After more than a year of discussion and revision, the city’s redevelopment plan for Journal Square was approved by the City Council at its Wednesday meeting.
Turnout was relatively light at Wednesday’s City Council meeting; about 75 people came to council chambers, many of them holding signs in quiet protest of the elimination of the Second Chance jobs program at the Jersey City Incinerator Authority. Also in attendance by the end of the meeting was Jersey City’s newly minted business administrator, Jack Kelly.
Jack Kelly, the current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Orange in Essex County, has been nominated by Mayor Jerramiah Healy to replace Brian O’Reilly as Jersey City’s business administrator, the mayor announced today. O’Reilly, who has held the business administrator job since 2004, announced in November that he was planning to resign his position.
“While [...]
While the 2013 mayoral election is still three years away, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop is already building up a war chest as he aims to move up Jersey City’s political ladder.
Fulop currently has $283,199 $251,560 on hand, according to 2010 Quarter 1 filings with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). His campaign has [...]
Mayor Healy has recently been joined by other local elected officials in opposing a natural gas pipleline extension being proposed by Spectra Energy. The path of the pipeline, which would add about 16 miles of new pipeline to two of Spectra’s existing lines in the region, would bring up to 800 million cubic feet of [...]
Although the first City Council meeting of 2010 was relatively short — about two hours — and relatively poorly attended — no more than 40 were in the audience at any one time — it was a doozy. The council considered eight first-read ordinances, six second reads and 41 resolutions, including the highly anticipated draft municipal budget. All council members were present.
Tonight’s city council meeting was relatively short — just over two hours — but it packed a lot of punch.
A draft of the city budget for the 2010 fiscal year, which began just over six months ago, was introduced this evening by an 8-1 vote, with Ward E councilman Steven Fulop casting the lone no [...]
At Monday’s City Council caucus, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop asked the council to vote Wednesday to introduce a tax relief plan he devised. As a means to prevent people from losing their homes to tax sales, the plan would allow certain delinquent taxpayers to enter into a payment plan with the city.
In a statement [...]
The central issue of Tuesday’s council caucus, and what will likely be the big draw to Wednesday’s council meeting, was the redeveloper pay-to-play ordinance introduced last month by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop. This ordinance (begins page 22) would expand the city’s current pay-to-play law to include redevelopers, barring them from making campaign donations to [...]
- As the City Council prepares to have its caucus meeting today, there are questions about whether or not council president Mariano Vega will keep his job. He no-commented the Journal last week when asked about the push — led by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop — to have him resign his post. Ward A [...]
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