Property Compliance Cost Recovery Program

At a glance

• What: Ordinance 26-1055 amending Title XVIII (Housing Code) to establish a Property Compliance Cost Recovery Program allowing the City to recover extraordinary municipal compliance costs resulting from extraordinary municipal intervention.
• Where it stands: Adopted on final passage September 9, 2026 after a public hearing with four speakers; no dissent recorded. It had been deferred on July 15.
• Next: None pending.

Public hearing (September 9)

Corporation Counsel Stewart of the Law Department commented. Public speakers were Felicia Alston-Singleton, Queen Dannisha Clyburn, Lisa Parker, Keisha Baldwin; positions not recorded. The Council of the Whole moved to close the hearing and adopt.

Sources

• City Council regular meeting minutes, September 9, 2026: https://legistar1.granicus.com/Newark/meetings/2026/9/302222_M_Municipal_Council_26-09-09_Meeting_Minutes.pdf

Log

2026-09-09 - City Council

Public hearing; adopted. Previously deferred July 15.