Education officials are contemplating raising $5 million in revenue through local taxation to close a $25.77 million budget shortfall in the school district’s 2015-16 budget. An increase in local taxes would be the first in more than a decade for the school board.
City Politics
School board flirts with raising $5 million in revenue from property owners
Commercial loading zones proposed for every block of downtown’s Main Street
City officials are proposing to create about a dozen commercial loading zones on and near Main Street inside the downtown business district.
City council approves mayor Torres’ directors with four-year ‘salary freeze’
Council members approved all seven of mayor Jose “Joey” Torres’ department directors whose names were before them on Tuesday evening. The seven directors were approved after council members added a provision to the approving resolutions that would freeze the salaries of each of the appointees for a four-year period.
Police News
City woman suspected of stealing $20,000 through bank transactions arrested
A city woman who is suspected to have accessed an unnamed victim’s bank account and transferred $20,000 to her own accounts was arrested Wednesday on West Broadway after a three-month investigation, according to Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik.
Police arrest two in Belmont Avenue shooting
Just three days after a 24-year-old city man was wounded on Belmont Avenue and North 7th Street, city police have arrested two men charging one with attempted murder on Tuesday afternoon.
Police: Two shooting suspects arrested
City police arrested two people in connection with a February 26th, 2015 shooting on East 19th Street between Park and 17th Avenues.