Editing Marlboro Township, New Jersey (section)

===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>