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Bergen County Executive
The Bergen County Executive is county executive of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States who, as the chief officer of the county's executive branch, oversees the administration of county government. The office was inaugurated in 1986 at the same time the Board of Chosen Freeholders, which plays a legislative role, was reconfigured. The New Jersey Superior Court had subsumed and replaced county courts in 1983. The executive offices are located in the county seat, Hackensack. The executive is directly elected at-large to a four-year term on a partisan basis. Since the first county executive took office, five individuals have served in the position. In 2014, incumbent James J. "Jim" Tedesco III was elected to his first term and was re-elected in 2018. As of Election Day 2017 there were 593,454 registered voters in the county, which in 2016 had estimated an estimated population of 939,151. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Rule In The United States
Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance (i.e., whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state—typically by legislative action—or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action). Forty of the fifty states apply some form of the principle known as Dillon's Rule, which says that local governments may exercise only powers that the state specifically grants to them, to determine the bounds of a municipal government's legal authority. In some states, known as ''home rule states'', the state's constitution grants municipalities and/or counties the ability to pass various types of laws to govern themselves (so long as the laws do not conflict with the state and federal constitutions). In other states, known as ''Dillon's Rule states'', only limited authority has been granted to local governments by passage of statutes in the state legisla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogota, New Jersey
Bogota is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,778, an increase of 591 (+7.2%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 8,187, which in turn reflected a decline of 62 (−0.8%) from the 8,249 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. Bogota was formed on November 14, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township, Bergen County, New Jersey (Historical), Ridgefield Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 76. Accessed May 16, 2012. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed during 1894 alone. Portions of Bogota were taken in 1895 to form part of the newly created Teaneck, New J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Schuber
William "Pat" Schuber (born April 15, 1947) is an American Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician who served as Mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, Mayor of Bogota, represented the New Jersey's 38th legislative district, 38th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly and served 12 years as the Bergen County Executive Background Born on April 15, 1947, Schuber graduated from Bogota High School. Schuber received a BA from Fordham University and was awarded a JD from the Fordham University School of Law. He has been a senior lecturer on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University Political offices Schuber served as Mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, Mayor of Bogota for four years from 1980 until 1984. He represented the New Jersey's 38th legislative district, 38th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1982 to 1990 and served 12 years as the Bergen County Executive. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Mahalick
Doris Meyer Mahalick (October 23, 1924 – October 17, 2008) was an American Democratic Party official who served on the Bergen County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders. She served as the mayor of Wallington, New Jersey and as the first woman to serve as the Bergen County Police Commissioner when she was appointed in 1965. She was elected Freeholder in 1975, and was re-elected in 1978, 1981 and 1984. She lost a bid for the New Jersey General Assembly in 1967. In 1986, she sought the Democratic nomination for Bergen County Executive after voters changed the form of government; party leaders instead picked State Senator Matthew Feldman as their candidate. She declined to seek re-election as Freeholder, and in the general election she endorsed Feldman's Republican opponent, William D. McDowell. After McDowell won, Mahalick joined his administration. She retired to Wildwood Crest, New Jersey and Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey Senate
The New Jersey Senate is the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. There are 40 legislative districts, representing districts with an average population of 232,225 (2020 figure). Each district has one senator and two members of the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the legislature. Prior to the election in which they are chosen, senators must be a minimum of 30 years old and a resident of the state for four years to be eligible to serve in office. From 1844 until 1965 (when the '' Reynolds v. Sims'' US Supreme Court decision mandated all state legislators be elected from districts of roughly equal population), each county was an electoral district electing one senator. Under the 1844 Constitution, the term of office was three years, which was changed to four years with the 1947 Constitution. Since 1968 the Senate has consisted of 40 senators, who are elected in a 2-4-4 cycle. Senators serve a two- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Feldman
Matthew Feldman (March 22, 1919 – April 11, 1994) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as a New Jersey State Senator and Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey. As Mayor of Teaneck in the early 1960s, he achieved racial and political harmony during integration of its schools and neighborhoods. He served as the president of the New Jersey Senate. Early life Feldman was born on March 22, 1919, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Samuel and Mary Feldman, both Jewish immigrants from Poland. He had an older brother, Norman, and a younger brother, Melvin. He attended Henry Snyder High School. He excelled in basketball and boxing, and joined the boxing team at the University of North Carolina. He used his physical prowess to "bust up" pro-Nazi German American Bund rallies held in North Bergen in the late 1930s, acting as a "heckler, protester, and street fighter". He served as a U.S. Air Force Captain during World War II, and later served as New Jersey State Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission
The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC; formerly the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission) was a regional zoning, planning and regulatory agency in northern New Jersey. Its founding mandates were to protect the delicate balance of nature, provide for orderly development, and manage solid waste activities in the New Jersey Meadowlands District. The Commission operated as an independent state agency between 1969 and 2015, loosely affiliated with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. In 2015 NJMC was merged with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) through legislative action. Establishment The Meadowlands Commission was established by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature in 1969, sponsored in the New Jersey Senate by Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. The merger with NJSEA was made effective in February 2015. Geographic jurisdiction The Meadowlands District is composed of , approximately 31 mi2, of 14 municipalities in Bergen and Hudson cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercer County Executive
The County Executive of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States is the chief officer of the county's executive branch. The executive oversees the administration of county government and works in conjunction with Board of County Commissioners, which acts in a legislative role. The New Jersey Superior Court had subsumed and replaced county courts in 1983. The office of the County Executive is in the county seat and state capital, Trenton. As of the 2020 United States censusthe Mercer was the state's 12th-most-populous county, with a population of 387,340. The County Executive is elected directly by the voters to a term of four years with no term limits. The incumbent, Daniel R. Benson was sworn into office January 2, 2024 after being elected in November 2023. History In 1972, the State of New Jersey passed the Optional County Charter Law, which provides for four different manners in which a county could be governed: by an executive, an administrator, a board president or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson County Executive
The County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States is the chief officer of the county's Executive (government), executive branch, which oversees the administration of county government, and works in conjunction with the nine-member Board of County Commissioners (New Jersey), Board of County Commissioners (formerly known as the Board of Chosen Freeholders), which acts in a Legislature, legislative role. The office of the county executive is in the Hudson County Courthouse in the county seat, Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City. The county executive is elected directly by the voters to a term of four years, which begins on January 1. There have been four elected and one appointed county executives since the establishment of the office in 1977, which replaced the county supervisor. Thomas A. DeGise, who took office in 2002 and was re-elected five times, retired at the end of his term on December 31, 2023. His chief of staff, Craig Guy, assumed the position following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex County Executive
The County Executive of Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, is the chief officer of the county's executive branch and oversees the administration of county government. Approved in a 1977 referendum, the office was inaugurated in 1978 at the same time the Board of Chosen Freeholders, which plays a legislative role, was reconfigured to include a mix of at-large and district seats. The executive offices are located at the Essex County Government Complex in the county seat, Newark. When the first executive was elected in 1978, ''The New York Times'' described that the position was "considered by many to be second in power only to that of the Governor." The executive has power to appoint a County Administrator as well as department heads, subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners. Responsibilities include preparation/submission of operating and capital budgets, introduction of legislation, the hiring and dismissal of personnel, and approval or veto of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
