 In December 2016, the Township Council selected George Ervin to fill the seat that had been held by Mary Amoroso expiring in December 2018 that became vacant after she was elected the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders; Ervin served on an interim basis until the November 2017 general election, when voters elected him in his own right to fill the balance of the term.Ervin was re-elected in the November 2018 election to fill a full four-year term, expiring in 2022.In August 1997, due to personal debt, then-Mayor David J. Dwork shot and killed himself in the town's mayoral offices.