Hackensack, NJ Community Message Boards

eeeh, Sussex County is so far west it might as well be Wyoming.  And its just a deeply red.

when was the last time anyone saw a coyote around Borg's Woods or Coles Brook ?  If the deer are back, good chance the coyotes are not around.

8th wonder of the world.   

I think the others were built quicker.

It's the allegations about the police that most disturb me.  Is Hackensack EVER going to have an administration that is not in some way controlled by a policeman or a collection of policemen ?  Or by some other major city employee. 

Other cities and towns don't have this problem.  Why Hackensack ?  I know Hackensack really well, and I still don't understand this part.  It's as if the biggest issue in the city is who is employed by the city, who was denied employment, and who wants employment.

magnificient !!!

Good project for Hackensack.  I only hope that their engineers have been apprised by city officials of the problems that occurred with the Paragon building, at State and Clay Streets.  The water table was so high on State Street that they could only have ONE level of underground parking.  They just couldn't dig deeper, so much water was coming in. They had to have an emergency Planning Board meeting to alter the site plan from two levels of underground parking to one level. 

Also, the bedrock was something like 150 feet down.  Don't remember the exact number. It won't be much less for Main & Mercer Streets.  I know bedrock in Hackensack is deepest along the Pascack Valley railroad line at around 200 feet deep. That is the original bed of the Hackensack River so many thousands of years ago.  People assume the bedrock is deepest where the river is now, but that is not true.

Newark has getting clobbered with this even worse.  Every year the city council balances the budget, but because of the tax appeals, last year they were over $30 million short, and this year they may be as much as $90 million short.  They have reduced over 1500 employees off their payroll over the last 5 years.

Now, Hackensack needs to raise "x" each year to run itself.  If the value of all properties goes down 10% and everyone wins their tax appeals, all the city needs to do is raise taxes 10% and then you'll be back to "x".  I know it's not popular, but it's either that or cutting your employees.  Or some combination thereof.

Maybe it is time for Hackensack to take another look at privatization of the DPW.  Get rid of all those expensive pension and benefit packages, injury lawsuits, insurance costs, etc.  And whoever wins the contract could potentially rent space at the city DPW facility for equipment storage.