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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