DeLuca To Go One More Year As Maplewood Mayor: Report

MAPLEWOOD, NJ - After 14 years of serving as mayor, Vic DeLuca said that 2019 will be his last at the post, according to a report by the Village Green.

Under the Township form of government there is no direct election of mayor. Under the current township government laws, voters elect, at-large, the township committee comprising three or five members. The elections are partisan and the committee members serve staggered three-year terms. The township committee elects the mayor for a one-year term. The mayor serves as chair of the township committee and has powers vested in the mayor’s office by general law.

In Maplewood, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor are sworn in during the Jan. 1 reorganization meeting.

That meeting is scheduled for noon on Jan. 1 at the Maplewood Town Hall, 574 Valley Street.

According to the Village Green members of the Maplewood Township Committee held the caucus after the Tuesday Township Committee meeting and re-elected DeLuca and gave Frank McGhee the nod for his second year as Deputy Mayor.

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