The North Hempstead Town Board meeting is expected to have four resolutions involving the town’s Board of Ethics on the Sept. 22 meeting agenda, according to a spokesman for the supervisor Brian Devine.

Before commencing the Sept. 1 meeting, Supervisor Jennifer DeSena withdrew from the agenda resolution items to consider confirming Francisco Vazquez, Melissa Slobin and Derek Chan to the board. 

Those three will be on the agenda again next Thursday along with confirming Steven Leventhal as counsel to the board. 

The seven-member Board of Ethics is responsible for implementing the provisions of the Town’s Code of Ethics, according to the Town’s websites.

Its responsibilities include approving and reviewing financial statements, rendering advisory opinions to town employees on the Code of Ethics and enforcing the code while determining penalties, among other things.

Unabbreviated terms for the board are four years. 

As of now, the Town’s Board of Ethics is made up of Chair Joseph Sciame, Robin Bolling, Isma Chaudry, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Rabbi Robert Widom, Justice Richard Kestenbaum and Betty Leong. 

Of those seven, only Bolling, Chaudry and Perl are serving on defined terms. The remaining four are serving unexpired terms and can be removed at any time.

Chaudry, a current holdover from the previous administration, will finish her term on Dec. 31, 2023, after being confirmed in May. Westbury/New Cassel NAACP President Robin Bolling and Chabad of Mineola Rabbi Anchelle Perl were also confirmed in May and will serve until Dec. 31, 2025, and 2024, respectively.

In the Sept. 1 agenda, the resolutions confirming Vazquez, Slobin and Chan said their respective terms were Vazqeuz until Dec. 31, 2022, Slobin until Dec. 31, 2024 and Chan until Dec. 31, 2025.

If confirmed, Vazquez would replace Kestenbaum, Slobin would replace Leong and Chan would replace Widom.

Professionally, Vazquez is senior counsel to Norton Rose Fullbright, Slobin is a speech-language pathologist for Manhasset Public Schools and Chan is president of Greater Hudson Financial. 

Leventhal, of Roslyn, has professional experience, including Nassau’s ethics board counsel, Town of Hempstead ethics counsel, president of the Nassau County Bar Association and consultant to the United Nations Ethics Office.

Leventhal has served multiple municipalities in different legal roles, including Manorhaven, Flower Hill, Massapequa Park and Lattingtow.