NJ mayor proposes changing muni to a nonprofit

Here's a novel suggestion for dealing with state mandates:

Comparisons drawn between municipal government and corporate management have never been as close to the truth as they may soon become in Hopewell Borough.

Calling state mandates "entangling intrusions" in an open letter posted on the borough website in December, Mayor Paul Anzano proposed an apparently unprecedented solution: Dissolve the community's municipal charter and establish the borough as a nonprofit entity.

He's floating this idea as an alternative to consolidation with the township. Here's how it would work:

Under Mayor Anzano's plan, the community would be run on a corporate model, and a board of directors, rather than a borough council, would hold residents responsible for municipal fees much like those in a co-op.

The mayor believes the resulting nonprofit would still be eligible for state aid. I'm certainly not familiar with NJ law, but that seems kind of odd to me. There is also doubt about whether the new organization would retain a municipalities police powers.