The Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association (POBA) is calling for a public hearing on how the city intends to use $2,566,363.94 in federal funds intended to reduce the cost of providing health care for early retirees after it found the city deposited the money into a general fund. The money comes from the federal [...]
To the Editor: On Wednesday I voted to change retired workers’ health benefits from the traditional plan to direct access. It was not an easy decision for the five council members who voted in favor. I understand the fears of those dedicated retirees, who worked hard and long for their benefits. I had the traditional [...]
Jersey City public employee retirees will continue to have their health care paid for by the city, but now under a new plan that’s stirred the unions and many on the City Council into questioning the fairness of the decision.
It’s been nine months coming, but the Healy administration has now put forward what it hopes to be the last amendment to 2011′s Jersey City budget. The $496.6 million spending plan is largely a formality, since 86.2 percent of it — $428 million — has already been allocated through the temporary appropriations passed at each [...]
To the Editor: Our city is in dire need of a fiscal reform. My three top priorities are education, reducing taxes and creating jobs. Jersey City is one of the highest taxed cities in our nation and it is yet to see a good education system and better job opportunities for every resident so they [...]
Dear Editor: Jersey City’s budget is eight months late. The proposed budget includes a tax increase of 13 percent, bringing the total increase in municipal taxes since 2009 to 40 percent. However, there are a number of one-shot revenue items related to the sale of city property that may not be realized, requiring an even [...]
As summer winds down and we prepare to enter the ninth month of 2011, Jersey City has still yet to adopt a 2011 budget. While many residents and some council members have criticized the city’s budgeting process over the past few years, there is another entity expressing its frustration this year: New Jersey state government.
Four months after the Healy administration first proposed closing Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic and outsourcing all of its functions to the private nonprofit Horizon Health Center, the Downtown clinic remains open and the jobs of the 14 health workers slated to be laid off are safe — for now.
- City Budget: The City Council has approved a $77 million temporary appropriation that the administration requested to keep city government running through October, absent an adopted city budget. – Vehicular Homicide Charges Filed: Two Jersey City brothers have been charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly racing as fast as 67 miles per hour on [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve followed the goings-on down in Trenton, as our state legislators have debated New Jersey’s budget priorities. Even though they might have different visions for our state, it’s clear these lawmakers are hard at work – discussing their agendas, deciding on which concessions they have to make and hunkering down [...]
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