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Bayonne City Council adopts amended 2025 municipal budget after brief public hearing
Summary
The Bayonne City Council unanimously adopted amendments to the calendar year 2025 local municipal budget at a special meeting July 23, 2025, after a public hearing that drew no speakers. Council members used the opportunity to urge housing and parking policy changes and propose future funding allocations for the school board.
The Bayonne City Municipal Council adopted amendments to its calendar year 2025 local municipal budget after a public hearing with no speakers during a special meeting on July 23, 2025.
The amendments — which the council said were introduced at the July 16, 2025 meeting and published in the Bergen Record — were presented for a second reading and then adopted by roll call. The council recorded unanimous votes on the second reading, the motion to close the public hearing and on the final resolution adopting the amended budget.
Mayor James M. Davis opened the special meeting and noted that notice of the meeting was provided in accordance with the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act and that notice was posted, filed with the city clerk and faxed to the Bergen Record and the Star-Ledger on July 18, 2025. City Clerk Medina called the roll before the council took up the budget amendments.
Council members completed the required second-reading vote on the amendments and then opened the floor for a public hearing. With no members of the public asking to speak, a motion to close the hearing passed on a unanimous roll-call vote. The council then voted unanimously to adopt the amended calendar year 2025 local municipal budget.
During the brief discussion and at the time of voting, several council members urged additional policy steps tied to the budget process. Councilman Carroll said he supported the budget but renewed a call for action in the coming 12 months on rent stabilization, workforce housing and other measures to address affordability: "I just wanna renew a cry from last year at this time ... I would hope that we wouldn't vote for one that includes a tax increase unless next year we take action ... to address rent stabilization, workforce housing, or affordable housing in a meaningful way." Council member Weimer said she also intended to vote aye and said she plans to introduce a resolution to allocate future PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) program funds to the school board budget to help taxpayers and homeowners; she also praised city staff member Donna Mauer for her work. Council member LaPalouse urged that developers be required to pay into a fund to finance parking garages in neighborhoods to alleviate parking pressures: "I would like developers to pay into a fund that will go to put parking garage parking garages in the neighborhoods to alleviate some of the parking issues."
The meeting concluded with routine adjournment following the budget vote.
Votes at a glance: the council recorded unanimous aye votes (5–0) on the second reading of the budget amendments, the motion to close the public hearing and the final resolution adopting the amended calendar year 2025 local municipal budget.
