Mayor Michael Gabbianelli

Mike Gab­bianelli started a new career as Mayor of Mon­roe Town­ship at the stroke of mid­night on Jan­u­ary 1, 2003. “Retir­ing” in March 2002 after 25 years as a Mon­roe Police Offi­cer, and ris­ing through the ranks to Lieu­tenant, Mike wasted no time in get­ting started on the busi­ness of run­ning the Town­ship. Dur­ing his inau­gural address before a stand­ing room only crowd, Mike set the tone for what will be his legacy and bat­tle cry. “This Town­ship is open for busi­ness”, was met with thun­der­ing applause. Mike’s his­tory in Mon­roe dates back over 25 years when he joined the Monroe’s Police force mov­ing south from North­ern New Jer­sey. Mike mar­ried his high school sweet­heart and has since raised two sons. He started a con­struc­tion busi­ness that con­tin­ues today, and still has found time to join many ser­vice and com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing The Rotary Club of Williamstown, The Mon­roe Town­ship Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion, Knights of Colum­bus, Sons of Italy, FOP, Clay­ton Elks, the Sun­shine Foun­da­tion and the Sons of the Amer­i­can Legion; tak­ing lead­er­ship posi­tions in many of them. His com­mit­ment to the var­i­ous seg­ments of our Township’s pop­u­la­tion is obvi­ous from his past ser­vice to youth sports and future plans for expan­sion of recre­ational and com­mu­nity facil­i­ties as well as his goal of expand­ing pro­grams and ser­vices to our senior residents.

His plat­form dur­ing his cam­paign and mind­set as Mayor is:

1. To attract new rat­a­bles that improve our qual­ity of life, pro­vide jobs and ben­e­fits to our town. 

2. To main­tain a fair and equi­table tax rate that will con­tinue ser­vices and attract new investment.

3. To pro­tect our senior cit­i­zens and plan for their future.

4. To plan for the future by assess­ing where we are and where we want to go.