Woodbine—Mayor William Pikolycky, Mayor of Woodbine, is honored to share that on Thursday, November 17, 2016, New Jersey’s mayors elected him, to serve on the Executive Board of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, where he will be able present the perspective of small, rural, and especially Pinelands, communities.
As a member of the League’s Executive Board, Mayor Pikolycky will help lead the Association of New Jersey’s 565 municipal governments. Mayor Pikolycky will represent the interests and needs of New Jersey’s local elected officials to county, state and federal governments.
Mayor Pikolycky was first elected Mayor of Woodbine in November 1990.
He served as a councilman there from January 1979 until his election as Mayor.
He currently serves as Chair of the Woodbine Municipal Utilities Authority and of the Woodbine Port Authority, and is Chair of the Pinelands Municipal Council. He is a League of Municipalities representative on the Board of Trustees for Sustainable Jersey. He has been a member of the New Jersey Water Association since 1991. He has also been involved with the MidAtlantic Pilots Association and the AOPA. He served as President of the New Jersey Conference of Mayors in 2005, and now serves as a director. He was also Past President of the Cape May County League of Municipalities. He served on the Board of Directors for the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage and is now on the Advisory Board of the Anne Azeez Instructional Site of Stockton College, which is also located in Woodbine.
He has been inducted by the New Jersey State League of Municipalities into the Elected Officials Hall of Fame for serving twenty years in elected office. The honor is reserved for local municipal governing body members who served for a minimum of 20 years in elected municipal office. Mr. Pikolycky has served the Borough of Woodbine for 12 years as council member and is in his twenty-sixth year as mayor. Mayor Pikolycky was also elected into the League’s Mayors’ Hall of Fame upon serving twenty years in that office.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities is a voluntary association created to assist communities do a better job of self-governing through pooling information and resources. All 565 mayors and 13,000 elected and appointed officials of member municipalities are entitled to all the services and privileges of the League.
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