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Our Core Principals
and
Accomplishments

Provide affordable & achievable flood mitigation until we can fund larger projects through grants

  • Annual river clean-up programs

  • Provide funding for tree removal in our rivers

  • Working with the Army Corp of Engineers and NJDEP to bring home elevations, and wet & Dry flood proofing to homes that are classified as “Sever Repetitive Loss”

Provide outstanding public health, public safety and school safety

  • Invested in our police department, by increasing the staff by:

    • Sharing the cost of providing Class 3 Officers in every school.​

    •  Added police officers to the department

Provide great senior, recreational and social programs

  • Preserved our community's history by purchasing the Union Hill Two Room Schoolhouse and the house where George Washington commandeered supplied and had his horse shoed

  • Renovated the Union Hill Two Room Schoolhouse to use for library programs and meeting space

  • Maintained Morris County's #1 social services and Dial A Ride programs

  • Completed the 2nd Veterans Turf Field Expansion project

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  • New retaining wall which added parking at the Upper Veterans Field Parking Lot

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  • Created a Veterans Memorial at Veterans Field by adding a new American Flagpole and flag poles for each branch of the Armed Forces
     

  • Created a Denville Trails Master Plan
    Constructed a field stone bridge at Muriel Hepner Park and trail along the pond using county funds

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  • Constructed a walking path along the Denbrook from the Openaki Bridge to Denbrook Park

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  • Constructed the first phase of the walking path around Ayers Knuth Farm
    Received funding for phase two of a path around Ayers Knuth Farm
     

  • Share the cost with the Denville Board of Education to reconstruct the Valleyview baseball and softball fields that have not been used in years due to bad conditions

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  • Retrofitted Field #1 to accommodate 40 or 60 foot basepaths

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  • Replaced the dam at James F. Dyer Park at Cook's Pond

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  • Resurfaced and painted the Back Tennis Courts and Basketball Court at Gardner Field

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  • Installed 2 Pickleball Courts at Gardner Field

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  • Installed AEDs at all our ballfields

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  • New retaining wall and steps at Todd Johnson Field

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  • New Playground at DenBrook Park

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  • Started a Summer Concert Series

Manage the state imposed Affordable Housing Agreement

  • Over the course of 7 years at the cost of $500,000, reduced our 2015 Affordable Housing units mandate from 1,786 to 198 units of which 49 are credits making the total number 149 units

  • Supported reasonable affordable housing plans while fighting over development

  • Filed a lawsuit on the process our 2025 Affordable Housing mandated number of new units (485) and is submitted a new number of 230 units that we feel can be defended in court

Support the revitalization of our downtown through grants

  • Awarded a Streetscape grant of $650,000 and constructed new curbs, brick paver walkways, handicapped accessible crossings, central music system, and period lighting on First Avenue

  • New trash and recycling containers funded by grants

  • New holiday decorations and trees

  • New wall around the First Avenue Parking Lot

  • Through NJDOT Grants and Morris County funding installed handicapped accessible curb cutouts

  • Awarded a $500,000 grant to construct new curbs, brick paver walkways, handicap accessible crossings, central music system, and period lighting on Bloomfield Ave

Maintain our infrastructure, increase road paving & extend the life of our roads

  • Continued the 5-year moratorium on road opening permits to prevents the Public Utilities from cutting into freshly paved roads

  • Increased the amount of roads to be paved, and pay for more of them in cash to keep the overall cost as low as possible

  • Mill more roads before paving

  • Instituted a crack sealing programs

  • Paved the First Avenue, Church Street and Upper Bloomfield Ave Lot.

  • Strive to repair all collapsed catch basins annually

  • Instituted a storm water drainage improvement master plan

  • Repaired and painted 3 of our largest water ranks

  • Funded a major repair to our largest well

  • Funded the study to replace the lines on 10 streets with lead and galvanized water main

  • Replaced the water Main on Lakewood Trail

Maintain Property tax stabilization through established conservative management and financial policies

  • Maintained our Moody's AAA bond rating, which is held by only 24 NJ municipalities in New Jersey

  • Made the last payment on the Town Hall, which has reduced our debt payments each year by $700,000

  • Selling the Township owned property on Vanderhoof enabled us to develop a plan and are working toward zero debt by the end of the decade

  • Made the final payment on the next to last Municipal Bond

  • Negotiated and obtained historically low yet fair contracts for 4 years each with the Town's 5 bargaining units

  • Increased the water and sewer hookup fees on all new developments to ensure that developers pay their fair share into our Utilities

  • Secured or maintained Shared Services agreement that saves money and deliver better services:

    • Shared Municipal Court with Mountain Lakes​

    • Shared Service agreement with Chatham for the Deputy Tax Assessor

    • Shared Service Agreement with Mountain Lakes for Animal Control

    • Shared Service Agreement with Morris County for Our Health Officer

    • Shared service agreement with Morris County for public nursing

  • Created a tree replacement ordinance which requires developers to replace a certain number of trees or make payments to our dedicated Tree Fund
     

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