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Re: I got sanitation violations for garbage that someone illegally dumped
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MDM wrote:
Only one appearence.


Huh, must be only if you actually plea "not guilty" that you have to come back. Decades ago I drove 2 hrs to upstate NY to contest a speeding ticket and they had the nerve to say I had to come back! Some racket.

Posted on: 2019/3/11 17:30
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Re: Jersey City school board votes to allow members with conflicts of interest to vote on teachers union
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while I believe that this decision is not in the best interest of the education system and conflicts of interest come with a heavy cost, however, Jersey City teachers are NOT among the highest paid in the state. They make more than 88%, not 98% of districts. Median salary is $75,760, ranked 80th in districts in NJ, 3rd in Hudson behind, Hoboken and Harrison.

Ah, I misremembered, it's actually >93% of, as I said, equivalent districts. But since when is more than even 88% "NOT among the highest paid in the state."???

Per Pupil Ranking Within Group (2017-18 budget): 91|98
https://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/csg/18/csg.pl

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it bears repeating that JC residents have shown incredible apathy to these issues because they are shielded from the spiraling school costs as a result of our budget being mostly shouldered by the state. If for every $1 increase we only pay 16 cents, people just don't have enough of an incentive (or don't feel enough pain) to complain and demand accountability.

This actually bears a striking resemblance to how insured Americans have been indifferent to skyrocketing healthcare costs. I still don't fathom how the state returned control when we're so obviously spending out of control, and how they didn't rein it in over the >25 years they had control.

Posted on: 2019/3/11 16:46
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Re: I got sanitation violations for garbage that someone illegally dumped
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MDM wrote:
Not much you can do. As the property owner, you are responsible.

The last few times I ended up in court for same / similar, I pleaded "Guilty with an explanation". Two things happened:

1. Minimum fine with court costs waved.
2. Prosecutor dropped charges.

Usually #1 happened.

Did it take you 2 appearances each time, one for the arraignment and one for hearing? What was that "Minimum fine"? I recently went to court on this for 2 (they rescheduled twice), but when I saw the way it was going, I just paid it, $400. This stuff is simply nasty, there's just nothing you can do, especially if you don't live there. It's hard enough to control your own tenants, never mind what gets dropped on your property. Often you don't even know about it till you get the summons in the mail weeks later.

Posted on: 2019/3/11 16:35
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Re: Notice of violation & Order to correct - JCFD
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Frinjc wrote:
This is honestly the first time I hear about this and I have been in HP more than 10 years.


Me too and I've been here over 20. This is gonna get nasty, no doubt. My experience with FDJC fire inspectors, as I've said upthread, is that they're extremely poorly trained.

Posted on: 2019/3/11 1:32
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Re: Jersey City school board votes to allow members with conflicts of interest to vote on teachers union
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Jersey City school board votes to allow members with conflicts of interest to vote on teachers union pact

JERSEY CITY — The school board voted Thursday to allow its members who were supported by the local teachers union to vote on the new union contract, which could be finalized later this year.

The approved measure is known as the doctrine of necessity, which is invoked when a quorum of the board has conflicts of interest that prevent it from voting on a specific matter. Absent Thursday’s action, only four board members would be able to vote on the teachers union contract because the other five have conflicts. The contract expires in June.

Thursday’s measure was approved with little discussion by a 7-1 vote, with Matt Schapiro voting no. He is one of the non-conflicted members.

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/03/jers ... -teachers-union-pact.html

The foxes are voting on who should be allowed in the henhouse. You can't make this shit up. We pay our teachers more than 98% of equivalent NJ districts. Why is that?

Posted on: 2019/3/10 19:54
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Re: Notice of violation & Order to correct - JCFD
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Has anyone else received a similar notice from the JCFD recently? This is for a 2 condo brownstone - I?ve owned my place for 10 years and have never heard from the JCFD before.

1. Submit Fire Alarm Report - Annual NFPA-72

2. Submit Test Report for Battery Operated Smoke Alarms

3. Submit Test Report for Carbon Monoxide Detector Alarms

4. Submit non Life Hazard Use Fee: 1-10 Units $135

5. Provide Access to Premise/Building in Order to Conduct Inspection


Sounds like someone in the dept is trying to generate easy money for their electrician buddies. I wonder if they'll start in with the 3+ unit places even though we get inspected for all that by the state?

Posted on: 2019/3/10 19:51
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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MDM wrote:
Given the bloodbath that has been brick and mortar retail these last years, who knows if the mall be even financially viable in the near future.

What happens if/when Sears and JC Penny close up?


Wegmans!!! Cabela's!!! (Or at least a Dicks or REI)
Selling commodities is a loser, you need to sell stuff people want to lay their hands on up close.

Posted on: 2019/3/8 21:20
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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nafco wrote:
Thats a cool shot. Amazing how much has changed in a short time. I understand why the mall was a good idea at the time, but I think it served its purpose and its time to slowly reincorporate that swath of land back to the city the way the BJ's/Pep Boys site will slowly be turned back into a city grid over time.


Thing is, 'big box' structures like the Pep Boys, & BJs are designed to be disposable, I remember reading that Walmart calculates 10 years for it's stores, anything after is gravy. A mall? Not so much, it's go a lot more going into it, both structure wise and the investment the individual retailers and even the theater have made. If a far more obvious knockdown like Target is going nowhere, don't hold your breath for the mall. Look at that chunk of land, including the moribund Newport Plaza shopping center it's about 3/4 the size of the mall + the Marin parking deck.

Posted on: 2019/3/8 18:12
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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neverleft wrote:
I was expecting worse traffic because whenever I go up north to Willowbrook Mall I always have an issue getting into the Mall parking lot because of the long line of cars getting Costco gas. The Bayonne Costco looks like it is laid out better.

Yes, among the many ways Costco is a superior company is the fact that they generally don't lay out their parking lots so that all the entering and exiting vehicle traffic needs to cross all of the foot traffic entering the store. BJs & Shoprite is exhibit A, but that practice is ubiquitous.

Posted on: 2019/3/8 2:11
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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bodhipooh wrote:
If I am ever in need of pocking up wine and liquor with my other purchases, I then head down to their Edison location, which carries wine, beer, and liquor.

Who do we vote for to get rid of these ridiculous county by county liquor laws? I have a hard time believing the booze bodegas are paying enough to legislators to keep the status quo, so who's benefiting?

Posted on: 2019/3/7 23:38
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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iGreg wrote:
Any opening day perks?

They will be packed on weekends as Clifton is a madhouse.


Teterboro is a madhouse 7 days a week. There's never anything but a full parking lot there. I respect their planners for not wanting to cannibalize customers from one store to open another, but it's a bit ridiculous that it took this long to open one in Hudson County. It's in the ass end of nowhere IMO, but I guess we'll see.

Posted on: 2019/3/7 22:46
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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nafco wrote:
What I wish would be demolished is the awful suburban-style Newport mall thats an eyesore, divides downtown and takes up a huge swath of valuable land.


I wouldn't hold your breath! I bet the operator has like a 50 year lease. I guess people go there, though I can easily go a year without setting foot in it. Especially since the Cajun place in the food court went.

Posted on: 2019/3/6 22:07
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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Kmart + NDW is a whole lot of space available. They should move the Target there, where it is Downtown is a remarkably poor use of extremely valuable real estate. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Walmart, they seem to feel there's no such thing as building them too close.

Posted on: 2019/3/6 19:06
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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The cards have no photo's they said to get photo's some other time. Also when I signed up I got a card for myself and also a household card. I thought household meant anyone in your household can use it. No I had to give a name of someone in my household and it was put on the card.

Under most circumstances no one will ever look at the ID on the card. A lot of card borrowing goes on!

Posted on: 2019/3/6 18:51
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Re: $7k DCA Inspection Penalties - HELP!
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dtjcview wrote:
If not, simply tell the collection agency that you do not recognize the debt.


Isn't the change of ownership of the association irrelevant to it's debts? The charges are to the property "owner". Is it a corporation? The whole corporate thing is weird, I had a personal bench warrant out for me when I missed a court date for a Sanitation summons to our LLC!

Posted on: 2019/3/4 19:44
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Re: Gas meters replacement
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They keep harassing me about changing them, but when I tell them they must do them all at once, not one at time wasting my time, they shit the bed and tell me they can't, for reasons they can't tell me. So I tell them to fuck off till they can. This has been going on for years.

Posted on: 2019/3/4 1:24
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Re: $7k DCA Inspection Penalties - HELP!
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islander wrote:
Hi

Would be super appreciative if someone has any advice on an issue:

The HOA (Self-manged) of our 3 unit condo building in the hilltop just received 3 penalties totalling $7k for violations on the 5 year DCA condo inspection dating from 1998/2005/2009. THINK this is mainly non payment penalties. All current owners purchased in 2016.

Could the responsibility for liability remain with the previous owners?

We have partial info because we received the demands from a debt collection agency and when we called the DCA they didn't give much info out.

THANKS in advance for any help.


Wow. What a mess! Shouldn't title insurance have picked that up? I hope you can find some way out, but I'm going to guess that paying up is cheaper than lawyering up. Welcome to home-owning! I don't see this is much different than my discovering that the previous owner had used plaster to cover over severe foundation problems when he put it up for sale.

Posted on: 2019/3/3 19:23
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Re: Overheard at Word
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I_heart_JC wrote:
new user. two posts. I take his/her reporting with a huge grain of salt.


I wanted to say that immediately, but then thought I'd just be fulfilling the JCList stereotype. Someone who registers just to slag a local business needs to be taken at less than face value.

Posted on: 2019/2/28 18:51
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Re: PSE&G Supply Energy Question
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MDM wrote in 2015:
Estimated billing will be going away over the next 2 years. PSE&G is upgrading to wireless electric and gas meters. They are eliminating the human meter readers.


LOL. File that prediction under "not so much".

Posted on: 2019/2/22 23:40
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Monroe wrote:
My point here is that as long as JC has been severely overfunded and undertaxed JC residents didn?t care about school funding, and BOE inefficient and wasteful spending. Now that?s changing we?ll see JC taxpayers sing a different tune.


If you limited your righteous tirades to that, they would be less offensive. It's undeniable that all the public institutions in JC are unaccountable money vanishing machines.

Has anyone ever explained how the state was never able to reign in JCBOE spending yet thought it was OK to return them control? Was there no one willing to say "no, you can't pay your janitors that".

Posted on: 2019/2/20 23:25
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Monroe wrote:
Bullshit? Dad pays $32,000 per year in property taxes despite not having a child in school since 1978. And school cost in his town is less than $18,000/year.

JC residents pay 17% of the $23,000 cost. Pretty good deal. Fulop has been squealing about JC paying its fair share, to the point of getting the payroll tax rather than take care of its own children.


Your anecdote of your wealthy dad is not really relevant to how our education system is funded. There is no expectation that anyone pays enough yearly to educate their kids, and very few do. Like SS, its a pay as you go system, everyone pays to benefit the students of that year, some over their lifetime will pay many times over for that education, some not, depending on their property value.

Your bullshit is always trying to frame the normal system of areas with poverty getting more aid as some sort of conspiracy. If your agenda was more transparency, and less waste and generous contracts in the JC system to bring down costs, I'd be right beside you, but all you want is less education money going to this city regardless of its outcome. 'Starve the Beast' always has innocent victims.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 22:50
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Monroe wrote:
Plenty of people pay property taxes enough to cover education costs in the suburbs. As JC pays only 17% of educating its own children (and illegal kids) the impact is tiny. As JC will begin paying its fair share expect the tone to change.


Now you're deep, deep in the bullshit. Average NJ property tax is $8,767, and schools get perhaps half that. Have 2 kids and you're paying like 1/8 the cost at best. Try again, that one did not fly.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 21:56
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Yes, something we as a society agreed to provide for our own CITIZENS. Big difference.


Citation please? US Supreme Court decided in 1982, Plyler v. Doe that all children qualify. Wrote Justice Brennan in the decision:

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It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare, and crime.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 18:27
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Re: Early Dismissal at 12:45pm on 2/20 for JCBOE
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By this time of the year they can afford to waste them. They're budgeted. It's also a function of how few teachers actually live in JC, that they don't want a tough drive home to the burbs. It's for the teachers, not the kids.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 18:15
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Monroe wrote:
Add in ESL, lunch, IEP?s, and I?m sure the average illegal kids costs well over $25,000/per student per year. Let?s say two kids-are their parents paying $50,000 a year in taxes?

Hell no.


No one, citizen or not, who actually sends their kids to public schools pays taxes that come close to the education cost of their kids. We as a society decided education was a thing we needed to do with taxes from everyone, even those with no children.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 2:54
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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The story guesses almost 12% of K-12 students are here illegally. If that?s the avg, then JC must be higher. Yet Fulop with his sanctuary city crap encourages illegals to come here. Imagine how much it costs the BOE and NJ taxpayers who carry JC?s load?

Https://informedconservative.blog/2019 ... QI9NX6uCdKEm2DU#more-1226


Regardless of the dubious accuracy of that "guess", the undocumented most certainly pay taxes. Property tax through rent even if they don't own, sales taxes, and even a good chunk of income tax and SS they'll never see back if they're using a stolen SSN to work on the books like Trump's employees.

Posted on: 2019/2/19 22:27
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Re: Plastic bag bans coming to Hoboken, Jersey City
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We've got a pile of canvas style bags to grab when actually grocery shopping, and the little stuffsack nylon bags to (hopefully) have in your pocket or bag for a quick unplanned shop. The latter are like $2-3 each on Amazon in package of 4-8 bags.

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We had gotten a few ChicoBags as premiums from WNYC, and they're great. A little more expensive at $6 each. But they will custom print them, and someone could probably do pretty well selling ones with branding or cute locally inspired graphics.

Posted on: 2019/2/19 1:00
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Re: Have you evicted a non-paying tenant in Jersey City/Hudson County?
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Rent was paid on time by a 3rd party agency (Hurricane Sandy Relief Program). They asked him for some follow up paperwork. He never filled it out. They stopped paying the rent. He's still living there. He's cut off all contact with me in December.


Why are you still asking? File, or find an attorney to do it if it's worth saving your time.

Posted on: 2019/2/13 22:27
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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Not saying after-school programs are a bad idea. Saying they won't work for everyone.


Nothing does, which is why some problems need to be picked at rather than coming up with a "Grand Solution for Everyone". But defunding after school activities is patently stupid.

Posted on: 2019/2/13 18:05
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Re: The SUV Phenomenon
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That would be a long-term investment that may have limited utility ten to twenty years out and would be a terribly inefficient use of space. Population growth won't necessarily come with car ownership rates equal to those of the past.

Millennials have demonstrated less interest in driving and car ownership than previous generations. The nature of transportation is changing. Continued growth in ride sharing and an embrace of autonomous driving vehicle technology could put a significant dent in car ownership, especially in urban areas. Why would you invest in a fifty-year asset that could very well be a white elephant in fifteen or so years?

There is plenty of parking downtown - you just don't always get it free.


Downtown is a small portion of JC, and the other areas mostly have much poorer quality and quantity of public transit options. We can, and must, do better.

Posted on: 2019/2/12 21:15
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