The Bayonne Rent Board on May 20, 2025, approved Resolution 2025-03 granting Hudson 868 Broadway Realty LLC an individual rental unit improvement surcharge of $43.08 per month for Unit 34 at 866–868 Broadway in Bayonne. The board set the surcharge to begin the month the resolution passed and continue for 15 years, through Sept. 30, 2040.

The resolution says the landlord submitted documentation showing $7,760 in work completed within the last year, including new kitchen cabinets, countertops, a backsplash, a sink, moving an outlet and associated carpentry, electrical and plumbing. The application listed a 15-year useful life for the improvements; the surcharge was calculated to amortize that cost over that period.

The board recorded that a hearing on the application had been scheduled for May 20, 2025, at 7 p.m. and that both the landlord and the tenant were absent at that hearing. The board found the landlord’s application and supporting documentation to be truthful and credible and moved to grant the surcharge. The board corrected an amount read aloud during the meeting from $43.11 to $43.08 before the roll call.

The vote to adopt Resolution 2025-03 passed with three members voting in favor and three members absent. Present and recorded as approving were Board member Clapsey, Board member Prieto and Board member Tina Siciliano; Board member Nichols, Board member Bogos and Board member Bergel were recorded as not present. The motion was made and seconded on the floor; the transcript does not identify which members made the motion and second.

The board opened the meeting by noting compliance with New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act (Sunshine Law) and that notice of the meeting had been filed with the city clerk and posted in the municipal building. There was no public comment on the item, and the board adjourned at 7:07 p.m.

The decision allows the landlord to collect the surcharge from the rent-controlled tenant in Unit 34 to offset the specified capital improvement; the transcript does not record the tenant’s name or whether the tenant will contest the surcharge in a subsequent proceeding.