Fahey joins E Board; two seats vacant
Thomas Fahey was elected to fill a mid-term vacancy in PEF Executive Board
Seat 180 which represents certain members at the state Health Department’s
main office and in PEF Regions 1-7, except Saranac Lake and Herkimer. It
also represents members at DOH’s Oxford and Batavia Veterans’ Homes. As the
only certified nominee for the seat following petitioning, Fahey was elected
and seated without balloting.
Deborah Egel and Robert Purtell have both resigned from the board, vacating
seats 415 and 290, respectively. Special elections to fill these vacancies
will begin in January, with nominating petitions available beginning January
7 and returnable by January 28.
If two or more nominees for either or both of these seats are certified by
the Special Elections Committee, ballots will be mailed February 19 to
constituents, for return to the American Arbitration Association by March
11. They will be counted March 12.
Seat 290 represents certain members at the state Offices of Mental Health
(OMH) and of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) in:
PEF Region 5, including Binghamton Psychiatric Center, Binghamton Children
Services, Broome Developmental Disabilities Services Office (DDSO), and
Valley Ridge CIT; Region 5 items only at Central NY Psychiatric Center,
Elmira Children’s Services, St Lawrence Children’s Services, Elmira
Psychiatric Center, the OMRDD Main Office, and the Capital District DDSO.
Seat 415 represents certain members at the state Office of Alcohol and
Substance Abuse Services statewide, including all 13 alcoholism treatment
centers and all administrative offices.
— Sherry Halbrook