Editing Marlboro Township, New Jersey (section)

==Government==
===Local government===
[[Image:MarlboroTownshipMunicipalComplex.JPG|right|thumb|Marlboro Township's Municipal Complex contains the Town Hall and administrative offices, police station, Board of Education office, recreation center, recycling center, and other facilities]]
Marlboro Township is governed within the [[Faulkner Act]] under the [[Faulkner Act (mayor–council)|Mayor-Council]] system of municipal government.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 63.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=10 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 10. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The township is one of 71 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this 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 the mayor, who is elected directly, and the five-member Marlboro Township Council, with all elected positions chosen [[at-large]] in partisan voting to serve four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with a municipal election conducted in odd-numbered years as part of the November general election. Three council seats come up for vote together and two other council seats come up for election together with the mayoral seat two years later. At a reorganization meeting held in January after each election, the Council selects a President and Vice-President from among its members. As the township's legislative body, the council sets policies, approves budgets, determines municipal tax rates, and passes resolutions and ordinances to govern the township. The council also appoints citizen volunteers to certain advisory boards and the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The council may investigate the conduct of any department, officer or agency of the municipal government. They have full power of subpoena as permitted by statute.

{{As of|2025}}, the [[Mayor]] of Marlboro Township is [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Jonathan Hornik, whose term of office ends December 31, 2027.<ref name=Mayor>[https://www.marlboro-nj.gov/government/mayor-jon-hornik Mayor Jonathan Hornik], Township of Marlboro. Accessed January 29, 2025.</ref> Members of the Marlboro Township Council are Council President Michael Milman (D, 2025), Council Vice President Juned Qazi (D, 2025), Antoinette DiNuzzo (D, 2025), Michael Scalea (D, 2027) and Iqleen K. Virdi (D, 2027).<ref>[https://www.marlboro-nj.gov/government/township-council Marlboro Township Council], Marlboro Township. Accessed January 29, 2025. "The Marlboro Township Council is made up of five elected officials. Township residents elect a new Councilperson every four years on the first Tuesday in November. The Council elects a President and Vice-President, each of whom serve a term of one year or until the election and qualification of a successor."</ref><ref>[https://www.marlboro-nj.gov/images/finance/2024-adopted-budget.pdf 2024 Municipal Data Sheet], Marlboro Township. Accessed January 29, 2025.</ref><ref name=Monmouth2023>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/119047/web.317647/#/summary November 8, 2023 General Election Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]], updated January 18, 2024. Accessed January 22, 2024.</ref><ref name=Monmouth2021>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/111499/web.278093/#/summary November 2, 2021 General Election Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]], December 13, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref>

In January 2015, the township council selected Mike Scalea from a list of three candidates nominated by the Democratic municipal committee to fill the vacant seat expiring in December 2015 of Frank LaRocca, who resigned earlier that month to take a seat as a municipal judge.<ref>Grossman, Jeremy. [https://www1.gmnews.com/2015/02/05/scalea-appointed-to-council/ "Scalea appointed to council"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118163120/https://www1.gmnews.com/2015/02/05/scalea-appointed-to-council/ |date=November 18, 2018 }}, ''News Transcript'', February 5, 2015. Accessed June 19, 2020. "After considering three individuals they called 'very strong candidates,' the members of the Township Council unanimously voted to appoint Mike Scalea to fill the council seat formerly held by Frank LaRocca. At the Jan. 30 meeting, Scalea was sworn into office by Mayor Jonathan Hornik. Scalea will serve the remainder of LaRocca's term, which expires on Dec. 31.... Because the vacant council seat had been held by a Democrat, the Marlboro Democratic Committee was tasked with submitting the names of three residents to the council as possible replacements for LaRocca.... All three candidates switched their party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in order to qualify for the appointment."</ref>

===Mayors of Marlboro===
The following individuals have served as mayor (or the other indicated title), since the Faulkner Act system was adopted in 1952:
* Leroy Van Pelt (1952–1954) – Van Pelt was Chairman of the Township Committee for the five preceding years in office. In 1952, the Faulkner Act changed the township leadership positions to the current mayor–council system.
* Dennis Buckley (1954–1958) – Township Chairman
* Charles T. "Specs" McCue (1958–1962) – Township Chairman
* Paul E. Chester (1962–1963) – Elected Mayor January 3, 1962 – Prior to election he served on the Township Committee.<ref>"Chester Named Marlboro Mayor", Asbury Park Press, January 4, 1962, Page 16</ref>
* Joseph A. Lanzaro (1963–1964)
* Walter Grubb (1964–1968)
* Charles T. "Specs" McCue (1968–1969) – Owning a grocery store on Main Street in Marlboro, his career started in 1942 under the old form of government. During his time in local government, he was mayor for four terms and a member of the Planning Board for 8 years.<ref>"11 Vying for 3 Council Posts in Marlboro", Asbury Park Press, November 6, 1967, Page 8</ref>
* Walter Grubb (1969) – appointed to serve out for McCue who died in office. After the November general election in which Morton Salkind won the balance of the mayoral term, he and Grubb battled over who would fill the seat until January 1.<ref>Polsky, Barry. [http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1969/11/13/page/3/article/will-real-mayor-please-stand-up "News Briefs: Will Real Mayor Please Stand Up?"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', November 13, 1969. Accessed September 10, 2015.</ref>
* [[Morton Salkind]] (1969–1975)<ref>Rosman, Mark. [https://www1.gmnews.com/2014/11/20/salkind-walsh-served-towns-as-suburbia-was-developing/ "Salkind, Walsh served towns as suburbia was developing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526000704/https://www1.gmnews.com/2014/11/20/salkind-walsh-served-towns-as-suburbia-was-developing/ |date=May 26, 2022 }}, ''News Transcript'', November 20, 2014. Accessed January 20, 2018. "According to an obituary published in the Nov. 4 edition of the New Jersey Jewish News, Morton Salkind, 82, of Denville, who in the early 1970s served as the mayor of Marlboro and as a state Assemblyman representing Monmouth County, died on Oct. 4."</ref>
* Arthur Goldzweig (1976–1979)
* Saul Hornik (1980–1991)<ref>Rosman, Mark. [https://www1.gmnews.com/2005/12/14/friends-family-bid-farewell-to-ex-mayor/ "Friends, family members bid farewell to ex-mayor; Saul G. Hornik served 12 years in Marlboro post"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118210153/https://www1.gmnews.com/2005/12/14/friends-family-bid-farewell-to-ex-mayor/ |date=November 18, 2018 }}, ''News Transcript'', December 15, 2005. Accessed January 20, 2018. "Saul G. Hornik, who as Marlboro's mayor from January 1980 through December 1991 worked to make his town one of central New Jersey's most desirable communities, died of complications from lung cancer on Dec. 6 at Calvary Hospital, the Bronx, N.Y."</ref>
* [[Matthew Scannapieco]] (1992–2003)<ref>Spahr, Rob. [http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/08/former_nj_mayor_admits_to_raping_child_report_says.html "Former N.J. mayor admits to raping child, report says"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 12, 2015. Accessed September 10, 2015. "Matthew V. Scannapieco, 71, who served as Marlboro's mayor from 1992 to 2003, pleaded guilty in May to the repeated sexual abuse of a child, first-degree rape and unlawful sexual contact in the first degree, the Asbury Park Press reported."</ref>
* Robert Kleinberg (2003–2005)
* Jonathan Hornik<ref name=Mayor/> (2005–present)

===Local political issues===
Perennially popular political issues of note in Marlboro include [[land development]] and loss of [[Urban open space|open space]], growth of population leading to the need for additional [[public education|public schools]] and higher [[property tax]]es, and recurring instances of graft and [[political corruption]].

Former three-term mayor [[Matthew Scannapieco]] was arrested by the [[FBI]] and subsequently pleaded guilty to taking $245,000 in bribes from land developer [[Anthony Spalliero]], in exchange for favorable rulings and sexual favors.<ref>Quirk, James A. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1791949841.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+13%2C+2005&author=JAMES+A+QUIRK&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=Developer+Spalliero's+ties+to+mayor+go+back+for+years&pqatl=google "Developer Spalliero's ties to mayor go back for years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302001742/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1791949841.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Apr+13%2C+2005&author=JAMES+A+QUIRK&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=Developer+Spalliero%27s+ties+to+mayor+go+back+for+years&pqatl=google |date=March 2, 2013 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', April 13, 2005. Accessed January 4, 2012. "Early in his 12-year run as mayor, Scannapieco socialized with Spalliero at Bourbon Street in Sayreville, a go-go bar owned by one of Spalliero's sons. Shopping center suit A 1999 lawsuit, filed by a group of Marlboro citizens trying to overturn the Planning Board's decision to allow Spalliero to build a Route 79 shopping center, claimed various conflicts of interest between Scannapieco and Spalliero."</ref><ref>[http://www.app.com/assets/pdf/B33010412.PDF United States Of America -v- Matthew V. Scannapieco]</ref> The same investigation has also resulted in charges against several other township officials as well as a Monmouth County [[Freeholder (New Jersey)|Freeholder]].

===Federal, state, and county representation===
Marlboro Township is located in the 3rd Congressional District<ref name=PCR2022>[https://www.njredistrictingcommission.org/documents/2021/Data2021/Plan%20Components.pdf 2022 Redistricting Plan], [[New Jersey Redistricting Commission]], December 8, 2022.</ref> and is part of New Jersey's 13th state legislative district.<ref>[https://nj1015.com/whats-your-new-nj-legislative-district-20-moved-on-new-map/ Districts by Number for 2023-2031], [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed September 18, 2023.</ref>

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As of March 2011, there were a total of 26,633 registered voters in Marlboro Township, of which 7,125 (26.8%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], 4,299 (16.1%) were registered as [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and 15,202 (57.1%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|Unaffiliated]]. There were 7 voters registered as [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarians]] or [[Green Party of the United States|Greens]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2011-monmouth-co-summary-report.pdf Voter Registration Summary - Monmouth], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed December 5, 2012.</ref>

In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Republican [[Mitt Romney]] received 53.5% of the vote (9,915 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barack Obama]] with 45.6% (8,450 votes), and other candidates with 0.8% (154 votes), among the 18,636 ballots cast by the township's 27,821 registered voters (117 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 67.0%.<ref name=2012Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-monmouth.pdf |title=Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Monmouth County |date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2012VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-ballotscast-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 6, 2012 - General Election Results - Monmouth County|date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2008|2008 presidential election]], Republican [[John McCain]] received 49.9% of the vote (10,014 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 48.1% (9,663 votes) and other candidates with 0.8% (155 votes), among the 20,082 ballots cast by the township's 27,603 registered voters, for a turnout of 72.8%.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2008-gen-elect-presidential-results-monmouth.pdf 2008 Presidential General Election Results: Monmouth County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed December 5, 2012.</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2004|2004 presidential election]], Democrat [[John Kerry]] received 50.1% of the vote (9,378 ballots cast), outpolling Republican [[George W. Bush]] with 49.2% (9,218 votes) and other candidates with 0.3% (87 votes), among the 18,731 ballots cast by the township's 25,204 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 74.3.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2004-presidential_monmouth_co_2004.pdf 2004 Presidential Election: Monmouth County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed December 5, 2012.</ref>

In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013 gubernatorial election]], Republican [[Chris Christie]] received 73.7% of the vote (7,518 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barbara Buono]] with 25.2% (2,574 votes), and other candidates with 1.0% (107 votes), among the 10,337 ballots cast by the township's 27,919 registered voters (138 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 37.0%.<ref name=2013Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-monmouth.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220101811/http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-monmouth.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 20, 2014 |title=Governor - Monmouth County |date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2013VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-ballotscast-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 5, 2013 - General Election Results - Monmouth County|date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 gubernatorial election]], Republican Chris Christie received 58.5% of the vote (7,355 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat [[Jon Corzine]] with 36.1% (4,541 votes), Independent [[Chris Daggett]] with 4.2% (533 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (80 votes), among the 12,570 ballots cast by the township's 26,863 registered voters, yielding a 46.8% turnout.<ref>[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-monmouth.pdf 2009 Governor: Monmouth County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017230351/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-monmouth.pdf |date=2012-10-17 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed December 5, 2012.</ref>