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INVESTORS BANK AWARDS $21,000.00 GRANT TO NJAC FOUNDATION!

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May 20, 2022 | John G. Donnadio, Executive Director (Trenton) Investors Bank through the Investors Foundation awarded the NJAC Foundation a grant of $21,000.00 for county vocational-technical school graduates who plan on continuing their education at a county college or state college or university. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the NJAC Foundation, I’m thrilled that Investors has awarded the Foundation this generous grant; and, I look forward to working with our county vocational-technical schools in selecting scholarship winners committed to advancing their education in the great S...
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Revitalizing New Jersey’s Infrastructure through the I-Bank Webinar

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July 6, 2022 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) conducted a virtual workshop, titled "Revitalizing New Jersey's Infrastructure through the I-Bank." This session provided an overview of the water and transportation financing programs available through the I-Bank and included a discussion of eligible projects and borrowers, the application process, potential cost benefits, timelines and expectations, technical requirements, loan structure, the application process, and current financing packages. Approved (1.0)  CMFO/CCFO Budgeting, Financial/Debt Management...
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State House News – May 20, 2022 Edition

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END THE 911 FEE DIVERSION As previously reported, NJAC is requesting that the State Legislature include $21.0 million in funding for County 911 Centers in the Fiscal Year 2023 State Budget with a $1.0 million grant made available for each county to maintain, upgrade, or regionalize its 911 system as the State of New Jersey has failed to provide any funding to counties for this purpose since 2009. In addition to laying the groundwork for an imminent public safety crisis, the State's continued misallocation of 911 fees has imposed an inequitable system of double taxation on residents already b...
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Thank You and Congratulations to Our Award Recipients

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Thank you to everyone for joining us last week at the New Jersey Association of Counties' (NJAC) 71st Annual Celebration of County Government attended by a record number of county and business leaders from across the State.  A special thank you to our corporate sponsors:   NJAC would like to congratulate PKA Technologies for receiving the Peter Palmer Business Associate of the Year Award.  PKA Technologies has a long-standing support of NJAC and mission to provide effective and efficient IT services to county government.  Felise Katz, CEO of PKA Technologies, was at the May 5th Pres...
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Are Your Grant Management Programs Living In The Past?

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View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – May by Raj Juttukonda, Right Angle Solutions       It is no small task to measure, track and compare investment requests for programs that are supported by taxpayer’s levy or other grant sources. There are numerous steps required for approvals many of which are validated only at the end of the cycle.    Especially when Counties rely on spreadsheets to manage the process the accuracy of the data and the ability to retrieve information is challenging. Fortunately, technology is now at a mature stage that allows Coun...
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Literacy And Basic Skills Program

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Workplace Literacy and Basic Skills Program. The program, offered via a partnership between NJBIA, the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development, and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, offers free training at your community college to enhance technology and basic skills for your employees, as well as training in English as a second language and Spanish in the workplace to ensure your business has a well-trained and highly skilled workforce. We encourage you to share this program with your constituencies. This program has been in ...
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VO-TECH CULINARY ART STUDENTS TO COMPETE IN COOK-OFF!

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Culinary Students from Cumberland County Technical Schools
04/29/2022 John Donnadio (609) 394-3467 | JDonnadio@njac.org (Trenton) The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) is pleased to present the mouth-watering menu for the highly anticipated return of the "County Vocational Technical School Cook-Off Challenge" set for 12:00 p.m. on Friday May 6th at Caesar’s in Atlantic City, where culinary art students from the following county vocational-technical schools will compete for scholarship monies and titles in taste, creativity, and food presentation with these outstanding dishes: ATLANTIC COUNTY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  - Dr. G's BBQ BURLING...
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STATE HOUSE NEWS – April 22, 2022 Edition

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END THE 911 FEE DIVERSION On Thursday, NJAC testified before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee requesting that the State Legislature include $21.0 million in funding for County 911 Centers in the Fiscal Year 2023 State Budget with a $1.0 million grant made available for each county to maintain, upgrade, or regionalize its 911 system as the State of New Jersey has failed to provide any funding to counties for this purpose for well over a decade. Although the stated intent of the 2004 law that imposed a monthly telecommunication surcharge of .90 cents on every telephone line in th...
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AMAZON AWARDS $10,000.00 GRANT TO NJAC FOUNDATION!

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April 8, 2022 | John G. Donnadio, Executive Director (Trenton) Amazon has awarded  the NJAC  Foundation  a grant of $10,000.00 for county vocational- technical school graduates who plan on continuing their education at a county college or state college or university. “The Board of Trustees for the NJAC Foundation is grateful to Amazon for awarding the NJAC Foundation this wonderful grant, and we look forward to sharing this outstanding opportunity with our county vocational-technical schools in selecting scholarship winners committed to advancing their education in the Garden State,” comment...
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New Jersey State Library Launches Statewide Literacy Initiative To Address Adult Literacy, Workforce Development, And The Digital Divide

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View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – April by Tiffany McClary, Director of Communications, Marketing & Outreach, New Jersey State Library       The New Jersey library community strives to fulfill the information needs of a vast and varied customer group — from pre-Kindergartners on the brink of emergent literacy, to students on the path to graduation and early careers, to disconnected individuals of all ages on the far side of the digital divide. To support our efforts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the New Jersey State Libr...
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