o73o2 wrote:
1499 we only need 1 more ...

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/s ... ey-city-tax-increase.html

GrovePath wrote:
WE'RE GONNA RUN THIS TOWN?

Were you thinking of something like this...

Bike_Lane wrote:

Outside of JCList, I don't think anyone in town knows there's a new tax increase coming. I've been talking about it with friends and neighbors and it's news to all of them. Is word getting out to the community, or are we just hoping enough JCList lurkers manage to show up?

dontstealmyrocks wrote:

Seriously, you can't make this stuff up! This is like watching the Sopranos but the only difference is it's Jersey City politicos. And yet they continue to get away with it!

whospeaksforyou wrote:

You want to run this town? Don't just go to the Council meeting. Organize your supporters there into a GOTV operation for April 20th.

teacher wrote:
no outrage over this? I am disapointed in this community....so the group only gets mad at Healy and not the roots of the issues.

T-Bird wrote:

Unfortunately, JC doesn't provide the level of transparency in its budgeting process that other cities do

GrovePath wrote:

Krajnik and Fire Chief Michael O'Reilly agree the staffing problems are not due to having too many officers in the department. Over the past few years, retiring officers have for the most part not been replaced. As of March 1 there will only be 135 fire captains, 21 battalion chiefs and six deputy chiefs, according to O'Reilly.

T-Bird wrote:

There needs to be at least two more rallies - Feb. 10 and Feb. 24, which are the next two council meetings. If last night is as far as it goes, it may as well never have happened. It's up to us to make sure it continues.

maya2007 wrote:
I Will Be there next Wednesday to protest higher taxes. Before the elections taxes didn?t go up. After the election taxes want up 11.5%. I can?t stand current council. Few should be already in prison for corruption but they serve. Anyway I am planning to design, print and distribute flayers this weekend notifying JC resident about this protest. I have two questions first can I say in the flayer that this is protest since I don?t have a permit to protest. Second can reference http://jclist.com to send resident for more info.
Frustrated Resident
Dan

Ms_Taggart wrote:
How about everyone commit to try to get 5 people to attend the council meeting? Then we have the network effect. Given the lack of time, I share concern doing it outside city hall ahead of time could actually be a flop. But we could at least bombard in council meeting.

City Hall rally to protest Jersey City budget set for Wednesday
By Melissa Hayes/The Jersey Journal
January 22, 2010, 6:00AM


A Jersey City resident is leading a grassroots effort to protest the recently introduced city budget.

In a rush to receive $14 million in state aid before Jon S. Corzine left the governor's office, the City Council introduced a $492 million budget that if left unchanged could hike taxes for the owner of a home assessed at $100,000 by as much as $800.

City officials have said they intend to make cuts to lessen the expected tax hike.

Esther Winter, a city resident since 1987, said she normally reads the news, not makes it. But when she read about the proposed budget, she was angry and decided to do something.

She posted a thread on www.JCList.com and now has other city residents riled up and ready to protest at Wednesday's City Council meeting.

"I really have a feeling that things are just ripe right now," she said. "People have really had it and people start to find out that property taxes are going up again."

Winter said crime remains a problem, the schools are failing to meet state standards and services are being cut, all while taxes are increasing, including an 11 percent hike last year.

"It's enough," she said. "I have yet to see the City Council do what many people have had to go through now, which is take a reduction in salary. A lot of people have taken a reduction in salary to save their jobs."

City workers have taken a hit. They have been forced to take 12 furlough days, including today, without pay over a six-month period to help reduce the budget.

The rally is planned for outside City Hall, 280 Grove St., before the 6 p.m. meeting.

melhayes wrote:
Is there a person or group organizing the rally? We'd like to run something in the paper, but I need a little more information.

mhayes@jjournal.com
201-217-2419

Thanks!

melhayes wrote:
Is there a person or group organizing the rally? We'd like to run something in the paper, but I need a little more information.

mhayes@jjournal.com
201-217-2419

Thanks!

JRL wrote:
We should also write to the Jersey Journal to get the word out towards a protest at City Hall at the next council meeting. We would need to pack City Hall Chambers, other wise the council will just laugh at residents and lack of support against them.

JRL wrote:
I commented the enclosed the other day, I see people talk about riot on City Hall..well let's stop talking about it and everyone show up at the next city council meeting, march in City Hall Chambers, protest, riot, revolt, start a REVOLUTION, whatever it takes...and not just one time, show up meeting after meeting until Team Healy can't take it anymore.
They are too comfortable F***ing the residents of Jersey City over..Let's make them uncomfortable and wish they never re-elected.

Look what Hoboken did, the made Camarrano so uncomfortable they drove him out of office.

While posting out here is great, it is in person a very loud statement needs to be made over and over again. Then we can realize Healy's.. Change You can see..so let's change it..Healy, Vega, Gaughan, Richardson, Brennan, Flood,Sottolano, Lopez..all got to go.

shakatah wrote:

Protest, riot or whatever to call attention to the issue but by doing so you are still trying to pressure the same elected officials who put us in this position. I prefer to go above the heads of people who continue to make decisions to take my money without asking and spend it wastefully.

Solution is a MASS TAX APPEAL EFFORT. Here you are appealing to the county tax board which forces the city to justify its assessment of your property. With recent real estate values there is not a better time to file a tax appeal if your property was assessed based on the real estate values of 2004, 2005, etc..

Since the city won't voluntarily spread the tax burden fairly, force it to do so.

T-Bird wrote:

West: the next council meeting is two weeks from tonight - Jan. 27. Everyone affected should show up and be heard.