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| Roseland Borough Government:
New Jersey Form of Borough
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| Roseland is governed under the Borough form of municipal
government. The government consists of a Mayor and a Borough Council comprising
six council members, with all positions elected at large. A Mayor is elected
directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council
consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered
basis, with two seats coming up for election each year. |
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The Mayor of Roseland is John Arvanites. As of 2010, members
of the Roseland Borough Council are Council President David Jacobs, John
Duthie, Diane Christiana, Thomas Tsilionis, Peter M. Smith and Michele Tolli. |
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Borough History: Because the borough is the most prevalent
form of municipal government in New Jersey (218 as of July 1, 2003), many
people would find it hard to believe that the borough form is of comparatively
recent origin. But prior to the passage of the first general Borough Act
in 1878, only seventeen boroughs had been established in New Jersey; each
by an individual special act of the Legislature. However, the prohibition
against special or local legislation, which was added to the State Constitution
in 1875, eliminated this practice. |
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P.L. 1894, ch.335, was responsible for a wave of borough
incorporations between 1894 and 1897, as parents sought to keep control of
their local schools and taxpayers sought to avoid being saddled with the
debts of other school districts. (The township all but disappeared as a form
of municipal government in Bergen County because of P.L. 1894, ch. 335).
This gave the Legislature second thoughts about the wisdom of the self-executing
incorporation feature of the Borough Act of 1878. The Legislature eliminated
this feature in the first sentence of the revised Borough Act of 1897 (P.L.
1897, ch 161). |
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A major change made by the Borough Act of 1987 concerned the
delegation of executive responsibility to an appointed administrator. The
borough council was given all of the executive responsibilities of the
municipality not placed, by general law or the Borough Act, in the office
of the mayor. The council was also given the power to delegate, by ordinance,
all or a portion of the executive responsibilities of the municipality to
an administrator appointed pursuant to NJSA 40A:9-136. This allowed the boroughs
of New Jersey to take advantage of the strengthened ordinance
administrator.
Roseland is part of New Jersey's 27th Legislative District and is in the
Eleventh Congressional District.
New Jersey's Eleventh Congressional District, covering western portions of
Essex County, all of Morris County, and sections of Passaic County, Somerset
County and Sussex County, is represented by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R, Harding
Township). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D,
Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).
The 27th District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State
Senate by Richard Codey (D, Roseland) and in the Assembly by Mila Jasey (D,
South Orange) and John F. McKeon (D, West Orange).[14] The Governor of New
Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). |
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