Millburn sets June special election for new, non-partisan government
Millburn voters will decide in a June 16 special election whether to change its form of government to a non-partisan Council-Manager system after the Charter Study Commission elected last fall unanimously approved a final report yesterday.
If the ballot referendum passes, the new council will be elected this November – effectively negating the results of the June Democratic and Republican primaries – and the new government would begin on January 1, 2027.
In June, Republican incumbents Frank Saccomandi IV, the current mayor, and Ben Stoller, are unopposed in the primary. So are Democrats Beth Zall and Bill Brazell.
“Millburn has many strengths. The current form of government is not one of them,” the commission members stated in the report. “The current form of government has structural deficiencies that hamper good governance.”
Voters approved the creation of the commission last November with 65% of the vote; in that contest, Republicans took a 3-2 majority on the township committee and elected the first GOP mayor in nearly a decade. The 2025 referendum had bipartisan support.
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Faulkner used to be the mayor in Montclair.
A number of the towns around here have non-partisan councils. I think the reason might be that it's a heavily blue area. Anybody who runs is a Dem, so there is no distinguishing feature.
No one wants to admit to being a republican.
Repukes are fairly rare, which is why I live here. 
gotten me through this low point in American politics!
any of them lying in wait, but around here, you just never find them.
You see this when you watch the kids at school during elections. Back when Bernie was in competition for the nomination, they thought there were two parties: Bernie or Biden. It was like they never heard of republicans.
Hell no! 