Democrats Gabriel Brian Franco and Shaun Moran, the Great Bay Democratic Club’s candidates for Little Egg Harbor Township Committee, are asking the township to switch its form of government. The present form involves five township committee members who are elected in staggered terms for three years at a time. The five members, by majority vote each January, choose one of the five to hold the office of mayor for that year.

Franco and Moran want to utilize the Faulkner Act variant form of government whereby a mayor is directly elected by the…