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Jersey City Council prez signals shift on long-term tax breaks

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
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on August 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, updated August 23, 2016 at 8:18 AM

Jersey City City Council President Rolando Lavarro, a staunch ally of Mayor Steve Fulop, took a step toward breaking with Fulop's tax-abatement policy at last week's council meeting.

Lavarro, who is mulling a run for mayor next year, said the administration should revisit its policy on long-term tax breaks in light of the residential building boom that has begun reaching away from the Downtown and into Journal Square and neighborhoods to the south and west.

The administration should "take into account the new realities of Jersey City's growing development," Lavarro said Wednesday night, when the council adopted three new tax breaks, two 25-year abatements and one lasting 15 years.

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Is he getting ready to run for Mayor?

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At the 8/17/16 council meeting the council president said rents are going up in Greenville. Properties that once paid $1,300 per month are now paying $1,700 to $1,900 a month.

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political posturing alive and well.

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this is a load of bs, nothing less, before the last election he was against abatements, then after elected he green lighted almost everyone including those downtown, including those on the waterfront.

during the last days of the "big bad healy" administration, abatement terms were reduced and shortened to 10 and 12 years including in journal square. would it have continued, who knows, but this administration made an about face, well wait for the about face again after next election.

if he had any interest in representing the south side of the city he failed, by not standing up and trying to stop the city from from stalling on the property tax revaluation and allowing poor minorities to continue to be taxed a higher rate than wealthier property owners. yes, he could have fixed it, but did not.

he seems to latch on to making bold statements about broad social justice issues, when he let this gross racial disparity continue.


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The article misstates why Jersey City's schools get so much state aid and why some legislators object to that.

The article says that JC's schools get a lot of aid because of the proportion of students who are poor and/or have "limited English," but this isn't how the distribution works.

If you look at many towns with FRL and LEP percentages that are the same as Jersey City's or higher - Guttenberg, Bayonne, East Newark, Dover, Bound Brook, Kearny, to name a few - you'll find that they get nowhere near as much state aid as Jersey City despite often having inferior tax bases per student.

Why does Jersey City really get huge amount of state aid compared to certain demographic peers?

Because of Abbott.

In other words, JC gets a ton of state aid because in the 1980s Jersey City was poor and also had a legal classification as "urban." Other districts in NJ whose FRL and LEP rates may exceed JC's either weren't as poor in the 1980s or, if they were, they didn't have "urban" status. (Guttenberg was and is the densest town in America, but it is and was not legally considered "urban.")

Anyway, because SFRA disallows the redistribution of state aid and until 2016 nobody asked for redistribution, Jersey City gets tons of state aid that under a rational calculation of needs and resources it would not get.

So the article is incorrect. JC's state aid has very little to do with its contemporary percentages of FRL and LEP kids; it gets a lot of state aid because of its poverty in the 1980s, the Education Law Center's legal aggression, the NJ Supreme Court's extremism, and then the legislature's aid hoarding "Hold Harmless" (Adjustment Aid) provision.

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About time, I like him a lot but we have said to him in meetings up here if you are serious about becoming mayor you will never get the Greenville vote being Fulop's puppet and flunky. Most of his support came from the south side of the city and most here are against tax abatement's DTJC or JS. It does not make any sense especially when there is a train station in the area.

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Jersey City councilman signals shift on long-term tax breaks

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
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on August 18, 2016 at 3:34 PM, updated August 18, 2016 at 4:01 PM

JERSEY CITY — City Council President Rolando Lavarro, a staunch ally of Mayor Steve Fulop, took a step toward breaking with Fulop's tax-abatement policy at last night's council meeting.

Lavarro, who is mulling a run for mayor next year, said the administration should revisit its policy on long-term tax breaks in light of the residential building boom that has begun reaching away from the Downtown and into Journal Square and neighborhoods to the south and west.

The administration should "take into account the new realities of Jersey City's growing development," Lavarro said last night, when the council adopted three new tax breaks, two 25-year abatements and one lasting 15 years.

Read more:  http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ns_city_abatement_po.html


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