Southampton Village ARB Member Resigns And Is Replaced

Southampton Village has named Jeffrey Brodlieb to the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review after longtime board member Hamilton Hoge resigned last week.

At a special Village Board meeting on Friday morning, village officials announced that Mr. Hoge, who has served on the five-member ARB for 11 years, would be leaving his post after this week’s meeting. Mr. Hoge did not give a reason for his departure. Appointed to the board in August 2000, he served as chairman from July 2002 through June 2004, then left the board in 2011. Four years later, in 2008, he was reappointed to the board.

“His time served has been a long and, I’m sure, memorable one,” Board Chairman Curtis Highsmith said during the ARB meeting on Monday night. “His efforts and loyalty to the board have been unquestionable. We’ll all miss you.”

Mr. Brodlieb is a Brown University graduate who has more than 35 years of experience as a financial analyst working to finance growth for companies, as well as being a consultant for several companies. He has a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. He was selected from a pool of four applicants, according to Village Mayor Mark Epley, who said he was looking for a candidate who is not involved in the local real estate business.

“He is a very thorough, well-educated guy,” Mr. Epley said this week. “We were looking for somebody that is fair, balanced, good at decision-making, unopinionated, and someone who has observed the process before. He was the candidate that stood out to us as someone who would be fair and impartial to sit on the board, exactly what we were looking for.”