{"id":10092,"date":"2017-01-11T00:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T05:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10092"},"modified":"2017-01-11T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T05:46:01","slug":"brick-has-a-new-township-council-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/01\/brick-has-a-new-township-council-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Has a New Township Council President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10093\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10093\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Art Halloran is sworn in as the Brick Township Council President, Jan. 10, 2017. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Halloran is sworn in as the Brick Township Council President, Jan. 10, 2017. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After two years, Brick Township Councilman Paul Mummolo is handing the gavel over to a colleague.<\/p>\n<p>The council on Tuesday unanimously voted Councilman Art Halloran as its new leader. Halloran, who is in his second year of service on the governing body, will preside over meetings and be responsible for forming the various council committees that review policies before being brought to the full body for a vote.<\/p>\n<p>His first order of\u00a0business: \u201cMove you car out of my parking space,\u201d he said to Mummolo with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank my colleagues on the council for supporting me,\u201d he said, on a more serious note. \u201cI am deeply honored to serve as council president, and look forward to a productive year as we work to make Brick Township the family-friendly community we know it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10094\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10094\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Zapcic is sworn in as the Brick Township Council Vice President, Jan. 10, 2017. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/andrea_zapcic_brick-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Zapcic is sworn in as the Brick Township Council Vice President, Jan. 10, 2017. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After Halloran was sworn in to his new office, the council unanimously chose Councilwoman Andrea Zapcic to serve as council vice-president. Her role will be to fill in for Halloran in the case he is not available to run a meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/01\/brick-has-a-new-township-council-president\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years, Brick Township Councilman Paul Mummolo is handing the gavel over to a colleague&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[412,1366,24,29,2695],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-andrea-zapcic","tag-art-halloran","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-council","tag-council-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/art_halloran_brick_nj.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2CM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}