Bill Text: NJ S2084 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for disbursement to Jersey City to examine mass transit and green space needs at Bergen Arches.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-11-15 - Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading [S2084 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S2084-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 2084

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 16, 2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for disbursement to Jersey City to examine mass transit and green space needs at Bergen Arches.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2019 (P.L.2019, c.150).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2019, c.150, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

50 Economic Planning, Development, and Security

05 Social Services Programs

GRANTS-IN-AID

05-8050 Community Resources  ........................................................

$100,000

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                           

$100,000

      Social Services Programs.................................................

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

05     City of Jersey City - Bergen Arches Feasibility Study ........................................

($100,000)

 

 

The amount hereinabove appropriated for the City of Jersey City - Bergen Arches Feasibility Study shall be utilized to conduct a study to examine the need for mass transit and green space at the Bergen Arches.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to Division of Housing and Community Resources in the Department of Community Affairs for disbursement to the City of Jersey City.  The bill requires this funding to be utilized to conduct a study to examine the need for mass transit and green space at the Bergen Arches, which is an abandoned railroad corridor cutting through the Palisades in Jersey City.

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