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===Local government=== [[File:12.9.22WestNewYorkCityHallByLuigiNovi.jpg|thumb|West New York City Hall]] [[File:4.6.23GabrielRodriguezByLuigiNovi2.jpg|thumb|Mayor Gabriel Rodriguez]] Since 1931, West New York has been governed under the [[Walsh Act]] form of New Jersey municipal government. The town is one of 30 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use the [[City commission government|commission form of government]].<ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf ''Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey''], [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of a five-member commission, whose members are elected at-large in [[Non-partisan democracy|non-partisan]] elections to serve four-year terms of office on a concurrent basis as part of the May municipal election. Each Commissioner is assigned to head one of five departments. The Commission selects one of its members to serve as mayor.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 142.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=8 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 8. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> {{As of|2023|5}}, the five members of the West New York Board of Commissioners are Mayor Albio Sires, Marcos Arroyo, Victor Barrera, Marielka Diaz and Adam Parkinson, all serving concurrent terms of office ending May 15, 2027.<ref name=Directory>[https://www.westnewyorknj.org/directory Directory], Town of West New York. Accessed March 1, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.westnewyorknj.org/_Content/pdf/budgets/2021-Introduced-Budget_pdf.pdf 2022 Municipal Data Sheet], Town of West New York. Accessed May 2, 2022.</ref><ref name=HudsonDirectory>[https://www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/elected-officials/ Elected Officials], [[Hudson County, New Jersey]] Clerk. Accessed March 1, 2023.</ref><ref name=Hudson2023Municipal>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Hudson/117966/web.317647/#/summary 2023 Municipal Election May 9, 2023 Official Results], Updated May 17, 2023. Accessed May 17, 2023.</ref><ref>Fox, Joey. [https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/team-sires-sweeps-west-new-york/ "Team Sires sweeps West New York; Cirillo’s slate unable to win any seats on five-member commission"], ''New Jersey Globe'', May 9, 2023. Accessed May 17, 2023. "17 years after he left to take a seat in Congress, Albio Sires will be mayor of West New York once again.... Joining Sires on the 53,000-strong Hudson County town’s governing body will be one incumbent commissioner, Victor Barrera, alongside Board of Education President Adam Parkinson, Marielka Diaz, and Marcos Arroyo, who was the Republican nominee to succeed Sires in his safely Democratic congressional district last year."</ref> In the May 2011 municipal election, the "Together We Can" slate of five candidates led by Roque took all five seats on the Town Council, knocking off the slate of incumbents led by then-mayor [[Silverio Vega]].<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/05/roque_slate_sweeps_west_new_yo.html "Roque slate sweeps West New York election, ousts Vega and incumbents"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', May 11, 2011. Accessed May 17, 2011.</ref> At the town council's reorganization meeting, the five commissioners unanimously voted to appoint Roque to a four-year term as Mayor of West New York.<ref>Mestanza, Jean-Pierre. [http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/05/hours_after_hes_sworn_in_new_w.html "Hours after he's sworn in, new West New York mayor fires police director"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', May 17, 2011. Accessed May 17, 2011.</ref> In February 2015, Cosmo Cirillo was selected to fill the vacant seat of Rubin Vargas, making Cirillo the youngest commissioner on town history at the age of 27.<ref>Sullivan, Al. [https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2015/02/08/cirillo-replaces-vargas-as-a-wny-commissioner/ "Cirillo replaces Vargas as a WNY commissioner Rift with Mayor Roque appears to be healed"], ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', February 8, 2015. Accessed March 15, 2020. "In a move that would have seemed impossible only two years ago, Mayor Felix Roque and three other commissioners voted on Feb. 4 to appoint Cosmo Cirillo to replace Rubin Vargas on the town's five-member Board of Commissioners. At 27 years old, Cirillo is the youngest person to ever serve as a commissioner in West New York and will serve as commissioner of the Department of Public Affairs."</ref>
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