January 17, 2008
by Star-Ledger staff
A petition to have voters decide on Mayor Donald Cresitello's raise has been certified by the town clerk's office, enabling the issue to be presented to voters in November.
Town clerk Matt Stechauner said yesterday his office mailed letters to members of the five-person committee, certifying the group gathered enough signatures to place the issue of Mayor Donald Cresitello's raise as a question on the November ballot.
The committee submitted 769 signatures as part of a petition it circulated last month in reaction to the council's approval of an ordinance increasing the mayor's raise by up to 23 percent, or $6,000.
The petition is the third organized in the past two years circulated in protest of ordinances increasing the mayor's pay. Residents voted against raising the mayor's annual salary of $26,042 two years ago, and a second ordinance passed last year was later ruled invalid, and was not put to vote nor enacted.
