FLOW Area November 12, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 9 BOE and council members elected by voters by Frank J. McMahon The voters of Franklin Lakes have chosen a newcomer and an incumbent school board member to the Franklin Lakes Board of Education, while the third available seat on that board will be decided after a count of the provisional ballots by the Bergen County Board of Elections. Voters also re-elected Franklin Lakes Mayor Frank Bivona and two incumbent council members, Paulette Ramsey and Joseph Kelly, to the borough’s governing body. In addition, six members of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School Board of Education were re-elected to various terms on that board. The vote tally for the local board of education showed 1,077 votes for newcomer Peter John Koulikourdis and 1,152 votes for incumbent trustee Susan McGowan. But the vote tallies for Victoria E Holst (1,077) and Jennifer Marcus (1084) were only seven votes apart, and the occu- pant of that seat will not be decided until the county con- firms the official vote totals. Koulikourdis was born in the Bronx, NY in 1965. He moved to Bergen County in 1976 and to Franklin Lakes in 2000. He has four children who are attending the Wood- side Avenue School. In 2000, he received his New Jersey real estate license. He received a BS degree in manage- ment with a minor in marketing and attended the Quin- nipiac School of Law and received a juris doctor degree in 1989. He is currently licensed to practice law in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. McGowan has served as a Franklin Lakes trustee for the past four years having been appointed in August 2010 and elected to a full three-year term in April 2011. She earned a BA in economics from LaSalle University and her career included seven years as an accounting supervi- sor and human resource analyst. She has been the chair- person of several board committees and she has served as board president and on the board’s Curriculum, Instruc- tion, and Negotiations committees. She also served as the board’s Municipal Alliance representative. Current Board President Laurence Loprete received 1,048 votes was not re-elected to another term. The vote tally for the borough showed Bivona with 2,277 votes while current Council President Paulette D Ramsey received 2,171 votes and incumbent Councilman Joseph F Kelly received 2,155 votes. The council election was uncontested, however, there were 150 personal choice write-in votes for six separate candidates in the vote for mayor and 13 personal choice write-in votes for seven sep- arate candidates for the borough council. Bivona will serve his second four-year term as mayor. He previously served one year as a borough councilman. Ramsey will be serving her seventh three-year term on the council, while Kelly will be serving his second three-year term. Ramsey has been a resident of the borough for 46 years and she has spent 50 years in local government. She was appointed to the borough council in 1995, elected to her first three-year term in 1996, and she has since served on every borough council committee. Kelly was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Fordham University with a BS in mathe- matics. He obtained an MBA in finance from Wagner Uni- versity and taught mathematics for the NY City Board of Education at DeWitt Clinton High School and at Roosevelt Evening High School, both in the Bronx. He served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant and was assigned to the National Security Agency. Six incumbents on the Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education were re-elected. There was no contest this year. According to unofficial results from the Bergen County Board of Elections, Eric David Becker, a Wyckoff repre- sentative on the regional board, received 1,808 votes and will serve a full three-year term; Jane Castor, an Oak- land representative, received 1,035 votes and will serve a one-year unexpired term; Teresa Kilday, also an Oakland representative, received 801 votes and will serve a full three-year term; Thomas Madigan, a Wyckoff represen- tative, received 1,846 votes and will serve an unexpired two-year term; Lisa Sciancalepore, a Franklin Lakes rep- resentative, earned 743 votes and will serve a one-year unexpired term; and Sadie Quinlan, an Oakland represen- tative, received 1,031 votes and will serve a full three-year term. Library sets ‘Lost Bird Project’ The Wyckoff Public Library, located at 200 Woodland Avenue, hosts free programs for adults. For more informa- tion, call (201) 891-4866. On Saturday, Nov. 22, the library will sponsor “The Lost Bird Project,” for adults and children age eight and older. The program held from 1 to 3 p.m. features a one- hour film screening with an origami folding project led by Paterson Public School System art teacher Debra Storch. The Lost Bird Project follows sculptor Todd McGrain on his quest to install large bronze sculptures of five extinct species of North American birds in their last known location in the wild. The year 2014 represents the centennial of the extinction of one of these species, the passenger pigeon, so the film’s producers are challenging audiences to celebrate these beautiful birds by folding ori- gami passenger pigeons. All the origami birds created will be counted in the Wyckoff Library’s entry on foldtheflock. org. Register at the library’s reference desk or on the library’s website, www.wyckofflibrary.org.