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Meet Mussab Ali, Natalia Ioffe, Joan Terrell Paige and Marilyn Roman. We discussed the passed S-2 legislation, which eliminates, over a seven-year period to 2025, Transitional State Aid that was expected to bring the JC district $175 million. This year's cut is $3.5 million but next year's is going to top $20 million. The state has also approved allowing Jersey City to impose a 1 percent payroll tax to make up for the cuts in transitional aid of $175 million by 2025. About half of that is expected to be offset by a local payroll tax, but that tax plan has yet to win approval from the City Council. Business groups, led by the Lefrak organization, are staunchly opposed to the tax and are lobbying council members to defeat it. Council President Lavarro said the council will probably not vote on the payroll tax until after its Sept. 12 meeting.
SPORTS: The 29,000-student district has cut all freshman athletic teams and reduced the number of assistant coaches. Freshmen will remain eligible for varsity and junior varsity teams. Golf and bowling teams are cut entirely. Sports programs for high school and middle school students are affected. The cuts came after the district had to close a $70 million shortfall earlier this year and had raised the tax rate above the 2% cap. The state, meanwhile, took back more than $5 million in expected aid. The cuts to athletics represent about $1 million, according to Sudhan Thomas, the school board president. The Board of Ed election is on the same ballot as the General Election, which is Tuesday, November 6th. Please take a look at your sample ballot before-hand and don't forget to vote !! Tell your neighbors about this You Tube video. School taxes represent about 28% of your tax bill but could be a lot more in the future.
Posted on: 2018/9/11 15:52
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You're entitled to your opinion but don't misrepresent the facts. Read the ordinances, which are online. Even when they passed the 2nd ordinance to extend the date to September 30, 2017, it was still less than the minimum 18 months that the Asst Bus Administrator Corrado kept quoting. Terrence tells me they're having a ribbon cutting tomorrow and the building isn't close to being done.... I think Steve is getting delusional.... As for all the name calling, doesn't add to your credibility. TP is just short for Talking Politics, the Comcast TV show, which is in my signature.... As for moving the Mayor/ Council race from May to November and the resulting ballot, yes Mayor Fulop kept emailing everyone the City would save $400,000 / year! The Mayor & Council elections are every FOUR years and DO NOT COST $1.6 million but more like $500,000. He also admitted he wanted to do away with the run-off elections. So now we have a run-off in December and not June, when people would be more engaged. Yes, the ballot is huge & confusing....
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Re: MLK City Hall Annex unfinished but taxpayers paying $80,250/month rent
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No, the initial date was February 2017, never 2018. Why would we be paying rent if the date was not until 2018? Really... You are confused... A second ordinance was passed about 7 months later, which I cited in the show, to postpone the date to Septemeber 30, 2017. As the City had done NO due diligence, didn't know they had to transfer some of the HUD Section 108 loan, which took months to do so further backlogged the project. They didn't subdivide the parking lot until June 2015. It's a $36+ Million building with a 25-year lease. The City has already spent almost $4 million in interior work so looks like the $50/sq foot has also proven to be very inadequate. They're about 70% over budget and the building isn't done. You should watch the show again.... As for that woman, I don't know what you're talking about but I don't think you do either.... I hope you're not planting all this nonsense while you're supposed to be working. I've heard complaints from City workers about all the campaigning that's expected of them...
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2017 Board of Ed candidates, Show #2. Meet Amy DeGise, Lorenzo Richardson and Yousef J. Saleh, who are running for 3-year terms.
Posted on: 2017/10/31 21:50
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Rent began September 30th. See the video of the March 2015 Council meeting where we opposed the project as there was no due diligence done by the City. We knew it wouldn't get done on time and it wasn't. There was no penalty for the developer, Brandywine, to complete the building on time. Taxpayers pay no matter what... Another gift from the taxpayers.
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You're welcome. The last 21 shows are on YouTube.
Posted on: 2017/10/11 0:19
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Meet incumbent Councilman Chris Gadsden, Jessica Hellinger, and Mira Prinz-Arey... The election is Tuesday, Nov 7th. See it on YouTube.
Posted on: 2017/10/10 22:31
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2017 JC Board of Ed Election - Show #1
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Meet Gerald Lyons - 5J and Matthew Schapiro - 3J, who are both running for a 3-year term. Lots of discussion regarding the current state of the school district's finances and the decreasing State Funding.
________________________________________________ Show # 2 Meet Meet AmyDeGise - 1J, Lorenzo Richardson - 4J and Yousef J. Saleh - 2J. They're also running for a 3 year term and 3 slots are available. The election is Tuesday, Nov 7th.
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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I don't think the developers are building the school. They're expecting the State to but the State may not even want that location as every student would need to be bused.
The Jersey Avenue extension has been talked about since 1998. It would dump more traffic onto Grand Street, where Mayor Fulop plans to add protected bike lanes. It'll become more dangerous. Dolomiti wrote: Quote:
Yes, I was measuring the time to drive from Phllips to Grand; it's around 10 minutes. I've heard talk of the extension. But it obviously does not currently exist; is not a done deal; and there is no ETA. And I see little indication that its planned existence is included in the property values in the surrounding neighborhood. And again, if the city sells it to the highest bidder, what will be put there? 10 or 20 story condos? A casino? A big conference center? How much do you think those projects will push for big abatements? Quote: As far as the 'donation', since it's being paid back.... Incorrect. Yet again, there is NO repayment. They are donations. Quote: Since we know JC school aid is frozen from the state, and likely diminish because of School Adjustment Aid reforms, what will be the cost to JC taxpayers for this 'free school'? Why gosh, let's think about this. Let's say I give you a car. You then pout and proclaim "It's not free, because now I have to pay for the gas, insurance and maintenance!" Does that sound right to you? The developers are building a public school from scratch, at no cost to the city or its taxpayers. I'd say that qualifies as "free."[/quote]
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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Forgot another NYC tax --- the Realty Transfer Tax which NYC has its own. The rate is from 1% to 2.65%. That must generate hundreds of millions of dollars for NYC. The NJ Transfer Tax generated by Jersey City real estate buys and sells is shared between the State and Hudson County! Jersey City gets 0$!
As former Mayor Tony Cucci used to say, Mocco got that land for less than the price of linoleum. It happened under the McCann administration when the city didn't have the money to pay for their pension contributions. That was in the mid-1980s'. The Cucci administration lost the lawsuit... Jersey City has a history of transferring wealth from the taxpayers to developers. Fulop is NO exception. Mao wrote: Mia's invocation of Mocco is apt. That was some sort of give away to Peter Mocco in the waning hours of the Cucci administration. The City spent years litigating it- won it, only to have politics or something settle it, I think, for almost a give away a second time. Mia is also directly on point with all the other taxes that NYC has (occupancy tax, portion of sales tax). I could get a devloper in there tomorrow to devlope it. Don't we have a hot shot new city planner from Harvard who should be able to structure this. Also, I suspect, the Liberty Harbor Plan itself would permit good commercial developemnet. And yes, the appraisal will not be worth the paper it is written on. [/quote]
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Tonight, ordinance 17-023 is up for a 2nd reading and a vote. Any member of the public can speak on the ordinance, which will probably be up about 6:30 PM. The ordinance transfers 16 acres of very valuable city-owned land at Liberty State Park to the JC Redevelopment Agency for $10. Then the JCRA sells the land to the Liberty Science Center's developer of their choice to build the $276 Million Tech Center. The land will be appraised by the JCRA after the City transfers the land to them. I?ll bet the value of the land will be low balled as the case with some homeowners who sued the JCRA, the City of Jersey City and Peter Mocco on the Liberty Harbor North development. "The settlement in 2012: ?The largest unsecured claim against one of the debtors, Liberty Harbor North Inc., stemmed from an $18.6 million judgment.... whom the JCRA hit with a condemnation action in 2004 for their property within the redevelopment area. The Kerrigans' claim against the JCRA translated into a claim against the Liberty Harbor companies based on the redevelopment arrangement.? The family sued the JCRA and Jersey City in state court last year for payment of the condemnation award.... The parties reached the settlement following a June mediation session in state court, with Mocco and the Liberty Harbor companies agreeing to pay the Kerrigans $22.4 million, which includes interest and a $1.4 million bonus payment in lieu of interest that would accrue on the judgment during the payment period. Wonder how much in legal fees that cost the taxpayers of JC?
Today?s email from Mayor Fulop states there?s no other option offered but there is. Why doesn?t the City just lease the land like the State of NJ does to the Liberty Science Center? It?ll be decades before there?s an operating profit to get a partial payment of the land value to the JC taxpayers. The City has done a poor job in billing out the step-ups on the tax abatements let alone making sure they get their fair share. Make it simple, lease the land. Many of the office buildings in downtown Manhattan are on LT leaseholds owned by Trinity Church! The City of Santa Monica owns every parking lot in that city but leases them to private parking companies to run. The Port Authority holds the lease on all the land in Battery Park City in Manhattan and it?s fully developed. The City of Jersey City needs to bring in other forms of revenue besides property taxes and state and federal aid & grants. It?s all the talk in Trenton for the state to slash JC?s school aid of $419 million annually, which will then be made up by the property tax payers but NOT the abated properties. Mayor Fulop compared Jersey City to what New York City, with its $85 Billion budget is doing to promote tech. Keep in mind that NYC has an income tax for all residents and businesses. Jersey City has none. NYC receives 4.5 % of the 8.875 % sales taxes collected in NYC. Jersey City gets none, all goes to the state. NYC has a Manhattan Commercial Occupancy Tax for all tenant businesses south of 96th Street at the rate of 6%! That?s huge considering Manhattan rents. Jersey City has none. NYC's property tax, which for commercial properties is high, has 4 classes with different rates. Jersey City has one rate for commercial and residential, which falls heavily on the 1 to 4 family homeowner. Homeowners in the boroughs of NYC have always enjoyed low taxes subsidized by commercial properties and the income tax so as to retain their working and middle classes. That was a political decision made decades ago. Jersey City gives away their prime land with 20 to 30-year tax abatements even when facing a reval after 30 years, that will devastate many non-abated 1-4 family homeowners!
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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It's obvious that this guy works for Mayor Fulop..... In all my years in JC, I've seen it a million times..... His job is to mute any dissension, especially in an election year... He'll never make any sense. That's the problem with anonymous signatures.
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It IS definitely a fantasy until breaking ground. please..those plots of land around there has been sitting vacant for decades even during the mega real estate booms in 07 and now. Even with the golf course next door, port liberte (another disaster), and lsc very close, noone wants to touch those lands because of the location and access to....well nothing. it's a gift someone is willing to develop it and even build school and public space on it. Just giving it away for free to build high density "cookie cutter" condo/rentals there is much better than what it is now... [/quote]
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While you're looking at Google maps, see the Liberty National Golf Course, which is 9/10 of a mile away and has been there since 2009: " Instead, I'm on the club's private vessel, speeding to a round at the $250 million private golf course?the most expensive ever built. The cost of membership: $500,000 plus annual dues. On shore, Liberty's steel and glass clubhouse reflects the Manhattan skyline. " Jul 24, 2009
Inside A $250 Million Golf Course - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/.../golf-barcla ... golf-liberty-national.htm As for the sketchy nearby neighborhood, residents have asked the City Council to stop thru ordinance the actions of aggressive buyers of their homes. See this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWMbrk_kQw Monroe wrote: Quote:
Of course, Fulop wants to back this, and he was gung ho behind a casino and 90 story hotel a few hundred yards away, which would be built on the same landfill and in proximity to the same industrial and sketchy neighborhoods . . . [/quote]
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4: Lease the land and use the annual proceeds for the benefit of the taxpayers. Pave the streets with the annual lease $$$.
Every single parking lot in the City of Santa Monica is owned by the city but are managed by outside companies such as SP+ Parking. Let's stop this give away of city assets with these phoney financial arrangements that no one at City Hall has the skills to manage. The City's finance people can't keep track of the tax abatements and the taxpayers don't even get full value of them! Ask Mayor Fulop about Steve Sirocki and his accounting of the tax abatements for 20 years. _________________________________ brewster wrote: Naysayers & critics: What's your point? What would you prefer? 1: Current plan 2: LSC gets charged market value for land, which likely sinks the project, and leads to 3. 3: The land gets sold to highest bidder, which is back to JC business usual, where nothing but money talks. The land is built out to the maximum possible revenue generating structures with no regard to benefiting the community. Is there a "4"?[/quote]
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<< Last I heard, LSC is going to pay for the land. It'll be assessed before the sale. If you set up something to advocate an earlier assessment, that sounds fine to me. >>
Love to see the latest LSC?s FY 2016 audited statements rather than here say. There?s nothing posted on their website nor in GuideStar. Why doesn?t the City just lease the land like the State of NJ does to the Liberty Science Center? It?ll be decades before there?s an operating profit to get a partial payment of the land value to the JC taxpayers. It wouldn?t surprise me that once the JCRA has the land assessed, it?ll be low balled. Many of the office buildings in downtown Manhattan are on LT leaseholds owned by Trinity Church!
Here?s an example of the JCRA dealings with Peter Mocco / Liberty Harbor North. The settlement in 2012: ?The largest unsecured claim against one of the debtors, Liberty Harbor North Inc., stemmed from an $18.6 million judgment for Ronald Kerrigan, Katherine Kerrigan and Lynn Kerrigan, whom the JCRA hit with a condemnation action in 2004 for their property within the redevelopment area. The Kerrigans' claim against the JCRA translated into a claim against the Liberty Harbor companies based on the redevelopment arrangement.?
The family sued the JCRA and Jersey City in state court last year for payment of the condemnation award, and the JCRA in turn sued Mocco to compel the Liberty Harbor companies to cover the judgment.
The parties reached the settlement following a June mediation session in state court, with Mocco and the Liberty Harbor companies agreeing to pay the Kerrigans $22.4 million, which includes interest and a $1.4 million bonus payment in lieu of interest that would accrue on the judgment during the payment period.
https://www.law360.com/articles/360928 ... o-settle-condemnation-row
Wonder how much in legal fees that cost the taxpayers of JC?
As for visitors going to restaurants in Downtown JC, you have to have parking! Soon only those in walking distance and LIFT/Uber users will be patrons.
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It's a 9/10 of a mile drive to the Liberty National Golf Course, where the membership fee when it opened years ago was $500,000! All of the land in that area has some contamination and some land fill! The JC Medical Center was built on contaminated land but they spend $11Million+ to remediate it! A few years back they paid $23 million for 2.5 acres.
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On March 22nd, ordinance 17-023 is up for a 2nd reading and a vote. This is a short 11minute video that you can watch on YouTube . The ordinance transfers 16 acres of very valuable city-owned land to the JC Redevelopment Agency for $1. Then the JCRA sells the land to the Liberty Science Center's redeveloper of their choice to build the $230 Million Tech Center. Their latest 990 tax return available @ June 30, 2015 shows that after 17 years, as the original LSC was built in 1998, they had $22.1 million in revenues but lost $1.9 million! The City loaned the LSC $2.5 million in 2008 as they were strapped. Who knows if they ever paid it back! Now we're to believe that a $22 Million organization, which can't break even, can build a $230 Million++ SciTech Scity. The redeveloper is UNKNOWN...
This smells of a huge land grab of taxpayers assets, which will make some developer rich. Watch the video and contact your Councilperson and SAY VOTE NO! Only Councilmen Boggiano & Yun voted NO on the introduction. We need 3 more NO votes...
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And how many will show up at the run-off election in December during the holiday season, when the elections will be decided?
Also what happens when we have 4 to 6 slates of candidates each with 9 councilmembers plus any independents added to the ballot? New machines at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars? I've know of 6 candidates interested in running for Mayor. Please vote No!
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Meet 6 of the 10 candidates running for the Jersey City Board of Ed. Meet Mussab Ali, Kimberly Goycochea, Natalia Ioffe, Sudhan Thomas, Angel Valentin and Gina Verdibello with host Mia Scanga.
Please vote NO on the Referendum question to change the JC Mayoral election from May to November with a run-off in December, the holiday season. See it on YouTube Don't forget to vote on Tuesday, Nov 8th. The polls are open from 6AM to 8PM
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One of my readers emailed me regarding my comment, " To be an effective member of the Board of Ed requires a tremendous number of hours and it's unpaid. " Turns out that Vidya Gangadin's husband was hired by Mayor Fulop last year. The reader sent me the link. Vidya is the Board President who is seeking a 2nd term. Another emailed that Ron Greco's wife was also hired by Mayor Fulop to get the teacher's union endorsement and get John Reichart, who works for the Silvermans, on the ticket. It makes you wonder why getting a retired NJ Transit officer on the board is so important. They even hired a heavy hitter to run their campaign, Rebecca Symes, the head of Legal & Govenment Relations for Dixon Advisory, who's bought hundreds of buildings in JC. Does it have to do with getting another vote on the Board to rent space from developers at market rents in luxury building for the 3 and 4 year old programs? Is this another perk, an on-site school, for developers to sell their units and rent out expensive, street level space to the Board of Ed? As you know, tax abated buildings contribute ZERO dollars to the schools' $665 million budget.
BTW a few weeks back, the JC School district got back more local control and only curriculum and programming remain under state supervision. Makes you wonder if we're on our way back to the old days of the late 1980s' of excessive contracts, neoptism, patronage etc. but now the non-abated taxpayers pick up the tab and eventually the State will cut their massive subsidy. Think about that when you're voting. Vote for Gina Verdibello, 2D, an independent. Don't forget... Look for the public question on the ballot requesting to change the JC Mayoral elections, which includes the full city council, from May to November. Then the run-off election would be in December during the holiday season. Please VOTE NO! Let's not forget the Assembly race in the 31st District..... Please vote for Matthew Kopko, 1A. Check out Yvonne Balcer's interview with Matt Kopko. Check out his website VoteKopko.com. It's time for Hudson County to have a 2 party system
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Meet 3 of the 4 candidates running for the Jersey City, NJ Board of Ed. Meet Vidya Gangadin, Marilyn Roman and Gina Verdibello. Please vote NO on the Referendum question to change the JC Mayoral election from May to November with a run-off in December, the holiday season.
Watch it on YouTube Don't forget to vote on Tuesday. The polls are open from 6AM to 8PM.
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The topic is Mayor Fulop's Tax Abatement policy. The panelists were Brigid D'Souza CPA+MBA and Dr Jonathan Wharton from Stevens. There's the
58 minute full version - plus the abbreviated 28 minute version, which is also broadcasting on Channel 51. Soon the abbreviated version will be streaming off the Talking Politics website. The TV show schedules: Jersey City - Comcast's public access Channel 51 Mondays at 9:30 PM Wednesdays at 8:30 PM Thursdays at 7:30 PM If you're a Verizon FIOS customer, Channel 38--- Mondays at 6PM, Wednesdays at 9:30PM and Fridays at 7PM Over 80 of our shows stream off our website! Watch them any time, any where...... Check them out....
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Does anyone know anything about this building - 167 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AVE? They're condos....
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Gothic Towers- 50 Glenwood Ave
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Anyone know anything about this building? Is it a good building to buy into?
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2 Talking Politics TV shows- Board of Ed candidates
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Show 1 --- Meet incumbent Carol Lester, 6J, who is running for a 1 year term to fill Marvin Adames remaining term. The other 3 candidates running for a full 3 year term include: Carol Gabriel, 3K, DeJon Morris, 1K, and Kevaan G Walton, 1J. You can now see it on
Show 2 --- Meet candidates Micheline Amy 3I, Jessica Daye, 1I, Ellen Simon, 1P. Incumbent Gerald Lyons, 3N, was selected to fill Marvin Adames position when he resigned to take a Newark Municipal Court judgeship. All 4 candidates are running for a full 3 year term. You can see it now on
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Anyone live at 36 Duncan Avenue? Why is the maintenance so high?
Thanks!
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Talking Politics 3 elections shows streaming off the website
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Talking Politics has 3 election shows streaming off the website. The first show, which has already broadcasted, is with mayoral candidate Steve Fulop. Jerry Walker was a no show and Jerramah Healy's team did not respond.
The current show broadcasting on cable tv is the Council at Large race. Meet the At Large Candidates with Team Fulop. Jerry Walker's 2 candidates were a no show and incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy's campaign manager did not respond, no surprise. This show airs thru April 25th. Meet incumbent Rolando Lavarro and candidates Joyce Waterman and Daniel Rivera From April 29th through May 13th, meet the 3 candidates running for Ward E - Fletcher Gensamer- an Independent, Daniel Levin - Team Healy and Candice Osborne- Team Fulop. All the shows are streaming off our website The show schedules: Jersey City - Comcast's public access Channel 51 Mondays at 9:30 PM Wednesdays at 8:30 PM Thursdays at 7:30 PM If you're a Verizon FIOS customer, Channel 38--- Mondays at 6PM, Wednesdays at 9:30PM and Fridays at 7PM Over 70 of our shows stream off our website! Watch them any time, any where.... talkingpolitics.net Don't forget to vote on Tuesday, May 14th!
Posted on: 2013/4/10 0:29
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