BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Some of the ongoing controversy on the board of the $1 billion Polish and Slavic Credit Union will head to the credit union's members in May when they will participate in a board election that will pit current board members against former board members.
The deadline for the credit union to receive completed ballots is May 15. The CU will announce the results at its annual meeting on May 20.
The election will pit PSFCU chairman Krzysztof Matyszczyk and board member Frederick A. Czulada and two other candidates against former board member Andrew Kaminski and four others who were nominated by petition. Kaminiski, a long-time board member, has been involved in some past controversies at the CU.
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The two other candidates nominated by the CU's nominating committee are Lech Poradowski, a director of engineering for the Roanwell Corporation and John L. Szalyga, MD, a resident at the Brooklyn Health Center Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical Center.
The four other petition candidates are Janusz Jozwiak, Kaja Sawzzuk, Marzenna Wierzbinski and Eugeniusz Argasinski.
Kaminski drew the support of 2,300 signatures on a petition to add him to the ballot. All the petition candidates had to collect more than 500 signatures to be added to the ballot.
One source of potential controversy is the location of the annual meeting, which the CU will hold at the Polish Cultural Foundation in Clark, New Jersey. Marian Ponanta, vice president of marketing for the credit union, explained that the credit union has members in both New York and New Jersey and wanted to alternate where key events are cited so that one group is not stuck traveling a longer distance to credit union events.
He pointed out that the credit union was paying for buses to take members from New York to the meeting in New Jersey if they wanted to attend. –[email protected]
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