Franklin Township Council - Somerset County - Ward 4
The Franklin Township Council is responsible for adopting ordinances; reviewing revising and adopting the budget; levying taxes; authorizing bond issues and establishing general municipal policies. The Franklin Township Council election chooses one Council member to represent Ward 4. Each Council member serves for a 3-year term.
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Benjamin F. Guy III
(Rep)
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Carl Wright
(Dem)
What are the major challenges facing your municipality and how would you propose to address them if elected?
What is your position regarding the relationship between ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and county/municipal authorities?
What factors are critical to the quality of life in your municipality and what would you do to improve or preserve them?
Qualifications/Experience
Project manager for the last 15 years and resident of the city for last 30 years plus
Involvement in Community
Somerset Community Action Board Member 7 years ; Hamilton Street Board (Main Street Board Member) for 7 plus years ; Advocate for Youth programming and Workforce Training (CTE, Work Based Learning, and Vocational Trades)
Slogan
We can grow together
Taxes, revenue generation plus county and state funded programs in Franklin Township. The cost basis for Franklin township being supported and funded as transaction zone and priority improvement area identified by the county for the last 20 years has went under funded for to long. The county and state representatives have not committed to the development of Franklin township and citizen but have prioritize our affluent communities around us for over 20 years. They have set up service agreements that take away from the residents that this needs to be fixed. Between not adding our library system to their shared service plan, prioritizing housing initiatives, and other programming which has cost resident to pay more and get let services.
This issue is state and federal issue. Being that Franklin Township does not control these programs. Franklin Township is limited by resources to change anything that county, state and Federal programming does when it comes into roadways, bypasses and other institutional items that they pay for. Supportive services for these items are not administer in Franklin Township for housing, food services and other means to help this population; they are housed in sister cities like New Brunswick and Middlesex County which Franklin Township administration has refused to set up or reset shared service agreement beside the detention of individuals based on the county court agreements that were signed and destroyed Franklin township workforce.
5 year plan to restructure the Resources in the community, Direct programming and commitment from the municipality and education system to grow to review how to lower taxes and create workforce programming initiative that the county and state government can support through Vocational education and Infrastructure development in the region that list in the priority improvement plan goals for the county and state guidelines set by city planner and county economic developer that can benefit the region. Additionally with international community, set Franklin Township as trading post for the central Jersey to help grow shared service agreement with sister counties where we share border problems that we can grow business relationships with. This will set up new economic means to grow business and relationships to help stabilize residents and business for Census related reporting over 5 years
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