HIGHLAND PARK – The borough has an performing mayor till a brand new mayor is chosen by the tip of the month.
Councilwoman Elsie Foster was elected council president for 2023 at Tuesday’s Borough Council reorganization assembly.
Within the function as council president Foster will function performing mayor till the Highland Park Democratic Committee nominates three people to satisfy the remaining 12 months of Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler’s time period, following her resignation efficient Dec. 31. The Council will then choose of these three nominees to function mayor.
Throughout the assembly, state Senator Patrick Diegnan Jr. D-18th District, issued the oath of workplace to Councilmen Philip George and Matt Hale. Employees member Nerea Champion was appointed as non permanent chief monetary officer after serving because the assistant finance officer since 2017.
Foster, who has served on the Borough Council since 2000, shouldn’t be new to both the council president or performing mayor positions. She previously served as Borough Council president for eight years and performing mayor for a number of months, in response to the borough web site.
“Her council management has additionally included overseeing the administration of the borough and positions within the Board of Schooling, Workplace of Public Data, Personnel, Communications and extra. These roles have given her a whole sense of our authorities operations and enabled her to make the most of her management expertise in almost each side of the council,” the web site states.
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Foster additionally serves as Middlesex County’s director of client affairs and weights and measures, in response to the county web site.
Throughout Tuesday’s assembly Foster delivered the annual State of the Borough handle, highlighting a number of the borough’s 2022 acheivements. Foster additionally thanked former Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler for her dedication to the Highland Park neighborhood and her almost 15 years of service.
Brill Mittler, who served as mayor since 2014, introduced final month she was resigning with a 12 months remaining on her time period to spend extra time together with her household, together with her three grandchildren.
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Foster beforehand served as president of the Jamaican Group of New Jersey and president and founding father of the United Caribbean American Community of New Jersey.
She is the president and chief government officer of Aunt Elsie’s Homestays, an Worldwide Scholar Housing group. She can be the legislative liaison to the New Jersey Civil Service Fee and a founding accomplice of JamPhil Consultants.
Foster has an MBA in international administration candidate and holds a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration and human useful resource administration. She attended Girls’s Marketing campaign Faculty, Yale College and Essex Faculty of Enterprise in Newark.
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