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Governor Murphy Signs Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Act into Law

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06/30/2022 Fiscally Responsible Plan includes a Record Surplus, another Full Pension Payment, and Substantially More Debt Reduction  Budget Makes New Jersey More Affordable by Delivering Record Tax Relief, Historic Levels of School Funding, Aid to Municipalities and Small Businesses Transformative Investments will Modernize Operations, Continue to Spur Economic Development, and Jumpstart Whole Industries TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today signed the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023) Appropriations Act into law. The FY2023 budget builds on the historic progress made over the last four years, main...
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FY 2023 State Budget Scoresheet and Language

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On Monday, June 27, 2022, Governor Phil Murphy and fellow Democrats who control the State Legislature finalized an agreement to spend $50.6 billion dollars in Fiscal Year 2023.   The spending plan was passed by both Senate and Assembly budget committees.  The plan (S-2023) for the fiscal year that begins Friday, July 1st, features the largest surplus in State history and several affordability measures, including a new $2 billion property tax relief initiative, a State-level child tax credit program, driver's license waivers, free State parks, and a 10-day sales tax holiday on back-to-school su...
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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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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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Governor Murphy Presents Fiscal Year 2023 Budget – “The Opportunity State: Stronger, Fairer, More Affordable”

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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...
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Workers Get More Time to Meet Vaccine Mandate

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

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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...
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HEATHER SIMMONS TO LEAD NJAC FOUNDATION AS NEW PRESIDENT

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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...
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Acting AG Bruck Announces 100% Participation by New Jersey Counties and Municipalities in Historic $26 Billion Opioid Settlement

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For Immediate Release: February 2, 2022 Office of The Attorney General – Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General Division of Law – Michelle Miller, Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries- Lee Moore OAGpress@njoag.gov TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck announced today that all 21 counties in New Jersey, and all 241 municipalities that have populations over 10,000 or that filed related lawsuits, have joined the State in signing onto the nationwide settlement agreements with Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three...
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