By Mark Rosman
Staff Writer
ENGLISHTOWN – Greg Wojyn, Dan Marter and Eric Mann have begun serving new terms on the Borough Council in Englishtown.
Municipal officials held the town’s annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 5 at Borough Hall.
Wojyn and Marter are serving three-year terms that will run through Dec. 31, 2109, and Mann is serving a one-year term during 2017.
Wojyn and Mann were council members who were re-elected in the Nov. 8 general election. Marter won his first term on Englishtown’s governing body in the election.
Wojyn, Mann and Marter are joined on the council by Cindy Robilotti, Lori Cooke and Maryanne Krawiec.
Wojyn was elected to serve as council president for 2017.
The reorganization meeting saw appointments made to various positions, boards and commissions for 2017.
Joseph Youssouf was re-appointed as borough attorney.
Mayor Thomas Reynolds appointed himself to a one-year term on the Unified Planning/Zoning Board and also appointed the following individuals to the board: James Mastrokalos, one-year term, Robilotti, one-year term, Wayne Krawiec, two-year term, and Keith Mandato, two-year term.
Robilotti was appointed to a three-year term on the Shade Tree Commission.
Cooke was appointed as the borough’s historian.
The council established the following meeting dates for 2017: Jan. 25, Feb. 22, March 22, April 24, May 24, June 28, July 26, Aug. 23, Sept. 27, Oct. 25, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18.
In other business, the council passed its annual resolution in memory of former Englishtown Police Officer Christopher Matlosz and designating Jan. 14 as “Christopher Matlosz Remembrance Day” in his honor.
Matlosz served on the Englishtown police force from 2004-06 before accepting a position with the Lakewood Police Department.
Matlosz, 27, was murdered as he sat in his police car while he was on duty in Lakewood on the afternoon of Jan. 14, 2011. In March 2012, the 19-year-old man who killed the officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Englishtown police officers, borough officials and residents honor Matlosz each year with a day of remembrance.
Following Matlosz’s death six years ago, Lt. Peter S. Cooke Jr., the Officer-in-Charge of the Englishtown Police Department, described the patrolman as an officer who “knew the people on his beat, he knew the business owners and their customers. He knew the people in the fire department, he shared meals with them. He was well liked by our residents, his fellow officers and the town’s business owners.”