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Trustees Christopher Minardi and Sandra Melendez and Mayor Jerry Larsen were unopposed in seeking re-election. CHRISTOPHER WALSH
East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen and Trustees Christopher Minardi and Sandra Melendez celebrated their reelection at Serafina restaurant on North Main Street on Tuesday night.
The three were unopposed, giving the mayor’s NewTown Party candidates an easy path to new four-year terms on the Village Board.
In a brief interview during a celebration on Tuesday night, the mayor said that priorities in his second term include creation of a justice court for the village.
“This next term, I really want to focus on quality-of-life issues for residents, like traffic calming,” he said.
That effort has begun with electronic signs displaying motorists’ speed, he said, and “we have legislation right now going through about camera enforcement,” with which he said Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has been helpful.
“We want to focus on a sewer system for the village,” he said, having “finally negotiated a contract” with East Hampton Town that will allow Community Preservation Fund money to be utilized for much of its cost.
“That will be big help,” he said, “because a lot of the cesspools right now in the village are in the watershed of Hook Pond and Georgica Pond.
“I think we’ve done really well in the last four years of bringing life back to the business district,” he added. “Now I want to focus on residential, mostly the traffic calming. I can’t stand that the back roads are being used as bypasses. Somebody’s going to get seriously injured. There’s no sidewalks. So that’s a big priority for us.”
