GMCA Directors

The Galt Mile Community Association is administered by a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board, and the Presidents Council (an assembly of a the Presidents of each member Association). The Board of Directors is depicted and briefly biographied in this section. The members of the Advisory Board are subsequently chronicled in conjunction with their contact data.

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President and Chairman, Presidents Council - Pio Ieraci

PIO IERACI

Pio Ieraci is a unique blend of businessman, family man, diplomat, and village shaman. In addition to the panoply of responsibilities he faces as President of the Galt Mile Community Association, he administers the high powered Presidents Council. The current President of every member Association participates in a forum created to examine the impending obstacles that confront their Associations, exchange information useful in that regard, and formulate strategies to effectively provide relief. Pio Ieraci is the catalyst that allows this mixture of strong-willed individuals to achieve the levels of cooperation necessary to effectively identify and contend with the common problems while concurrently attending to the particular concerns of individual Associations. A Board member of the Galt Ocean Club, Pio is able to diagnose complex technical, civic, political, and financial conundra and encourage agreement on their resolution. It is not uncommon for the most exasperating challenges, once identified as such by members of the Council, to be placed on Pio’s typically full plate!

Office Phone: (954) 489-9430

E-mail: PioR@bellsouth.net

Vice President - Director - Eric Peter Berkowitz

ERIC PETER BERKOWITZ

Having lived in both Ocean Manor and Southpoint before serving on the Regency Tower Board of Directors, Eric Peter Berkowitz developed a unique perspective of the Galt Mile. Eric created and serves as “webmaster” of the Galt Mile Community Association web site, one of largest and most comprehensive in South Florida. As editor of the “Galt Mile News”, the Association’s newsletter, he keeps community residents and neighborhood merchants informed about issues critical to their rights, homes and lifestyles. A prolific writer, Eric relates Association policy as formulated by the Board, the Advisory Board and concerned residents. Always active, Eric’s organizational skills were critical to Fort Lauderdale's inclusion in the beach renourishment project, the installation of Automated External Defibrillators throughout the neighborhood, the successful promotion of practical fire safety regulations and myriad other challenges. Eric also serves as the community’s eyes and ears, alerting the neighborhood to positive and negative political impacts emanating from Fort Lauderdale’s City Hall, Broward County HQ, Tallahassee and Washington DC. Accumen accrued as Regency Tower’s Construction Chair has positioned Eric to assist with the Galt Mile’s structural rebirth.

Office Phone: (954) 566-8606, Home Phone: (954) 564-4427

E-mail: galtmile@comcast.net

Treasurer - Director - Leah Glickfield

LEAH GLICKFIELD

Leah Glickfield controls the Association’s finances. Our southern belle, while capable of dulcifying sweetness, is sharp as a tack. She is the Assistant Editor of the newsletter and the assistant administrator of the GMCA’s web site. “Assist” is the operating buzzword necessary to describe Leah, as her propensity for involvement renders her indispensible to this organization. When an idea develops in any component of the Galt Mile Community Association, it has to make a pit stop at Leah Glickfield’s door to determine if resources are available for its possible fruition. Consequently, Leah’s fiscal footprint is on the majority of positive steps taken by the Association. At Advisory Board meetings, Leah records every quixotic promise made by some politicians, every questionable assertion made by local business people that their services are indispensable and the often equally inane remarks made in response. Somehow, she manages to impart credibility and perspective in her summary minutes. Regency South has long benefitted from Leah’s participation in the affairs of her home’s Association...as have we all!

Office Phone: (954) 564-8554, Home Phone: (954) 563-1001

Director - Ralph Hamaker

RALPH HAMAKER

Hailing from Coral Ridge Towers South, Ralph Hamaker is the sole representative to the Board of Directors from a Cooperative. A past President of CRT South, Ralph is familiar with issues that impact our four members from the Coral Ridge Towers Complex in the western sector of the Galt Mile Community. Ralph’s contributions to improving the Galt Mile area are legion, including noise abatement, traffic control and beach renourishment. Intimately involved with the rebirth of the Galt Ocean Village Shoppes area, Ralph was instrumental in attracting the Beach Community Center and Il Lugano, two community lynchpins critical for the neighborhood’s stability. Coral Ridge Towers, built just prior to to Condo Act of 1963, was the first hi-rise cooperative financed by the FHA to have a swimming pool. The Coral Ridge Towers (CRT) complex, later expanded to include the North, South (Ralph’s home), and East buildings, was a blueprint for developers prospecting for amenities to include in their offerings. The CRT Complex (four Cooperatives) could not have found a more effective pro-active representative than Mr. Ralph Hamaker.

Office Phone: (954) 563-6467, Home Phone: (954) 568-4146

E-mail: Ralph2FLA@att.net

Director - Fred Nesbitt

FRED NESBITT

Fred Nesbitt is a chronic volunteer. When a group of Playa del Mar residents spontaneously birthed that association’s newsletter, Fred was among the original contributors. In short order, he was elected to the Playa del Mar Board of Directors where he served as Treasurer. When appointed to the Galt Mile Community Association Advisory Board, the entire neighborhood started benefitting from his networking skills. Within two years, Fred's participation quotient surpassed that of members serving for decades. An integral part of recently successful campaigns to rescue the Galt Mile Reading Center and prevent the mighty Suez Corporation from erecting the Calypso Liquefied Natural Gas plant off the Galt Mile Beach, Nesbitt has proven a work-a-holic dynamo. Fred also applies skills honed in Washington D.C. to citywide challenges by serving on several Fort Lauderdale Advisory Boards (the Fire-Rescue Bond Issue Blue Ribbon Committee and the Budget Advisory Board).

Office Phone: (954) 561-0990, Home Phone: (954) 564-4329

E-mail: phredd9@yahoo.com

Director - Donna Oppert

DONNA OPPERT

Prior to relocating to South Florida, southern belle Donna Oppert honed her leadership skills in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia. Donna developed her incisive fiscal perspicacity as an executive underwriter for a large insurance company. Working with an Accident Reconstruction Engineer, Donna’s evolution into an expert witness bred an intimate familiarity with courthouse protocol and legal strategy. While raising a family and carving out a successful career, she simultaneously served on the School Board and a variety of associated executive committees. As a member of her Church Board, she actively promoted educational programs and organized outreach events. After moving her brood to Fort Lauderdale, since 2002 her Galleon neighbors repeatedly elected Donna to their Board of Governors (6 years as President). To further an abiding instinct for civic contribution, Donna spent 8 years representing the Galleon on the Galt Mile Community Association Advisory Board, where she played an integral role in obstructing the Calypso gasworks, promoting beach renourishment and composing our neighborhood’s pro-association legislative agenda. To maximize access to Donna’s unique skill set, her peers elected her to the organization’s Board of Directors.

Office Phone: (954) 563-2497, Home Phone: (954) 567-2969

E-mail: Marmage@aol.com

Director - Andrew Surdovel

ANDREW SURDOVEL

A Galt Mile resident via birthplace Jersey City and upstate New York, Andy is a quiet tornado. A modern day Renaissance Man, this Engineer - Printer - Builder helped steer Plaza South to its current status as one of the Galt Mile’s premier residences. To benefit from skills honed during a flourishing Engineering career (Senior Project Engineer at the Bendix Corporation, Vice President of Engineering at a New York fastener company, etc.), his Plaza South neighbors continually vested him with rotating responsibilities on their governing board beginning in 1996 (within a year of his arrival in South Florida) – as President, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. The proprietor of Minuteman Press, Andy also manages a thriving Oakland Park Boulevard printing enterprise he conceived and nurtures with better half and partner – Joyce. While serving on the neighborhood association’s Advisory Board, this master of multi-tasking helped resolve countless community conundrums, invariably weighing in as the voice of reason. Once, to fill some spare time, Surdovel displayed “soup to nuts” conversance with building codes by constructing three homes in New York - personally!

Office Phone: (954) 565-0777, Home Phone: (954) 568-0191

E-mail: joyminuteman@aol.com

Secretary - Fern McBride

FERN MCBRIDE

A veteran of the Public School system, Fern is blessed with a proclivity for organization and excellent communication skills. Somehow, our soft spoken former educator has been able to quietly compile the fast paced Advisory Board activities into a coherent set of minutes every month. Fern’s organizational abilities were first recognized by her neighbors in Regency Tower, where she participates in several committees and served on the Board of Directors - not suprisingly as Secretary! Upon retiring from the Regency Tower Board, her peers drafted her to continue as Assistant Secretary. Her low-key demeanor and quiet charm disguise a tenacious commitment to improving our homes and our neighborhood. In addition to making consistent contributions at countless Advisory Board and Presidents Council meetings, Fern has traveled to Tallahassee to fight for the rights of condo owners. When the Broward Beach Renourishment project was being considered by the Florida Cabinet, Fern participated in a successful demonstration by a contingent of Galt Mile homeowners supporting the project. The usual format of assigning the executive responsibilities of Secretary to a director were set aside to take advantage of Fern’s unparalleled competance as a communicator.

Office Phone: (954) 566-8606, Home Phone: (954) 561-2965

E-mail: fern.mcbride@me.com

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Board Member	Association	Office#	Home#
James Abruzzino	Royal Ambassador	954-563-4221	***
AnneMarie Adams	Edgewater Arms	954-566-1318	954-566-7387
Lorraine Alfano	L'Hermitage II	954-375-3900	954-375-3950
Richard Bazerghi	Commodore	954-565-0686	954-566-0599
Eileen Bendis	Regency Tower	954-566-8606	954-295-7222
Ron Bibace	Ocean Club	954-563-2425	954-564-1831
Franci Bindler	Ocean Riviera	954-537-4700	954-563-6444
Anda Bloom	The Tides at Bridgewater Square	954-630-1311	954-537-7786
Francis Casier	Coral Ridge Towers	954-565-2731	954-563-3220
Theresa Claire	Plaza South	954-565-0777	954-561-0865
Dr. James Comis	Ocean Summit	954-565-6696	954-568-2324
Holly Custer	Ocean Club	954-563-2425	954-232-6056
Robert C. Dally	Galt Towers	954-563-7268	954-478-3021
Doug Dawson	Ocean Summit	954-565-6696	954-529-4151
Lisa Edwards	Coral Ridge Towers North	954-564-6328	N/A
Louis Fox	L'Hermitage II	954-375-3900	954-375-0469
Kathleen Freismuth	Regency South	954-564-8554	954-566-5628
Richard Gabrielle	Southpoint	954-563-6353	954-563-4945
Judith Gallagher	Commodore	954-565-0686	954-566-3196
Arnulfo "Ray" Garcia	Playa del Mar	954-561-0990	954-630-3404
Michael Gonzalez	Regency South	954-564-8554	N/A
Ed Hashek	The Galleon	954-563-2497	414-688-6006
Warren Hurley	Plaza South	954-565-0770	954-561-1531
Elaine Jaffe	Southpoint	954-563-6353	954-661-5614
Marlene Katkin	Fountainhead	954-776-0732	954-202-0221
Michael Katz	Southpoint	954-563-6353	954-563-0959
Mel Kessler	L'Hermitage II	954-375-3900	954-375-2287
Frances Konstance	L'Hermitage I	954-375-3100	954-563-0655
Robert Korn	The Galleon	954-563-2497	954-530-6210
Lisa LaMarca	Southpoint	954-563-6353	305-606-4346
Don Larson	Coral Ridge Towers North	954-564-6328	954-401-6518
Linda LeDuc	Galt Merchants	954-561-3423	214-926-9170
Laurie Madenfort	Galt Merchants	954-772-5200	561-706-7676
George Mayer	Commodore	954-565-0686	954-561-4893
Fern McBride	Regency Tower	954-566-8606	954-561-2965
Madeline P. Mercado	Edgewater Arms	954-566-1318	954-630-0656
Jean Miller	L'Hermitage I	954-375-3100	954-567-1290
Charles Morton	Galt Merchants	954-233-6914	N/A
Ulrike Parker	The Tides at Bridgewater Square	954-630-1311	954-565-7299
John Pescosolido	Galt Towers	954-563-7268	954-564-9103
Richard Pohan	Playa del Sol	954-565-2507	954-537-6049
Everett Pyatt	Ocean Summit	954-565-6696	703-841-8318
Pat Quintero	L'Hermitage I	954-375-3100	954-213-3583
Glenn E. Rollo	Plaza East	954-563-5616	954-566-3376
Hussein Shehata	Plaza East	954-563-5616	954-563-6438
Mary M. Short	Galt Ocean Club	954-561-9795	954-566-1581
Daryl Slattery	Royal Ambassador	954-563-4221	845-304-5684
Richard Solewin	Playa del Mar	954-561-0990	954-537-1306
Helen Swinghammer	Caribé	954-776-6484	954-491-0480
Frank Talerico	Ocean Manor	954-566-7500	954-568-0507
Gary Tripoli	Edgewater Arms	954-566-1318	954-566-3911
Huey Vanek	L'Hermitage I	954-375-3100	954-565-5671
Trudi Zenni	Ocean Club	954-563-2425	954-530-4453