Calling the decision to strip Council President Peter Brennan of his presidency “illegal” and “arbitrary,” Mayor Jerramiah Healy has announced that he will be vetoing the newly approved law.
With Police Director Sam Jefferson announcing he will be retiring as of February 1st, Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop has proposed the lines of communication between fire and police officials and the mayor’s office be streamlined into a newly-formed Department of Public Safety. According to Fulop, the head of this department would be responsible for [...]
A new majority faction on the City Council emerged at Wednesday night’s meeting when an ordinance was introduced to cut short Council President Peter Brennan’s term as president at a vote of 5-3-1. The law would also change the length of future terms from four years to two years going forward, but the crux of the issue is the direction of current Council leadership, which Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez, the bill’s sponsor, had described as “lacking vision.” Along with the votes came sharp rebuke of Corporation Counsel Bill Matsikoudis’s memo questioning the legality of the ordinance, a legal opinion most of the Council said failed to address the question put before him.
A legal memo written by Corporation Counsel Bill Matsikoudis to the City Council finds that Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez’s proposed ordinance to end Council President Peter Brennan’s term as Council President in the middle of his term would “not likely pass judicial muster.” Although Matsikoudis acknowledges that there is no exact judicial precedent to [...]
Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez says she’s fed up with the “unprofessionalism” in the way the Council is being led — from Council President Peter Brennan’s “lack of time” in the office to a lack of vision for the city’s needs — and is proposing an ordinance that will shorten the length of the council [...]
UPDATE, SEPTEMBER 28 at 7:30 AM: Velazquez’s proposal was successfully introduced at Tuesday night’s meeting, while Fulop’s veto override measure failed. It appears that after months of debate and numerous failed ordinances trying to address the issue — as well as a mayoral veto — a number of city-owned vehicles will in fact be demarcated with the city’s seal. In the end, however, the law’s sponsor may not in fact be Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, despite his initial push for decals that began more than a year ago.
The fourth time was indeed the charm for Ward E councilman Steve Fulop and three ordinances he’s been pushing since early 2010, with the City Council passing all of them into law shortly after noon on Wednesday. The Healy administration, however, says one of the three bills is “beyond the scope” of the council’s authority and is reviewing its legality.
Jersey City’s top attorney says the City Council doesn’t have the legal authority to pass a bill that would place decals on all city-owned vehicles used by city directors and council members. In a letter sent to the City Council Friday, Jersey City corporation counsel Bill Matsikoudis says “the authority to decide how city property [...]
Jersey City has settled an eight-count civil suit brought by Jennifer Bloom, the former Director of Administration and Financial Management for the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) for $87,500, with the MUA itself kicking in another $50,000 in settlement money.
Ward E councilman Steven Fulop’s proposal to draft a committee charged with taking an inventory of the troubled Jersey City Museum’s permanent collection was not well-received at Monday night’s City Council caucus meeting, even though in principle both the council and the administration seem to agree on the inventory’s necessity.
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