Toms River

[richee2000]

Fire District elections happen on the 3rd Saturday in February by law unless they move them to the November general election.

IMHO keeping the elections in February is generally done as a means to keep voter turnout low (often ends up being just firefighters and their families because there’s little to no advertisement of the election) so the commissioners friendliest to the firefighters get elected.

Petition the public and the township to require fire department transparency or work on voting these counterproductive individuals out of office

 

[PhillyPete]

Fire District elections happen on the 3rd Saturday in February by law unless they move them to the November general election.

IMHO keeping the elections in February is generally done as a means to keep voter turnout low (often ends up being just firefighters and their families because there’s little to no advertisement of the election) so the commissioners friendliest to the firefighters get elected.

Smh. Sounds fraudulent to me.

 

[scannersnstuff]

Petition the public and the township to require fire department transparency or work on voting these counterproductive individuals out of office

 

[scannersnstuff]

Pipe Dream's. Once the muckity muck's decide to black,they never go back. it's pretty much gone. They could give a rat's petuti about transparency, and what we think.

 

[richee2000]

The problem is interoperability between fire departments in reference to mutual aid as referenced on this thread.

 

[CastorLB]

Smh. Sounds fraudulent to me.

Not fraudulent per se. It’s how the laws were written. Not sure why fire districts were separated out but they are unless it’s decided to move them to the November general election. NJ school board elections are similarly separated out by law.