Candidates NEWS Scarsdale is a generous community. Volunteers work days, evenings and weekends providing assistance to the less fortunate, helping children and the elderly, coaching sports teams, volunteering in hospitals and schools, working with the PTA, participating in local government. In Scarsdale, participation in local government is a voluntary activity, done with a sense of responsibility to the greater good. It is not a political activity conducted in a manner in which one group thinks it has knowledge, values or skills superior to those of all others and therefore, must win.
Scarsdale residents value the quality of life our community affords.
Those who have worked hard in civic voluntary capacities have a first hand appreciation for our non-partisan system. Differing points of view should be aired, and fully debated. Forums for study and debate of issues are provided by numerous village-wide organizations as well as in hearings before the Board of Trustees. What the Citizens' Non-Partisan system seeks to achieve is respectful debate followed by decision making by conscientious, elected volunteer representatives beholden to no predetermined point of view or interest group. Scarsdale's Citizens' Non-Partisan Party recognizes that many residents are not fully familiar with the benefits this system brings to village governance.