With a call for yet another special City Council meeting this Sunday, the Zimmer Administration takes another turn to stave off the Beth Russo hydra in what can only be accurately described as a full on death match over the hospital and Hoboken’s very financial health the stakes.

The latest move to get Hoboken University Medical Center to the finish line – and alive – involves a deft maneuver shifting to a special meeting where five votes via resolution scores a win.

Corporation Counsel Mark Tabakin stated Wednesday night the hospital could not meet its payroll and an emergency resolution was required to align the hospital’s closing on the sale the next day.  The emergency resolution requiring six votes promptly failed 5-4 vote along party lines. Read More...

After the failure last night to move back the 20 day emergency resolution requirement for the hospital sale’s completion today, Mayor Dawn Zimmer is scheduling a special City Council meeting for this Sunday at 9:00 am.

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For a short meeting, last night’s special council session was all the more a train wreck for the utter disregard shown to the institution of the council, the people of Hoboken and last for the long suffering employees of Hoboken University Medical Center.

In the video clip below, Corporation Counsel Mark Tabakin explains the parking agreement requires an additional vote to align the closing to today so the hospital can meet its payroll under the new owners Holdco.

In a back forth with the Corporation Counsel, Councilman Mike Russo disputes the closing will be delayed and then after the vote mocks the hospital’s plight. Read More...

Last night after the successful vote on the essential parking agreement for the midtown garage to license spaces for the hospital, Corporation Counsel explained why a second ordinance and vote was needed to not delay it for 20 days as in a typical ordinance.

Mark Tabakin, the City’s Corporation Counsel said the hospital was not able to make payroll and the agreement needed to be updated so the close could occur today.

After a back and forth where he corrected Councilman Mike Russo numerous times on the necessity, a vote was held.  Here is the video of the vote along with the comments by Mike Russo. Read More...

Here’s the critical and final vote related to saving Hoboken University Medical Center and relieve Hoboken taxpayers of the $52 million bond guarantee.

Council President Ravi Bhalla makes final remarks leading into the vote on the essential parking agreement or rather he’s trying to do so but is rudely interrupted repeatedly by Council members Terry Castellano, Mike Russo and Tim Occhipinti along with MORTe’s political operative Nick Callichio yelling at him from the audience.

The Council President put some important facts on the table leading into the vote noting the parking agreement saves the hospital and removes the $52 million bond liability from Hoboken taxpayers. Read More...

The parking agreement a critical portion of an overall agreement saving Hoboken University Medical Center from closure passed 5-4.  The agreement paves the way in a final chapter keeping the hospital operating as an acute care facility.  Officially the sale should be completed tomorrow and Hoboken taxpayers relieved of the $52 million guarantee.

Meeting pt. 1

 A follow up resolution was then brought to the table asking the agreement be made effective immediately so a typical 20 day waiting period would not be necessary as the hospital does not have the needed funds to operate through the waiting period. Read More...

For all the marbles and Beth Mason’s incalculable investment in stopping it, the hospital sale’s last required component – the parking agreement is up to bat tonight.

We’ll be hearing lots of complaints, lots and lots and none of them will matter one iota. 

The Beth Russo hydra can politrick all they wish till the cows come home to Church Towers and none of it matters. They can howl about a 99 year continuation of the parking agreement, talk about imaginary 150+ million dollar giveaways and pile up the lies as on Beth Mason’s witless commercial lacking any coherency or accuracy and well, it’s all over but the shouting. Read More...

Beth Mason’s last gasp attempting to sully the last component of
the Holdco hospital sale via the parking agreement has come undone
before the special meeting tonight.

MSV explored the legal angle
yesterday and found it wasn’t holding water, even revealed by couched
language in a press release by Beth Mason herself.

Spelling it out beautifully for the layman and dunce politicians, Grafix Avenger sought out her legal department, “Not
Stempler” who bills at $850 an hour and knows a canard when he sees one. 
He tore into the Mason mythology of a “possibly illegal agreement” and
laid waste to the foolishness of politicians who step into intellectual
pools for which they are ill equipped. Read More...

At the City Council meeting last Wednesday night, an intriguing exchange occurred on the subject of public safety and what result occurs if the budget busting bomb is deployed.  Councilwoman Terry Castellano the T and e in MORTe was pleased with herself to raise the issue knowing as she said the answer.

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Breaking: According to a story appearing in the Jersey Journal, the State of NJ via its Department of Community Affairs (DCA) corrected the false reports there is anything illegal in Hoboken’s continuation of a 99 year lease under the new owners of the hospital, Holdco.  The original contract for the 99 years was set up in 2007.

Earlier in a release, Councilwoman Beth Mason who has been working to have the misinformation highlighted on the leasing of hospital space referenced the incorrect Stat-Ledger story Friday and also referenced the local Hoboken website where she runs her political operations: Hoboken411. Read More...