APP: MIDDLETOWN – A group of politically active citizens wants to throw out the township’s system of government and replace it with a more powerful mayor and a larger governing body.
They say the township is too large for the prevailing five-member Township Committee, which they contend is unresponsive and leaves many effectively unrepresented.
A group calling itself “Accountable Representation 4 Middletown” is collecting signatures to eventually move to a so- called mayor-council form of government with a mayor elected directly by voters.
Their proposed seven-member council would have four members elected from geographical wards and three elected at large.
Ocean Grove qualifies as a part of a larger town which leaves it unrepresented, and we have zero representation in choosing our mayor. And we pay a large proportion of Neptune’s taxes. So let’s stuff the Neptuner Committee.
Aren’t you all sick of that?
PHIL OCHS “Changes.”