Anthony Cancro will replace Robert Sheehan as township administrator in July. Cancro was appointed at the May 27 Township Committee meeting.
The selection, announced by Mayor Pete Cantu and committee member Ed Yates, comes two months after Sheehan announced his departure.
According to the township’s press release, Cancro has been the administrator for Springfield Township in Union County since 2010, and before that served as administrator in Edison. He also has worked at the state and federal level, having been deputy and acting commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, and experience working in the Environmental Protection Agency. His annual salary will be $159,000.
“We were very pleased with the outcome of the search process,” Cantu says. “Cancro has a tremendous amount of experience in all levels of government in various roles.”
Cantu highlighted Cancro’s previous oversight experience of affordable housing in New Jersey, an issue for every state municipality.
“You have someone coming in who has extensive experience dealing with affordable housing,” Cantu says. “We’re not inexperienced dealing with affordable housing, but we think additional experience is important to us.”
#b#Honoring Veterans.#/b# The township is seeking to identify and honor Plainsboro veterans who served in the major post-World War II American conflicts: Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War and the ongoing War on Terrorism.
“The thinking is we have a World War II Veterans Memorial, a general Veterans Memorial, and a 9/11 Memorial as well,” Cantu says. “There’s people who have served that we haven’t acknowledged.”
The existing memorials are located at the municipal complex. The township is currently identifying former service members to acknowledge. How the township will recognize the veterans has yet to be determined.
#b#Rush Holt honored.#/b# Township officials dedicated the Plainsboro Environmental Education Center to former U.S. Representative Rush Holt in a mid-May ceremony.
Located at the Plainsboro Preserve, the Education Center is operated by the New Jersey Audubon. Opened in 2003, the building received federal grants obtained with the help of Holt.
