After Waiting the Required Six Months, Fulop Resurrects Three Defeated Cost-Cutting Ordinances

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

After several ordinances introduced by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop were defeated at a February City Council meeting, he vowed to get them on “every council agenda for the next three years.” But that promise was soon snuffed by the quick passage of a bill backed by council president Peter Brennan that prohibits the council from considering any defeated first read ordinance for six months after its failure to pass.

Fulop clearly marked his calendar, though, and with the six-month time frame ending, he says that three cost-cutting measures will be back on the City Council agenda next week.

“When this ban on re-introducing ordinances was first presented and passed back in March, I considered it a direct attack on me and the ordinances I was bringing to the table,” he says. “It is my strong belief that the council, and those of us who serve in it, should be working together to improve Jersey City and make government more open not add layers of bureaucracy. It is important to encourage efficiency within government, but banning the re-introduction of ordinances for six months is too much.”

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