The Jersey City Council unanimously approved (9-0) a non-binding resolution urging the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller to conduct an audit of fiscal operations in the city for several years during Mayor Steven Fulop’s tenure.
At yesterday’s seven-and-a-half hour meeting, the council voted unanimously (9-0) to approve a resolution calling on the comptroller “to conduct an audit, performance review, contract review” of Fulop’s administration between 2020 and 2025.
The resolution was co-sponsored by Ward C Councilman Tom Zuppa and Councilman at-Large Rolando Lavarro, who ran with Fulop in 2013 and 2017 before losing in 2021 when he ran independently. He won last year as part of now-Mayor James Solomon’s slate.
“The public is understandably skeptical of government, but this was a conversation he and I had with some others months ago about co-governance committees, looking both back and forward, and that’s where this came about,” Zuppa said of collaborating with Lavarro…