Our own Donna Goggin Patel accepts Volunteer of the Year Award - congrats Donna!!Summit Mayor Elizabeth Fagan MD presented the award to Donna at the December 16 Common Council meeting, thanking her for her exceptional dedication and service to our community.
Donna has been a dedicated city volunteer for eight years, volunteering countless hours of her time with the city's Environmental Commission to tirelessly champion environmental initiatives and projects that help to protect natural resources throughout Summit and improve residents' quality of life.
Since becoming chair of the Environmental Commission in 2019, Donna has been the driving force behind numerous projects including the Tiny Forest, the annual Earth Day clean-up, the Community Energy Plan, and the revision of the city's Environmental Resource Inventory, among many others. She spearheads the renewal process for the city's Sustainable Jersey certification, an enormous undertaking that requires detailed cataloguing of the city's sustainability actions and policies. Under her leadership, the city continues to achieve an impressive silver level certification that it has held since 2010.