First Ward Councilman Gary Jeffas said at last Tuesday’s public meeting of the mayor and council that the town’s effort to recoup half of the $850K fire and police alarm fees found to be uncollected over the past five years or so, has garnered $235,348 so far, including new registrations. That’s more than halfway to [...]

A fire inspection program could be a revenue boon, plans for the “new” old rec center, big cost savings on a vow from the prospective new owners of Meadowlands Hospital, plans for a new waterside park (and parking on Farm Road!), and more news in our round-up of action last week by the Secaucus mayor [...]

Secaucus Mayor Mike Gonnelli elaborated on several factors today that complicated the process to lock down a budget proposal for 2010 with what he deems a “modest” tax increase. A seven-figure rise in pension costs and large jumps in healthcare and other obligations made reining in the budget a difficult task, Gonnelli said Thursday. For [...]

Secaucus officials, touting months of cost-cutting measures and a vow to continue fiscal restraint, introduced the town’s 2010 budget Tuesday night with an overall tax increase of about 2.2 percent. Town administrator David Drumeler said the $0.66-per-$1,000 increase was well below last year’s hike of $1.13 and would amount to $.76 when school and county [...]

A new local penalty for drinking under the legal age limit is debated, then passed; two new firefighters; more parking enforcement; fishing derby rescheduled, and more in our wrap-up of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Secaucus mayor and council… The Secaucus town council voted unanimously, 6-0, to create an underage drinking ordinance Tuesday night that [...]

The Secaucus mayor and council are looking to go after illegal sublets that are straining services and posing a safety risk … a developer wants to put eight affordable housing townhomes on a County Ave. lot … nearly $100K has been collected in unpaid alarm fees … more in this week’s council round-up… Secaucus is [...]

A new underage drinking ordinance to give police and prosecutors more breathing room in charging kids than state criminal laws currently allow; $750K in uncollected fire and burglar alarm fees; recreation activities for kids are ramping up, the summer concert lineup is unveiled and more… The Secaucus Mayor and Council introduced an ordinance Tuesday night [...]

An upgrade in the town’s bond rating, fixing up parks, tracking down $350K in deadbeat court fines, a $29K donation in fire equipment, free Nets tickets, hike in construction fees, attendance down at the rec center, and plenty more in our update of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Secaucus mayor and council…  After nothing but [...]

Wrapping up this week’s brisk meeting of the mayor and council, calls by a councilman and former mayor to expand the town’s pay-to-play ordinance, fire equipment donation to the Dominican Republic, concern over the sale of Meadowlands Hospital and a set schedule for televising the meetings… First Ward Secaucus Councilman Gary Jeffas said he is [...]

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the mayor and council: there’s more than meets in the eye with Secaucus’ precipitous decline in NJ Monthly’s ranking, cost-savings at the new recreation center, council meetings to air on TV starting next week, recreation revamp is underway from concerts to holiday events, feral cats are in the cross hairs, [...]