AMAZON AWARDS $10,000.00 GRANT TO NJAC FOUNDATION!

Posted on April 8, 2022May 18, 2022 by kim@njac.org

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...

New Jersey State Library Launches Statewide Literacy Initiative To Address Adult Literacy, Workforce Development, And The Digital Divide

Posted on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 by kim@njac.org

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...

SHI INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION AWARDS $10,500.00 GRANT TO NJAC FOUNDATION!

Posted on March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 by kim@njac.org

SHI International Corporation has awarded the NJAC Foundation a grant of $10,500.00 for county vocational-technical school graduates who plan on studying technology and cyber security at a county or state college in the fall. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the NJAC Foundation, I’m thrilled that SHI 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 State of New Jersey,” commented NJAC Foundation President Heather Simmons. Purs...

Governor Murphy Presents Fiscal Year 2023 Budget – “The Opportunity State: Stronger, Fairer, More Affordable”

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 by kim@njac.org

State of New Jersey Budget in Brief - Fiscal Year 2023 Governor Murphy Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Address 03/8/2022 Budget Provides Robust Property Tax Relief, Record Level of School Funding, and One-Year Moratorium on Certain Fees Increased Investments in Affordable Housing, Higher Education, and Economic Growth Continues Path of Fiscal Responsibility with Another Full Pension Payment of $6.82 Billion, Additional $1.3 Billion to Reduce Debt Record Surplus of $4.2 Billion – Nearly Twice the Size of Last Year’s Proposed Surplus TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy delivered his fifth an...

NJM INSURANCE GROUP AWARDS $5,250 GRANT TO NJAC FOUNDATION!

Posted on March 4, 2022May 18, 2022 by kim@njac.org

March 4, 2022 | John G. Donnadio, Executive Director (Trenton) NJM Insurance Group (NJM) has awarded the NJAC Foundation a grant of $5,250 for county vocational-technical school graduates who plan on continuing their education in New Jersey at a county college or state college or university. “I’m grateful that NJM and the NJAC Foundation have once again partnered on this important and timely initiative to provide our county vocational-technical school graduates with generous scholarships that will assist students with meeting the ever- increasing financial demands of pursuing an education,” ...

Workers Get More Time to Meet Vaccine Mandate

Posted on March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 by kim@njac.org

COLLEEN O'DEA, SENIOR WRITER AND PROJECTS EDITOR | MARCH 3, 2022 | CORONAVIRUS IN NJ Murphy extends deadline for health care, prison staff With thousands of New Jersey health care and corrections workers still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or not vaccinated at all, Gov. Phil Murphy gave them at least six more weeks to comply with his mandate or face consequences. Wednesday’s executive order updates one Murphy signed in January requiring health care staff and people working in high-risk congregate-living settings, including prisons, to be vaccinated and boosted. The order elimin...

HPE GreenLake Offers An Effective Path To Government IT Modernization

Posted on March 1, 2022 by kim@njac.org

View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – March by Joanne Goodstadt, Marketing Manager for PKA Technologies Technology underpins much of government’s relationship with its constituents. However, outdated systems make it difficult to deliver essential services efficiently and securely. Many state and local governments spend as much as 80 percent of their technology budgets on operating and maintaining legacy IT systems, some of which are decades old. The cloud is one possible path to increased IT resiliency, scalability, flexibility and speed. In a n...

Central Jersey exists? State group says Union County belongs in it — and Ocean doesn’t

Posted on February 26, 2022March 3, 2022 by kim@njac.org

Susanne Cervenka, Asbury Park Press | February 26, 2022 Say Central Jersey exists, and many New Jerseyans will perk up. Try to include Union County in such a jurisdiction and, well — strong opinions will be had. Such was the case Friday when New Jersey Association of Counties Executive Director John Donnadio unintentionally set off a kerfuffle when he announced two new groups aimed having counties work more closely on regional issues. The two new groups would be modeled after the Southern New Jersey County Commissioners Association, which has been in existence for 20 years and has created a...

STATE HOUSE NEWS – February 25, 2022 Edition

Posted on February 25, 2022 by kim@njac.org

ENDING 911 FEE DIVERSION NOW STRIKE FORCE NJAC is urging the United States Congress to adopt the "Report and Recommendations" of the "Ending 911 Fee Diversion Now Strike Force" (911 Strike Force) established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the State of New Jersey continues to reign as the worst offender of diverting 911 fees in the entire nation. In addition to creating a public safety crisis and imposing a system of "double taxation" on residents, the 911 Strike Force concluded that: 911 fee diversion negatively impacts the ability of the public to access em...

HEATHER SIMMONS TO LEAD NJAC FOUNDATION AS NEW PRESIDENT

Posted on February 14, 2022 by kim@njac.org

For Immediate Release: February 14, 2022 Contact: John G. Donnadio, Executive Director (Trenton) - The NJAC Foundation is pleased to announce that Heather Simmons, the Deputy Director of the Gloucester County Board of Commissioners, will lead the Foundation as its new President after long-time executive Donald DeLeo stepped down last week to fully enjoy his well-deserved retirement as Hudson County Surrogate in 2014 while remaining a driving force behind the Foundation's annual giving. “Congratulations to Donald DeLeo for his long and distinguished career in public service as Hudson Cou...