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Grist for the Mill: MORTe to Hospital & Hoboken: Go to Hell!

Anyone aware of the situation in town is cognizant of the fight between the forces to see through the hospital’s sale and the enormous efforts made by so many people to achieve this objective – including the hospital employees themselves who have sacrificed greatly including financially to save the hospital versus the forces of sabotage, destruction and moral corruption, re: MORTe.

While MORTe: Mason-Occhipinti-Russo and Terry Castellano have voted down every opportunity to assist the sale of the hospital, they have shown strong resolve to do whatever they can to undo the hospital sale even when the matter was in fact over after the parking agreement licensing was approved Tuesday night. Read More...

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Council VP Cunningham: Make your feelings known on saving the hospital & with it Hoboken

From the desk of 5th ward Councilman Peter Cunningham:

Friends, Family and Neighbors,

And yes again, we are at a very critical juncture in Hoboken’s
history. Tomorrow night at 6pm, City Council Chambers, the minority
council will have another opportunity (and perhaps last) to favor the
immediate approval of the necessary parking agreement so the new
entity can USE the mid town garage for it’s employees and patients.
It is the final piece to close the hospital financing to save
Hoboken’s hospital and relieve the City of it’s $52 million bond
guarantee. It is a condition to close the transaction which should
have happened Wednesday, but the minority council of Mason, Russo,
Castellano and Occipiniti voted no! Read More...

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Mayor Zimmer: Hospital and City on critical list leading into Sunday City Council vote

Mayor Dawn Zimmer expressed to all members of Hoboken’s community the necessity to impress on the minority City Council members the need to cooperate on a Sunday vote to make immediate the parking agreement passed on Tuesday so the hospital sale can close.

Councilman Mike Russo expressed his belief such a vote was not necessary in a conversation with the City’s Corporation Counsel.  The next day Hoboken learned the sale had not closed as the Corporation Counsel stated.

The hospital is currently running on fumes and has taken extraordinary steps to make its payroll but can not make it 20 days from Wednesday when the parking agreement’s passage becomes effective.  As a result, a special City Council meeting will be held on Sunday night at 6:00 pm. Read More...

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Mayor Zimmer Press Conference on saving HUMC

The mayor held a press conference earlier today saying although time is running out and the hospital missed the opportunity to conclude being saved in a sale Wednesday, Hoboken still has a chance if four members of the City Council will “do the right thing for all of Hoboken,” and pass the emergency resolution on the final component needed for the hospital – the parking agreement.

In front of an emotional audience of hospital employees and Hoboken residents, chants of “Save Our Hospital” interrupted the mayor and the Hospital Authority members who spoke with strong applause.  The mayor urged everyone with the welfare of Hoboken in mind to reach out to the four council minority members – Michael Russo, Beth Mason, Terry Castellano and Tim Occhipinti and tell them they can be “heroes of Hoboken” if they vote to allow the sale to go forward by making the already passed parking agreement immediately effective. Read More...

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HUMC Press Conference – Council vote critical in hospital survival

The press conference today is running late unlike the previous two. Not altogether surprising considering the people that have been working from midnight Tuesday after the City Council’s action by MORTe to stop the essential parking agreement licensing from taking effect with the closing Wednesday.

The hospital employees are now assembling in the lobby. There’s a sense of deja vu but not the good kind. This was not suppose to happen.

Thank you Beth Mason for hating Hoboken.


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Hoboken and HUMC with back to the wall, one resident says call MORTe

One concerned resident sent in this information requesting it be posted announcing:

The Council Minority (Mason, Russo, Castellano and Occhipinti) are set to bankrupt Hoboken.

Your taxes may triple because of their political grandstanding.

Call Beth Mason at 646-339-2991 today to tell her to vote “Yes” on Sunday. If that box is full, call 201-656-7549

Call Tim Occhipinti at 917-721-3926 today to tell him to vote “Yes” on Sunday

Michael Russo is at 201-401-9687

Theresa Castellano is at – (201) 656-9449 Read More...

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City Council Special meeting Sunday moved to 6:00 PM

UPDATE: Mayor Zimmer will be holding a press conference this morning at Hoboken University Medical Center.  MSV will be covering it.

The City Council special meeting this Sunday concerning the urgent matter of the Hoboken University Medical Center will be held Sunday evening in City Council Chambers at 6:00 in the evening.

The meeting had earlier been planned for Sunday 9:00 am.

Timmy the voting zombie Occhipinti votes mindlessly as a zombie.  He takes no responsibility for the impact of his votes be it to City workers or the Hoboken University Medical Center.  He’s been “educated” in the Russo school of politics where it’s all politics all the time and lying to the public’s face is standard practice.  How will he explain his vote on Sunday after he’s already jeopardized both City workers and the hospital in less than a month for no good reason.  In fact, like a zombie – no reason at all.

MSV does not normally urge people to come out to meetings.  While we think its important for civic participation to vote and at least see one or two meetings in person to obtain true clarity on what is transpiring in our mile square, this meeting may be the most important for the City Council in years. Read More...

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The Mile Square Taxpayers Associations urge participation on rent control ballot question

MSTA announces:

Time to show you care about Hoboken!  Please pass this on to your colleagues and contacts.  

Get the facts on Public Question #2.  Submit your questions prior to the debate at info@qlchoboken.org. Quality of Life Coalition to Host Rent Control Debate The issue is on the ballot on Nov. 8 in a public referendum. 
By Claire Moses
http://www.e-securemail.net/mail/link.php?M=134157&N=380&L=255&F=T Before the people of Hoboken get to decide on rent control in a public referendum on Tuesday Nov. 8, they’ll get a chance to understand the issue further by attending a debate about it on Friday night.

Tenant advocates have been fighting to get the issue on the ballot http://www.e-securemail.net/mail/link.php?M=134157&N=380&L=256&F=T , and the Hoboken public will be able to vote on election day on Nov. 8.

The debate, which is being organized by Hoboken’s Quality of Life Coalition, will take place at 7:30 at the Our Lady of Grace School Hall on Willow Avenue at 5th Street and moderated by Hoboken Reporter staff writer Ray Smith.

The two organizations will be represented respectively by Cheryl Fallick and Dan Tumpson for Hoboken Fair Housing, and Ron Simoncini and Joe Murray for Mile Square Taxpayers Association.

The issue of rent control has come up, after the city council amended the decades-old law last winter. http://www.e-securemail.net/mail/link.php?M=134157&N=380&L=257&F=T
Tenant advocates have been worried about the issue, among other reasons, because the new law institutes a two-year period of repose, http://www.e-securemail.net/mail/link.php?M=134157&N=380&L=258&F=T
no matter how long rent has been overcharged.

The general public is encouraged to submit questions in advance of the event by e-mailing info@qlchoboken.org
http://www.e-securemail.net/mail/link.php?M=134157&N=380&L=259&F=T. A panel of Quality of Life board members will select the questions. Unlike previous Quality of Life events of this type, no questions will be taken from the audience the evening of the debate. 
Admission is free; all are invited to attend.

Melissa A. Honohan
On behalf of Mile Squared Taxpayers Association
973-936-2459
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Rent Control Debate Friday night at OLG

The Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition presents:

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The Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition to sponsor a debate on the issues concerning rent control legislation that will appear as a question on the November 8, 2011 ballot. The debate between Hoboken Fair Housing and Mile Square Taxpayers Association will take place on Friday, October 28, 2011 starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace School Hall on Willow Avenue at 5 Read More...