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Local restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach is not eligible to run in the November municipal election in Asbury Park.

City Clerk Steven Kay informed Schlossbach Thursday she failed to obtain the minimum amount of registered voters’ signatures for her name to be placed on the ballot, he told the Sun.

Schlossbach submitted 104 petitions total, but 17 of them were discounted leaving the city council hopeful with a total of 87 allowable petitions, Kay said. The minimum amount needed is 89.

Some of them were signed by out of town residents, but the majority of those that were rejected were signed by unregistered voters, Kay said.

“I’m sad. I was excited to try and get in and do some good,” Schlossbach said, noting she supports the other candidates still in the running and hopes that those elected will do their best for the city and that they can all come to the table with a willingness to work together and to look at the bigger picture in Asbury Park.

Schlossbach, who owns a string of restaurants in the Second Avenue Pavilion, said she will continue to look for other ways to give back to the city and that she will look to run for one of the two council seats up for grabs in two years.

“I’m always looking to help Asbury Park in any way that I can, and you don’t have to be a member of city council to do that,” she said.

All five council seats are up for grabs in the November 4 election and it will be the first time in the city’s history voters will directly elect their mayor.

Kay has already verified petitions for incumbent Mayor Myra Campbell and mayoral challenger Harold Suggs and is in the midst of reviewing the nominating petitions for members of the Asbury Together and A-Team slates, he said.

With Schlossbach out of contention for a council seat, eight candidates are left to vie for the four open seats. They are incumbent Councilwoman Amy Quinn, Joe Woerner, Jesse “Coach K” Kendle, and Barbara “Yvonne” Clayton of the Asbury Together ticket, and Duanne Small, Rosetta “Ella” Johnson, Derrick Grant, and Kenneth Saunders, Jr. of the A-Team ticket.

At least two council members must win more than 50 percent of the popular vote. If fewer than two candidates win 50 percent of the popular vote, there are provisions for a runoff to be held in December.

In the running for Asbury Park Mayor are incumbents Mayor Myra Campbell and Councilman John B. Moor, former Board of Education President Remond Palmer, and Harold Suggs.

Elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 4. If necessary, runoffs will be held Dec. 2, according to City Clerk Steve Kay.

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