Fulop ‘happy to explore’ city budget cuts to fund schools if BOE and city council members can find where to trim
Updated May 05, 2021;
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Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said he is “happy to explore” any cuts the school board and city council members believe could be made to the municipal budget to help fund the city’s public schools.
Fulop told both nine-member bodies during a joint meeting Tuesday that he is willing to help the school board with funding if there is “a clear program” and if they can identify possible cuts to the municipal budget so the city can supply the funds.
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After years of its partners making direct political contributions to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick, Cole & Giblin’s reportable donations in 2020 would barely cover the rent of a cold water flat.
The firm s lone reportable contribution in 2020 was $1,000 from DeCotiis partner Bart Mongelli to Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) in October. Had Mongelli not sent that check, the firm would not have had to detail each of its contracts with New Jersey agencies, municipal governments, public universities and authorities in a lengthy annual pay-to-play statement. That book of business has been worth between $10 million and $17 million in each of the last 13 years, according to its filings.
Jersey City BOE president: ‘I haven’t made a decision’ on potential mayoral run
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
Mussab Ali, 23, has been elected president of the Jersey City School Board. He was photographed at Dickinson High School on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Jersey City school board President Mussab Ali won’t say he’s considering a run for Jersey City mayor, but he won’t rule it out, either.
“It’s been something that people have asked me about across the city,” Ali said. “I’ve had people across the city who have expressed a desire for new leadership in this city. But I truthfully just haven’t made a determination on that yet.”
Jersey City rally sparks debate over ‘F - the pigs’ chant
Updated Apr 19, 2021;
A Saturday rally in Jersey City sparked debate after video circulated online of marchers shouting “F - the pigs,” apparently at police officers stationed on the street.
A video clip of roughly 100 protestors shouting the slogan as they approach a Jersey City Police Department vehicle drew criticism from Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who called the chant “inflammatory + infectious rhetoric which only further divides us” on Twitter.
“Obscenities being hurled at police officers who risk their lives every day is unacceptable, we should agree this isn’t an appropriate way to express grievances + it undermines calls for change,” he wrote.
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