1) Build an emergency electricity generation plant with 100 days of diesel fuel reserve to power the whole town. Supplement the generation plant with solar panels on rooftops and wind turbines on the MRC land.

2) Build an emergency gasoline fuel reserve for town residents to use in times of crisis.

3) Force JCP&L to cut every single tree down that could possibly fall on a feeder line. If a neighbor complains about the tree cutting, disconnect the power to their house until they give.

Madison is perfect, no improvements needed. Happy New Year everyone!

Cut down all TOWN trees that could possibly fall on a power line. And, do not replace the town trees with new ones, 50 yrs from now they will not be making the town more pretty, they will be causing problems for power lines.

Interesting the lack of response to such an inviting inquiry. Maybe it's the holidays but seems all the frequent posters have moved on. Or as Chris has suggested... everything is perfect!.

Well unfortunately that can't be it and I have time on my hands this week, so here's my input:

Iniitial area is infrastructure. I'm assuming the NS pump station has already been targeted and funded. There's still more work to do on the roads, but some progress has been made there as well. Back up power is a good suggestion, but other than cutting trees that would be an extended project.

To me, it seems like the downtown business district is very unsteady and needs to be addressed. As it goes, so goes our property values and tax revenues. Off hand I can think of 10 town stores/resturants west of Bruns closing in the past year and there were likely more. At times it seems like we are just one more mild recession away from half-empty store fronts. So I'd like to see some focus on stablizing the area and pursuing or identifying our financial plans to make the Madison downtown attractive to retailers to invest and to enable existing well run businesses to competitively sell desired products and services.

I made a resolution to ask the Borough Council member that will serve as the liaison to the schools starting in January if they would attend the Board of Education meetings.
Clearly our town got some good press, and built resident loyalty, by having a better storm electricity response than most towns. Building on that capability is an interesting idea.
Of course good and/or improving schools also generate good press and resident loyalty to the town. But the school improvement effort is suboptimal if it only involves people that have a direct interest in the public schools. At a minimum, a council member's presence at the BoE meetings might signal town leadership awareness of the desirability of maintaining school improvement as a town priority rather than just a priority of the school users.

add a dollar store. a rita's italian ice , white castle!! a five and below store, an old navy store.. the saying goes love Madison shop madison , well not all stores are shoppable for everyone.. i lived here all my 50 years and i seen great stores come and been placed with banks we don't need more banks!! or pizza places or chinese places we need economy stores where people who have tight budgets can shop. who can walk and not drive to.

p.s. I LOVE MADISON So let's keep people here not scare them away with high price stores.

2 Points:
1) Regarding downtown commerce business health; can you imagine a Chipoltle, or a Trader Joe's. or another Starbucks downtown where the old CVS was? imagine downtown Madison being a shopping destination for Summit, Chtaham, Harding, Morristown & Florham Park? Think that might create some taxable revenue to offset the tax base (lower our taxes)? How about a parking study, maybe an underground parking garage (or above ground) behind either side of downtown?
2) Regarding the MRC (aka Don Links Fields), lets study leasing the field to Florham Pk., Chatham & Morristown, when not in use by Madison teams?

Dan,

The MRC is rarely ever not in use and is currently generating a pretty healthy revenue through rentals to various soccer, field hockey and lacrosse clubs already.

I thought this post was about improving Madison. Madison Station's idea of parking garages is the worst idea of the year. A parking garage would be an eyesore. My guess is that Madison Station was involved in building the police/fire house.