by Dave Bullock, Managing Director of ITS for Miovision View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2016 – NJAC County Biz – September At their most basic level, traffic signals are infrastructure assets that control vehicular and pedestrian traffic. But what if we could look at the humble traffic signal in a whole new way? What if we looked at this piece of infrastructure as the perfect foundation for a smart city? As the easiest and least expensive way to build a smart city? If you’re a transportation engineer, you have access to one of the most powerful data collection tools in your ...

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...

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...

by Lisa Fielding, Partnership Director for NJ Hall of Fame  View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2016 - NJAC County Biz - June The New Jersey Hall of Fame is a moving capsule of the almost 100 inductees’ contributions to history. It’s an endless source of pride for New Jerseyans, including Sal Campbell, a recent Arête Scholarship winner. “When I look at all the great people that are part of the New Jersey Hall of Fame and the many adversities that they overcame, I’m determined to work hard to achieve excellence in everything I do,” said Campbell. “Through hard work, courage and de...

by Rob Wright, Business Development Director of Mutualink, Inc. View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2016 - NJAC County Biz - May As the federal government continues to make progress on the implementation of FirstNet – a single, national interoperable platform for public safety communications – all eyes are on New Jersey’s JerseyNet and its first-in-the-nation public safety deployable networks. As a FirstNet “Early Builder” project, JerseyNet is giving federal authorities and first responders everywhere a glimpse of how safety and security can be significantly improved when a high-...

by Filomena E. Fanelli, Impact PR & Communications, Ltd. for Mast Construction Services View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2016 - NJAC County Biz - April Hudson County Community College (HCCC) recently held a topping out for the school’s new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) building, which is under construction in Jersey City. Located at 257-263 Academy Street near Journal Square, the construction currently is the largest STEM project in Hudson County, according to college president Dr. Glen Gabert. During the ceremony, the building’s uppermost...

by Mark Roberts, Manager of National Accounts for Careington International View the entire newsletter for more articles:    Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to increase profitability and reduce costs when it comes to health care expenses, especially if they are self-funded. Even individuals want to know how they can cut expenses when it comes to seeing the doctor or having to make non-urgent unnecessary trips to the emergency room or urgent care clinics. Many experts hope 2016 turns out to be a year in which patients gain greater access to health data and tools to enable them to...

by David Gross, Vice President of Marketing for GovPilot View the entire newsletter for more articles:    New Jersey received dubious distinction in 2015.  According to Realty Trac, a real estate data company, the State led the nation in home foreclosure rates in 2015, with foreclosure filings at 1.91% of homes.  Cities that have been hit the hardest include Atlantic City, Newark, and Paterson which had some of the highest rates in the nation. These abstract numbers translate into very real problems.  An increase in vacant properties often lead to crime and other public safety issues, forci...

by Noreen Bodman, Executive Director for the Crossroads of America Revolution Association View the entire newsletter for more articles:    New Jersey tells America’s Revolutionary story as no other state can. We hosted the darkest hours of the fight for independence in late 1776. Washington and his troops endured one of the harshest winters on record in Morristown in 1779-80. And all over the state, average citizens struggled to live their lives as combat came to their communities, over and over. Here, the American Revolution was a civil war, with family members and neighbors divided betwe...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:   by Colin Dansberry, Sales Administrator for NJM Insurance Group For more than 100 years, NJM has been serving the insurance needs of New Jersey’s businesses and individuals. Founded as a workers’ compensation carrier in 1913 by members of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), NJM grew considerably in the following decades through the offering of auto and homeowners insurance to member company employees and New Jersey state workers. Now, NJM is pleased to announce that as of October 1, 2015, eligibility to apply for ...