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Four Vie For Three Seats On New Rochelle Library Board

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- The New Rochelle Board of Education and Library Board of Trustees election will be Tuesday, May 19, when trustees will be elected to serve four-year terms.

The election for the trustees will be held on May 19.

The election for the trustees will be held on May 19.

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A review of the candidates has been made available. Community members will choose three of the following four library board candidates: 

Charles (Chuck) Burke Jr. has been a New Rochelle resident since 2008 and joined the library’s board of trustees in fall 2014.  He has spent nearly 15 years in the financial services industry, the last four with Morgan Stanley and the prior 10 at Merrill Lynch in a variety of finance, risk management and capital raising roles. Burke believes the library is the cultural center of the vibrant and diverse community that is New Rochelle. 

Damon Maher has been a lawyer in private practice. He graduated from Archbishop Stepinac, Yale University and received his law degree from Fordham in 1980. He has lived in New Rochelle with his family since 1994. He was appointed to fill a library board vacancy in October 2014. “My good business judgement, developed in over 30 years of practicing business law, and the love of what the library stands for, qualify me to help make the important decisions the board will have in the future, including those relating to the library’s role in projected downtown development plans and to the prudent use of bonded funds for necessary capital improvements to the building,” said Maher.   George Walters has taught urban sociology at The College of New Rochelle. He is currently lecturing at LaGuardia Community College and serves as an organizer for the Professional Staff Congress, a union at the City University of New York. He has been an elected a New Rochelle Democratic Party district leader. He was elected to the library board in 2005 and re-elected to a second five-year term in 2010. 

Jay G. Wegimont has lived in New Rochelle since 2009, attending Iona College on academic and swimming scholarships. Wegimont became a senior volunteer at Hope Community Services in 2009. After graduating from Iona in 2013, he used his dual degrees in political science and history to serve New Rochelle, first as executive aide to Mayor Noam Bramson and currently as staff assistant to U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel. 

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