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