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Hudson County moves emergency management under Sheriff, adopts several traffic and parking ordinances
Summary
The Board adopted ordinances moving the County Office of Emergency Management to the Sheriff's Office to align with state practice and adopted traffic-related ordinances (Hoboken stop signs; restricted parking on Willow Avenue; traffic-calming in Secaucus). County counsel said the change helps align OEM with 911 and patrol functions.
The Hudson County Board of County Commissioners on Dec. 11 adopted multiple administrative ordinances, including moving the county Office of Emergency Management (OEM) from the Department of Roads and Public Property to the Sheriff's Office and enacting several traffic- and parking-related ordinances.
County Counsel Alberico DePierro told the board the administrative change aligns Hudson County with the rest of New Jersey, where OEM typically sits with agencies that integrate 911, patrol and municipal liaison functions. "Key elements of the Office of Emergency Management are the 911 Center, the Patrol Bureau, and they also have overlap with municipalities that is needed in order to have an effective Office of Emergency Management," DePierro said during the hearing.
At the same time the Board adopted ordinances introduced earlier: A-1 (installation of stop signs on County-owned roadways in the City of Hoboken), A-3 (establishing a restricted parking space on Willow Avenue, Hoboken, for James B. Rooney) and A-4 (establishing traffic-calming delineators on County Avenue in Secaucus). Each ordinance proceeded to a public hearing and was adopted after no members of the public spoke on them.
Board action: All ordinances advanced from introduction to final adoption on Dec. 11 by roll-call vote.
Why it matters: County counsel said the OEM move is an administrative realignment intended to reflect operational overlaps with emergency dispatch and Sheriff functions and to mirror practice used in most other New Jersey counties. The traffic and parking ordinances are parcel-level, location-specific changes to the county code that address local traffic control and parking needs.
What the record shows: No substantive public opposition was recorded at the hearings on these adopted ordinances.
The meeting record shows the ordinances were posted and advertised as required by law before final adoption.
