It is unfortunate that the government of Barnegat has turned its back on the needs of seniors. Although the township has recruited large numbers of retirees to relocate here, as can be seen in the plethora of adult communities built, the focus of municipal spending has been on ball fields, fire works, and town hall beautification. Seniors need a government that aims at holding down costs as a primary goal. Concentrate on "musts," as must collect garbage and trash, must provide clean water, must spray for insects in summer and plow snow in winter, must maintain public safety with an adequate police department and emergency response teams. Aggressive purchase of open space would have reduced ongoing over-development. Every person who moves into new housing costs the rest of us money. If a family with three children moves in, it costs the rest of us a lot of money. Over-development has brought us traffic-jams on once low traffic roads. A future nightmare is soon to be born on Rt.9. Ninety plus affordable apartments will contribute to the overall problems listed above and create a fertile place for a future slum. It is incumbent upon who ever wins the current election to make control of development a first priority.

I'm voting for the Democrats. The Republican-led Township Committee has sold us out to The Walters Group, and allowed residential development to get out of control. Meanwhile, whenever someone expresses interest in operating a business, they get chased out of town. I think of that one example, Dee'z Dogs, where they gave the owner such a hard time that she was eventually forced to relocate. We also were in line to potentially get a Shop Rite and the state's first Sonic Drive-In, but we lost out to Waretown. Cirulli & Melchiondo have not done enough to attract businesses to our town to help alleviate our local tax burden, and for that, they must go.

So where are the current results? I see nothing as far as vote count results, what is the point of the article, other than saying who's running and how many lines (or no lines) there are at the polling locations?

Vote out the incompetency, vote in the Dems who will hopefully take Barnegat back for the people - and actually give a damn about this town.

40 minutes to cast our vote in district 2. Lines out the door. Districts 3, 7, and 13 had virtually no wait time. What's up with our town?

Hi Capt. Mey,
We are waiting on the results...apparently there were some issues related to Sandy that postponed the results getting to the county...we'll get them up as soon as possible. - Colleen

Barnegat residents finally decided we are taxed enough.Congratulations to the newcomers you have your work cut out for you. I was never impressed with Mr. Morano but was impressed with his call to barnegat residents conveying information on this devastating storm . Thank you Mayor Morano

now maybe they can start by having administrator to use township vehicle on town time and not for back and forth to Ocean City. I pay for gas,tolls and my own car to go to work so can he if he is not let go when contract is up. Cant wait to see new township attorney. engineer and all the other professionals that charge high bills for services.

I'm hoping this will bring a fresh light to Barnegat. Last election C & M only won by 11 votes if I recall. It looks like this time around people finally mobilized themselves or just did their homework. Hopefully, it's not too late to do something about that artificial turf field quagmire we have.

My hope is that now the whole town can come together and work for Barnegat, not just the individual. We have a great town that needs to have costs brought under control so that young and old can afford to live here.Now lets get together and work together.

1st - Colleen, thx for the update and response yesterday! :)

WHOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Taylor and Conway!!!! A must needed change has occurred (voters proved that for sure) and Barnegat can hopefully be salvaged from the destructive course it was on... We need people like you folks who are for the best interests of the Town and it's Tax Payers, open minded and hopefully transparent.

Will there be more open public forums or meetings for the townsfolk? Will there be transparency as far as the townsfolk actually being able to see finances as far as exactly how our money is being utilized towards what project, fund, school accounts, govt accounting, etc? Some districts across the US actually include such records in their agenda and for public viewing (and/or even public .PDF board minutes).

Will the Town's website now be updated more efficiently when it comes to townsfolk needing to know important info?

Please secure and preserve all current records that C & M had any dealing with while they were in office. I'm sure they will attemp a house cleaning by "tying up loose ends".

Best of luck Conway and Taylor!!! :)

Unfortunately, the answer is to move out of Ocean County
where the GOP (my party since 1969) is not recognizable ...
as often said by many Democrats and Republicans, I did leave
MY party, My party left me ... the continued cronyism and
virtually endless double- triple dipping Republicans will continue
to run the many townships within Ocean County.
You can see from the candidates the machine is well oiled
and will continue to control development enjoy the $$$ PAC
contributions from law firms, developers and engineering
groups ... just ask yourself? Can you trust your local politicos
how has their PERFORMANCE been ... rate them create
a report card, attend you council and committee meetings,
planning board and zoningn board sessions YOU must be
actively involved and not sit still while this all continues ...
The Performance of Barack Hussein Obama in so many
areas demonstrates to all how corrupt the country is
with the FREE STUFF talk about buying an election ...

Bye Bye Breeden take ur corrective shoes and use ur own car if u even have one to go back to Camden to ur body shop

Hopefully our new council members won't try to claim their offices as full time jobs and scam health insurance at taxpayer expense (yes, I'm looking at you Jeff).

Congratulations to the victors and thanks to the former incumbents for your past services. Political agendas aside, serving on the township council is no piece of cake and involves a lot of personal time and effort (not fulltime though.) As for Mr. Breeden, I'll take a wait and see stand. His job is to look out for the interests of his bosses, the township council, and he does that very well. He is certainly capable of doing the same for this new leadership. However, that is now up to them to decide. And I hope it works out. Mr. Breeden has a 5-year, million dollar contract. That's a year's worth of Open Space Fund spending alone. I wish the new leadership much success and hope one of the first actions they take is to forgo the benefits that don’t go with a part-time public service position.

Mac and TaxMeNot, just wanted to let you know that I will not be taking benefits. Not to speak on Susan's behalf, but I don't believe she is taking benefits either.

Glad we swept the political conies out of office, Loved that the current soon to be former Mayor came by the folks on Vivas DR after being out of power for 5 days to ask how they were doing! The answer was not very good.... thankfully, YOUR FIRED!

Why they lost: Breedens 5 year contract which gave him a 6% raise, take home car, clothing allowance and sell back of unused vacation and sick time,. Use of open space funds for lower shore rd. 225K for Police Chief. 500k for Birdsall Engineering.
Dasti Law firms 300K. The new majority has to get rid of Dasti, Birdsall and see if they can get Breeden to leave, although he has a 5 year contract. Morano will be Mayor and he has to see that this gets done.

Now that we won the Election from them,can we please,please start getting some business in this town.A shop-rite,new place's to eat etc,etc.so we can stop building all these house's and development.So we can spend our money in our own town,and how about getting a Y.M.C.A to build that building they was talking about years ago,they wanted us to give the the land and they would build it.