Council Quickie: Development Pay-to-Play Bill Introduced
By Jon Whiten • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Blog, News, Politics
The most controversial item on today’s City Council meeting agenda was just unanimously introduced. The development pay-to-play ordinance would ban campaign donations from a developer to municipal officials while that developer is negotiating to be named the designated builder for a project in the city. A similar ordinance was defeated by the council by a 7-2 vote in 2007, and Mayor Jerramiah Healy has previously expressed his objections to such legislation. The ordinance, which was introduced by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop and was developed in part by Civic JC, will be up for a final vote at the next council meeting, slated for Sept. 9 at 6 pm. You can read the ordinance here (it’s the last one in the document).
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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