Mike Hunninghake
Dear Friends, Colleagues, Volunteers and present and former BCEC members:
It is with much sadness that I write to you this last time as the chair of the Bordentown City Environmental Commission (BCEC).
I have been informed that I will not be reappointed to the BCEC and, as a consequence, will also no longer serve as the BCEC representative on the city’s Planning Board.
Given your interest, engagement and support over the last nine years, I feel it my duty to inform you of this change, and my responsibility to thank you for all of your efforts, large and small, on behalf of Bordentown City and its residents, and the local environment.
The BCEC has many accomplishments to be proud of since our founding in 2002, from the Environmental Resource Inventory we created as one of our first projects, to last year’s Green Fair and the City’s 2010 bronze-level certification as a Sustainable Jersey community and recognition as a “Sustainability Champion” in the Small Communities category. Over the course of the last nine years, the BCEC has become recognized statewide as an exemplary model for other environmental commissions in New Jersey.
While I am deeply saddened to no longer have the opportunity to serve, I can truly say that the past nine years’ work I have done on behalf of our little city’s natural and built environment has been the highest privilege and honor of my adult life.
I have relished the opportunity to harness my personal passion, as well as my professional skills and connections as the director of Education & Communications at the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and as a board member of the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, to effect positive change on behalf of the city.
I believe that my efforts and yours have helped the city grow more sustainable, more aware of its environmental resources and challenges, and better prepared to meet the future.
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered at a cleanup or a trail building day, stopped by the BCEC booth at the Street Fair or the Cranberry Festival, or attended an Earth Talk, BCEC meeting or other event. Volunteers and engaged residents help our community in so many ways.
It has been a real pleasure to get to know you. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks for all your support, and I hope to see you at the Bordentown City Green Fair on June 11!
PS: As of May 1, my personal e-mail address above will no longer serve as a point of contact for the BCEC.
Until further notice, all future e-mail correspondence with the BCEC should be sent to the existing general BCEC e-mail mailbox: [email protected].

