As
a Freeholder, Maurice Fitzgibbons has served in various
leadership capacities on the Board, including 1997
chairperson. Freeholder Fitzgibbons is a lifelong resident
of the City of Hoboken and a graduate of Hoboken High
School. He has attended Jersey City State College,
participated in an internship at the Roundabout Theater in
New York City, and has studied acting with acting coach
Julie Bovasso.
Presently,
Mr. Fitzgibbons is President of the public relations firm
Fitz Media of Jersey City. He had been Director of Ethnic
Affairs, Department of State, and then Special Assistant to
Governor James Florio and was formerly the administrator of
the Hudson County Division of Cultural & Heritage
Affairs. During his term as freeholder chairperson in 1997,
Maurice Fitzgibbons instigated the preliminary development
of the Hudson County High School for the Performing Arts,
which has the potential for being housed in the A.J.
Demarest School in Hoboken (Frank Sinatra’s old high
school) and in educating its students by using a
conservatory approach.
Freeholder
Fitzgibbons now serves as Chairman of the Tourism and
Cultural Affairs Committee, as the Representative of the
Board on the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC), as
an Alternate on the Workforce Investment Board where he
served as President 2001-2002, and as a Member of the Hudson
County Board of School Estimate. He also serves as a Member
on the following committees: Environment, Health and Human
Services; Family Services and Welfare to Work; Finance,
Budget and Administration; and Task Force on Homeless.
Maurice
Fitzgibbons is known throughout the County as a caring
individual, one who has given his time and effort to many
charitable causes. He is a member of St. Ann’s Roman
Catholic Church in Hoboken. Freeholder Fitzgibbons was named
Lions Club Man of the Year in 1992, the Hoboken B.P.O. Elks,
Lodge #74, 1999 Irishman of the Year, and the Hoboken St.
Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal in 2002.
