Welcome to everyone and especially to all my friends and family who have come out today. I am excited to be here and truly honored to be able to serve as your mayor for the next four years. Also a special thanks to the fire department for their hospitality and for opening their facilities to us for the day. We have raised two children here and plan to remain here for the foreseeable future. Mendham enjoys a sense of community that many other towns envy.
People know each other and participate in many aspects of community life.
Mendham is a safe community with a fine police force that realizes that small towns like Mendham needs police officers that are sensitive to the needs of a small community and therefore spend much of their time interacting with citizens not just fighting crime. Mendham s schools continue to be in the tops rankings each year. A large percentage of our children continue their education beyond high school and go on to good jobs and careers as result of an education that received a firm foundation here. Everyone felt that Mendham has been a special place to us during our active business years and with so many friends and acquaintances in Mendham why would we want to move some where else when we retire. Why would we want to start over in a new place when Mendham has become home and continues to offer so much, but many residents have also spoken to me recently and the over riding concern is keeping Mendham Mendham.