April 20, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 15 Franklin Lakes Ramsey, Kelly, Kahwaty file for Republican primary by Frank J. McMahon There will be no contest in this year’s June 7 GOP primary election in Franklin Lakes. When the deadline for the submission of nominating petitions for the upcoming primary election passed on April 11, just three Republican candidates had filed to seek election to the two, three-year terms and one unexpired term available on the council this year. No Democrats filed petitions to challenge for those positions in the November general election. Councilwoman Paulette Ramsey and Joseph F. Kelly filed petitions to run for the two available terms and Councilman Charles Kahwaty filed for the unexpired term. The current terms of Ramsey and Councilman Michael Friscia will expire at the end of this year. Ramsey was endorsed by the borough’s Republican Club to seek reelection. When Friscia decided not to seek reelection, the Republican Club endorsed Kelly, a 40-year borough resident. Kahwaty was chosen by the council in February to fill the vacancy created when Frank Bivona was sworn in as mayor. The incumbent councilman was also endorsed by the borough’s Republican Club to seek election to the unexpired term that will end in December 2012. Bivona was elected to the council in 2009. In 2010, he was elected mayor. He replaced Maura DeNicola, who did not seek reelection to the mayor’s post, but instead sought election to the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. Ramsey will be seeking her sixth term. She was appointed to the governing body in 1995 and elected to her first three-year term in 1996. Currently council president, Ramsey has served on the zoning and planning boards, and as liaison to the Franklin Lakes Public Library, the environmental commission, the Franklin Lakes Recreation Committee, and the Bergen County Historical Advisory Board. She organized the Franklin Lakes Day celebrations for three years, and chaired the borough’s 80th Anniversary celebration. She is a founding member of the Ramapo High School Booster Association, a charter member of the Franklin Lakes Historical Society, a member of the Valley Hospital Auxiliary, and has been involved in various community activities for 45 years. A graduate of William Paterson College (now William Paterson University), she was an elementary school teacher in Ramsey and Upper Saddle River. Kelly serves as the district director for a free income tax program for indigent people in Paterson, Clifton, and Passaic. He is also vice president of Activities Unlimited, a Wyckoff-based organization for senior men. A former employee of the International Business Machines Corporation, Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Fordham University, and an MBA in finance from Wagner University. He served as a lieutenant in U.S. Army, and was assigned to the National Security Agency. He has served on the New York City Board of Education, and taught math and science at the DeWitt Clinton High School and at the Roosevelt Evening High School. Kelly has senior marketing and brand management experience specializing in market assessment, competitive market analysis, new product introduction, and the development and implementation of marketing programs, with a strong financial background and experience in budgeting and execution of a financial plan for a brand with revenue, profit, and turnover objectives. At the Equitable Life Assurance Society, he was a math- ematician and was in the actuarial program. At IBM, he was a programmer for telecommunications systems and a development manager for market support applications. He also had foreign assignments in England, the Asia Pacific area, and Latin America. He is the grandfather of 11. Kahwaty is an attorney who was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980. He has also been admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court, Tax Court, U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia, and the New York Bar. His practice areas include personal injury law, commercial litigation, municipal court law, driving while intoxicated cases, and collections. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a juris doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. He is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and was that organization’s president from 2002 to 2003. 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