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BRIDGETON MAYOR ELECTED AS
SECOND VP OF NJ LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES
In receiving the votes of
fellow mayors from around the state, Bridgeton Mayor Albert Kelly was elected
to serve as Second Vice President for the New Jersey League of Municipalities
at their November 2014 convention in Atlantic City.
Accepting the post, Kelly
will be part of a team that will ensure those issues’ impacting municipal
governments and their locally elected officials’ are represented at the county,
state, and federal levels.
With 565 municipal
governments of varying sizes filling the ranks of the association, Kelly is
looking forward to rolling up his sleeves and taking on the challenges facing
local government.
“There is no layer of
government between municipal and the street. Municipal government presents some
of the greatest challenges, but also presents us with a space to come up with
creative solutions. Municipal officials, more so than others, have to make
government work; gridlock is not an option” Kelly said.
Kelly sees local
government dealing with issues big and small; everything from foreign investment
in large cities to making sure the trash gets picked up in smaller cities. He
believes that local governments should have the most diverse toolkit because policy
debates at the state and federal level usually play out at the municipal level.
“Regardless of the issue, it
all plays out locally. We have to adapt, adjust, or deal with the consequences
of policies made somewhere else. Make a policy decision on immigration in
Washington DC, and it impacts the mother who works in your downtown whose kids
go to the neighborhood school. Make a decision in Trenton about Brownfields,
and it determines the future of the vacant gas station 2 blocks away from City
Hall” said Kelly
While many believe all
politics is local, Kelly tends to see the best solutions as being local and he
hopes to take that message to Trenton and beyond.
“Our cities are where the
most creative governing is happening these days, yet so much of what we can do
is determined at the state and federal level. I want help my colleagues at the
League of Municipalities to be as strong a voice as possible for municipal
government because we’re the ones closest to the people” said Kelly.
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