Jersey City’s mission to create “smaller, more efficient government” — a phrase business administrator Jack Kelly seemed to live by during this year’s hotly contested budget talks — has a new target in mind: the Jersey City Incinerator Authority’s (JCIA) tow pound service. A proposal to eliminate the service and outsource it to a private [...]
To the Editor: On Tuesday, September 27, I had the opportunity to attend the City Council meeting in Jersey City. As you may or may not know, the City Council finally passed a budget. They also claimed taxes will not be raised. I believe that is a lie, because the City Council always says taxes [...]
With only three months to spare, Jersey City has finally approved a budget for 2011, with the City Council voting unanimously Tuesday night to amend the final changes to a budget first introduced in March. The $490,497,380 spending plan will not include a property tax increase over 2010, according to the Healy administration. The vote [...]
As the final amendment to Jersey City’s 2011 budget was passed by the City Council at Tuesday night’s special meeting, there was visible relief and much gratitude directed towards business administrator Jack Kelly as the city nears the end of a grueling six-month process from when the budget was first introduced in March. “It wasn’t [...]
With the $15 million sale of land behind the Jersey City Medical Center off the table, the Healy administration will tonight put its latest amendment to the proposed 2011 budget before the City Council for a vote. The new amendment puts the total budget at about $6 million less than the previous amendment — which [...]
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 19 at 2:45 PM with additional comments from Mayor Healy. In the latest twist in the ongoing multi-pronged fight over the use of city-owned cars by council members and department directors, At-Large councilman Ray Velazquez on Friday asked the Healy administration to prepare a new resolution that would force the city to prepare [...]
Although the $15 million land deal that would have brought Jersey City the tri-state area’s first proton therapy cancer treatment center is now off the table, and the 2011 budget hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed for another two weeks, the Healy administration insists everything is under control, with business administrator Jack Kelly assuring the public that the city’s “Plan B” will fill the $15 million hole without a property tax increase.
The $15 million sale of land behind the Jersey City Medical Center to Tessler Development in order to pave the way for the region’s first-ever proton therapy cancer treatment center is off the table, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) announced this afternoon. As we reported earlier today, the land sale was apparently contingent on [...]
New questions are being raised this week about a $15 million deal for land behind the Jersey City Medical Center after it was revealed that the deal may be contingent on the developer being granted a generous tax abatement. UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 14 at 5:20 PM: The deal has been “put on hold indefinitely,” according to the JCRA.
Jersey City may soon be home to a proton therapy cancer treatment center — one of only a handful in the country — pending City Council approval of a $15 million land deal for the property behind the Jersey City Medical Center. The property in question has been the subject of debate and controversy since [...]
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