Lakewood Township to Nominate Mayor at Reorganization Meeting 1/1/2019

The Lakewood township committee will hold its annual reorganization meeting on New years day January 1st 2019 at 11:00 am. Commiteemaen Lichtenstein and Miller will be sworn in again for a 3 year term and the committee will nominate one of its members to serve as Lakewood mayor for the coming year.
A petition recently called on the committee to appoint Isaac Ackerman as mayor for 2019.



Tradition in Lakewood has always been that the position of mayor revolves each year, with the dominating party in the Committee choosing a member of their own party for the Township's top position. Two years ago, the Republican-majority Committee broke from tradition and nominated Democrat Ray Coles as mayor. Last year again, they broke from tradition another way, and choose Coles to be mayor for a second consecutive year - an unheard of phenomenon in Lakewood's recent history. The nomination last year was apposed by two of the three Republicans on the Committee, but Miller's defection, together with Democrats Lichtenstein and Coles' vote, secured the position for Coles. (Coles' own vote shifted the majority in his favor. Had he been disqualified to vote for himself, his nomination would have never held up.)