The council also added more than $200,000 annually to the public safety spending when it approved a new $155,000 public safety director position and $255,000 police chief salary.
According to the ordinance, landlords may not collect a lump sum of rent increases that it would have had in the past two years had there not been a moratorium.
The Hoboken Fair Housing Association believes that to be illegal, based on Hoboken’s existing rent control ordinance, which says there can only be one increase per 12-month period.
And recently retired Police Chief Ken Ferrante is now officially the director of Public Safety after a 7-1-1 vote Wednesday.
Ramos, Councilman Mike DeFusco and Councilman Jen Giattino abstained on the vote to provide a $255,000 maximum police chief salary, a $29,000 increase.
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