Content about Jill Jachera

After a long and arduous process – after three unsuccessful attempts – Princeton residents on Tuesday voted to reshape the future of their towns, put aside Borough and Township differences, and become a single municipality.
 
Sixty percent of the Borough voted for consolidation, along with more than 85% of the Township.
 
The decision now sets into motion a process that could take years to complete, of merging two governments, two police forces, and two tax bases. 
 

At last night’s Borough Council meeting, Anne Waldron Neumann of the public citizens’ group Save the Dinky described Councilwomen Jenny Crumiller and Jo Butler as “heroines” for their stance against Princeton University’s plans to move the Dinky station.  That didn’t prevent the rest of the Borough Council from voting “Yes” on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) drawn up earlier this week between the Township, Borough, and University

At Tuesday evening’s mayoral debate between Democratic candidate Yina Moore and Republican candidate Jill Jachera, the two women answered questions on pressing local issues like consolidation, movement of the Dinky, Hurricane Irene, and town relationships with Princeton University.

With regards to the University’s development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, which would require moving the Dinky terminus, Moore stated that she did not think moving the Dinky “is the right thing to do.

When Jill Jachera was reached this week by telephone for an update on her campaign for Borough mayor, she was on vacation with her children.  But after that, she said, it’s all business:  her nose will be buried in papers when she isn’t meeting with elected officials and a former mayor or two.  “I will be getting up to speed on all the issues.  There’s a lot of work to do.”

It was no more than half an hour after the polls closed in Princeton when Democrats munching pizza at Conte’s learned that Yina Moore had defeated David Goldfarb.

By a margin of 297 to 211, with all nine precincts reporting, Moore got the nod of her party as its nominee to take on Republican Jill Jachera in November in the Borough mayoral election.