Mayor Madden's Weekly Report

Introducing Joe Costa and Ashley White

The Borough is pleased to announce the hiring of two new department heads

Joe Costa was hired two weeks ago as our new Zoning and Code Enforcement Officer. He is responsible for the oversight of the Construction Office and Property Maintenance. Joe works five days a week for the Borough, part-time. He is the full-time Director of Code Enforcement in Bound Brook. Joe is available by appointment every day. He prides himself on returning ALL phone calls and emails the same day they are received. He firmly believes in Customer Service. Joe is a former Human Resources Manager for a major NJ corporation and a former Customer Service Center Manager for a national corporation. He has been doing zoning work for almost a decade. Joe is certified with the State as a Zoning Officer, Planning Board/Zoning Board Secretary, Inspector of Hotels & Multiple Dwellings; Housing Code Official, Qualified Purchasing Agent, and Council on Affordable Housing Professional.

Ashley White will start with us this coming Monday as our New Director of Recreation. Ashley is leaving a Shared Service arrangement serving the Borough of Chester and Chester Township in Morris County. Ashley will be overseeing all Borough recreational activities, sports programs, special events and programming. She has been a recreational professional for more than 15 years. She recently won the NJ Recreation and Parks Association’s William D. Foelsch Rising Professional of the Year award! Ashley is certified in CPR, First Aid and AED, and she is a Certified Pool Operator. She is a member of both the National Recreation and Parks Association and the NJ Recreation and Parks Association. Ashley comes with a wealth of experience, a bucketload of ideas for programs and events, and a tremendous amount of energy to achieve both her and the Borough’s recreation goals. We believe that Ashley is going to bring Middlesex Borough’s recreation program to a whole new level of programming excellence, and we are excited to have her.

I hope you get the chance to meet our two new professionals! In addition to Joe and Ashley, Karen Wick, our former part-time Construction Office Administrative Assistant and Zoning Board Secretary, is returning full-time. Kelsey Meixner, our former part-time Recreation Administrative Assistant has been promoted to the fulltime position of Confidential Assistant to the Clerk, Finance and Administration, and part-time Recreation Committee Secretary, Linda Chicarelli, has been promoted to part-time Recreation Administrative Assistant.