In a letter to the editor, Jersey City resident Vernon Richardson refutes a recent letter from Yvonne Balcer related to the city’s recent financial woes.
Yvonne Balcer’s letter completely misdiagnoses Jersey City’s fiscal challenges by focusing almost exclusively on spending while ignoring the structural realities of how cities grow, how services expand, and how municipal finance actually works.
First, comparing Mayor Fulop’s first and last budgets without context is misleading.
Jersey City has experienced dramatic population growth, major development, and expanded services over the past decade…