Pikolycky Seeks Reelection in Woodbine

WOODBINE — William Pikolycky, nomination by petition, is running with council candidates Eduardo Ortiz and Mary Helen Perez as “Independents for Woodbine.”
Pikolycky was first elected mayor in November 1990. He had served as a councilman from January 1979 until his election as mayor.
He serves as chair of the Woodbine Municipal Utilities Authority and as vice-chair of the Woodbine Port Authority, and is vice-chair of the Pinelands Municipal Council.
Pikolycky served as president of the New Jersey Conference of Mayors, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors, and as chair of the Pinelands Municipal Council.
He served as president of the Cape May County League of Municipalities.
He will be inducted into the New Jersey League of Municipalities Mayors Hall of Fame at the gold level for serving as mayor for 20 years. He has already been honored for 30 years as an elected official.
The team of which Pikolycky is part, “is committed to seeing Woodbine’s progress continue: to promoting conditions for business growth that fit the character of Woodbine, obtaining our fair share of federal and state dollars, expanding shared services, exploring and acting on opportunities for helping our little school district perform its mission, and assuring that Woodbine remains a source of pride to its residents, with safe, clean, attractive streets and neighborhoods, recreational facilities, and sustainable economic growth. All of this while holding the line on taxes and maintaining our rural identity,” he stated.
The Cape May County Chamber of Commerce awarded him the Conservation Leadership Award.
He was employed by the State of New Jersey in various capacities senior level positions for 27 years, before retiring in 2002 from the position of executive assistant in the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
He is a graduate of the Camden County Police Academy, and was certified by the Police Training Commission, State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety and graduated from the Real Estate Licensing Program, Cumberland County College, Vineland.
He graduated from the Certified Public Manager Program, Rutgers University, Camden.
He is a graduate of Woodbine Elementary School and of Millville High School.
Among accomplishments Pikolycky cited were:
• Borough has not increased its local municipal taxes, and kept its annual spending increases under 1 percent per year, under the state 2 percent cap.
• Added approximately $1.2 million in ratables.
• Borough continues to revisit its shared services with other municipal, county, and state entities, as well as with non-profits. It works in conjunction with the Woodbine Municipal Utilities Authority, Woodbine Port Authority, Woodbine Board of Education, and the county.
• Borough has retired its outside debt, restructured internal debt, and is fully funding our 2010 Public Employees Retirement System obligation.
• Community School initiative, which included the community Gymnasium, and Technology Center, and branch of the County Library.
• Borough is collaborating to promote energy efficiency throughout the school renovation process, bringing the school into state-of-art facility programs.
• Woodbine designated as a Smart Growth Town, Center of Place, Pinelands Growth Community, and Sustainable Jersey Certified community.
• Former landfill designated as Redevelopment Area.
• Maintained tree-lined community (now in third five-year Community Forestry Management Plan, the sixth municipality in the state to reach that watershed).
• Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative at the former Woodbine Municipal Landfill.
• CRDA funding, FAA funding, State DOT funding, USDA funding.
• Infrastructure improvements (curbs, sidewalks, water main extension)
• Natural gas pipeline extended into borough.
• Downtown streetscape improvements
• Woodbine also on Coastal Heritage Trail, Pinelands Byway Belleplain State Forest bikeway linkages with the Borough and communities to the south and east of the Borough.
• Bikeways to Rails program linking pedestrian and bicycle opportunities to a rail stop in Woodbine that provides excursions to Buena Vista with plans to link with Cape May.
• Business Park being marketed as eco-friendly.