Although this Wednesday’s council meeting was not as packed as the last two were, a relatively large crowd of about 200 were present in council chambers for at least part of the five-hour proceeding as the council considered nine first-read ordinances, 13 second reads and 27 resolutions.
- Full-Time Council? Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson is introducing an ordinance to make City Council jobs full-time, and another to increase the maximum salary for council members from $22,500 to $90,000 and for council president from $24,500 to $100,000. Both would begin July 1, 2013, and are meeting resistance from the administration.
- Re-introducing Bills: [...]
The proposed municipal budget was once again the star of the show at Wednesday’s council meeting, drawing a rowdy crowd of 500 or so to the council chambers — dozens of whom spoke out in protest of what is likely to turn out to be a hefty tax hike. But there was plenty more going on as well.
After last week’s snowpocalypse canceled a City Council meeting for the first time since 1996, a special meeting was arranged for Wednesday evening to handle time-sensitive business that needed to be addressed before the next regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 24. The thin agenda made for the shortest council meeting in recent memory, clocking in at a mere 29 minutes. There was no public hearing portion of the meeting, and only about 15 community members were in attendance.
Anger, disbelief and high drama were in the air at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, which lasted a bit less than four hours and provided a forum for hundreds of community members to raise a hue and cry over the proposed municipal budget that was introduced at the Jan. 13 council meeting — a budget that includes a 25 percent property tax increase.
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 [...]
- When officials charged in the federal corruption probe begin to go to trial, the success or failure of the cases will depend largely on how members of the jury interpret the government’s tapes. Attorneys tell the Associated Press that is dicey proposition for both sides.
- Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson joins Ward D’s [...]
- The husband of the woman shot to death by Jersey City police two nights ago says “they didn’t have to kill her.” Police and city officials say they tried to subdue woman, who reportedly has a history of mental illness, by “non-lethal means” but they were left with no choice after she cut two [...]
With most of the vote in, it looks like the two incumbent City Council members who faced runoff elections today have won, meaning that the council will continue to be chock full of Mayor Healy supporters. Healy’s team won the election for each council seat, save for Ward E, where incumbent Steven Fulop easily beat [...]
In the May 12 election, the race for Ward F’s City Council seat was one of two in which the leading vote-getter failed to cross the 50 percent-plus-one threshold required for outright victory. Incumbent Viola Richardson received the most votes — around 40 percent of the total — with Ron-Calvin Clark finishing second in a [...]
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