Secaucus, NJ — The town of Secaucus filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Sports and Expositions (formerly the NJ Meadowlands Commission).
Secaucus filed a lawsuit this week. The Secaucus-based law firm of Chasen, Lamparello, Mallon & Cappuzzo has filed a lawsuit filed by Secaucus town attorney Kenneth Polo.
“The NJSEA has not commented on pending litigation,” said a spokesman for the Sports & Exposition Authority.
The New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority is a powerful agency that oversees all new business and development in the New Jersey Meadowlands. The NJ Sports & Exposition Authority has the power to approve or deny all construction in the Meadowlands, including construction of new roads and highways, construction of new hotels and apartment complexes, and expansion of NJ Transit rail services in the area. increase. They are also responsible for protecting the Meadowlands and maintaining a significant portion of them as undeveloped wetlands.
They were also instrumental in allowing the construction of the American Dream Mall. Chairing the Sports & Expo Authority is Vincent Prieto, a Secaucus resident who once served as Speaker of the State Legislature.
The Sports & Exposition Authority collects transportation taxes from businesses located in the Meadowlands, among many other taxes.
Individual homeowners do not pay this tax. A transportation tax is a tax paid by businesses such as hotels, Edison ParkFast, and apartment complexes such as Harper and XChange. Basically, anyone with a parking lot pays a traffic tax. The tax is usually determined by the amount of cars parked per site.
According to Secaucus, since 2008, the Meadowlands Commission has withheld about 30% of its transportation tax revenue, which should go to individual Meadowlands towns, Secaucus said.
“The agreement says 30% goes to town and 70% goes to them,” said Secaucus Mayor Mike Gonnelli. “XChange is paying millions of dollars in this tax. They’re taking millions out of the town of Secaucus and they need to put it back in the town’s budget.”
Gonnelli said in the past that traffic tax revenues have been used to pay for things like new bike lanes on Meadowlands Parkway. said it can.
“I wanted to put a traffic light on Wood Avenue, but I didn’t have the money to pay for it,” he said. “It will also help pave Meadowlands Parkway and Secaucus Road, as well as the upcoming Enterprise Avenue, which are things that this funding could be used for.”
This isn’t the first time Gonnelli has faced Prieto, and they both live here in the small town of Secaucus.Goneri said the master plan wasn’t enough to deal with the Secaucus floods. Read about Fierce Encounter in February 2020
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