Rimm announces he will not seek re-election in 2007

By SUZANNE MARINO
Staff Writer
MARGATE – After 32 years as a Margate City Commissioner, Sigmund Rimm has decided that it’s time to allow a new trio of commissioners to make the decisions.
Rimm said he made his choice not to seek another four-year term in September but kept that information close to the vest until this week. He announced Tuesday that he would not run for re-election.
Rimm is a local son who grew up in Atlantic City, graduated from Atlantic City High School and went on to earn a degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Atlantic County to open an accounting firm in Ventnor -- Rimm, Lavinsky, Horowitz, and Pollard -- and moved to Margate in 1959.
Rimm spent 28 years at the helm of public safety, a position he said he enjoyed, and the last four years the commissioner has been in charge of the public works department.
He helped see through a plan for bringing color to the city with the flowers at Library Park and the hanging baskets in the business district and at the entrance to the Jerome Avenue recreation fields.
Asked if there was something that was particularly gratifying, Rimm responded that he felt he had a hand in the revitalization of Washington Avenue.
He said he would have liked the opportunity to be mayor, something he thought was going to work out after the last election, but the votes from his fellow commission members did not fall his way. He said he is not bitter about the outcome.
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