{"id":328029,"date":"2026-08-23T23:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328029\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:32:18","slug":"jersey-city-ba-choi-to-serve-as-acting-mayor-from-august-24-until-september-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328029\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City BA Choi to serve as acting mayor from August 24 until September 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jersey City Business Administrator Ruby Choi will serve as the acting mayor from August 24th until September 5th while Mayor James Solomon is on vacation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot via YouTube.<\/p>\n

By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n

\u201cAs provided under the Faulkner Act, Mayor Solomon has designated Business Administrator Ruby Choi as Acting Mayor for the duration of his trip,\u201d city spokesman Nathaniel Styer said in a statement<\/p>\n

\u201cBusiness Administrator Choi will manage day-to-day operations alongside the mayor\u2019s senior leadership team, which remains fully prepared to keep city government running smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that Solomon will be traveling to attend his godson\u2019s baptism and visit family, regularly receiving briefings from his senior team for the duration of his trip.<\/p>\n

The Jersey City Council unanimously approved (9-0) a resolution with several budget amendments that slightly lowered the municipal tax increase from 15.5 percent to 15.15 percent at Wednesday\u2019s nearly six-hour meeting, as HCV first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are expected to adopt the full municipal spending plan at a special meeting at City Hall, 280 Grove St., on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The session will also b streamed live via Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey City Business Administrator Ruby Choi will serve as the acting mayor from August 24th until September 5th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13338,123371,83770,38199,75,84,83,9,24,63,83771],"class_list":["post-328029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-james-solomon","tag-jersey-acting-mayor","tag-jersey-city-business-administrator","tag-jersey-city-city-hall","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ruby-choi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}