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From today’s Jersey Journal:
A proposal by Interim Bayonne Mayor Terrence Malloy to boost the pay of the mayor and City Council members misfired Wednesday night when the council refused to go along.
At the end of the council caucus, City Clerk Robert Sloan - a candidate for mayor in the November special election - asked the [...]
In response to requests from those who attend city council meetings, the city council has for the first time provided it’s agenda online ahead of it’s meeting. You can find the agenda for tonight’s meeting located here on the city’s official website:
http://www.bayonnenj.org/agenda.shtml
Box movers making $37 an hour. Some workers making up to $75 an hour. What are these rates for? Working the city elections. It seems that a “tradition” has been set up over time to give the city workers an extra “bonus” in their salary for working early & late hours on election day.
This issue [...]
Shortly after the council meeting started one member of the RAT pack informed me that someone who could be Mr. David was sitting in the back. I got up and asked if this stranger was Mr. David. IT WAS! Since the budget meeting was still in progress I just introduced myself and [...]
Hi Folks:The office has been busy lately so my focus has been on getting projects off my desk and unto someone else’s! I planned on sending this out Sunday but, as usual, my connection to the office workstation got clobbered. And since these files are on my C drive at the office I [...]
In case you missed it, the Bayonne City Council held a special meetign tonight at 6PM, where they promptly went into a closed door session to discuss budgetary matters. When they returned nearly 2 hours later, it was to authorize: 1) a special meeting on Thursday May 22nd, at 5:30 PM for a public hearing [...]
The meeting started at 7PM and ended just around 11. I suspected that it would be a long meeting, but not for the reasons that made it long!I’m sure that by now you’re all aware of the resolution that was tabled until the next meeting - the Bayonne International Commerce Center. Although the [...]
The meeting lasted about 2 hours. There were a couple of presentations.
Remember, the information shown here is, in a sense, a prelude to the actual meeting this coming Wednesday, April 30th. If you see something you find interesting and would like to know more about it, stop by and ask questions.
municipalcouncilcaucusagenda_20080423.pdf
If you have been following the city council meetings then you are aware of a resolution that has been tabled for a number of meetings now that is a complete overhaul of the local traffic ordinances. According to the police department, who worked with the state to adopt these new regulations, they would bring the [...]
Attached is the agenda from that night’s meeting.
There were 4 speakers penned in. One spoke about the recent beef problem and the BOE. Another commented about not being allowed to park in the various ‘zones’ throughout the HBLRT system. And Lenny and Bobby each spoke.
One of the main issues of the night was the Cablevision [...]
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