Voters Choice Party Candidates To Hold Freightway Town Hall

Dear Scarsdale Friends and Neighbors,

We want to hear your ideas to preserve and protect our community. We Invite You To Attend:

Freightway Redevelopment and Scarsdale Sustainability Town Hall

Thursday, March 12, 7:30-9:30 pm at Village Hall

Freightway Redevelopment has not been shelved. The Village Board paused the highly controversial project – to build a massive multifamily apartment complex and parking facility. This temporary pause is due in large part to the Scarsdale Voters’ Choice Party’s (VCP’s) efforts to inform residents of Freightway’s risks of overcrowding our schools, roads, and commuter trains. We urgently need Village Trustees who are responsive to our concerns, who can oversee a $60 million annual operating budget, and who will assure us that our tax dollars are spent wisely (not paying more than $300,000 for consultants and lawyers guiding us to a Freightway plan, that our community adamantly opposes).

Whether it is proposed additional apartments in the Village Center and in the Freightway Redevelopment, raw sewage flowing in Edgewood streets, harmful property revaluations, increasingly deteriorated infrastructure, or expensive contract negotiations, Village decisions directly impact the nature and character of our community and our present and future tax burden. The March 18th Scarsdale Board of Trustees election is so important, because the status quo is not working for all of our residents. We, the VCP Trustee Candidates are ready to bring positive and transformative change to our beautiful “Village in the Park!” We should all be its stewards for current and future generations.

We look forward to meeting you, so that we can share with you our proposals to improve our Village operations. We want to hear how to serve you best! Also, we will participate in the League of Women Voters’ ‘Candidate Forum,’ on Thursday, March 5 at Village Hall, 7:30 pm.

Voters Choice Party Platform

We, the VCP candidates are from a broad range of professional and thought perspectives. We love living in Scarsdale and have a strong, unwavering commitment to maintaining the quality of our schools.

We believe that it is important to:

• ensure that the Village does not commit to Freightway Redevelopment or other municipal projects without undertaking thorough due diligence to achieve a positive long-term fiscal impact on our tax base without a negative impact on our schools, roads, train platforms, or our small-town atmosphere;
• effect a political process that is transparent, responsive to residents’ needs, accountable to taxpayers, and is a far more congenial and open process where residents feel comfortable and welcomed;
• safeguard Scarsdale’s fiscal sustainability and maintain tax levels no higher than they are today in order to enhance property values and to enable young and empty-nest residents to stay in Scarsdale;
• preserve Scarsdale’s current level of single- and multiple-family dwellings to minimize crowding;
• establish a more vibrant downtown that serves residents’ and merchants’ needs;
• utilize Scarsdale residents’ enormous talents in an inclusive manner in Village Hall decision-making;
• maintain a high standard of Village services; and
• continue to be in the vanguard of environmental and sustainability projects.

VCP Trustee Candidates Are Ready to Bring Positive Change to Scarsdale!

Bob Berg Sean Cohen Robert Selvaggio

“March 18th is your chance to vote for positive change!”

Bob Berg and his family have lived in Scarsdale for two decades. Bob is President of the Crane-Berkley Neighborhood Association, a member of the Board of Assessment Review, co-leads the Assessment Revaluation Committee of the Scarsdale Forum, and is a former President of the Scarsdale Forum. Bob has been a litigator for 36 years. His BA is in Economics and Psychology from Amherst College. He holds an MBA and a JD from the University of Chicago.

Sean Cohen graduated from Scarsdale High School and has lived in Scarsdale for 20 years. He has served in numerous pro bono and volunteer activities globally, including being Chairman of the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Training School, a not-for-profit that teaches valuable work skills to South African youth. He founded Rand Diamond, a primary supplier to high-end retailers of ethical diamonds. Sean has a BA in History and Political Science from Tulane University and holds a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

Robert Selvaggio and his family moved to Scarsdale 26 years ago. Bob has volunteered as a basketball and Little League coach, as well as having served on the board of the Scarsdale Teen Center. He is a pro bono Master instructor of Taekwondo. Bob is Co-Owner and Head of Analytics at Rutter Associates; he has long worked in risk modeling, capital markets, and municipal finance. Bob has a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University.

To win the upcoming March 18th Trustee election, we welcome your financial support. Given its 109-year dominance of Scarsdale Village government, the Establishment party has a significant funding advantage. Please go to our website, www.VotersChoiceParty.com to contribute to our campaign; you may also mail a check addressed to Voters Choice Party c/o Ms. Jill Krutick, VCP Treasurer 32 Tisdale Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Please email VotersChoiceParty@Gmail.com to volunteer with our grassroots campaign. No contribution of your funds or your time is too little! We appreciate your support!

Respectfully,

Bob, Sean, and Robert

Vote Row A For a Better Village, 3/18, Scarsdale Congregational Church, 1 Heathcote Road, 6am-9pm

For an Absentee Ballot, please email Village Clerk Donna Conkling, DConkling@Scarsdale.com