First contested Cedarhurst trustee vote since 1989

For the first time in 27 years, the Village of Cedarhurst will have a contested election, as incumbent Trustees Myrna Zisman and Ronald Lanzilotta are being challenged by Yoel Goldfeder and Daniel Burg. 

Tuesday was the deadline for candidate petitions. The vote will take place March 15 at Village Hall, at 200 Cedarhurst Ave., from 9 am to 9 pm.

It is an at-large election, meaning that the two candidates with the most votes will win four-year trustee terms. 

Zisman has worked as a state committeewoman for the 41st Assembly District in Brooklyn, co-founded the Women’s Pro Israel National Political Action Committee and in 1980, she was appointed to the Citizens Committee for the Democratic National Convention by then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch. 

Burg and Goldfeder are running together under the Village United Party banner. Goldfeder is an attorney in corporate and securities law; Burg is vice-president of operations for Ameriderm, a skin treatment company. They said they want to bring a fresh point of view to the village board.

“The leadership in Cedarhurst has a strong base, but hasn’t changed much,” Goldfeder said, speaking for Burg as well. “We think that the village needs a new perspective in how it operates. Over the past 10 years, more residents are moving in, which means that more voices are needed to show representation of the whole community.”

During her first year as trustee, 2006, Zisman served on the village’s zoning board. In addition to her work as trustee, she is a board member for the Town Village Aircraft Safety Noise Abatement Committee, which seeks to mitigate noise from aircraft arriving at and departing from John F. Kennedy Airport.

Lanzilotta, a trustee since 2001, began his village government career as a zoning board member in 1998. As a trustee, he has been the chairman of the village’s Architectural Review Board since 2004, and the village board’s representative to the Nassau County Sanitary Sewer Consolidation Program since 2006.

Trustees receive a $15,000 annual stipend. Their responsibilities include budgeting, creating village ordinances and policies, determining land use, and serving as liaisons to organizations such as the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department and the Nassau County Police Department.

From the Nassau Herald