If your pet gets lost, Jersey City’s Animal Control Division says it can help you retrieve it, and quickly, with the newly rolled out “Fido/Feline Alert” system, which relies on other Jersey City pet owners to help find missing pets. When an owner loses a pet and provides the information or flier to Animal Control, [...]
Jersey City is once again offering free rabies shots for Jersey City dog and cat owners at four Pet Owner’s Days this May. The events also include the opportunity to purchase dog licenses from the Division of Animal Control. The law governing the licenses was revised by the city this year to include the choice [...]
Jersey City dog owners, listen up. The City Council on Wednesday gave final approval to changes to the law governing dog licenses, increasing the annual fee the city collects from dog owners while offering a new discounted three-year license term. The measure passed unanimously, with no comment from the public or the City Council. Under [...]
Urban agriculture may get a boost from a rewrite of Jersey City’s laws governing residents’ ability to keep chickens and raise bees. While both practices are currently legal, the city is looking to encourage residents to take part in both activities, to “provide a greater opportunity for food production and urban agriculture.”
Photos: Steve Gold Despite a handful of agenda items that could easily have brought drama back to council chambers, Wednesday’s City Council meeting, clocking in at just over two hours, was a tame affair. Fewer than 50 community members attended to witness the council address five first reading ordinances, ten second reads and 31 resolutions. [...]
- The state Division of Pensions and Benefits will reportedly conduct an investigation into the two high-paid city employees who retired, cashed in huge one-time pension payouts, and came back on the city payroll. Meanwhile, the trio of state bills designed to reform the pension system were unanimously approved by the state Senate yesterday; they [...]
Months after revelations surfaced in late February that at least two Animal Control officers were dumping cats they’d collected into wild areas of Lincoln Park rather than taking them to the appropriate shelter or animal hospital, the city’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has submitted its plan detailing ways it hopes to improve the service of the Animal Control division. But is it enough?
Editor’s note: When JCI’s usual City Council correspondent was forced to miss this week’s meeting at the last minute, photographer Steve Gold stepped it up and stayed for nearly all of the marathon meeting (he left City Hall around 12:20 am after a 6:30 pm meeting start) to file this special photographic edition of the [...]
- The Animal Control Committee, which was the latest compromise version of a measure introduced by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop to provide some oversight of the city’s Animal Control division, is dead on the vine after being not voted on at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. – A 43-year-old man was shot in the stomach [...]
This week’s council meeting saw a few fireworks and a few contentious votes over the course of a few hours. On the docket: Animal Control oversight, tax abatements, parking regulations and a whole lot more.
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