Criticism of the University's parking policy for construction vehicles and an impromptu speech by Albert Hinds highlighted last night's Princeton Borough Council meeting.
Several councilmembers expressed dismay about the University's handling of construction vehicle parking and the "constant construction" taking place.
The University has disregarded its promise to have workers park at Jadwin Gym and use the shuttle to get up-campus, councilmembers said.
To kick off this week's meeting, Mayor Marvin Reed read a proclamation in honor of Hinds for his years of service to the town. Hinds was born in 1902 and attended Princeton High School before winning a college scholarship and working for the YMCA.
His grandfather was the first African American to vote in New Jersey, and, as the proclamation noted, he voted Republican.
"Everybody can't be a Democrat," Hinds joked. "If everyone was a Democrat, this would be a dictatorship!"
The entire council laughed at this remark although all six members are Democrats.
Two of them, Borough Council president Mildred Trotman and councilman David Goldfarb, will be up for re-election this November.
No Republicans had filed for candidacy by Monday, which was the due date for the primary election.
This is the second year in a row no Republican candidate has filed for the Borough Council primary.
Two seats, each with three-year terms, are up for grabs in this November's election; both are currently held by incumbent Democrats planning to run again.
Although the date for primary registration has passed, voters can write in candidates of either party. Independent candidates have until June 4 to file for the November election.
Michael Carnevale, president of the Republican Association of Princeton, said although no Republican candidate signed up for the primary, he is "hopeful that [the group] will have a strong candidate on the ballot this year."
No names have been released, Carnevale said, but several potential candidates have been approached. Carnevale ran last year but lost in the election and said he will not run this year.
Registered Republicans represent a political minority of the Borough, but a large number of voters in the Borough are unaffiliated with either party.
Republican candidates have received around 40 percent of votes in the past, Carnevale said, which is much larger than the percentage of voters registered Republicans.
"We're optimistic," he said.
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