Anne Marie Mitchell is currently 0n the Bogota Council. She was appointed to the Council on March 1, 2007 to fill a one-year un-expired term and was re-elected to a three-year term in 2007. She served on the Bogota Council from 1985 to 1988. At that time, she held multiple commission and committee posts: Council President and Police Commissioner in 1987; Commissioner for Recreation, Parks and Welfare from 1985 to 1987; Representative to the South East Region of Community Development for federal grants from 1985 to 1991; was on the Personnel, Court, Finance, DWP Committees; liaison to the Property Maintenance Board and the Board of Health from 1985 to 1987.
Anne Marie was Fire Commissioner in 2008 and since 2008 has been Commissioner the Rescue Squad and liaison to the Environmental Commission, Library Board and Teterboro Airport Advisory Noise Committee; and is currently on the Finance and First Aid Squad Committees. She attended St. Joseph’s Grammar School and graduated from Bogota High School. She comes from a large Irish Catholic family. Her parents, the late Joseph G. Mitchell and Nancy T. Mitchell raised six children all who attended schools in Bogota. She is currently a Patent Administrative Assistant for a law lira in Hackensack, New Jersey. Prior to that,Anne Marie worked in New York City for twenty years as a Legal Secretary in international law firms.
Anne Marie is currently the lone Republican on the Council. She is Chairman of the Bogota Republican Policy Committee, a member of the Bogota Republican Club and a County Committee Person in the 3rd District. She is also a member of the Bergen Irish Ladies Association, Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians in Ballet, New York, the Bergen County Republican Woman’s Club and a parishioner of St. Joseph’s R.C.Church in Bogota.

Jared A Geist is a 2001 graduate of Brighton High School where he was a member of the Varsity Wrestling and Track & Field teams and editor-in-chief school newspaper. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout through the Boy Scouts of America. While in high school Jared was also an active volunteer with the American Red Cross and St. George Lutheran Church Youth Group.
Jared was a multiple scholarship winner to Central Michigan University graduating in 2005 with a double major in Journalism and Political Science. In addition to writing for the University's award-winning newspaper, he served as a Senator in the Student Government Association and Chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee organizing several “Campus to Congress" student lobbying events.
Jared graduated from Michigan State University College of Law in 2008, where he was a Senator in the Student Bar Association. He also served as the student representative to the Faculty Curriculum Committee, and Co-Chairman of the Student Bar Association Finance Committee. While in law school Jared was President of MSU Law's Federalist Society, and worked as a Student Associate for the legal research web site Lexis.com.
Jared is currently a member of the Michigan and New Jersey Bars, and has been a Bogota resident since 2008. His family has been in Bogota for over sixty years. During the 2008-2009 Court year, he served a judicial clerkship with the Hon. Kenneth J. Slomienski, J.S.C. in the Superior Court, Bergen County. Jared is eager to continue his community involvement in Bogota and looks forward to serving on the Council!

Guillermo "Willy" Martinez, a 16 year Bogota resident and homeowner, was born in Oriente, Cuba in 1952 and came to the United States in 1968 settling in Jersey City. After graduating from Ferris School in Jersey City he joined Chemical Bank in New York City.
Guillermo studied at the American Banking Institute and Saint Peter’s College. After leaving Chemical Bank he launched and ran a successful distribution business for ten years. Moving onto The Newark Star Ledger, he began as a "floater" working his way up to Assistant County Manager.He has held a real estate license since 1997 and 2retired from publishing in 2008 to devote himself to that industry full-time. He currently is associated with Bogota based Reggo & Coleman Real Estate Agency. In addition to his real estate endeavors, he has been a Spanish interpreter for both the Bergen and Passaic County courts for the last 7 years. Guillermo is presently a Republican County Committee Person in the 5th District.
Guillermo and his wife Marlin have been married for 33 years. They have four children all educated in the Bogota public schools, and are the proud grandparents of 9 year old granddaughter, Brianna Shea Martinez, and awaiting the arrival of their second granddaughter, Kylie Eileen Martinez, who should be making her debut in September.

We all want the same things from our borough government. We want our children to have every opportunity
that we can provide. We want our community to continue to be a safe place to live. We want to make sure
Bogota remains affordable for our seniors who have done so much to shape our beautiful little town.As we all know, there are great challenges ahead of us: the challenge to provide our children
with the kind of quality education they need in a constantly changing world; the challenge of
keeping property taxes from crushing the finance health of our families; the challenge of maintaining
top quality municipal services; the challenge of making to town attractive to business so that the
tax burden isn’t shouldered completely by homeowners, while preserving and protecting Bogota’s quaint
small-town feel; the challenge of navigating the labyrinth of technical and legal requirements that
must be fulfilled in order to get the state to pay their fare share. While these are difficult challenges, they are challenges that we can overcome by working together,
and trusting that we all want the same thing - the best for our families.