Generally, the duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Approve contracts
• Approve grant applications
• Approve City’s Master Plan and Zoning regulations
• Approve redevelopment plans/blight declarations
• Approve/amend salaries and wages for all City Employees
• Approve/amend Classifications Schedule for all City employees titles
• Approve fee schedules for various functions; e.g. building permit fees, fees for business licenses, sit plan applications, etc.
• Authorize settlement of litigation
• Approve street vacations
• Approve sale/lease and purchases of City-owned property
• Approve changes to the Administrative code
• Approve certain personnel appointments; e.g. department directors, special officers, City Clerk/Deputy Clerk, etc.
• Resolve appeals from various boards (Planning, Zoning, etc.)
• Consent to Mayor’s appointment of various Boards, Authorities, Advisory Committees
• Approve regulations concerning business licenses, streets and sidewalks, public right-of-ways, rent control, etc.
• Create legislation.

Municipal Council Meetings are generally held twice a month on Wednesdays. Its meetings are open to the public. For a schedule of upcoming meetings of the Municipal Council please visit our Calendar of Events section.

Municipal Council Meetings, as well as other City meetings which take place in the Council Chamber, can be viewed live on the Bayonne's Government Access channel 78, Bay-TV, on Cablevision's Optimum service. Meetings are rebroadcast for the benefit of those who miss the live meetings. For Cablevision customers who do not have Optimum, taped City Hall meetings can be viewed on Sundays, on channel 33, between 7AM and 7PM.

For those who do not have cable, tapes of Council meetings are now available at the Bayonne Public Library and can be borrowed for home viewing.