 The township is one of 71 municipalities (of the 565) statewide that use this form of government.The governing body consists of the Mayor and the five-member Township Council.Voters participate in partisan elections held in odd-numbered years to choose a Mayor for a four-year term along with two councilmembers at-large and then two years later choose one councilmember from each of three wards for overlapping terms of four years.