March 16, 2006 Issue                                               

©2006 The Chestnut Hill Local

Seats open in CHCA election

There are 24 open at-large director seats in the Chestnut Hill Community Association. There will be 12 three-year term seats up for election, and 12 one-year terms.

Nominations are due at the CHCA office in Town Hall, 8434 Germantown Ave. by 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 23. All association members are able to be nominated, and the form must include the nominees signature, as well as four others from association members.

Names of those running for the 24 board positions will be published in the Local on March 30, and statements from each candidate and the ballot will be published on April 6.

The candidate’s names will be drawn at random for the ballot order. For more information or to obtain another nomination form, top by the CHCA office at Town Hall, 8434 Germantown Ave., during business hours, or call 215-248-8811.

Current CHCA board members up for re-election are:

Douglas Doman

Maxine Dornemann

Leigh Filippini

Stewart Graham

Robert Hendrick

Sanjiv Jain

Mark Keintz

Christopher Kemezis

Carolina King

Dana Klein

Joshua Klein

Claire Lemisch

Suzanne Lentz

Virginia Mallery

Mitchell Melton

Cecile Mihalich

Stanley Moat

George Parry

Jane Piotrowski

John Shea

Jonathan Sternberg

Brien Tilley

Pam Waters

Kerry Bird or Ron Recko

Pending a vote at the March 23 board meeting to fill a recently vacated director’s three-year seat, Bird or Recko will be up for re-election.

According to bylaws, a vacancy on the board is filled by the next runner-up of the previous election, but because of the transitional one-year terms on the current board, the directors will vote on whether to turn Recko’s one-year term into a three-year term (he received the highest number of votes of all the one-year termed directors last election). If this is approved, Bird will be given the one-year term seat as the election’s runner-up and will be up for re-election at the April 27 annual meeting.