Share/Save As expected, At-Large councilman Ray Velazquez’s sponsored bill that requires certain city-owned vehicles display the city seal passed unanimously at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting. After months of effort by Ward E councilman Steve Fulop, who got a similar bill passed after nearly two years of trying only to have it vetoed by Mayor [...]
In a profound decision expected to bring major change to Jersey City’s public education landscape, a bitterly divided school board last night agreed to part ways with superintendent Charles Epps on December 31 of this year. It will end his 11-year run leading the school system and roughly 45 years as district employee.
Share/SaveNeeding a crucial sixth vote at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to override Mayor Healy’s veto, Ward E councilman Steve Fulop mustered only three in support of his ordinance requiring city seals on most city-owned vehicles. Still, some city-owned vehicles displaying the identifying seal will likely be spotted on the streets of Jersey City in [...]
Share/SaveWith 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 [...]
UPDATE, SEPTEMBER 28 at 7:30 AM: Velazquez’s proposal was successfully introduced at Tuesday night’s meeting, while Fulop’s veto override measure failed. It appears that after months of debate and numerous failed ordinances trying to address the issue — as well as a mayoral veto — a number of city-owned vehicles will in fact be demarcated with the city’s seal. In the end, however, the law’s sponsor may not in fact be Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, despite his initial push for decals that began more than a year ago.
Share/SaveUPDATED 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 [...]
Share/SaveMayor Jerramiah Healy has vetoed a bill that would have required non-emergency vehicles owned by Jersey City and operated by its employees to have decals identifying them as city cars. In shooting down the bill, which the City Council passed on August 31, Healy is relying on the opinion given by the city’s Law Department [...]
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.
Share/SaveShould Jersey City allow Texas-based Spectra Energy access to test environmental and soil conditions before federal officials approve its proposed natural gas pipeline that will snake through the city? The administration says that, while it is still “adamantly opposed” to the controversial pipeline, doing so may keep the pipeline route from going through environmentally sensitive [...]
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.
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