Steve Lipski is getting his suit pressed as we speak....

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And will he or she be a Jersey City native and or resident ?

I expect it will be a hack, a retread. No sane person would want the BA job in the fiscal state the City is in.

who will replace Brian O'Reilly?

will there be an open recruitment process to hire the best possible person with necessary experience to help us through the budget/fiscal/tax crises.

or

will we get a policial insider or hack that leaves us helpless?

By Ken Thorbourne/The Jersey Journal
November 24, 2009, 5:04PM

Jersey City Business Administrator Brian O'Reilly confirmed today he's leaving employment with the city by April.

O'Reilly, a city employee for nearly 25 years, said he's exploring a position within 10 miles of his home in Howell. But whether or not he lands that job, he's leaving.

"I commute 150 miles a day," he said. "It gets old."

The $154,000-a-year business administrator said his imminent departure is "no secret."

Most department directors in the city report to the business administrator and the person in that post is principally responsible for preparing a city budget.

O'Reilly, 47, is the son of former Ward A Councilwoman Bernadette O'Reilly. He served as the city's chief tax assessor and formerly directed the city's real estate office.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy appointed him business administrator in 2004.