City of Hoboken announces:
Surrounding streets will remain open, but there will be no parking permitted on Garden St. 3rd St. 4th St 3rd St. Park Ave. Bloomfield St
Three big items on the special meeting agenda tonight: the Western Edge redevelopment plan, a budget amendment and a special closed session on litigation.
The City of Hoboken recently left the uptown Willow Street location after negotiations on the space with Hoboken Unleashed failed. Hoboken Unleashed called the city’s bluff on leaving and although they went to Superior Court in Jersey City to get off the property, now that the city has vacated before their 60 day lease’s expiration, Hoboken Unleashed has said it intends to continue litigation. Expect to see this snuffed by the Superior Court judge. (Hoboken Unleashed has begun zoning variance applications needed to move their business on to the property but it will take several months before approval can be obtained. Now the landlord of the property loses the extra income from the city and Hoboken Unleashed is left thinking about an imaginary payday.)
With the City returning to the site of the Municipal Garage, the developer who claims it intended to deliver on the $25.5 million price is now posturing to get the $2.55 million deposit back with legal fees of a couple of hundred thousand. The developer, S. Hekemian could have gotten close to this earlier. But they didn’t want to hurt the ability to bid on other projects with a black mark on their record by defaulting outright.
As MSV said earlier, the fight would be over the deposit. So tonight’s closed session may be regarding this matter. If you see it on Hoboken411 tomorrow painted in some dire warning, then you can be sure it was fed to them by either Councilwoman Beth Mason or Councilman Mike Russo. Their efforts at sabotaging the city at every turn have been consistent, as in consistently bad.
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City of Hoboken announces:
=&0=& The Administration is providing updates on several topics of interest to the community. =&1=&The Western Edge Redevelopment Plan is the first item for consideration at this evening’s City Council meeting. Several members of the City Council, which is the redevelopment agency for the City, have expressed interest in postponing consideration of the Western Edge Redevelopment Plan in order to solicit additional input from the community. The community concerns have been largely focused on the amount of open space presented in the plan.
Lenz for Council announces:
=&0=& Councilman Lenz responds: “To begin with, I welcome Tim Occhipinti to the discussion about Clean Campaigns. It is ironic for Tim to accuse someone else of breaking a pledge that he refuses to sign or seriously acknowledge, all in a video that is missing legally required paid for language. As to his two charges, he is wrong on his facts and misleading in his insinuations. To be completely clear: I stand behind my pledge. =&1=& The pledge calls for “Street Money” and makes clear I am talking about CASH payments. It goes on and says “all payments for Election Day Workers will be by check and will be fully recorded on ELEC reports.” I followed that in 2001 and I’ll follow that this year. One more point –The fact that Tim is able to falsely attack me is because my ELECs were filed and complete with all checks recorded. =&2=& Tim is talking about my – perfectly legal and above board – hiring of 30 election day workers because he doesn’t want to talk about what his campaign is doing. I hired 30 residents, legally and paid by check, to help get out my message. Another reason was to have people in our T-Shirts to counter the intimidation factor of hundreds of paid ‘workers’ supporting my opponent. Given what those fine people went through that day, they certainly earned their pay. I would be proud to have enough money to hire them again. All heard my message, but none were required to fill out an absentee ballot, vote for me, or even vote in order to get paid. Those will be the rules this year as well. I challenge Tim to make the same commitment. =&3=& I remember submitting all my ELEC reports in 2001, but after being appointed to the council, I thought to check them online to ensure everything was posted and complete. What I found to my surprise was that my final report was missing. I immediately checked my files at home where I found my filed copy of the completed report from almost a decade ago. I checked with ELEC and was told to re-submit it along with a note explaining it had been previously filed, which I did. ELEC accepted my submission, put it on the web, and has taken no action to indicate I have done anything wrong. =&4=& =&5=&=&6=&=&7=&Tim is trying to draw attention from his own misdeeds and backroom deals, but the fact remains that Tim is unable to sign the pledge himself since he will be in violation from day one. As of today, only the Mike Lenz campaign has completed and submitted all ELEC, and only Mike Lenz has made a commitment to not have any able-bodied paid worker vote absentee. Why can’t Tim sign on to these common sense initiatives? Because Mike Novak, a high-ranking member of Tim’s Campaign team (http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/9560712/article-Who-leaked-the-misinformation-about-the-Occhipinti-campaign) currently has missing ELEC forms from his run with Former Mayor and current Inmate Peter Cammarano’s campaign last year. Further, despite telling the press the opposite (http://www.politickernj.com/absentee-campaign-hoboken-not-myth) Tim is already personally running a shadow absentee vote campaign that is working day and night to disenfranchise the residents of the 4th Ward (https://hobokenhorse.com/2010/09/pants-on-fire.html
URGENT: Your presence needed at City Council meeting Wednesday 9/29 at 7pm
You may or may not be aware of the plans to redevelop the North Western edge of Hoboken. If you are not, please read Western edge redevelopment.
I attended the meeting on September 15th, 2010 and left VERY concerned about the plan presented and slated to go to the City Council on Wednesday September 29th for review and then to the Planning Board for approval and then back to the City Council for a favorable vote.
What am I asking from you?
Occhipinti for Council announces:
=&0=& (HOBOKEN) 4th Ward City Council candidate Tim Occhipinti called on Michael Lenz to apologize to residents of the 4th Ward for already breaking his own “clean election pledge.” Lenz broke his own pledge, first by paying out “street money,” then waiting 8 years to file a report with the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). According to his ELEC filings, Michael Lenz paid out thousands of dollars in “street money”=&1=&
during his unsuccessful 2001 city council campaign. The records show more than 30 people were paid “street money” on Election Day, 2001.
NJ Transit came to the Hoboken Terminal Waiting Room to present a scaled back initial plan and did so while making hundreds of spectators await the punch line – a 17 to 26 floor main structure first to go up where the bus depot is now situated.
Indicating a “world class tenant” was available if Hoboken’s city government would approve the plan in the next three to six months, NJ Transit said the plan would revitalize much of the area with over two million in annual tax revenues to the city while bringing along 1700 employees of the new company to Hoboken.
Congressional Candidate Henrietta Dwyer announces:
Henrietta Dwyer says the 13th Congressional District needs Jobs Here. Jobs now. Recent statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics painted a very bleak picture on the jobs front in the 13th district. Unemployment is well above the national and state averages of 9.5% and 9.7% respectively. Unemployment in Hudson County has reached 11.5 %. In the southern end of the district in Perth Amboy unemployment stands at 17.8%. Ms. Dwyer issued the following statement on the present situation.
“Washington told us this past summer would be a recovery summer. Instead we are seeing record jobless numbers in city after city across the district. Those fortunate enough to still have a job, find themselves working longer and longer hours for less pay. Congress has become a collection of career politicians more concerned with photo ops and distractions than they are with fixing this economy.”