The Jersey City Municipal Council held a caucus meeting on September 22, 2026, from 4:03 PM to 6:55 PM. All nine council members were present. The meeting focused on financial corrective actions, CDBG fund allocation, public safety grants, infrastructure projects, tax abatement updates, and a major development PILOT. No public comments were heard; a public hearing with 32 registered speakers is scheduled for the following council meeting.
Okay, good evening, everyone. We are on the record. Today is Monday, the 21st day of September in the year 2026. This is a city council caucus meeting of the Jersey City Municipal Council. We had a scheduled 4 p.m. start. The clock on my cell phone is shelling 4.03 p.m. May we have a roll call for the commencement of this caucus. Councilperson Brooks. Present. Councilperson Zupa. Here. Councilperson Efros here. Councilperson Little is not here. Council person Gilmore. Not here. Not here. Councilperson Singh. Present. Welcome back. Councilperson Griffin. Go get on. Here. Councilperson Lavaro. Here. And Council President Ridley. Here. We have seven members in attendance at 4.03 p.m. On behalf of Council President Ridley and the members of the municipal council and the court. This is with New Jersey Public Laws of 1975, Chapter 231, the Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the posting on the bulletin board of the first floor of City Hall, the annual notice, which is the schedule of meetings and caucuses of the municipal council for the calendar year 2026 and filed in the office of the city clerk on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025. In addition, at its time of its preparation, the agenda of this meeting was similarly disseminated on Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 at 1045 a.m. to the mayor, municipal council, business administrator, corporation council, and the local newspapers and posted on the city's website so I can certify as to our total compliance with the sunshine law. Council President, I'm gonna turn it over to you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for being here. We're gonna jump right in and start with Bill Finance. Resolution 26-581. It's agenda item 10.2. So resolution approving the corrective action plan for the calendar year ending December 31st, 2025. Uh the governing body uh is required um by statute and by DLGS to not only cause an audit of the annual books, but prepare and submit a corrective action plan as part of the annual audit process. The corrective action plan covers all findings and recommendations, including state, federal, and general or financial statements in the audit report. The chief financial officer is then required to prepare the corrective action plan with the assistance from other state officials. And the corrective action plan must then be approved by the governing body and submitted to the division of local government services. Our corrective action plan contains 17 findings, two of which are considered material weaknesses. None of the issues in the corrective action plan, however, are new. Most have been identified previously. Some go back as far as 2014. For example, audits as far back as 2014 have identified that the city does not have an accounting of its fixed assets. The corrections.