FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Appointments have been made to municipal boards and positions by the Township Committee for 2018.
The appointments were made during the committee’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 5. Freehold Township’s governing body, which has a 5-0 Republican majority, is comprised of Mayor Anthony Ammiano, Deputy Mayor Thomas Cook, Committeeman David Salkin, Committeewoman Barbara McMorrow and Committeeman Lester Preston.
Committee members reappointed Nicole Sonnenblick as municipal court judge, Anthony Vecchio as municipal court prosecutor, Lorraine Nielson and Brian Wilton as alternate prosecutors, Richard Sciria as public defender, and Timothy White as municipal engineer.
In addition to the reappointments, the committee made the following appointments for 2018: Andrea DiGiovanni, public agency compliance officer and community development representative; Township Administrator Peter Valesi, alternate community development representative; and Francis Boutote, Frank Krause, Carston Raab and Randall Trasky as Class II special officers with the Freehold Township Police Department.
Committee members appointed Salkin as police commissioner, Sanabel Abouzeina as deputy municipal clerk, Margaret Jahn as dog registrar, and Paul Vitale as the Americans with Disabilities Act compliance officer.
Ammiano, Preston, Kevin Asadi and Apryl Kurtz were appointed to the Planning Board; Cook, Thomas Coyle, Jahn, Frank Lucia, Michael Murray and Ralph Reifer were named to the Emergency Management Council; Gregory Brass, Michael Murray, Reifer, Dennis Polo, John Scheurer and Ernest Schriefer were appointed to the Fire Prevention Board; Benjamin Anderson and Cook were named to the Cable Television Advisory Committee; Jim Lau and Joseph Luonho were appointed to the Lake Topanemus Commission; and Nancy MacNeill and Preston were named to the Shade Tree Commission.
As mayor, Ammiano appointed Richard Gatto, Jahn and Cook to the Planning Board; Chad Cagan, Maureen Fasano and Raymond Santiago to the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners; Joanne Bujalski and Cheryl Cook to the Historic Preservation Commission; Steven Leone, Thomas Moskal, David Puchalski and himself to the Environmental Commission.
And, Marie Bayerle and Paul Hessler to the Monmouth County Senior Citizens Coordinators Council; Thomas Ritchie as Freehold Township’s gypsy moth coordinator; McMorrow, Iqbal Naqvi, Brooks Susman and Dr. Stan Zebrowski to the Human Relations Council; and John McGeehan as the mayor’s representative to the Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
