The fund is expected to create an annual levy of $400,000 from municipal property taxes to buy land for conservation and/or recreation and park improvements and also to pay debt service connected with those projects. Meanwhile, Delran voters were giving a smaller approval margin of 82 votes to a proposal for the township's first Municipal Open Space, Recreation, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. Voters in eight Burlington County towns cast ballots Tuesday on a referendum asking for approval of a $66.6 million bond issue to renovate and make other upgrades at Lenape High School (above), Shawnee, Cherokee and Seneca regional high schools.Įvesham Township Council asked voters to allow it to increase its current open space and historic preservation tax of three cents per $100 of assessed property value by as much as double. The district serves students of eight municipalities: Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle, and Woodland.Īs of Wednesday afternoon, the bond issue was headed for approval by large margins in seven towns, while only Woodland opposed it by a vote of 178 to 138. It also would improve the district administration headquarters and its transportation and warehouse buildings. The Lenape bond issue would finance building renovations and other upgrades to the district's four high schools - Lenape, Cherokee, Shawnee and Seneca.
There were about 3,000 additional vote-by-mail absentee ballots, more possibly in the mail and an undetermined number of provisional ballots left to tally, a county spokesman said.
The surrogate probates wills, processes adoptions and oversees guardians of minors or incapacitated persons. The county post has been vacant since last year when the former surrogate, Mary Ann O'Brien, was appointed to the Superior Court by Gov. The Republican candidate is Deborah Buzby-Cope, a chiropractor and mayor of Bass River. In the county surrogate race for a five-year term, Democrat Bruce Carlin, a lawyer and mayor of Burlington Township, led by a vote of 72,554 to 64,667. O’Connell, a retired transportation union leader and former locomotive engineer for Conrail and NJ Transit, was elected to an unexpired term in 2019 after being appointed to the commission earlier that year.ĭemocrats took control of the county board in January 2019, after Republican had held a majority for 45 years. Hopson, operations director for a financial services company, is seeking her second three-year term. They faced Republican challengers Al Pallanti of Evesham and John Adams, a former mayor of Eastampton. O’Connell of Delran were ahead by 8,000 vote margins with nearly all votes counted Wednesday afternoon. So were local ballot questions in Evesham and Delran for more land and historic preservation via a dedicated property tax.ĭespite early Republican leads Tuesday night, Burlington County Commission Director Felicia Hopson of Willingboro and fellow commissioner Daniel J.
Meanwhile, a nearly $67 million improvement bond proposal was poised for approval in the eight-town Lenape Regional High School District. and Brandon Umba, were leading in the race for Assembly seats being vacated by Stanfield and incumbent Ryan Peters, a Republican who did not seek re-election. Stanfield's running mates, Michael Torrissi Jr. Addiego, a lawyer, became a Democrat after the GOP became more conservative while Donald Trump was president. Stanfield, the former county sheriff, had harshly criticized Addiego for leaving the Republican Party two years ago. NJ election results 2021: See live results for Governor, Senate, sports betting and more Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield was leading Addiego by 1,102 votes of nearly 60,000 counted.
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