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Bayonne council adopts routine budget, insurance and financing resolutions; urges hospital to honor union agreements
Summary
The Bayonne City Municipal Council adopted multiple administrative resolutions Jan. 2 needed to continue city operations, including a temporary 2025 budget, cash-management plan, participation in the intergovernmental insurance fund, bond anticipation notes and several shared-services renewals.
The Bayonne City Municipal Council adopted multiple administrative resolutions Jan. 2 that the council described as routine items needed to continue city operations.
The council unanimously approved R1, a resolution imploring Hudson Regional Hospitals LLC to agree to current collective bargaining agreements between CarePoint Health and Bayonne Medical Center union partners. Councilmembers voiced support for working with hospital management and unions; the measure passed on a recorded aye vote.
The council adopted the calendar-year 2025 temporary budget (R3) and the cash-management plan for 2025 (R4), and authorized the mayor and city clerk to execute an indemnity and trust agreement and related documents to continue participation in the New Jersey Intergovernmental Insurance Fund for 2025 through 2027 (R4/R? as titled in the agenda). A resident asked about the JIF assessment and the deductible; administration said the 2025 assessment and deductibles remain the same and offered to provide a detailed analysis of prior-year costs.
R7 authorized the purchasing agent to advertise for bids for future solid-waste and recycling services (council later exercised one-year options for current contracts under R5 and R6). The council also authorized issuance and sale of bond anticipation notes not to exceed $15,900,000 to the Hudson County Improvement Authority (R8) and approved a final change order reducing a NJDOT-funded local freight impact fund contract for the maritime access road by $157,721.10 (R9).
R10 authorized a one-year agreement with Strategic Insurance Partners, LLC for risk-management consulting and insurance-broker services at $60,000. R11 and R12 authorized the city to exercise one-year shared-services options with the Bayonne Board of Education and the Bayonne Housing Authority for solid-waste services and dumpsters, respectively; the resolutions recorded additional modest increases required under the existing agreements.
Votes on these resolutions were recorded as unanimous where shown on the record; councilmembers present voted aye on the listed items. The meeting concluded after a resident urged scheduling regular meetings at times more conducive to working residents.
