The big reveal takes place Monday night in the Village of Suffern.

Suffern holds its annual reorganization Village Board meeting on Monday, December 7th, at 7 p.m. Oftentimes these meetings are brief or rather perfunctory. But with the recent change in the mayorship and board leadership, change is certainly underfoot at Village Hall — especially for the key positions of Village Clerk, Village Attorney and possibly Treasurer.

Many village positions are appointed by the Mayor, including clerk, attorney, treasurer, and, depending on the municipality, Public Works supervisor, board and committee chairs and members — mayoral prerogatives all. That’s the patronage system.

Outgoing Suffern Mayor Trish Abato’s farewell message to village residents during a November 2015 board meeting. Abato doesn’t mince words about the future of the Village. Abato lost a tough race with new Mayor Ed Markunas, who is continuing to tighten Republican party control of the municipality.

Word broke earlier this week that new Mayor Ed Markunas was set to replace Virginia Menschner as Village Clerk. But the latest is that Markunas may have rethought that particular move.

Menschner is something of an Suffern institution. At near 95 years old, she has served some 57 years as Village Clerk, under 11 mayors. She took office in 1963 and has seen Suffern through the age of white out, carbon paper and PDFs.

If you were born in Suffern in the last 50 years, Virginia Menschner’s name is on your birth certificate.

Markunas is also set to replace longtime Suffern Village Attorney Terry Rice, who has served in that office for some 35 years. Former Town of Clarkstown Deputy Attorney Daniel Kraushaar has been mentioned as Rice’s probable replacement.