Most city offices in Jersey City will be closed on Monday, as many city workers will be on another unpaid furlough day. The Law Department and the municipal courts will remain open, however. And as always, the police and fire departments will not be affected by the furlough days, and neither will autonomous agencies like [...]
Under a plan touted at last night’s City Council meeting, the library’s three neighborhood branches would stay open until June 30 of next year, buoyed by additional city funding. But the deal is not yet complete, and the city’s business administrator would not definitively say the city will allocate the extra money to the library.
Though the slated closures of three neighborhood branches are temporarily on hold, the Jersey City Free Public Library is continuing to implement other parts of its austerity plan as it grapples with a budget crisis, announcing Monday that its employees will be forced to take 26 unpaid furlough days between January 4 of 2011 and [...]
The second of 12 city worker furlough days is set for Friday, October 8, with many city workers enjoying a four-day weekend with the Monday closures for the Columbus Day holiday. The Recreation Department will not have a furlough day Friday, but all other city offices will. As always, the police and fire departments will [...]
The Jersey City Free Public Library, struggling with a financial crisis borne out of Jersey City’s and New Jersey’s crises, is instituting its largest cutback plan so far beginning this week. The library is laying off full-time employees, instituting two furlough days per month for the remaining staffers and closing its three neighborhood branches. We’ve [...]
As Jersey City’s municipal budget problems continue to plague City Hall, a second round of 12 city worker furlough days is set to begin this Friday. The Healy administration says this year’s furloughs, which follow a similar 12-day furlough program last fiscal year, will save the city about $2 million. Like last year, the police [...]
- Labor’s Reaction to Furloughs: Local labor leader Chuck Carol, president of Jersey City Public Employees Inc., says the furlough plan unveiled Friday by the Healy administration is pointless if it will not prevent layoffs. – Jersey City Plant Comes Online with Peak Energy Use: With 90-plus-degree temperatures forecast all week, electric companies are turning [...]
The Healy administration on Friday informed city employees that they will have to take part in another 12 furlough days between September 2010 and June 2011 as Jersey City continues to stare down a large budget gap. The administration says this year’s furloughs, which follow a similar 12-day furlough program last fiscal year, will save [...]
- Will City Switch to a Calendar Year Budget Schedule? Business Administrator Jack Kelly is asking the City Council to move from a fiscal year budget to a calendar year budget, saying it will help the city get its financial house in order. As part of the discussion at yesterday’s caucus meeting, Kelly also said [...]
- County Budget Introduced: The Hudson County freeholders have introduced a $463.3 million 2010 budget; the amount to be raised by taxes will be $269.35 million, a 4.8 percent increase over last year. Officials say that will lead to an unspecified rise in property taxes in Jersey City. The budget did not include freeholder Bill [...]
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