WLB fills vacant council seat

WLB fills vacant council seat
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

WEST LONG BRANCH — A little more than a month after longtime Councilman Joseph Woolley resigned, the Borough Council named a replacement.

At the July 7 council meeting, the five current council members voted Zoning Board member Jose Villa to fill Woolley’s seat, after the seven-term councilman resigned on June 2.

West Long Branch Mayor Janet Tucci said Villa will be missed from the zoning board.

“Jose has been a member of our zoning board, born and raised in West Long Branch,” she said. “He was a very valuable member of our zoning board, and they are going to miss him.”

Tucci also spoke about Woolley’s retirement.

“Councilman Woolley retired after serving 20 long, hard years in the borough,” she said. “Councilman Woolley would have been here tonight but he’s at the fair with his grandsons.

“See the things you can do when you’re not on council anymore.”

Woolley, a Republican, was re-elected for a seventh term in 2007.

Villa, also a Republican, works as a claims director. He will serve Woolley’s unexpired term until Dec. 31.

Villa’s appointment keeps the political makeup of the borough’s governing body the same, with one Democrat and five Republicans sitting on council, and a Republican mayor.





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