He presented as proof a checkbook entry of a rent check dated Jan. 14 and a certified mail receipt a day later. Sag Harbor Trustees Aidan Corish and Robert Plumb fended off a challenge from Bayard Fenwick in that race. ARE YOU A PEOPLE PERSON? He had been challenged by Michael Irving, his predecessor as mayor who wanted the job back after losing to Warren. With absentee votes tabulated,. In just two years, weve turned Southampton Village around. In The Southampton Press, Zach Epley offered a different rationale for asking Mr. Warren to leave: Its about how nasty he was during the election and how he harassed our family, he said. Mayor Jesse Warren is seeking re-election. Her current term ends on April 21, 2025. Warren, 38, says the Epleys are lying and that his rent is up to date. One day, it's Bill Clinton. Incumbent trustees and Irving allies Mark Parash and Andrew Pilaro were unseated by challengers Robin Brown and Roy Stevenson, who ran on a ticket with Warren. Then as one of several personnel changes he made shortly after being elected, Mr. Warren replaced Zach Epley on the planning board, a position he had held for about a year. We established a COVID-19 testing site through our partnership with Hampton Health Society. The biggest news, politics and crime stories in Suffolk County, in your inbox every Friday at noon. It all came to a head when Warren appointed local businessman Hulbert Waldroup to a 20-person panel looking into potential police reforms. According to the 2020 census, its population was 12,658. SOUTHAMPTON, NY With mental health concerns escalating during the pandemic, the need for services is vital. The Epleys denied this. The Epleys and Warren have a long history of bad blood, stemming from Warrens election as mayor in June 2019 when he unseated incumbent Michael Irving a close Epley ally. MICHAEL HELLER, Incumbent mayoral candidate Jesse Warren, at left, goes over the numbers from the voting machines with his attorney Lawrence Silverman, center, and attorney William Forero that were tabulated during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Warren got 1,064 votes and Irving got 604. Election Day 2020:Phoenix mayor and council seats on the ballot in Tuesday's election Each race is contested, but the most competitive race is for Nowakowski's seat, which has five candidates on . But in its broad strokes, it is easy to hear the echo of a deeply divided national moment in which some seem committed to their own versions of reality, and each side is convinced that the other is acting only out of political self-interest. Why are we going to keep somebody on a property that was so awful to us?. Mr. Warren ultimately purchased a home of his own, about a mile away, an approximately $1.3 million house on Potato Field Court. I was going door to door with my family, and he was following my family around with a video camera and walking into houses after me and trashing us out. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, NYPD top brass register to take Long Island police chiefs test, Inside the Hamptons trailer park thats become a playground for millionaires, A trailer in a Hamptons billionaires bunker sells for a record $3.75M, Futuristic new helicopters will bring super-rich to the Hamptons quietly. The village's 3,285 residents spend $2,318 per capita on police services, well above average $323 cited in national studies, despite the fact that the village had a crime rate of 1,492 serious crimes per 100,000 residents in 2019, which is substantially lower than the national and statewide crime rates, the report found. Southampton Village has had plenty of political drama over the last year, including a rental dispute between Mayor Jesse Warren and his former landlord Mark Epley, a former village mayor.. He lowered property taxes and submitted a budget with a surplus. MICHALE HELLER, A gallery of interested persons watches from outside the main room as the vote count from each of the voting machines is tabulated during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. ARE YOU A PEOPLE PERSON? Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Jesse Warren, the mayor of Southampton, packed his. Vera Chinese covers Suffolk County government and politics. In a landslide victory, Jesse Warren retained the mantle of mayor of Southampton Village on Friday, June 18, besting challenger Michael Irving by 460 votes. We're happy you are enjoying our content. In this second term, I believe he will complete the rebuilding of the home of former slave Pyrrhus Concer as a museum, and cause a replica of a colonial windmill to grace downtown. Land Preservation and Housing Affordability: How Will They Co-exist? Mr. Warren, who was educated at Brown University and lived in Manhattans West Village after college, first entered the Southampton scene as a retail merchant, catering to the summer hordes. Over the summer, Mr. Warren discovered the buyer behind the company was Mark Epley, who served as mayor of Southampton for 12 years before retiring in 2017. This had languished for 10 years. Fewer than 900 people voted when they ran against one another in 2019, with Warren receiving 450 votes to Irvings 405. Independent/Desire Keegan. The PBA is criticizing Warren for choosing Waldroup to be on the panel. He has no excuse, no reason, Epley told The Post. 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To do so requires claiming hardship due to the coronavirus, and it is unclear if he would qualify. The purchase of the building where Mr. Warren lives was not part of a grand plot to oust a rival, but was what Mark Epley described as estate planning a row of future homes for his 11 grandchildren, the oldest of whom is in elementary school. He created a new park on Moses Lane. Sag Harbor Trustees Aidan Corish and Robert Plumb fended off a challenge from Bayard Fenwick in that race. May 18: The Southampton School District Budget and Board of Education. The incumbents, Deputy Mayor Leonard Oppenheimer and trustee Gil Bruh, are running on the Residents Party line against challengers Domenico Calandrella and Afrim Pulatani, of the For a Better Hewlett Harbor Party. But Mr. Epleys son took a different position on their unwelcome tenant: Hes nasty, said the son, Zach Epley, himself a former political appointee. Mayor Jesse Warrens landlord happens to be one of his predecessors. He says a political rivalry is the reason he's getting kicked out. Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren, right, chatswith Isabelle Marino of Southamptonon Friday. Topics you care about, straight to your inbox. Warren told The Post his landlords are engaging in a Mafia style shakedown, and said he planned to file a police report. Zach Epley has accused the mayor of surveilling him from a car as he went door-to-door campaigning, which Mr. Warren denies. You've read 3 of your 3 free articles this month. Got a hot tip for our calendar? Jesse Warren was finishing his first term, now seeking a second. Long Island voters in eight villages will elect trustees running in contested races and elect mayors who are also facing challengers in Southampton, Sag Harbor and Port Jefferson. His opposition tried to evict him from his village home to make him ineligible to run for office. More Letters Blockade Is. Mayor Jesse Warren gets a hug on election night. ZOE KAVA, An election official helps a young voter insert his ballot into the voting machine during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Land Preservation and Housing Affordability: How Will They Co-exist? In the prior election, Warren had won by 45 votes. But in interviews, the Epleys said the situation at 81 David Whites Lane was nothing more than a shrewd real estate investment gummed up by an obdurate tenant. MICHAEL HELLER, Newly-re-elected Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren gets a long congratulatory hug from his girlfriend Martyna Sokol following the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Because we live here, Warren shot back. We didnt let the pandemic stop our progress: we produced some of the best COVID-19 testing numbers in the country, issued the first mask mandate in New York State, provided our community members and hospital workers with an ample supply of ventilators, viral testing, and PPE, and ensured that all seniors wanting a vaccine received one. Zach Epley, 33, says his family served their tenant, Mayor Jesse Warren, with a 90-day vacate notice in October but he refuses to move out and isnt paying rent. The race for the mayor of the Village of Southampton is heating up and drawing a lot of attention from police unions. With the pandemic turning the Hamptons rental market into a feeding frenzy, it was difficult for the mayor to immediately find a new place. Source: NY Post He was 89. His efforts resulted in less algae pollution in Lake Agawam, something not accomplished in years. Credit: Gordon M. Grant. We're happy you are enjoying our content. I hope to have two more years to help continue to serve the village, he said. She assumed office on March 21, 2019. For those who are not able to be in the area for any of the votes, you can easily apply for an Absentee Ballot Application. Copyright 2023 Newsday. Get our Hamptons Insider newsletters delivered direct to you. MICHAEL HELLER, The vote count from each of the voting machines is tabulated during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Roy Stevenson and Robin Brown, who had aligned with Warren, both won two-year trustee seats, receiving 996 and 888 votes, respectively. Now, we have a record low of vacancies, installed state-of-the-art technology to clean our lakes with over $300,000 in grant funding, and have lowered the tax levy for the first time in history. Kate Gallego is the Mayor of Phoenix in Arizona. We're happy you are enjoying our content. "We are honored that the community came out in record numbers to show support, which demonstrates the power of positivity," Warren said in a statement. First-term incumbent Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren defeated his predecessor, Michael Irving, by a vote of 1,064-604 on Friday in what was likely Long Island's most contentious. "I am proud of the race the SV-21 team ran, and strongly believe in our vision for the village. Incumbent Rita Di Lucia is running with newcomer John Dileo Jr. Another incumbent, John Popeleski, is running with Vincent Costa, a newcomer as well. Results of the uncontested races are pending confirmation. Wording for the proposed budget: The $68,954,600 budget would represent a 1.81-percent, or $1,223,136, increase in spending over the current year's $67,731,464 budget. We accomplished initiatives to give out masks and sanitizers to our community. 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Southampton Village administrators have slowed the spread of COVID-19 by getting the proper equipment to our healthcare workers throughout the pandemic. Warren had said he was running on his record of addressing pollution in Lake Agawam and revitalizing the villages downtown. They absolutely knew, Mr. Warren said.). With the Epleys strong objection to his presence, plus a formal request that he vacate, he turns into a squatter, Mr. DeCorpo said. Southampton Village, NY | Official Website Government Services Community How Do I. The face-off turned contentious after Warren was blasted by the PBA for appointing Hulbert Waldroup, a convicted criminal, to the village police reform committee. Budget Vote and Board of Education Election. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. Long Island voters in eight villages will elect trustees running in contested races and elect mayors who are also facing challengers in Southampton, Sag Harbor and Port Jefferson. Southampton also suffered from a tax levy that had increased by 100% over 15 years and an exodus of year-round residents. It's been a decade since Phoenix home to more than 150,000 people who identified themselves as Black in the 2020 U.S. Census has had a Black council member. Copyright 2023 Newsday. He's been trying to reign in overtime and other costs related to the village police department and that has rankled the PBA. General election for Mayor of Phoenix. Warren was one of two East End village mayors up for e-election this week. Warren says the PBA is attacking him because of his attempts to control police costs, including overtime. We've received your submission. MICHAEL HELLER, Mark Parash congratulates opponent Roy Stevenson on his victory in the race for village board following the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. 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