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Election 2018: Meet the Candidates
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Name: Thomas Affatato
Residency at Le Havre: 20
years
Occupation: HVAC
Engineering/Contractor
Have you ever served on
any Co-op or Condo board,
including Le Havre? If yes,
Specify:
Le Havre Owners Corp.
2009–2013 Vice President
2013- Current Board Member
What special experience,
qualifications, or abilities
can you provide as a Board
Member? Please include
your educational background.
Owner: August Mechanical
Corp., Mechanical Contractor,
Engineering, 24 years.
U.S. Army Corp Engineers,
25th Infantry Division, 1974-
1977
What do you see as the
major priorities for Le
Havre for the next year?
As a 9 year member of the
Board of Directors, we are
past many capital projects.
Cost Control is Job #1 –
Marketing Le Havre is a
priority.
Additional Information:
It is my great pleasure to
inform you about my time
as a Le Havre resident. The
Affatato family arrived 20
years ago as a family of four
and grew into a family of six.
Our three bedroom unit, I
guess, may not have been
adequate for a family that
large, but we managed. One
overwhelming reason was the
Le Havre community and its
lifestyle. Who can beat a summer
at Le Havre? My lovely
wife Yuri was a daily fixture
at Pool #2 with our children
growing up.
We made and have many
friends here at Le Havre. The
nest is thinning with my older
children leaving college and
what a profound decision never
to leave. It is with great honor
that I serve on the Board of
Directors. It is our home, one
which will remain so for many
years to come, God willing.
I wish to continue the hard
work that goes into serving
on Le Havre’s Board of
Directors to insure its place
for many years to come for
the new families arriving and
maintain the fiscal health of
our community at large.
Name: Mitchell Breidbart
Residency at Le Havre:
Almost 31 years
Occupation: Selfemployed
Podiatrist
Have you ever served on
any Co-op or Condo board,
including Le Havre? If yes,
specify:
Le Havre Owners Corp.
8/2005-10/2008 Board
Member
12/2014-Present Board
Member
What special experience,
qualifications, or abilities
can you provide as a Board
Member? Please include
your educational background.
I have a B.A. from Queens
College in Mathematics
and Chemistry and a D.P.M
degree from the New
York College of Podiatric
Medicine. I will honestly represent
the shareholders of
Le Havre to the best of my
ability.
What do you see as the
major priorities for Le
Havre for the next year?
Keep maintenance increases
to a minimum while maintaining
services, and excellent
quality of life. Continuing
capital improvement projects
including a maintenance plan
for our building exteriors
Additional Information:
My wife, Lorraine, and I
have been residents and
shareholders of Le Havre
for almost 31 years. We have
raised our two sons, Adam
and Eric, here who have
both moved on to successful
careers.
I think Le Havre is a wonderful
place to live and would like
to be an active part of keeping
it that way. I am a proponent
of keeping maintenance
increases to a minimum while
maintaining our excellent
services. I support an ongoing
maintenance plan for our
buildings.
When making a decision as
Board Member, I try to take
into account shareholder
feedback. We are a co-op and
all shareholders should have
a say.
Therefore, I am hoping that
this year all of my fellow
shareholders come out to
vote so we may achieve a
quorum.
I would appreciate your support
in electing me to the Le
Havre Board of Directors.
Thank you very much.
Name: Ray Bergen
Residency at Le Havre:
14 years
Occupation: Self-employed
Certified Financial Planner
Have you ever served on any
Co-op or Condo board, including
Le Havre? If yes, Specify:
Le Havre Owners Corp.
2010 – Present, Treasurer
What special experience,
qualifications, or abilities
can you provide as a Board
Member? Please include
your educational background.
MBA, Accounting; Certified
Financial Planner; Income Tax
Accountant
What do you see as the
major priorities for Le
Havre for the next year?
Managing Expenses and
maintaining the quality of life
at Le Havre
Additional Information:
Hello to all my fellow shareholders.
My name is Ray
Bergen and I am currently
serving as Treasurer on the
Board of Directors. I am a
certified Financial Planner
and I have an MBA Degree in
accounting.
I believe that the current
Board is doing a fine job and
I look forward to continuing
to work with the team. Our
objective is, and will be,
focusing on self –management
and keeping our costs
as low as possible.
Thank you for all your support.
There are 11 candidates running for
nine (9) of the eleven (11) Board seats
in this year’s annual election (two
seats are controlled by the Sponsor,
Whitestone Equities).
The election will be held on Monday,
October 22, 2018 at 7:30PM, at
PS209Q. Voting will take place in the
Clubhouse on October 16th, October
21st and October 22nd, as well as at the
meeting itself.
A “Meet the Candidates
Night” will be hosted in the
Clubhouse on Monday, October
15, 2018, at 7:30PM – 9:30PM.
We look forward to seeing you
at this event where you will get
an opportunity to meet the candidates
and ask questions.
Following are the biographies
of each candidate as submitted
by the candidates themselves.
The candidates are:
• Thomas Affatato (Incumbent)
• Raymond Bergen (Incumbent)
• Mitchell Breidbart (Incumbent)
• Crystal Chilton (Candidate)
• Judith Densky (Incumbent)
• Carla DeStefano (Incumbent)
• Stanley Greenberg (Incumbent)
• Penni Nussbaum (Incumbent)
• Thomas Tsounis (Candidate)
• Raymond Valdes (Candidate)
• Steven Young (Incumbent)
A MESSAGE FROM MARGARET COSTELLO, GENERAL MANAGER