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===Local government=== {{Further|Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey}} In 1980, Englewood switched from a [[Faulkner Act (mayor–council)|Mayor-Council]] form of government to a modified [[Faulkner Act (council–manager)|Council-Manager]] plan of government in accordance with a [[Special charter (New Jersey)|special charter]] granted by the [[New Jersey Legislature]].<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 157.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=15 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604040836/https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=15 |date=June 4, 2023 }}, p. 15. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The city is one of 11 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use a special charter granted by the Legislature.<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''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601184216/https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf |date=June 1, 2023 }}, [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and the City Council. Under this charter, the mayor has powers to appoint and veto, while the council functions as a legislative body, with some power to appoint and confirm appointments. The city is divided into four [[Ward (United States)|wards]] which are approximately equal in population. The City Council includes five members, each elected for a three-year term. Four are elected from the individual wards in which they live and the other is elected by a citywide vote as an [[at-large]] member. Administrative functions are responsibilities of the City Manager. The six seats in the governing body are elected in a three-year cycle as part of the November general election, with wards two and four both up together, followed a year later by wards one and three, and then the at-large council and mayoral seats. Each ward votes in two of the three years in the cycle, once for its ward seat, in the other year for the two positions voted at-large and one year with no election.<ref>[http://www.cityofenglewood.org/filestorage/9306/11306/ENGLEWOOD_CITY_CHARTER.pdf City Charter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303191737/http://cityofenglewood.org/filestorage/9306/11306/ENGLEWOOD_CITY_CHARTER.pdf |date=March 3, 2019 }}, City of Englewood. Accessed September 29, 2019.</ref> The mayor appoints members to the Planning Board, the Library Board of Trustees, and, with council confirmation, the Board of Adjustment. The mayor serves on the Planning Board. The mayor attends and may speak at council meetings, but only votes to break a tie for passage of an ordinance or resolution. The mayor has veto power over ordinances, but can be overridden with votes from four council members. The City Council is the legislative branch of government, deciding public policy, creating city ordinances and resolutions, passing the city budget, appropriating funds for city services, and hiring the City Manager. The City Council meets generally four times per month (except during summer months). {{As of|2024}}, the [[Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey|Mayor of Englewood]] is [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Michael Wildes]], whose term of office ends December 31, 2024.<ref name=Mayor>[https://www.cityofenglewood.org/1295/Mayors-Office Mayor's Office], City of Englewood. Accessed April 26, 2024.</ref> Members of the City Council are Charles Cobb (D, 2024; At-Large), Angela David (D, 2026; Ward 3), Kenneth Rosensweig (D, 2026; Ward 1), Kevin A. Wilson (D, 2025; Ward 4) and Lisa Wisotsky (D, 2025; Ward 2).<ref>[https://www.cityofenglewood.org/1282/City-Council City Council], City of Englewood. Accessed April 26, 2024. "The City Council consists of five members, each elected for a three-year term. Four are elected by the individual wards in which they live and the other is elected by a city-wide vote as an at-large member. The city is divided into four wards which are approximately equal in population."</ref><ref>[https://www.cityofenglewood.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/219#page=11 2023 Municipal Data Sheet], City of Englewood. Accessed April 26, 2024.</ref><ref name=BergenCountyDirectory>[https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/images/About_Bergen_County/2024-county-directory.pdf#page=41 ''2024 County and Municipal Directory''], [[Bergen County, New Jersey]], April 2024. Accessed April 15, 2024.</ref><ref name=Bergen2023>[https://www.bergencountyclerk.gov/_Content/pdf/ElectionResult/District%20Canvass%20NEW.pdf Official Statement of Vote 2023 General Election - November 7, 2023 Official Results], [[Bergen County, New Jersey]], November 27, 2023. Accessed January 1, 2024.</ref><ref name=Bergen2022>[https://www.bergencountyclerk.org/_Content/pdf/ElectionResult/Certified%20Statement%20of%20Vote%20Book%2011-21-22.pdf Bergen County November 8, 2022 General Election Statement of Vote], [[Bergen County, New Jersey]] Clerk, updated November 21, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.</ref><ref name=Bergen2021>[https://www.bergencountyclerk.org/_Content/pdf/ElectionResult/Statement%20of%20Vote%2011-17-21(1).pdf Bergen County Statement of Vote November 2, 2021 Official results], [[Bergen County, New Jersey]], updated November 17, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref> ====Fire department==== {{Infobox fire department | name = Englewood Fire Department (EFD) | native_name = | logo = | logo_alt = | logo_size = | motto = <!-- Operational Area --> | country = | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_type2 = City | subdivision_name1 = New Jersey | subdivision_name2 = Englewood <!-- Agency Overview --> | address = 81 South Van Brunt Street | established = 1887 | annual calls = ~2,200 | employees = ~60 | annual budget = | staffing = | chief = | FirstResponderBLSorALS = BLS First Responder | iaff = L3260/3263 | reference1 = | commissioner = | divisions = | battalions = | stations = 1 | engines = 3 (including spare) | trucks = 2 (including spare) | ladders = | quints = | squads = | rescues = 1 (cross-staffed) | ambulances = | tenders = | hazmat = 1 | usar = | crash = | wildfire engines = | bulldozers = | airplanes = <!-- Footer --> | helicopters = | fireboats = | reference2 = | website = | iaffweb = http://www.englewoodfirefighters.com <!-- Facilities & Equipment history --> }} [[File:Englewood FHQ.jpg|left|thumb|275x275px|The Englewood fire station]] The Englewood Fire Association, a volunteer company established in 1887 as the city's first organized fire protection service, built a firehouse on North Van Brunt Street, near the site of Englewood's current city hall. A professional paid fire department was created in 1912 with the establishment of a Board of Fire Examiners. The fire headquarters constructed on William Street in 1926 was used for 90 years until its replacement by the Jack Drakeford Englewood Firehouse on South Van Brunt Street, which was dedicated on May 14, 2016. The department has a uniformed force of 57 members, including a Chief, Deputy Chief, 4 Captains, 9 Lieutenants and 42 firefighters.<ref>[http://www.cityofenglewood.org/content/9264/9272/9288/default.aspx Englewood Fire Department] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917124158/http://www.cityofenglewood.org/content/9264/9272/9288/default.aspx |date=September 17, 2017 }}, City of Englewood. Accessed September 16, 2017.</ref> ====Police department==== The city's police department includes 85 employees, of whom 79 are sworn officers and an additional six dispatchers.<ref>[http://www.cityofenglewood.org/content/9264/9272/9298/default.aspx Police Department] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811172526/http://cityofenglewood.org/content/9264/9272/9298/default.aspx |date=August 11, 2022 }}, City of Englewood. Accessed August 19, 2022. "Englewood is served by a full-time professionally trained police department consisting of 79 sworn Police Officers, 6 civilian dispatchers."</ref> After a no-confidence vote against the department's leadership in December 2020, the police union suspended a group of eight officers, seven of them Black, who had supported the chief and deputy chief.<ref>Tully, Tracey. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/nyregion/englewood-nj-pba-police.html "This Police Union Suspended 8 Members. Seven Are Black."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103032152/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/nyregion/englewood-nj-pba-police.html |date=January 3, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 31, 2020. Accessed August 19, 2022. "In November, the union suspended eight officers who had expressed support for the chiefs. The suspensions, which last a year, meant the union would not provide the officers with legal representation if they had trouble on the job during that time. Like the chief and deputy chief, seven of the eight officers who were suspended are Black.... Mayor Wildes, a former federal prosecutor who has participated in more than a dozen Black Lives Matter marches in Englewood, said he believed that each of the city's 72 police officers, individually, was committed to serving the public."</ref>
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