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City Council President Ruby Cotton immediately became Mayor upon Torres' resignation [146] and served until September 29, when the council voted 5–4 to appoint Williams-Warren, a former city clerk, as interim mayor until the May 2018 municipal election. [147]
The City of Paterson Municipal Council was created as a result of a 1974 decision to change its form of government from a 1907 statute-based form, to a Faulkner Act Plan-D Mayor-Council Form.
The development of Paterson as a city is usually dated from 1791 when “Paterson town” was chartered by the State of New Jersey as a planned manufactur-ing center under the auspices of the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.). The S.U.M. was attracted to the Great Falls as a virtually
The people decided in 1851 by vote of 772 to 330 to change the township into a city and the government passed into the hands of a council, the president of which was pretty much what the mayor became in after years.There were three wards and there boundaries were very simple.
Feb 2, 2024 · William Paterson was an Irish-born American jurist, U.S. senator (1789–90), and governor of New Jersey (1790–93). He also served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1793 to 1806. The city was named in his honor as, at the time, he was the state’s Governor.
May 26, 2022 · On May 15, Paterson officially renamed a part of Main Street "Palestine Way," thanks to Alaa "Al" Abdelaziz, the first Palestinian-American city councilman and council president Maritza Davila who sponsored the renaming resolution.
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Sayegh began his public service by serving on the Paterson school board and then in 2008, as a city councilman representing the 6th Ward. [1] In 2014, he ran for mayor of Paterson but was defeated by Jose Torres. [5]
