and all related labs.

Nominations will also open in January to fill Seat 485, representing certain PEF members of PEF Division 190C at the state Department of Taxation and Finance and the state Division of the Lottery in PEF Region 8.

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Clarification: A photo caption in the November issue of The Communicator should have said PEF Vice President Pat Baker and Regional Coordinators Dee Dodson, Vernetta Chesimard and Jemma Marie-Hanson coordinated the PEF Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City.