East Hills Homeowners Meeting - October 30: Agenda, Voting Ballot and Candidate Bios

Do you have October 30 at 7:00 pm marked on your calendar? 

Please plan on joining your neighbors at the annual East Hills Homeowners Association meeting. 

Meeting Details
Thursday, October 30, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Colonie Town Hall, 534 Loudon Road, Loudonville

At the meeting you'll learn more about plans for the coming year, review the 2014 expenditures and 2015 planned budget and have an opportunity to offer comments and suggestions about our neighborhood.  This year each homeowner also votes for the 2015-2016 Board members.

*** We've also scheduled a member of the Town of Colonie police department to speak to us about keeping our homes safe in light of the recent criminal activities in the neighborhood. ***  

Each homeowner should have received a letter, meeting agenda and voting proxy in the mail last week.  To access them online, click the following links:

      Letter to East Hills Homeowners

     Meeting Agenda

     Voting Form 


Below are the bios of each candidate running for the East Hills Homeowners Association Board of Directors for the next two year term.  Please make sure to bring your voting ballot to the general meeting, mail it in beforehand or assign it to another homeowner.  Thank you!  

INCUMBENTS:

Anne Conolly, 1 Callaway Circle (current board secretary)

I taught in public and private schools for 25 years in Albany while raising my four children and living in Kinderhook.  My son lives in San Francisco.  My two older daughters live in Burlington, VT - one a doctor and the other, a recent law school grad, looking for a job. My youngest daughter just graduated from Boston University.

Currently I run a summer camp in Hebron, NH.   Camp Onaway is a non-profit and has been around for 103 years; it is a traditional camp program for girls with all the usual camp activities: sailing, canoeing, tennis, hiking, dance, drama, arts and crafts etc.  The focus is on skill building but more important character and community building. With an emphasis on simple living, it is great to see girls unplugged for the summer. No cell phones, TV or computers.  They actually learn to talk to each other!

Here in Albany I enjoy tennis, golf, bridge, walking my dog, reading, and being with friends. I’d love to see East Hills continue to become a community where neighbors know neighbors.

Tommie Palladino, 18 Yardley Court (current board treasurer)

After so many moves over the years, John and I settled in East Hills 10 years ago.  Situated in a lovely setting, with great schools and easy access to so much, we have never been happier. 

I have 6 grandchildren and when not taxiing them to their activities, I enjoy gardening and RPI Hockey.  I am also very active in the local figure skating club where I am proud to be an official of the sport.  I retired from RPI after 24 years of service. I ended my career as an Assistant to the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

Having served as EHHOA treasurer for the past six years, I have met so many new residents.  Recently I joined the Beautification Committee and helped with many other residents to plant flowers at the mail kiosks.

Bernie Schunicht, 58 Cheshire Way (current Member at Large)

Retired chemical engineer with 40 years at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.  At KAPL I was a lead developer of nuclear reactor design software, a large modular Fortran system. The bulk of my career was spent developing mini- and micro-computer data acquisition and device control software in several assembly languages and included the development of the underlying operating system. This latter phase of my career positioned me as the laboratory's primary consultant and reviewer of vendor developed software dependent systems. I hold a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Speed Scientific School of the University of Louisville and a master’s degree from RPI.

My wife, Ellie, and I have four children and enjoy traveling to Oregon, Houston, Richmond and Rochester to visit them and our seven grandchildren. We are cruise enthusiasts for enjoying our elder years and have cruised over 400 days.

I was a competition cyclist for 25 years earning seven Empire State Games gold medals and multiple other medals. I am an avid flower and vegetable gardener, woodworker, past tropical fish expert and pursue multiple other hobbies.

One hobby is the EHHOA board of directors where I was covenants compliance chair for two years and served as board president for five years.

Wendy Horn, 13 Shelbourne Drive (current board Vice President)

I am a stay-at-home mother to three children (ages 7, 10 and 12) and have been living in East Hills since 2001.  I've served as Vice President and "Blogmaster" for the past two years.  I believe East Hills is a fantastic neighborhood with friendly neighbors and a beauty and uniqueness that is hard to find.  

Currently, I am very active at Blue Creek Elementary School.  I am the committee chair of the school’s yearbook and help out with the P.T.A. and in the classrooms. 

Until a few years ago, I worked as a Director of Marketing for MetLife.  I have my M.B.A. in Marketing from The University of Connecticut and grew up in Clifton Park.  In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, photography, boating, and skiing.  My husband, Chris, and our kids, Connor, Nolan & Lily (and our dog Colby) reside at 13 Shelbourne Drive.

Walter Rivera, 10 Cheshire Way (current board Covenants Chair)

Most of career Surgeon, private practice and VA experience, 30-plus years, medically retired due to combat deployment related injury. Three combat deployments plus 9-11.  Devoted to teaching young medical students and surgical residents as well as military medicine.  Leadership experience as commander (military), chief of surgery (private practice) and VA leadership.  Still in military part-time.

Resident of East Hills for over 10 years and no plans for leaving...this is home.  Have time to contribute positively to our community.

           

NOMINEES:

John Palladino, 18 Yardley Court (nominee)

I have resided in East Hills for 10 years.  I have a Masters’ Degree in Administrative Education, retiring from the Troy City School District after 38 years.  In addition, I have a degree from Union College, Albany College of Pharmacy.  Upon retirement form the Troy School System, I started by own Pharmacy Consulting Company.

I have been active In Home Owner Associations for many years having served as President of the Sandbrook Homeowners Association in Lake Placid and Linden Hills Homeowners Association in Troy.

Victor Barley 40 Cheshire Way (nominee)

I lived 21 years in East Greenbush before moving to East Hills three years ago.  Now retired for four years, I worked as a machinist at V & O Press Co. and in mechanical engineering at Truxton Machinery both in Hudson and as a machinist at Saint Gobain Abrasives in Watervliet.  I also worked for Alfa Lavel in Poughkeepsie.  My interests are gardening and landscaping.  I love to go kayaking and biking.  I am skilled in household repairs and like to keep an orderly workplace.  I moved to East Hills in large part because of the appearance of the neighborhood.