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Officials Push Bill to Devote Money to Storm Response Planning

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by Brenda Flanagan, Correspondent for NJTV http:// Pounding surf still frays some nerves down the shore as hurricane season spins into high gear with Gaston generating mid-Atlantic waves so powerful, they’re creating dangerous rip currents along Jersey beaches. The National Weather Service recently revised its 2016 hurricane forecast and now predicts more storms of higher intensity. Parts of Louisiana still molder under floodwaters resulting from so-called “1,000-year rains”. Jersey lawmakers fear catastrophic consequences here, too. “I think the key to this is being prepared for the next...
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Integrity Health’s Patient Centered Model is Perfect for New Jersey

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View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2016 – NJAC County Biz – August Public Entities and their Employees Integrity Health is a Health Benefits Management company that specializes in empowering employers and employees to manage and control healthcare spending without reducing benefits but actually enhancing them! “Lower Costs Through Better Health” is our motto.  How do we do this?  Through the use of our Partnership Health Center, known to participating employees as their “PHC”. Integrity Health is currently providing these services for several Public Entity employers. Partnershi...
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NJ Counties Scramble to Implement New Bail Rules

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by Corinne Ramey, reporter for the Wall Street Journal August 9, 2016  -  5:30 a.m. ET January deadline looms for compliance with new legislation meant to speed up the pre-trial process A massive overhaul of New Jersey’s bail system aimed at unclogging county jails and courts is spreading fiscal angst across the state. January is the deadline for counties to comply with rules designed to speed up pretrial procedures and nearly eliminate money bail. The requirements stem from legislation signed in August 2014 by Gov. Chris Christie and a state constitutional amendment approved by voters s...
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State House News: July 31, 2016

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Transportation Trust Fund As previously reported, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Speaker of the General Assembly Vincent Prieto announced that they have reached agreement on a new plan to fund the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) and to enact a series of tax cuts designed to make New Jersey more competitive. For counties and municipalities, the new plan restores Local Aid Allocations to its original percentage at $400.0 million per year, a long term goal and objective of both NJAC and the NSLOM.  The Senate Budget and Appropriations will consider the matter at its meeting later this morni...
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REHABILITATION OF LAKE SURPRISE DAM

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View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2016 - NJAC County Biz - July The Lake Surprise Dam is located in Mountainside, Union County, New Jersey in the Watchung Reservation. The dam is approximately 200 feet long with a maximum height of 13 feet, which impounds the waters of the Blue Brook to create a recreational lake. Prior to rehabilitation the existing dam configuration consisted of an earthen embankment steel sheet piling embedded along the upstream face, and a stone masonry wall on the downstream face. Since its original construction, the dam structure deteriorated and was in ser...
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

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REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! Due to the popularity and abundance of interest in this course, the class capacity is now at a maximum and no more registrations are being accepted.  NJAC and the Rutgers University Center for Government Services are pleased to present the 2016  “NJ County Administrators Certificate Program.”    This comprehensive two day professional development initiative is open to all local government employees, elected officials, and businesses who would like to advance their careers in public service.  Subject matter experts from across the State will cover essential topics su...
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Legislative TTF Debate Continues as Construction Projects Stall

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by Michael Aron, Chief Political Correspondent for NJTV “I’m supposed to be meeting with the governor sometime this week and hopefully we can come to some kind of agreement,” Senate President Steve Sweeney said. Sweeney would like to get a bill passed this week, before the two political conventions begin, but doesn’t sound optimistic. “We’re nowhere right now,” he said. “We’ve put some compromises together that we’re going to offer the governor and hopefully he’ll have an open mind. If he doesn’t agree with what we’re offering, is willing to offer something back. If it’s just, ‘...
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Counties Urge State Leaders to Restore TTF

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On July 7, The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) issued a press release to once again call on State leaders to reach a fair and equitable compromise on reauthorizing the insolvent Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) as county governments across the State prepare to shut down and delay over $90.0 million in critical road and bridge projects. “The unprecedented shutdown of all work funded by the TTF is forcing county officials to cease operations at ongoing projects and delay new shovel ready ones that will cost valuable taxpayer dollars as contractors will undoubtedly seek costly delay cla...
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