Editing Warren Township, New Jersey (section)

=== Local government ===
Warren Township is governed under the [[Township (New Jersey)|Township]] form of New Jersey municipal government, one of 141 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form, the second-most commonly used form of government in the state.<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 Township Committee is comprised of five members, who are elected directly by the voters [[at-large]] in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 94.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=7 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 7. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> At an annual reorganization meeting held in the first week of January, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor. Township Committee meetings are held at the municipal building on Thursdays.<ref name=Committee/>

{{As of|2022}}, Township Committee members are Mayor Victor J. Sordillo ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]], term on committee ends December 31, 2024; term as mayor ends 2022), Deputy Mayor Gary P. DiNardo (R, term on committee ends 2024; term as deputy mayor ends 2022), George K. Lazo (R, 2023), Jolanta Maziarz (R, 2022) and Michael C. "Mick" Marion (R, 2023).<ref name=Committee>[https://warrennj.org/259/Township-Committee Township Committee], Warren Township. Accessed July 17, 2022. "Warren Township is governed by a 5 member Township Committee, which is elected by the voters for staggered 3-year terms. The Township Committee is a collective executive and legislative body. A Mayor, Chairman of the Township Committee, is elected annually by the members of the Committee."</ref><ref>[https://warrennj.org/DocumentCenter/View/5675/2022-Introduced-Budget?bidId= 2022 Municipal Data Sheet], Warren Township. Accessed July 17, 2022.</ref><ref name=SomersetDirectory>[https://www.co.somerset.nj.us/home/showpublisheddocument/46227/638203671214730000#page=71 ''2023 Directory of County & Municipal Offices''], [[Somerset County, New Jersey]]. Accessed April 10, 2024.</ref><ref name=Somerset2021>[https://www.co.somerset.nj.us/home/showpublisheddocument/43891/637725959984900000 2021 General Election Winning Candidates], [[Somerset County, New Jersey]]. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref><ref name=Somerset2020>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Somerset/107161/web.264614/#/summary Somerset County General Election November 3, 2020 Final Certified Results], [[Somerset County, New Jersey]], dated December 3, 2020. Accessed January 19, 2021.</ref><ref name=Somerset2019>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Somerset/98879/Web02.235350/#/ General Election November 5, 2019 Final Results], [[Somerset County, New Jersey]], updated November 15, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.</ref>

Former Township Committee member Frank Salvato, re-elected in 2008, served until his death in 2011 at the age of 98, having been first elected to the Committee in the 1938 and served as mayor in 1939, the township's youngest.<ref>Staff. [http://newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/opinion/editorial/remembering-frank-salvato/article_19f12318-f500-11e0-bbb0-001cc4c002e0.html "Remembering Frank Salvato"], ''Echoes-Sentinel'', October 14, 2011. Accessed April 5, 2012. "He would have completed his 10th consecutive three-year term on the Township Committee in December. Prior to that, he had been elected to nine consecutive three-year terms as one of Warren Township's representatives on the Watchung Hills Regional High School Board of Education. Oh, and before that he had been elected to another four terms on the Township Committee. During all that time, he served five times as mayor, seven times as high school board of education president and another seven times as board vice president."</ref>

In 1975, the Township Committee created the position of Township Administrator, to serve a one-year term beginning in July of each year. The Township Administrator is Mark M. Krane, who has served in that post since 1986.<ref name=Administrator/>

The Historical Sites Committee was formed in 1971 and members are appointed by the governing body to administer municipally owned historic landmarks. The historical landmarks they have protected are the [[Mount Bethel Baptist Meetinghouse]], the [[Kirch–Ford House]], and two small family cemeteries. The Meetinghouse and the Kirch–Ford House are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].