NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The five-member city council approved the standard meeting schedule for 2013: the first and third Wednesday of every month at City Hall.
The meetings are held on the top floor of City Hall, located at 78 Bayard Street in downtown. Â Parking is provided free to anyone attending the meeting in the lot behind City Hall.
Members of the public are permitted to ask questions and give comments on every law being passed by the council at the appropriate time on the meeting’s agenda. Â At a certain point in the meeting, the public is invited to ask questions or give comments on any topic or topics they desire.
Below is the meeting schedule approved on January 2 by the council at their re-organization meeting:
January 16Â @ 6:30pm
February 6Â @ 6:30pm
February 20Â @ 6:30pm
March 6Â @ 6:30pm
March 20Â @ 6:30pm
April 3Â @ 6:30pm
April 17Â @ 6:30pm
May 1Â @ 6:30pm
May 15Â @ 6:30pm
June 5 @ 5:30pm
June 19Â @ 5:30pm
July 3Â @ 5:30pm
July 17Â @ 5:30pm
August 7Â @ 5:30pm
August 21Â @ 5:30pm
September 3 @ 6:30pm
September 18Â @ 6:30pm
October 2Â @ 6:30pm
October 16Â @ 6:30pm
November 6Â @ 6:30pm
November 20Â @ 6:30pm
December 4Â @ 6:30pm
December 18Â @ 6:30pm
December 30 @ 5:30pm
Unlike most local legislative bodies, the New Brunswick City Council does not hold a separate public meeting to decide the agenda for their regular meeting. Â Instead, the council holds the agenda meeting immediately before the regular meeting.
Charlie is the founder and editor of New Brunswick Today, and the winner of the Awbrey Award for Community-Oriented Local Journalism. He is a proud Rutgers University journalism graduate, a community organizer, and a former independent candidate for mayor of New Brunswick.