Forid Uddin News Today

Paterson City Council members are at odds over whether they want early voting for the upcoming May 14 municipal elections.

The City Council applied the brakes to Mayor Andre Sayegh’s plan for auctioning off the Libby’s Lunch property near the Great Falls.

Nine hours, 13 minutes and 40 seconds — that’s how long the contentious Paterson City Council meeting went on.

The Paterson City Council on Tuesday refused to resume airing its biweekly workshop meetings on local access cable television and YouTube.

City officials are spending $700,000 to buy solar-powered trash cans that cost $4,400 apiece for high-capacity models and $2,500 for smaller ones.

Homeowners would pay an average increase of $131 per year with the 2% hike in Paterson’s $321 million municipal budget approved Tuesday night.

Md Ford Uddin said he donated $50,000 to his own campaign and was self-funding to avoid ties to "special interests."

Nine top-ranking city officials will be getting substantial pay raises that take effect Friday.

Mayor Andre Sayegh was also inaugurated earlier Friday afternoon.

Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said he would not accept his $21,000 pay raise, which was included in a salary ordinance approved by the City Council.