Jersey City took another step this week towards the sale of the Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) headquarters on Erie Street, approving an ordinance to adopt the 8 Erie Street Redevelopment Plan to guide the development the JCPD building and an adjacent surface parking lot.
Share/Save The administration’s plan to close Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic is on hold for at least for another 30 days, Council President announced at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting. The plan to close the clinic has been hotly contested, with a number of council members questioning both the idea of closing the free clinic [...]
A long-awaited proposal to revise Jersey City’s law governing food truck and street carts was tabled Wednesday night by the City Council after food vendors made an impassioned plea to defend their businesses from what they saw as misguided legislation.
Some called it foolish, others called it ill-timed, but in the end the Healy administration’s planned property tax revaluation was narrowly passed by Jersey City’s City Council last night.
More than 100 residents and union workers came out to be seen — if not heard — at last night’s City Council caucus meeting, where Texas-based Spectra Energy gave a presentation on its proposed natural gas pipeline through Jersey City.
Share/Save Photo: Steve Gold The City Council last night gave final approval to an ordinance indefinitely freezing the annual cost-of-living salary increases that are given to 16 high-ranking Jersey City employees. The council voted for the proposal by a 7 to 1 tally, with Council President Peter Brennan voting against, and At-Large councilwoman Willie Flood [...]
Share/SaveThe City Council unanimously passed a temporary budget for Jersey City at a special meeting this morning, on the first business day of the new year. The resolution passed by a 6 to 0 vote; council members Steven Fulop, Bill Gaughan and Viola Richardson were absent. The temporary budget of $170,031,017 will cover Jersey City’s [...]
Approximately 75 police officers and their supporters formed a picket line outside City Hall last night in the frigid cold to voice their opposition to the Healy administration’s proposal to lay off 82 police officers and seven civilian employees in the Jersey City Police Department. Later, union leaders and others pleaded their case in front of the City Council.
Share/Save Photo: Steve Gold Though it was already known that the City Council would not be voting on the Healy administration proposal to fold the Department of Public Works (DPW) into the Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA), that didn’t stop union members and others from once again packing council chambers Tuesday night to show their [...]
The Healy administration’s plan for the Jersey City Incinerator Authority to absorb the Department of Public Works was introduced to the City Council by a 6-2 vote Wednesday night, but plenty of city workers showed up to protest the plan, and a number of council members expressed reservations about the proposal’s lack of detail.
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