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| Debauchery and destruction: drunken babies invade Hoboken |
Dear GA Readers,
I hope everyone stayed safe during yesterday’s snow storm! First, let me express my thanks to the Hoboken Department of Environmental Services, our Office of Emergency Management, the Hoboken Police Department and Hoboken Fire Department for clearing our streets in a timely fashion and keeping our City safe.
I hope everyone stayed safe during yesterday’s snow storm! First, let me express my thanks to the Hoboken Department of Environmental Services, our Office of Emergency Management, the Hoboken Police Department and Hoboken Fire Department for clearing our streets in a timely fashion and keeping our City safe.
With Hoboken being a walking City, I also wanted to make sure that our intersections and crosswalks were cleaned and passable for residents walking to transit areas today. We had seven bobcat crews working throughout the night to clear snow from corners. When traveling through the City, please report any unshoveled sidewalks at www.hoboken311.com or via the Hoboken 311 mobile app.
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| Look at those drunk babies. BabyCon must go! And the Santas! And the Lepers! |
Below is a brief recap of a few of the projects my team is hard at work with in City Hall during my first week.
Washington Street
In my first director’s meeting on Tuesday, an important topic of conversation was moving forward our Washington Street project. I am 100% committed to getting this project done as soon as possible. Already, I met with the Washington Street contractors to discuss operations and met with the team in the field. I have instructed my administration to gather daily updates from the contractors to ensure constant communication and prevent additional delays.
Office of Constituent Services
I’m pleased to announce that in the coming weeks, we will be opening an Office of Constituent Services at City Hall. This office will be solely dedicated to providing efficient and enhanced constituent services to residents, no matter how big or small the issue. This office will be fully staffed and located near the entrance to City Hall and open after business hours, so residents can always have a place to turn to for assistance.
Unruly bar crawls/cons
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| Poor woman, surrounded by drunk babies. |
We all saw the unruly behavior that resulted from the return of the “Santa-con” bar crawl.
[GA NOTE: Don't forget Baby-con!!!] I find it unacceptable for people to come into Hoboken and trash our City, while enriching the profits of the bar owners at the expense of our residents and other legitimate businesses. [GA NOTE: Me, too!] At my inauguration, I announced that I am forming a task force comprised of police, fire, and emergency management officials, who together with local business leaders will develop and execute strategies to put this menace to an end. [GA NOTE: No more underage drinking! No more Lepers! No more Santas! No more Babies!]
[GA NOTE: Don't forget Baby-con!!!] I find it unacceptable for people to come into Hoboken and trash our City, while enriching the profits of the bar owners at the expense of our residents and other legitimate businesses. [GA NOTE: Me, too!] At my inauguration, I announced that I am forming a task force comprised of police, fire, and emergency management officials, who together with local business leaders will develop and execute strategies to put this menace to an end. [GA NOTE: No more underage drinking! No more Lepers! No more Santas! No more Babies!]
PSE&G Resiliency Project
I’m thrilled to let you know that the City Council approved an important amendment to advance the critical PSE&G $170 million energy project on Wednesday. [GA NOTE: Great news!]This PSE&G project will consolidate our two energy substations into one elevated facility, and substantially strengthen Hoboken’s electrical grid. This critical investment of $170 million will ensure Hoboken’s energy grid is more resilient from major flooding events, like the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy when our substations failed and we were without power for two weeks. [GA NOTE: That sucked!] A special thank you to our City Hall team, as well as Mayor Dawn Zimmer for moving this project forward.
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| Nothing is worse than a BabyCon house party. Mayor Bhalla, STOP THIS! |
I look forward to staying in touch in the weeks ahead. [GA NOTE: Thank you!]
Sincerely,
Ravi S. Bhalla
Hoboken Mayor
Nice, an office of constituent services. Now the people who want their ass kissed can do so at taxpayer expense whenever they want.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I am betting 80% of the time it will be the same 15-20 people showing up at this office for their daily ass kissing. I also bet those same 15-20 people will be the gadflies who constantly show up at CC meetings to whine, complain and heckle speakers they don't like.
I hope the mayor hires someone good at dealing with insufferable annoying people who like to complain about rain being wet and snow being cold because that is likely going to be that person's job over at the office of constituent services.
Also nice: the resolution for a Pay to Play officer passed on First Reading. That function will be added to Corp Counsel's plate. So, now we have a person to report P2P violations to. Wonder what authorities Corp Counsel has to enforce the P2P law, and how.
DeleteDoesn't Fisher have a stack of P2P violations from Defusco? When should we expect her to follow up on those?
DeleteThis is a real narrative-buster for the Bhalla-bashers. Or it would be if they still cared about reality.
Fisher and company literally do not care. They would support someone who murdered a bus load of nuns before backing anyone who supports the mayor.
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ReplyDeletePSE&G had a community meeting that I and about a hundred other residents attended back in February of last year to get input on design of their block long project. I have not see anything since made public. Can the public get a detailed update ?
Also part of the plan is to land swap the PSE&G substation property adjacent to the 2nd Street Light Rail Station for the City owned property previously directly North of the ShopRite parking lot which was originally part of a developer give back and designated to be open space. This whole process has disappeared from public view for a year. Can we get an update ?
As the property the City swapped for the 2nd Street was to be open space I would hope the it to will become public open space.
Oh, I seriously doubt Jen/Tiff/Peter and their new developer friendly co-conspirators want any open space. Develop or die is likely their new motto. We better hope whether or not that land is for open space has already been dealt with or expect bad things to happen.
DeleteDidn't Tiff pull a Mason and invite some sort of pro-development consultant to town to speak? Heck, I half expect for them to lobby for high rises full of micro units filled w/ young fresh out of college professionals that move in and out of town every few years. The developers and realtors in town will make a killing off that crowd.