PARSIPPANY — Parsippany-Troy Hills Council President Louis Valori announced at the Randolph Republican Club of his intention to run for a seat on Morris County Freeholder.
Valori, won elected to the Township Council during the November 2013 general election was sworn in on January 1, 2014. His term ends December 2017. He was nominated to serve as President of the Council during the reorganization meeting this past January.
Freeholder Director Kathy DeFillippo, Freeholder Doug Cabana and Freeholder Thomas Mastrangelo are up for re-election.
They have not officially announced re-election plans.
Also at the Randolph Republican meeting it was announced that Randolph Mayor Roman Hirniak, and Parsippany-Troy Hills Board of Adjustment attorney Peter King will run in the June 7 primary election for seats on the freeholder board.
The freeholder board currently consists of Freeholder Director Kathryn A. DeFillippo, Deputy Freeholder Director Lyon, newly re-elected John Cesaro, new elected Christine Myers and Debbie Smith, as well as DeFillippo, Cabana and Mastrangelo.
Peter King, Esq., did not attend the Randolph Republican meeting on Wednesday, since he was at the Parsippany-Troy Hills Board of Adjustment meeting.
Randolph Mayor Roman Hirniak terms expires December 31, 2016. Hirniak was elected to the Randolph Township Council in November of 2012, after having served two terms on the planning board and one term each on both the recreation advisory committee and the traffic advisory committee. During calendar year 2015, he was the township’s deputy mayor. Roman is a member of the Randolph Rotary Club, attends St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany and serves as a pedagogical advisor to the Ukrainian Educational Council. A graduate of Marquette University and The John Marshall Law School, he is a vice president and senior counsel with Santander Bank, N.A. His son Alex is a freshman at Rutgers University, studying biomedical engineering and his daughters Juliana and Adriana are, respectively, a junior and a freshman at Randolph High School. Roman enjoys swimming laps at the Randolph YMCA and lives on Ridge Road in the Mount Fern neighborhood.
King was a partner in a law firm with ex-state Senator John Dorsey and currently is a partner in the law firm King & Petracca, located at 51 Gibraltar Drive.
King is a certified diplomate in municipal law in the State of New Jersey and has extensive municipal experience, including positions as: Municipal Attorney; Conflict Counsel; Municipal Planning Board/Zoning Board Attorney; Municipal Board of Health Attorney; Municipal Prosecutor; Historic Preservation Commission Attorney; Water Commission Attorney; and Defense Counsel for various insurance funds.
Mr. King is admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey, and to the U.S. District Court District of New Jersey and is a graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
