Local government

Mine Hill Township is governed under the Mayor-Council

Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council)

The Faulkner Act, or Optional Municipal Charter Law, provides for New Jersey municipalities to adopt a Mayor-Council government.This form of government provides for election of a mayor and five, seven, or nine council members...

 system of New Jersey municipal government under the Faulkner Act

Faulkner Act (New Jersey)

The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H...

. The Mine Hill Township Council consists of five elected members, each chosen at-large by the voters of Mine Hill in partisan elections for a four-year term on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election every other year. At the Council’s organizational meeting each January, one member is elected to serve as President for a twelve-month term and another is chosen to serve as Vice President.

, the Mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

 of Mine Hill Township is Richard Leary, whose term of office ends December 31, 2011. The current council members are
Council President Marc Sovelove (2009),
Council Vice President Steve Chicchetti (2009),
Cindy Collins (2011),
http://www.minehill.com/council-two.cfmMichael J. Giordano (2011) and
http://www.minehill.com/council-five.cfmMikeWarholak (2009).

Federal, state and county representation

Mine Hill Township is in the 11th Congressional district.

Mine Hill is in the

Education

The Mine Hill School District

Mine Hill School District

The Mine Hill School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Mine Hill Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States....

 serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Canfield Avenue School had an enrollment of 369 students during the 2005-06 school year.

During the 1991-92 school year, Canfield Avenue School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Award

Blue Ribbon Schools Program

The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created in 1981 to honor schools which have achieved high levels of performance or significant improvements with emphasis on schools serving disadvantaged students. The program centers around a self-assessment conducted by the...

 from the United States Department of Education

United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...

, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.

For grades 7-12, public school students attend the Dover School District

Dover School District (New Jersey)

The Dover School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Prekindergarten through twelfth grade from Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States....

 in Dover

Dover, New Jersey

Dover is a town in Morris County, New Jersey on the Rockaway River. Dover is west of New York City and west of Newark, New Jersey. As of the United States Census, 2000, the town's population was 18,188.-Geography:...

 as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

A sending/receiving relationship is one in which a public school district sends some or all of its students to attend the schools of another district. This is often done to achieve costs savings in smaller districts or continues after districts have grown as part of a historical relationship...

.

Library Services

There is no local library. Residents must use either the County College of Morris Library, Randolph, NJ or the Morris County Library, Morris Plains, NJ. Residents of Mine Hill cannot use any other local library in Morris County, because the town is too cheap to buy into the Morris County Library System for the residents of the town.

External links

• Mine Hill Township website
• Mine Hill School District
• Data for the Mine Hill School District, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...
  
  
• Abandoned Mines of New Jersey