A Voices review of both the County and Town Clerk’s offices and the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) websites late afternoon on September 9 indicates significant new information UPDATING our last report as to who will be to be candidates in the 2022 Teaneck elections (Council & Teaneck School Board) on Nov. 8.

Town Council  

Voices has learned that the Township Clerk has certified ALL 10 aspiring Council candidates who had submitted signed petitions to the Township Clerk’s office by 3 pm on September 6. This certification means that the Clerk found that each had submitted at least 308 valid Teaneck voter petition signatures and met the other candidate qualification factors.

In alphabetical order, the following 10 candidates for Council have been certified by the Township Clerk to be placed on the 2022 ballot: Anthony Bruno, Denise Belcher, Latisha Garcia, Danielle Gee, Hillary F. Goldberg, David Highet, Keith Kaplan, Elie Katz, Desiree Ramos Reiner and Chondra Young. Each has qualified to be placed on the ballot for one of the 4 four-year Council seats to be elected in 2022. For the first time these positions are being elected in November instead of May. 

Interestingly, only seven of the Town-certified candidates (Belcher, Garcia, Gee, Goldberg, Kaplan, Reiner and Young) have also filed initial campaign committee information with the NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission for the Council race. Of the 7, only Kaplan is an incumbent. 

Now that these 10 are certified candidates, the next step is for the Clerk to conduct a drawing for ballot positions – something currently scheduled for 2:00 pm Friday September 16.  Whether any of the 10 candidates will slate with others – and/or will have chosen slogans – will likely also be decided on the 16th.

Board of Education  

New this week, there are two fewer candidates (down from 14 to 12) now competing for the 5 open school board positions. Three positions are to be elected for 3-year terms and two positions are to be elected for the 1-year term left by the resignations of 2 board members in 2022.   The 5 newly-elected BOE members will join the 9-member Board. Ballot positions for these 12 BOE candidates have changed as a result of the two fewer candidates and a diagram of these remaining candidates and their ballot positions are found below.

If you would like to review the County Clerk’s current list of 12 BOE candidates and compare it to the 14 originally certified candidates, Click Here. The two who have withdrawn are Elkaryani and Halak