HOLMDEL Incumbent Republican Mayor Gregory Buontempo along with Republican Dr. Rocco Pascucci won this year’s Township Committee election.
Four candidates ran for the two available seats on the committee. Buontempo and Pascucci defeated Democrats Larry Luttrell and Barbara Singer for the three-year terms.
“I am happy. I know that it is going to be a lot of work. I am glad the election is over…I am glad it’s over and I am just looking forward to working with everyone, the Democrats, the Republicans, the Independents, everybody to keep doing what we are doing, because I think we are doing good,” Pascucci said.
“I am looking forward to it and we all have to work together and I thank Luttrell. He wrote a nice letter on our website thanking us for keeping a clean to the issues campaign…I am looking forward to working with everyone and I am looking to do good in Holmdel.”
Buontempo obtained 27.17 percent of the votes and recorded 2,615 votes. Pascucci secured 26.76 percent of the votes and received 2,576 votes, according to the Monmouth County Clerk website.
“I am humbled and honored, I really am. I love this community, I put a lot of effort and hard work into this position as mayor and doing everything in my power to continue to keep it a great community and try to find ways to improve it,” Buontempo said. “I think that was most evident earlier this month when we did the ribbon cutting for the new library learning center. I look forward to it being opened later on this month so everybody in the community can enjoy it and start utilizing it.”
Luttrell won 23.45 percent of the votes and received 2,257 votes while Singer earned 22.57 percent of the votes and received 2,173 votes, according to the Monmouth County Clerk website.
