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Jersey City Council Adopts Budget With 15.15% Municipal Tax Hike

Jersey City Council OKs $886.5M budget intro with 15.5% tax hike, $105M loan MOU

The Jersey City Council unanimously approved (9-0) introducing a $886,546,594.16 municipal budget with a 15.5 percent tax increase and a memorandum of understanding with the state...

Jersey City Council votes 8-0(1) to pass $886.4M budget with 15.15% tax increase

The Jersey City Council voted 8-0(1) to pass their $886,416,892.79 municipal budget with a 15.15 percent property tax increase at a sometimes contentious special meeting last night...

Jersey City mayor touts $886.5M budget ahead of intro: ‘We did protect core services’

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon touted the city’s proposed $886,546,594.16 municipal budget with a 15.5% tax increase in a phone interview yesterday ahead of Wednesday’s introducti...

Jersey City Council questions new hires, including deputy mayors, at budget hearing

The Jersey City Council questioned new hires, including honing in on the deputy mayors, at a public hearing this morning for the Mayor’s Office as the governing body combs through...

Jersey City Council Signs Off on 15% Municipal Property Tax Hike in Exchange for Low-Interest Loan

Jersey City has formally agreed to accept a historic state loan in exchange for a massive tax increase. During a marathon eight-hour meeting, a reluctant City Council unanimously v...

Jersey City Council Enacts Data Center Ban, Bergen-Lafayette ‘Steel Tech’ Study Advances

Jersey City Council intros budget amendments with 15.15% tax hike in 9-0 vote

The Jersey City Council approved a resolution for budget amendments that come with a slightly reduced 15.15 percent tax hike in a unanimous vote (9-0) at last night’s meeting that...

Jersey City Council reviews $9.21M HEDC budget: ‘Our revenue is like a 4-to-1 return’

The Jersey City Council reviewed the roughly $9.21 million Housing, Economic Development & Commerce (HEDC) budget this afternoon, seeking new revenue streams from construction...

Jersey City Council reviews $4M budget for ‘profoundly understaffed’ law dept.

The Jersey City Council held a budget hearing for the $4,059,803 allocated to the Law Department in the preliminary $886.5 million spending plan that comes with a 15.5 percent tax...

Jersey City Gets New Mayor (Sort Of)

Find out who will serve as Jersey City's mayor this week.

Jersey City Moves to Join Municipalities Statewide in Banning AI Data Centers

Mayor James Solomon and the Jersey City Municipal Council have introduced an ordinance that would ban data centers from operating on industrial land. If the ordinance is adopted, J...

Jersey City Council plans to set Q3 tax bills, make budget changes, after DCA meeting

The Jersey City Council indicated that they plan to set the third quarter tax bills after receiving an exemption from the state, as well as making budget changes after a meeting wi...

Jersey City Council Greenlights Contracts for Parking Enforcement Cameras

Flooding on Route 440 and Tonnelle Avenue Gets Agency’s Attention

Solomon weighs in on approved $886.4M Jersey City budget with 15.15% rate hike

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon weighed in on the long, rocky road that led to the $886,416,892.7 municipal budget with a 15.15 percent rate hike being approved last night in a vir...

Jersey City Council holds budget hearing on $219.5M public safety allocations

The Jersey City Council held their first budget hearing of the season this morning, reviewing the roughly $219.5 the preliminary budget allocates to the Department of Public Safety...

Jersey City BA details cuts and layoffs in $17M Dept. of Administration budget

Jersey City Business Administrator Ruby Choi laid out the program cuts and layoffs for the  Department of Administration’s over $17 million budget on Monday. By Dan Israel/Hudson C...

Tensions Between Jersey City Council and Administration Rise Ahead of Budget Vote

Frustrations are boiling over for several members of the City Council in advance of a scheduled vote on introduction of the 2026 budget. At the Monday afternoon caucus inside City...

Jersey City Council votes unanimously for ban on standalone data centers

The Jersey City Council voted unanimously (9-0) for a ban on standalone data centers in the early going of last night’s nearly six-hour meeting. By John Heinis/Hudson County View “...

Jersey City Council seeks ways to retain crossing guards, reel in police overtime

The Jersey City Council sought ways to retain crossing guards and reel in police overtime, among other initiatives, during another budget hearing for the Public Safety Department t...

Jersey City Council inquires about consequences of major health department cuts

The Jersey City Council inquired about the consequences of major cuts within the Department of Health and Human Services at another budget hearing this afternoon, poised for up to...

Jersey City Obtains More Favorable Terms on $105M State Loan to Close Deficit

Op-Ed: A former mayor’s take on Jersey City’s budget crisis

In an editorial, former Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy gives his take on the city’s current “budgetary disaster,” contrasting now to what was happening locally back in 2009. I w...