Elizabeth public meetings in 2024
3 substantive meetings from 2024, with official agendas or minutes and plain-English summaries.
City Council
The City Council is meeting to adopt temporary municipal, sewer utility, and capital budgets for the 2025 fiscal year. The council will also consider an ordinance regarding state budget appropriation limits.
- Adoption of $88,816,101.57 temporary municipal budget for FY 2025
- Adoption of $16,768,618.81 temporary sewer utility budget for FY 2025
- Adoption of $299,638,500.00 temporary capital budget for FY 2025
- Authorization of $1,000,000.00 in transfers for FY 2024 municipal and sewer utility budgets
- First reading of Ordinance No. 6023 to exceed state budget appropriation limits
City Council
The City Council is reviewing ordinances to update stormwater management and set new sewer rates effective September 1, 2024. The agenda also includes recommendations for several city contracts involving road resurfacing, parking rentals, and police technology.
- Ordinance to set new sewer rates effective September 1, 2024
- Adoption of the Spring and Meadow Street Redevelopment Plan
- $512,565.31 contract for police department security cameras and IT infrastructure
- $747,000.00 agreement to rent parking spaces from the Elizabeth Parking Authority
- $1,416,308.15 contract for the 2024 Road Resurfacing Program
Zoning Board
The Elizabeth Zoning Board of Adjustment met on May 9, 2024, to review various development applications. The board approved several preliminary and final site plans for properties on Pennsylvania Avenue, Newark Avenue, and Rahway Avenue. One request to remove a condition at 701 Westminster Avenue was also granted.
- Approved preliminary/final site plan for Bold Community Care Services at 601-607 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Approved preliminary site plan for McDonalds Real Estate Co. at 420-434 Route 1
- Approved final site plan for Lucky Plaza, LLC at 638-640 Newark Avenue
- Approved preliminary/final site plan for Filipe Marques at 424-432 Rahway Avenue
- Approved request to remove a condition for 701 Westminster Avenue