Governor Murphy, Lt. Governor Oliver, Senate President Sweeney, Assembly Speaker Coughlin, Assembly Budget Chair Pintor Marin, and Senate Budget Chair Sarlo Announce Agreement to Include Millionaire’s Tax in Revised FY2021 Budget 09/17/2020 Governor and Legislative Leaders Also Announce $500 Tax Rebate for Middle-Class Families TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy, Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Senate Budget Chair Paul Sarlo, and Assembly Budget Chair Eliana Pintor Marin today announced that that the revised Fiscal Year 202...

FY-2021 State Budget At-A-Glance FY-2021 Revised Budget

MOUNT OLIVE – Acting on a commitment to deliver relief to communities who were not eligible for federal funding allocated through the CARES Act, Governor Phil Murphy today announced $37 million in support for 12 additional counties to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will be made available to counties in three separate tranches under one Memorandum of Agreement. The 12 counties include: Atlantic; Burlington; Cape May; Cumberland; Gloucester; Hunterdon; Mercer; Morris; Salem; Somerset; Sussex; and Warren. These counties were ineligible for Coronavirus Relief Funding because their...

The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) was pleased to host a lineup of virtual workshops for the fall of 2020 where (7) 60-minute long sessions focused on COVID-19 related matters such as emergency management, procurement, public health, human and social services, budgeting, labor, and general crisis management.  NJAC secured continuing education credits for all workshops and those that attended.  We thank all of our presenters for providing informative and educational materials.  Below are recordings of the workshops for you to view.  NJAC appreciates the support and generosity of our ...

The spread of the coronavirus and the response to it are almost unique among modern challenges in putting a burden on all the people of Earth. All governments at all levels too are already or will be strained by increased costs and reduced revenue. The federal government quickly created the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and started sending billions in pandemic aid to the states. Major population centers got a share of this CARES funding directly, but funding for the rest was rolled into the state grants and left to the states to distribute. New Jersey state government, ...