I invite readers to send in any ideas they think might help the town out. You don't have to sign your name unless you want to. Interactive because as other readers hear the ideas, more ideas may be generated and interactive because we will forward those ideas to Mayor and Council on a monthly basis. We'll try it and see how it works. A second column comes as a suggestion by Walt Warfield.
Residents can write in questions they have for the government.
This could include Mayor and Council, but also the code enforcer, planning board, mayor appointed committees. You ask, we'll try to get the answers. We are a town full of diversity and yet the one thing which we all have in common is that we love Island Heights. We need to really put our heads together and start coming up with some good ideas to solve the problems we face. On October 22,1998, the Revenue Committee, a Blue Ribbon panel consisting of Ben DeFonzo, Jim Ryan, Ron Hoffman, Al Gabriel, Dr. Charles Harris, Jim Lenox, Matt Smith, and Tim Cagney appointed by Mayor Siddons, submitted its long awaited report and recommendations for increasing revenue for the Borough.