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Mayor Murray highlights increased police stops and infrastructure plans in Milltown message
Summary
In his Jan. 5 mayoral message, Mayor Murray credited a rise in police stops with improved traffic safety, previewed a battery storage project for 2026, and said the borough will begin lead/galvanized water-line replacement work; the figures for some multi-year totals were indistinct in the transcript.
Mayor Murray delivered the annual mayor’s message at Milltown’s organizational session on Jan. 5, emphasizing public-safety gains and several infrastructure projects planned for 2026.
"We have gone from 162 car stops per month to 509 per month," Mayor Murray said, citing the change in monthly enforcement and reporting multi-year totals as evidence of increased police activity and traffic enforcement. The transcript records additional multi-year stop figures but one year’s total is garbled in the recording; the mayor also reported 6,144 car stops in 2025.
The mayor thanked the Miltown Police Department, Fire Department leadership and the Rescue Squad for public-safety work; he recognized Officer Robert Worley as 2025 officer of the year, Detective Sergeant Eric Hefner for cross-jurisdiction fraud work that returned $47,895 to a victim, and Patrolman Michael McCabe for organizing a holiday toy drive supporting pediatric oncology patients.
On infrastructure, Murray said the borough expects a battery storage project to be installed in late spring or early summer 2026, noted the self-storage building under construction, and described automated water meter installation as near completion. He also said the borough will soon begin a lead/galvanized line replacement project (timing was described as "soon").
Quantitative note: several multi-year stop totals recorded in the mayor’s comments were unclear in the transcript; the article quotes the mayor’s clearly stated monthly figures and flags the other multi-year totals as unclear rather than inventing exact numbers.
What’s next: projects mentioned will proceed through scheduled procurement and construction steps; the borough clerk and relevant departments will publish schedules and additional details as they are finalized.
