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No opposition yet for Placid mayor, trustees, judge

Deadline is 5 p.m. today

LAKE PLACID — With the deadline for submissions today at 5 p.m., no new candidates have formally come forward to challenge this village’s incumbent mayor, two trustees and the lone village justice.

Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall and trustees Art Devlin and Scott Monroe have all circulated and submitted the requisite designation petitions to be on the ballot for the village election on March 21, village Clerk Ellen Clark said Monday afternoon.

Clark said Randall, Devlin and Monroe each have received the minimum number of signatures to be placed on the ballot — five-percent of registered voters in the village, about 80 signatures, she said.

Clark added that anyone interested in the positions would need to submit their petitions with the same minimum number of signatures by the time the village offices at the North Elba Town Hall close today at 5 p.m.

Those interested can download a designating petition from the state Board of Elections website at: https://www.elections.ny.gov/RunningOffice.html.

“We won’t know until exactly 5 o’clock (this) afternoon if there is any opposition against,” she said.

Randall, Devlin and Monroe all will be on the ballot as independents. Devlin and Monroe were last elected to two open seats on the Board of Trustees in March 2013. Devlin, who serves as the village’s Deputy Mayor, seeks his third term after he was the top vote getter in the trustee race in 2013, tallying 283 votes. Monroe seeks his second term after he secured 269 votes in 2013, more than candidate David Jones (230 votes), who ran as a team with Devlin and Randall.

Randall ran unopposed in 2013 and will seek his third term as mayor.

“We are moving on a number of projects in the village and it’d be nice to keep the team together until we get through the Main Street issues, which are ahead of us,” Randall said in November of the upcoming election. “…We’ve accomplished in eight years a lot for the village in terms of its organization, stability, management, credit ratings. I think a lot of it has to do with the way this board has conducted its responsibilities, so we’d like to see it stick together.”

Clark said village justice Bill Hulshoff seeks re-election on the Republican party line. In June, the people of the village voted to keep the village court and justice position after the village board’s initial decision to dissolve the court was put to a special referendum vote, 104 to 72.

Hulshoff circulated a petition to put the decision to ballot after the board voted unanimously on April 4 to dissolve the court and abolish the lone justice position. The completion of the dissolution of the court is set to take effect on the first Monday of April 2017, after the bi-annual election in March. Hulshoff also serves as a North Elba town justice.

The village election will be held at the North Elba Town Hall on Tuesday, March 21. Polls open between noon and 9 p.m. to all registered voters of the village.

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