Candidates, questions on March 14 municipal ballots

Here are all the municipal candidates and referendum questions on the March 14 ballot in Palm Beach County. Incumbents are indicated with an (i).

BELLE GLADE City Commission Seat B Yousef Muslet Steve B. Wilson (i)

BOCA RATON Mayor Susan Haynie (i) Alfred Zucaro City Council Seat A Scott Singer (i) Patty Dervishi City Council Seat B (plurality wins) Emily Gentile Andrea Levine O’Rourke Andy Thomson

BOYNTON BEACH City Commission District 2 (majority needed) Jim DeVoursney Woodrow Hay Mack McCray (i)

DELRAY BEACH City Commission Seat 2 (plurality wins) Richard Alteus Kelly Barrette Anneze Barthelemy Jim Chard City Commission Seat 4 Shirley Johnson Josh Smith Jr.

GREENACRES Mayor Joel Flores Jonathan Pearce City Council District 5 (plurality wins) Michael Albert Paula Bousquet (i) Bill Kluth

GULF STREAM Town Commission (top 5 vote getters win) Paul Lyons Jr. (i) Julio Martinez Scott Morgan (i) Martin O’Boyle Joan Orthwein (i) Thomas Stanley (i) Donna White (i)

HIGHLAND BEACH Mayor Ron Brown Carl Feldman Town Commission (3-year term) Barry Donaldson Rhoda Zelniker (i) Town Commission (2-year term) (plurality wins) Melissa Ebbs Carl Lee Gehman Elyse Pat Riesa HYPOLUXO Mayor Michael Brown (i) David Karpinia

JUPITER (majority needed) Town Council First District Teri Grooms Wayne Posner (i) Carol “CD” Watson Town Council Second District Ron Delaney (i) Heidi Epstein Ben Klug

LAKE CLARKE SHORES Town Council Group 2 Malcolm Lewis (i) Paul Shalhoub

LAKE PARK Mayor Steve Hockman Michael O’Rourke Town Commission (majority needed) Hollis Langer Lawrence “Larry” Malanga Charlemagne Metayer Roger Michaud

LAKE WORTH (majority needed) City Commission District 2 Omari Hardy William Joseph Christopher McVoy (i) City Commission District 4 Maryann Polizzi Herman Robinson Ellie Whittey

Ballot question

Shall commissioners and the mayor be elec ted for three-year terms instead of the current two-year terms, beginning March 2018? LANTANA Town Council Group 3 Thomas Deringer (i) Edward Shropshire Town Council Group 4 Philip Aridas (i) Suzanne Gordon

LOXAHATCHEE GROVES Town Council Seat 5 David DeMarois Tom Goltzené (i) Ballot question

Shall the town issue up to $6 million in 30-year bonds to pay for road improvements, to be paid off with local option gas tax revenue and the town’s share of the one-cent local government sales-surtax revenue?

NORTH PALM BEACH Village Council Group 2 Susan Tiedemann Bickel Brent Keller OCEAN RIDGE Town Commission (top 2 vote-getters win) Richard Bajakian James Bonfiglio (i) Donald Magruder Nan Yablong

PALM BEACH GARDENS (majority needed) City Council Group 1 Mark Marciano Michael Paolercio City Council Group 3 Ron Berman Kathryn Gettinger Matthew Lane City Council Group 5 Kevin Easton Rachelle Ann Litt Joseph Russo Jr. George Wicker Ballot question

Voters in the unincorporated area of Palm Beach County that includes Osprey Isles, The Star of David Cemetery of The Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach Fire Station No. 8 and Carleton Oaks will be asked whether they support or oppose being annexed by Palm Beach Gardens.

PALM BEACH SHORES Ballot questions

Question 1: Shall the town issue up to $5.5 million in 20-year bonds to pay to bury electric, cable television and telephone utility lines underground?

Question 2: Shall the town charter be changed to conf o r m wi t h s t a t e l aw f o r recall of elected officials and referendum with zoning changes?

Question 3: Shall the town charter be changed to eliminate the unused position of tax collector; detail the mayor’s authority, including the power to fill a vacancy in an appointed position; and set residency requirements for the planning and zoning board?

Question 4: Shall the town charter be changed to create at-large commission seats for election purposes and to clarify the powers and responsibilities of the town commission?

Question 5: Shall the town charter be changed to allow town commissioners to vote to pay themselves a salary or stipend for their service, with the provision that the pay would not become effective until the term following the term when the ordinance was adopted?

PALM SPRINGS Village Council District 1 Dawn Marie Cox Douglas Gunther (i)

ROYAL PALM BEACH Village Council Group 2 David Swift (i) Richard Valuntas Village Council Group 4 Renatta Adan-Espinoza Jan Rodusky (i)

SOUTH BAY City Commission Seat 1 Esther Berry (i) Nepoleon Collins City Commission Seat 3 Betty Barnard Taranza McKelvin (i)