{"id":320915,"date":"2026-11-04T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320915\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:40:07","slug":"dallas-twp-jenkins-twp-voters-reject-increase-in-number-of-supervisors-sugarloaf-twp-votes-to-increase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320915\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Twp., Jenkins Twp. voters reject increase in number of supervisors. Sugarloaf Twp. votes to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Dallas Twp. and Jenkins Twp. voted to reject a ballot measure to increase the number of township supervisors from three to five.<\/p>\n<p>The voters of Sugarloaf Twp. voted the opposite and approved an increase in the number of board of supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Dallas Twp. voted\u00a0 56.7% to 43.4% to reject the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In Jenkins Twp., the ballot question was voted down 52% to 47.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Sugarloaf Twp. voted 58.8% to 41.1% to increase the board of supervisors from three to five.<\/p>\n<p>Each community had a strong debate about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters said increasing the number of commissioners would lead to more transparency on the board and less 2-1 votes while opponents said the increase would cost taxpayers too much money because elected officials get benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Dallas Twp. and Jenkins Twp. voted to reject a ballot measure to increase the number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[836,182,139,50,178,180,179,6519],"class_list":["post-320915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-election","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-hzs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}