In a letter to the editor, Jersey City resident Dan Levin expresses that Mayor James Solomon needs to “clean house” at City Hall in light of the city’s financial crisis.
On January 15th, James Solomon was inaugurated as mayor of Jersey City and his administration will take over after 12 years of his predecessor Steven Fulop.
Mere weeks later on February 4th, Mayor Solomon disclosed a massive $250m+ deficit calling it the largest financial crisis in city history and laid the blame squarely on former Mayor Fulop.
While the deficit is extraordinary since it occurred after the greatest economic expansion of our lifetimes followed by the federal government raining Covid funds on cities and we can appreciate the disclosure and transparency from the new administration, but placing the blame solely on Mayor Fulop is disingenuous as many people in his administrations, city government, and city boards and commissions acted on his behalf of or supported his actions, efforts and initiatives…