{"id":2851,"date":"2015-01-07T05:28:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2015-01-07T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T06:19:05","slug":"mummolo-to-lead-brick-council-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/01\/mummolo-to-lead-brick-council-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummolo to Lead Brick Council in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2853\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Councilman Paul Mummolo is sworn in as council president. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilman Paul Mummolo is sworn in as council president. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Councilman Paul Mummolo will lead the township\u2019s governing body as council president in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous vote in favor of appointing Mummolo to the leadership position came after a heartfelt nomination speech by Councilwoman Marianna Pontoriero, who praised her colleague as someone willing to \u201cfight to good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2855\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2855\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Councilwoman Heather deJong is sworn in as council vice president. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-290x195.jpg 290w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0282-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilwoman Heather deJong is sworn in as council vice president. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mummolo, who replaced Charles P. Tivenan on the ballot midway through last year\u2019s election campaign, quickly immersed himself not only in township politics but volunteer opportunities. Pontoriero said she fondly recalled Mummolo working hard to help build the new community playground at Windward Beach last fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to leading the council into 2015 and serving the people of Brick as council president,\u201d Mummolo said. \u201cI thank you for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mummolo\u2019s vice president will be Councilwoman Heather deJong, who was likewise unanimously voted into the position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe always makes herself available to the township employees, the residents, they mayor, whenever she\u2019s called upon,\u201d said Councilwoman Susan Lydecker, who served as council president in 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2856\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2856\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"New council president Paul Mummolo thanks his predecessor, Susan Lydecker. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-290x195.jpg 290w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0283-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New council president Paul Mummolo thanks his predecessor, Susan Lydecker. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lydecker, for her part, thanked Mayor John Ducey for helping the council during her tenure. She was honored with a ceremonial gavel and plaque for her service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of our meetings have run very smoothly and efficiently, everyone has had their say, and real business has been accomplished this year,\u201d Lydecker said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/01\/mummolo-to-lead-brick-council-in-2015\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Councilman Paul Mummolo will lead the township\u2019s governing body as council president in 2015. The unanimous vote in favor of appointing Mummolo to the leadership position came after a heartfelt nomination speech by Councilwoman Marianna Pontoriero, who praised her colleague as someone willing to \u201cfight to good fight.\u201d Mummolo, who replaced Charles P. Tivenan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,813,104,812],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-heather-dejong","tag-paul-mummolo","tag-susan-lydecker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0280.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}