Zuppa and Lavarro host Jersey City budget town hall: ‘Sacrifice starts at the top’

Jersey City Ward C Councilman Tom Zuppa and Councilman at-Large Rolando Lavarro hosted a budget meeting at Our Lady of Mt. “Because the burden should fall on the city and city employees first before it goes to the taxpayers.” There’s just other things we have to do as a City Council,” Lavarro, who ran with Fulop in 2013 and 2017 before becoming a political adversary of the ex-mayor, said. He said this was because Hudson County and the Jersey City Board of Education (BOE) have already approved tax increases to the tune of about 14-and-a-half percent. “You cannot work in Jersey City unless you work with us.