Here’s some shots of the new electric cars now doing the duty more expensive, louder and more costly trucks used to do around town. Same work, smaller footprint and cheaper.
The two electrical vehicles are intended to replace two old City
trucks and will be used to drive around the city to put up signs, meterbags
and remove boots.
The cost for them is appox. $13,000 (small model) and $14,000 (big model)
Electrically charged for 8 hours and they can drive up to
20 miles around town. Max speed is 25 mph. The battery life is 2-3 years
until replacement is required.
Tonight’s a big agenda features a lot of the hard work (and decisions) made on the budget. The newly employed Budget Workshops reduced $700,000 to the bottom line and hard decisions were made on eating all the $4.2MM of the Dave Roberts pension follies in the last few months of this fiscal year. Although MSV leaned toward Fiscal State Monitor Judy Tripodi’s proposition on bonding this cost over a reasonable amount of time, in retrospect this action has merit. Sinatra Park’s repairs is in the early stages of seeking needed grants and it’s unknown how much of the $12 million needed will become available. So although that $4.2MM hit cost us any significant tax cut for this fiscal year ending June 30th, it looks to be the right call.
The Office of the Mayor announces:
REACTION FROM HOBOKEN MAYOR ZIMMER TO GOVERNOR CHRISTIE’S BUDGET SPEECH Yesterday, Governor Christie reported to the State Legislature on his plan for the State’s budget. In his speech, he candidly acknowledged the extent of our State’s fiscal difficulties which he noted had been years in the making. The Governor said:
“We did not dig the hole in which we find ourselves in a day or a year. The massive gap between our resources and our appetite has built up over twenty years. It has been dug by a lack of discipline and unwillingness to say no; made deeper by poor policy choices along the way and quick fixes to avoid tough decisions…..In recent years, we have allowed the problem to become bigger through a series of one-time gimmicks that have worsened our situation.”
The question now is will it be in time? Based on the Governor’s speech today, it’s doesn’t matter. He’s taking the action on multiple fronts in the budget that should have been acted on years ago. And that comment is not ours, but by a NJ politico talking about what he heard from NJ State Democrats. If you have a pulse and are here, and there’s a lot of you folks out there, find the time to watch for yourself. This town has some deep talent and some very empowered individuals. You are what drives this website.
An update to =&0=&story (see below) has been added just after noon today. For the sake of prominence this post is placed at the top of the website so earlier readers of the story can see the update and make their own conclusions. MSV has again followed up on the matter and based on yet more revelations decided the matter closed.
Additionally, we did receive an introductory tape and a person reporting the prior month’s BoE on the Frank Romano meeting showing the We the people reports in attendance and have been told the last two videos will be made available in a reasonable amount of time.
Please note a commenter, Eyeball earlier made reference to that filming and this answers that question.
This Sunday sees two competing BoE Slate events. Kids First will start a series of public events held in local parks. They submitted this announcement:
Dear Friends: Please join us on Sunday, March 21st from 10am to 12pm in Columbus Park for our Annual Kids First picture! The Kids First 2010 Team will be there and there will be snacks and drinks for the children. It will be a great time to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones. We truly appreciate all the community support over the years and are very excited about the accomplishments we have achieved this past year. The Kids First 2010 team needs your continued support to keep the progress going! We hope you can make it!!! Please pass this along to your friends…. Then later the same day, the =&0=& commences at Wild Ginger Restaurant: The Grafix Avenger has once again weighed in with their uniquely artistic interpretation on the battle, emphasizing some of the entertainment from the last BoE meeting: I’ll say one thing, that Dr. Frank Romano sure does make a good corpse. Have you ever seen anyone so happy in a coffin? Oh and peek a boo Lane, we see you. .
Scrutiny surrounding the BoE meetings available on We the people reports, Councilwoman Beth Mason’s website led to questions and numerous emails over the weekend to MSV on the earlier story pointing to the lack of BoE videos since 2008.
On Saturday emails started arriving on on the matter. One reader stated 2009 BoE video previously seen was no longer available. Then not long after, the cameraman who has been contracted by Councilwoman Beth Mason sent a slew of emails asking for corrections and stated MSV was in error, showing a page with 2009 BoE video results.
City of Hoboken announces:
TODAY IS DEADLINE FOR PARKING PERMIT RENEWALS
Today, Monday, March 15, 2010 is the deadline to renew Resident parking permits. Residents with valid 2009 Resident parking permits who have not moved out of Hoboken or failed to update the Utility with a new Hoboken address should have received a renewal notification in the mail and mailed in their documentation and renewal fee, according to Transportation and Parking Utility Director Ian Sacs.