Hoboken Arts & Music Festival a Great Day for the Community and the Environment

Pictured with the Mayor and Environmental Services Director are: Freeholder Anthony Romano and city workers Robert Brockman, Joe Nataliccio and Bill DeAngelo.

Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Hoboken Health & Human Services Director Leo Pellegrini called this year’s Arts & Music Festival “a huge success for the community.” Director Pellegrini acknowledged the City’s Cultural Affairs Supervisor Geri Fallo, his staff, and all City workers, along with many volunteers for their extraordinary efforts.

This year’s festival was unique in that in addition to serving as a valuable tourism and cultural event, it was also a trial run for a new City-wide recycling effort. Additionally, it demonstrated the success of the new St. Patrick’s Day community service program.

Recycling at the Festival:

“I am very thankful to the Committee for a Green Hoboken for initiating this weekend’s recycling program,” said Mayor Zimmer. “This is a cause I feel strongly about, and my administration will take what we learned from this effort and expand recycling throughout Hoboken.”

Thanks to the Committee’s initiative and coordination with the City’s Environmental Services Dept., a recycling campaign at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival served as a pilot for a planned expanded city-wide recycling program. Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition, its committee for a Green Hoboken and Aaron Klein from Greener Corners worked in conjunction with the City to increase recycling awareness at the festival and were highly instrumental in making the day’s efforts a success. David Calamoneri, Environmental Specialist for the City was also instrumental in the planning and execution of the festival’s recycling plan.

Mayor Zimmer joined Environmental Services Director Jennifer Maier at the City garage yesterday to recognize the successful campaign in which more than forty bags of recycling were collected this year, compared to only one last year.

St. Patrick’s Day Community Service Workers:

In addition, seventeen community service workers who committed violations on St. Patrick’s Day were on hand to help with various duties during the festival, including helping the bands and artist vendors.

“Several volunteers told us they would like to come back and volunteer again,” said Mayor Zimmer. “We thank them for their work and look forward to having more St. Patrick’s Day volunteers help with the impressive line up of City events this summer.”

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