Jersey City BOE and city council appear to find common ground on school funding crisis
The Jersey City Board of Education and city council met to discuss the school district’s ongoing school funding crisis last night, though the video wasn’t available until this afternoon since technical issues made it unavailable in real time.
By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View
“I think it’s a historic event for us to be coming together during this funding crisis and it shows the recognition that our city leaders have in terms of this funding crisis and the fact that we’re going to be working collaboratively to solve this,” BOE President Mussab Ali said.
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Rent increase moratorium continues in Jersey City
Jersey City Council extends rent freeze legislation ×
Some tenants will not be faced with a rent increase.
With a unanimous vote, the Jersey City Council adopted an ordinance to continue the city’s rent freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency.
The ordinance continues a rent-increase freeze on certain rental units, except owner-occupied homes with four or less rental units. It also prohibits landlords from imposing a penalty or collecting a fee for late payment of rent.
Begging to differ
“Where is my tax freeze? …am I a lesser citizen… compared to a tenant?” questioned resident Yvonne Balcer. “This is nothing but socialism to its core,” she said calling the rent freeze ordinance “immoral”, “evil,” and “absolutely wrong.”
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Jersey City Zoning Board approves 5-story, 40-unit building at 475 Communipaw Ave.
By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View
The proposal for 475 Communipaw Ave. by applicant 475 Communipaw Ave JT, LLC would also include, 6,177 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, 22 parking spaces, and 40 bike spaces. There would be a green garden and a deck on the roof as well.
10 percent, or four units would be affordable housing, that would be 50-80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI) and the applicants were seeking a height variance for the project.
“A lot went into this application,” said attorney Nicholas Cherami, representing the LLC for the development.
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With a 2-0-4 vote the Jersey City Council adopted a resolution in support of eliminating rows, lines and columns on primary ballots.
The Jersey City Council has passed a resolution endorsing the abolition of party lines on primary ballots in the interests of fair elections.
According to the resolution, sponsored by Ward E Councilman James Solomon, New Jersey primary election ballots are configured to “stack the deck” for certain candidates at the expense of others, “thereby undermining the integrity of elections and hindering our democracy.”
New Jersey is the only state in the nation that organizes its primary election ballots by bracketing groups of candidates in a column or row, rather than by listing the office sought followed immediately by the names of all candidates running for that office.