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Citizens
Alert Government Change Group Files 10,167 Signatures With Township
Clerk, Who Has 20 Days To Validate 5600 Names For Certification Of
November Referendum
New Form
Features Direct Election Of Mayor, Election Of Seven Council Members,
Four Of Whom Would Be Chosen From Wards Similar To The Government In
Berkeley
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Angelo Digiovani |
Dover
Township:
Citizens Alert representatives filed petitions with 10,167 signatures
to force a November referendum that could change the form of local
government here.
Petition
signatures will be evaluated by the Dover Township Clerk’s office, and
a report on the evaluation must be presented within 20 days.
The
petitions need about 5600 valid signatures to put the Government
Change question on the ballot.
“We have
assembled petitions signed by more than 10,000 of our fellow citizens,
said Angelo DiGiovanni, and we are now prepared to move forward with a
vigorous campaign to ask the public to go to the polls on November 5th
and say ‘YES’ to the most important public question in the history of
our community.”
“Steering
Committee Of 10,000 Citizens”
“Our
appearance at Town Hall today is the first step taken by a steering
committee of 10,163 citizens to take matters into their own capable
hands and launch a new era in our community”, said DiGiovanni,
spokesman of Citizens Alert, the group that initiated the petition
effort.
If The Question Passes,
“Every
Citizen Will Know Where The Buck Stops”
“The change
of government provides for the direct election of our mayor so every citizen knows where the buck stops, and
to move the local
government closer to the people with the establishment of four wards
from which four of the seven township council members will be
elected”, DiGiovanni said.
“We are
proud of our team effort to complete the initial phase of this
project; thousands of hours have been devoted to bringing this
opportunity to our community: it will soon be in the hands of
enlightened voters who will take action on November 5th”, the
Citizen’s Alert leader concluded.
Petition Drive Leaders
(from left) Angelo DiGiovanni, Ted Versacio and Harold Eccles outside
the Dover Township municipal building before presenting petitions with
10,163 signatures calling for a referendum to change the form of the
local government. |
