We will treat every taxpayer dollar as if it were our own. Millburn has spent millions without getting enough in return — including $7 million for the Paper Mill, $1.75 million on the Palm Salon, more than $1 million in litigation and payments related to 9 Main Street, taking on $21million bond to cover construction costs for the future affordable housing development at Spring and Essex, and $3 million for the Chai Center. We love the Paper Mill — it is a gem — but before writing a $7 million check, we should have negotiated meaningful benefits and deliverables for Millburn. We will not repeat these mistakes. Major expenditures should come with clear accountability, and a tangible benefit to our residents and businesses.

Millburn and Short Hills are fortunate to have an extraordinarily talented community. We want to listen to our volunteers and expand the ways residents can contribute. It’s not always practical for some of our town’s brightest lights to sit on commissions or boards. We would like to bring residents with financial, legal, environmental, technological, infrastructure, business and other expertise into specific, time-limited projects where their knowledge can make a real difference. And we will make sure every community feels welcome and valued. We don’t care about your Party. We’re all Millburn/Short Hills residents.

Our zoning rules should make sense for the way people live and do business today. We should streamline unnecessary approvals and modernize outdated regulations so that high-quality businesses want to come to Millburn. We would commit to working with the downtown Business Improvement District and the Zoning Development Review Committee (DRC) to identify opportunities to reduce those applications requiring onerous burdens to get waivers, to allow quality businesses to locate in town. Beth and Bill can protect the character of our town while making it easier for good businesses to open and thrive.

We will advance the work began by the Flood Mitigation Advisory Committee which went uncompleted in 2026, such as South Mountain neighborhood infrastructure investments. Further, Beth and Bill will coordinate with County Commissioners and Engineer to see through the next steps in the Orange Reservoir retention project. We would take practical steps to make Millburn a greener community, including expanding EV charging infrastructure and encouraging more solar installations. These concrete improvements can encourage residents, save money, and reduce our environmental impact while preparing Millburn for the future. We would work closely with the Open Space Trust Fund Advisory Committee to advance priorities that have been identified to bring more passive and active recreation to our community. 

We will explore creative ways to expand recreational opportunities in town, including the possibility of two new fields near the Millburn train station or on top of the parking garage. We should also look at partnerships that would enable us to share existing facilities — for example, exploring arrangements with private schools such as Pingry and B’nai Jeshurun. We have limited land which is not developed or is protected (such as the South Mountain Reservation), so we need to think creatively about how we use every available space.