The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in council chambers at City Hall. A public participation session is scheduled to take place near the end of the meeting, prior to comments from city officials. Items on the agenda for the meeting include: • A discussion of […]

The New Year brought a new set of city officials to municipal hall. A capacity crowd in council chambers Thursday witnessed John Moor sworn in as the city’s first directly elected mayor and his running mates on the Asbury Together ticket — Jessie Kendle, Amy Quinn, Yvonne Clayton and Joe Woerner — take oaths as […]

The Asbury Park City Council’s reorganization meeting is scheduled to take place at noon Thursday in council chambers at City Hall. A public participation session is scheduled as the last item on the agenda. Items on the agenda for the meeting include: • Oaths of office to be taken by Council Members Yvonne Clayton, Jessie Kendle, […]

The 2013 Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall for the last time before new members are sworn in Jan. 1 at noon. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

The City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25 has been cancelled. Although the agenda has been set for the Tuesday meeting, that meeting’s close proximity to the next regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 3 leaves little room for city administration to turn around a new agenda with the Thanksgiving holiday in between, according to […]

At their Wednesday meeting, a majority of city council members voted to update an ordinance that gives preference to job applicants who have an Asbury Park address. If the ordinance passes, city residents — defined as any person whose permanent home is within city limits — would get even more priority consideration for non-uniformed classified civil service […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

Over a third of the city’s registered voters participated in the city’s first November municipal election, up from 26 percent total turnout in the May 2013 municipal election. A total 9,182 residents are registered to vote in the city and 3,421 of them — or 37.26 percent — cast at least one vote in the election, according to the […]

John Moor — a sitting councilman who ran on the Asbury Together ticket — will be over the required 50 percent threshold to win the mayor’s race outright without a run-off election, according to unofficial results provided by City Clerk Steven Kay and county election officials. With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, Moor has 1374 of the […]