The Borough Council of the Borough of Mountain Lakes consists of 7 elected officials.  Council Members are elected for 4 year terms from the population at large.  The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are chosen from within the Council by the Council at that Reorganization meeting the first week in January.

Borough Council Meetings are held the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at 7:30 PM in the Meeting Room at Borough Hall, unless otherwise noted.

Our Council Members

	Mayor George Jackson - was elected to Borough Council in 2001.  He previously served for nine years on the Board of Education and played a major role in the new additions to Briarcliff and Wildwood Schools.  He also is a past Deacon, Trustee, and Treasurer of the Community Church.  George is a retired Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company.  He and his wife Marge have lived in Mountain Lakes since 1971 and have three grown children. [ E-mail ]
	Stephen Shaw - served as Mayor in 2005 and 2006 and was Deputy Mayor in 2004.  He was first elected to Borough Council in 2001 after serving as chairman of the Lakes Management Advisory Committee.  He is a member of the planning board, finance committee, and police subcommittee.  Stephen was the Senior Warden of St.  Peter's Church for four years and is a past president of The New Jersey Builders Association.  He grew up in Mountain Lakes and is a 1978 MLHS graduate.  Nine years ago he moved back to Mountain Lakes with his wife Cindy, also MLHS class of '78, and two children. [ E-mail ]
	Richard Urankar - was elected to Council in 1996 after serving as Chair of the Solid Waste Committee and a member of the Planning Board.  He served as mayor in 1999 and was recognized as the Lakeland Hills YMCA Citizen of the Year in 1996.  A founding Board member of the Medical Needs Foundation and Chair of Boy Scout Troop 41, he and his wife Karen, moved to Mountain Lakes in 1992 with their three sons. [ E-mail ]
	Charles Gormally - was elected to Borough Council in November 2004.  He has served on the Planning Board for the past six years, recently as its Vice Chairman, member of the Site Plan Review Committee, and Liaison to the Route 46 Improvement Committee of the Council.  Charlie has been certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney and is a partner and Executive Committee member of the firm Wolf Block LLP.  He and his wife Sheila Gilligan and their two children have lived in town since 1992.  [ E-mail ]
	Blair Schleicher-Wilson - only one year after her election to the Borough Council in 1998, Blair Wilson became the Deputy Mayor.  Years of experience as Chair of Borough's Recreation Commission, member of the Planning Board and Member of the League of Women Voters, Mountain Lakes chapter president for three years, helped prepare her for this important role.  Blair is Executive Director of Morris Habitat for Humanity.  She has lived in Mountain Lakes since 1986 and has 4 grown children and 6 grandchildren. [ E-mail ]
	Louise Davis - came to Borough Council in 1999 after serving as chair of the Planning Board and member for six years, a past three-year President of the League of Women Voters, past four-year President/Co-President of the Garden Club of Mountain Lakes and former Deputy Mayor.  A founding Trustee of Mountain Lakes Conservancy, Inc.  Serves on various boards including Morris Soil Conservation District, Liberty RCD, North Jersey, RCD, Garden Club of New Jersey and Dept of Agriculture Long Range Planning and Personnel Committees.  She has lived in the Borough with her husband and son since 1983. [ E-mail ]
	Ellen Emr  - Ellen Emr has been active in the Mountain Lakes community since 1993 when she began a five-year span of service on the Solid Waste Committee.  In 1997, she served as Chair of the committee.  The following year she became a member of the Environmental Commission where she worked actively through 2003 serving as Chair from 2000 through 2002.  She served as a delegate to the Whippany River Watershed Action Committee and the Steering Committee, and WMA6 (Watershed Management Area).  It is through this work that she was able to become familiar with the individuals serving the county and state government.  Ellen was a member of the Midvale Revitalization Committee, the Medical Needs Foundation and has been a board member of the Mountain Lakes League of Women Voters. On behalf of the Environmental Commission and the Mountain Lakes DPW, both Ellen and Mark Prusina accepted the ANJEC Award for Environmental/DPW Partnership.  Ellen also presented to Council an EPA award for Environmental Quality that the Borough shared with the other member municipalities of the Whippany River Watershed Action Committee. [ E-mail ]