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Council President Lavarro has an unparalleled legislative record that demonstrates his commitment to Jersey City’s working families. Councilman Lavarro co-sponsored Jersey City’s living wage ordinance, which boosted the minimum pay for low-wage workers in city-owned and some city–leased buildings and in certain developments. The Council President is a vocal proponent of the Fight For 15 campaign to boost minimum wage in New Jersey. He sponsored legislation establishing and expanding earned sick days, which provides paid sick time for most people working in Jersey City. The Council President also enacted wage theft protection, protecting workers of Jersey City businesses against unscrupulous employees. Additionally, the Council President’s accomplishments include legislation enabling farmers markets, banning smoking in City parks, and establishing the first Immigrant Affairs Commission in the state of New Jersey. (more)
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It’s only right to hold the election for the vacant seat on the Board of Ed this November, not next year.
National Night Out is about preventing violence and building safe communities. It starts here with getting to know our neighbors and people in our communities. Glad to see friends, families, community organizations and public servants coming together to build safer communities. #NationalNightOut #JerseyCity #communitybuilding
Check out today’s editorial in The Jersey Journal on the recent police-involved shooting. See my previous post.
This editorial is spot on. Without making any premature assumptions on the shooting itself, it is wholly appropriate to say that the community deserves to be informed throughout the investigation.
After discussing with Pamela Nicole Johnson, the Executive Director of Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition (JC AVC), JC AVC, Go Get My Kids group and I will be hosting a Town Hall on the shooting, in an effort to provide any information available and listen to community concerns on these recent events. I’ve reached out to the NAACP Jersey City Chapter; the date, time and location of the town hall will be announced soon. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez will be invited.
Tensions and mistrust are all too commonplace between police and Black/Brown communities in every city across the nation. As much as we’d like to think otherwise, Jersey City is not immune to these criticisms.
The resolutions to these challenges require transparency and accessibility with residents. The answers to these concerns cannot be found within the 280 characters of a Tweet, and no amount of crime statistics will change history nor erase the mistrust that exists between government/law enforcement and Black and Brown communities.
#JerseyCity is entitled to the whole truth and, to quote the editorial, we “should settle for nothing less.”
Where is Fulop after police shooting? | Jersey Journal editorial
Despite calls from members of the community for him to address what happened, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has been silent on the police shooting Monday night that left a 19-year-old and a 21-year-ol...