Booker Secures Millions in Funding for Critical New Jersey Projects in Government Funding Bill – InsiderNJ
| Project Recipient |
Project Location |
Project Description |
Project Amount |
| County of Bergen |
Hackensack, New Jersey |
To provide sustainable, reliable, and low-cost local public transportation to individuals in Hackensack. |
$250,000 |
| Borough of Bound Brook |
Bound Brook, New Jersey |
To create a pedestrian plaza in the Borough’s downtown district. |
$2,200,000 |
| City of Newark |
Newark, New Jersey |
To create and preserve affordable housing to Newark residents with household incomes at or below 30% of Area Median Income |
$8,000,000 |
| City of Newark |
Newark, New Jersey |
To rapidly rehouse individuals evicted at the end of the moratorium, to disburse rental arrears assistance, to mediate pre-eviction, and to prevent eviction. |
$500,000 |
| City of Union City |
Union City, New Jersey |
To purchase a site and develop a new active recreational complex on the site. |
$500,000 |
| Community Loan Fund of New Jersey |
Essex County, New Jersey |
To provide financial assistance to low- and moderate-income households in order to purchase an affordable home in Essex County |
$800,000 |
| YWCA Eastern Union County |
Union County, New Jersey |
To construct a YWCA Union County Headquarters facility and to provide emergency shelter, counseling, workforce development, and court advocacy services for victims of domestic violence and their children. |
$500,000 |
| New Jersey State Library |
Trenton, New Jersey |
To digitize unique and rare New Jersey publications house in the State Library’s collection and make them freely available to everyone. |
$206,000 |
| Borough of Rocky Hill |
Rocky Hill, New Jersey |
To improve the water system in the borough, including PFOS treatment |
$1,667,000 |
| Sussex Borough |
Sussex, New Jersey |
To purchase equipment to detect water leaks through the system and to repair them. |
$100,000 |
| Sussex Borough |
Sussex, New Jersey |
To replace 1,600 feet of sewer force main leading to Sussex County Municipal Utility Authority’s sewage treatment plant. |
$1,000,000 |
| Township of Berkeley Heights |
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey |
To finish studying and start constructing a water infrastructure project. |
$500,000 |
| Town Of Clinton |
Clinton, New Jersey |
To replace the West Main Street water main. |
$898,257 |
| NJ Coalition Against Sexual Assault |
Lawrenceville, New Jersey |
To develop a statewide post-COVID-19 survivors of sexual violence support and resources program. |
$440,000 |
| Center for Hope and Safety |
Rochelle Park, New Jersey |
To support the Legal Services Program that provides life-saving advice, counsel, and representation so that victims of domestic violence may achieve independence through the judicial system. |
$300,000 |
| Stafford Township Police Department |
Manahawkin, New Jersey |
To expand the Proactive Outreach In Needs and Treatment program to include Barnegat Township. |
$30,000 |
| Rutgers University – Newark |
Essex County, New Jersey |
To support the creation of a one-stop education and workforce development hub for opportunity youth and people re-entering communities from incarceration. |
$300,000 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Essex County, New Jersey |
To support a STEM Boot camp for underserved, under-represented and minority students to address gaps in pre-university preparation and make students from these communities more ready, capable, and empowered to succeed in a collegiate STEM education. |
$154,000 |
| Burlington County |
Burlington County, New Jersey |
To expand the mobile access unit that offers critical support for individuals and their families struggling with addiction and related issues. |
$300,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey |
Monmouth County, New Jersey |
To relocate and expand the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Community Health Center’s Red Bank Primary Care Center |
$500,000 |
| St. Joseph’s Hospital |
Passaic County, New Jersey |
To expand and renovate the existing space for psychiatric patients in the emergency room from 4 to 7 dedicated rooms and allow for the co-location of behavioral health staff in the emergency room. |
$1,000,000 |
| Sussex County Community College |
Sussex County, New Jersey |
To evolve Sussex County Community College’s existing cybersecurity curriculum. |
$97,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey |
Asbury Park, New Jersey |
To provide primary and preventive health care services to medically underserved individuals who are uninsured, underinsured, and undocumented. |
$400,000 |
| New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation |
Trenton, New Jersey |
To provide student training and equipment. |
$270,000 |
| Passaic County Community College |
Paterson, New Jersey |
To support training costs associated with high-skill, high-wage employment opportunities in key industry sectors in Northern New Jersey. |
$1,950,000 |
| Norwescap Foodbank |
Warren County, New Jersey |
To purchase and renovate a new, more modern facility that will allow the Norwescap Foodbank to significantly expand its capacity to deliver food. |
$1,050,000 |
| Borough of Penns Grove |
Penns Grove, New Jersey |
To repair and repurpose the Penns Grove Borough’s community center and eliminate bling in the community. |
$413,000 |
