Here you go, peeps.
No analysis today- there's plenty to read here. Embedded below are the Mayor's Veto Statement with the 10-page Hoboken Law Department Opinion--and read those Footnotes! (For full veto package click HERE.)
No analysis today- there's plenty to read here. Embedded below are the Mayor's Veto Statement with the 10-page Hoboken Law Department Opinion--and read those Footnotes! (For full veto package click HERE.)
MAYOR'S VETO STATEMENT
HOBOKEN LAW DEPARTMENT OPINION
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So is the council looking to have a fight about installing two Giattino/Fisher patronage appointments or are they looking to compromise with the mayor and appoint good candidates for the RLB? Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteIt's indisputable that the council has moved a legally dubious ordinance forward through a legally improper process for an improper purpose.
ReplyDeleteThere simply is no way to put lipstick on this pig.
The fact that the Council of No is willing to fall on their swords over something like this makes it clear that none of them have leadership skills, unless you count lemmings. None of them should hold any elected office.
ReplyDeleteSimply put, this new opinion completely shreds the Ryglicki document which, since it was unsigned, does not actually even constitute a formal legal opinion.
ReplyDeleteIt also clearly distinguishes the zoning board appointments, which courts have confirmed can be made by the council due to soecific language in state law that does not exist for the rent leveling Board.
Stripped of smoke, the Ryglicki opinion is left with nothing more than "even though the language of the Faulkner Act clearly and unambiguously states that appointments like these must be made by the mayor with advice and consent of the city counsel, other towns have ignored the law and done it another way. Therefore the law doesn't count anymore."
As this memo points out, that's not a legal theory, though it does highlight the potential disruption this stunt could cause not just for Hoboken but for other towns as well if the council persists with this nonsense.