Office of the Mayor announces:
“Dan has been a key member of my team from the beginning and has played an important role in all that we have achieved,” said Mayor Zimmer. “I am confident that he will be as much of an asset in his new position as he has been to the City of Hoboken. Dan has played a critical role both in the day to day business of the City and in helping to manage the many crises our City has faced. He has become a good friend both to me and to his colleagues in City Hall. We wish him the very best in his new career.”
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The City Council overwhelmingly voted Tiffanie Fisher back to the Hoboken Zoning Board in a convincing 7-2 vote Wednesday night. A vote for Fisher came up short at the previous council meeting.
The vote total comes amidst the backdrop of much politicking and varied political agendas on the critical board tainted with corruption in recent years.
Fisher via email offered a statement writing, “I was really proud to be part of the Zoning Board last year and mainly because I felt like each decision was made by a group of people who asked all the right questions, exercised discipline in a difficult environment and always acted in the best interest of Hoboken residents.”
Paul J. Somerville, a Hoboken resident born in St. Mary’s hospital, (now HUMC) was honored for his outstanding service and dedication to the City of Hoboken by Mayor Zimmer at the City Council meeting last night. He kindly submitted these remarks appearing here.
engages the past in a conversation with the present over a mutual concern for
the future.” – William Murtagh, first keeper of the National Register
of Historic Places While I’m stepping away from my seat on the Hoboken Historic Preservation Commission, I am committed to preservation efforts in our City, region and nation and will always remain involved in those endeavors that help define who we are and who we wish to become. By understanding our past, our present is greatly enriched and through preservation, our future has a context that we can shape in the most life-affirming ways. That is the goal of preservation; not merely to enhance the dining and shopping experiences of a privileged few through a murky lens of a misleading nostalgia, but to work to ensure that we, as stewards of our cultural resources, protect them for the future, and through this work, foster the crucial understanding that these efforts are relevant and that the “eyewitness objects”, structures and places of our shared history matter. Many who have moved to Hoboken as adults, and those who have been here their whole lives, speak about Hoboken’s scale, its walk-ability, safety and charm.
They will describe the friendly feel, the pleasant interactions with independent shopkeepers and impromptu meetings with neighbors. The settings for these encounters are the streets, stoops, parks, farmers’ markets and other gathering places in our tiny, diverse, urban village. Whether they realize it or not, they are describing the positive outcomes of historic preservation. The continuation of these elements that serve to attract and retain many of our residents and businesses cannot be taken for granted and deserve our utmost vigilance and the implementation of excellent and thoughtful zoning ordinances. Much of the work and focus of the Hoboken Historic Preservation Commission is transactionally driven through the application process and largely concerns the built environment of the more conventionally beautiful structures. However, Hoboken’s rich industrial past, its unique geological formations, its view sheds and view corridors are also historic and worthy of protection. A pro-active emphasis for these elements can and should be at the core of preservation initiatives as much has already been lost and what remains has never been more threatened. When and if new structures are to be built, archaeology, which has been largely ignored in the preservation process, must play an expanding role. Although it’s difficult to step away from this work in the city I love, where my father’s maternal ancestors settled five generations ago, I am confident that my fellow commissioners will continue to improve the functioning of the historic preservation commission and its important role in shaping our City’s future by preserving its past. 0 0 1 587 3347 Trident Solutions, Inc. 27 7 3927 14.0
A typical early year business agenda for Hoboken’s City Council so no fireworks expected. In Hoboken however, there’s always something about to explode (and usually does).
The mayor however will be issuing two awards early to noteworthy Hoboken citizens.
(The awards are shown early in the meeting.)
Tonight’s agenda is available here.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer who finished the first year of her second term is not resigning for unstated reasons repeatedly published by the Hudson Reporter.
A reliable source at City Hall pointed to recent remarks by the mayor and dismissed the repeated unsourced utterings that Mayor Dawn Zimmer is resigning.
The mayor’s public comments however, point to the possibility of a third term.
Last fall, Mayor Dawn Zimmer was a presenter on the issue of urban resiliency in Detroit and made the following remarks.
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