Joseph Ronnie Rogers, the former mayor of Milford who was in office for 13 consecutive terms from 1982 through 2008, will run for the mayor's seat again this April.
"I still talk to a lot of people in the public, and keep up with what’s going on in the city," he said. "People I speak with kept asking me to run, and I said to myself, ‘there’s no sense waiting around.’ I just decided I want to take another shot at it."
Rogers filed on Wednesday morning for the city elections, scheduled for April 24, as a candidate for mayor. He will face Dan Marabello, now the incumbent, who won the 2008 election by seven votes.
"I’m still very interested in how the city is being run, and I think the experience I’ve gathered, the number of years I’ve served, and the work I've accomplished still make me a good candidate," Rogers said. "In the last few years, we got involved in a couple of legal issues that I think would have worked out differently. It was a cost to the taxpayers, and I think you can get things done better by trying to work them out normally than by getting into legal fees."
In general, Rogers, said, the city should focus more on providing services to its citizens.
The city should always be run as a business," he said. "People are interested in our services, and I think we need to focus on providing those services...recently, they seem to put things off rather than getting them done. There’s issues that need to be addressed, and we should be paying more attention to services and getting some jobs in the city rather than worrying about things that just aren’t that important."
No other challengers have filed so far.
