Community Board 10 chairman Joanne Seminara gets set to step down
The mayor isn’t the only person in New York City who is term-limited. Community Board 10 Chairman Joanne Seminara has served for three terms and is prohibited by the board’s bylaws from running for a fourth term. But unlike Michael Bloomberg, Seminara will have a hand in picking her successor, albeit a small one. She gets to hand-pick the members of a special committee that will nominate the next chairman.
Seminara, a lawyer and Democratic Party district leader who has served at the helm of the Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights community board for three terms, recently announced that she has picked board members Judith Grimaldi, Liz Amato, Andrew Gounardes, Dean Rasinya, and Mary Quinones to serve on the nominating committee. The committee will meet at some point between now and the next board meeting on May 20 to select a candidate to be the next chairman. That candidate’s name will be placed in nomination at the May 20 meeting. At that meeting, Seminara will also accept nominations for chairman from the floor if any board members wish to put up a candidate different from the selection committee’s choice.
The board will hold an election for chairman at its June meeting.