Jersey City Mayor James Solomon’s administration has released their after action report related to the January 25th blizzard, where he admitted that cleaned efforts were lackluster: “Residents deserved better.”
“Jersey City residents deserved better during the January storm, and they know it, and so do I. This report doesn’t make excuses. It tells the truth about what we found when we looked closely at storm operations: a department that had been neglected for a decade, left without the leadership, systems, and operational planning it needed to handle a major weather event,” Solomon said in a statement.
“Publishing this report is an act of accountability. And the reforms we’ve already put in place — tested during the February blizzard — show that rebuilding is possible and that it’s already underway.”
The January 25 storm dropped over nine inches of snow on Jersey City at rates reaching two inches per hour, prompting Governor Mikie Sherrill to declare a state of emergency. While the city deployed over 60 pieces of snow removal equipment and activated its Emergency Operations Center, the response fell well short of resident expectations – particularly in residential neighborhoods, at crosswalks, and along pedestrian corridors…