ASSEMBLY, No. 385

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 9, 1996

 

 

By Assemblymen T. SMITH, BUCCO, Corodemus, Assemblywoman Myers, Assemblymen Gregg, Lance, Senators Palaia, Schluter, Bennett, Martin, Kyrillos and McGreevey

 

 

An Act appropriating from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, the sum of $4,423,989 for the purpose of making grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for certain historic preservation projects in northern New Jersey.

 

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

 

    1. a. There is appropriated to the New Jersey Historic Trust from the "1992 Historic Preservation Fund" established pursuant to section 25 of the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, the sum of $4,423,989 for the purpose of making grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for historic preservation projects listed in this subsection. The sum appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall include administrative costs of the New Jersey Historic Trust incurred in administering this act. The following projects are eligible for funding with the monies appropriated pursuant to this subsection:



COUNTY


PROJECT NAME


LOCATION


NAME OF ORGANIZATION


GRANT AWARD

Essex


B'nai Keshet: Red Gables

Montclair

B'nai Keshet, Montclair Jewish Center

$180,765

Essex

Montclair Inn

Montclair

Montclair Shared Housing Association

$86,068

Essex


Essex County Courthouse

Newark

Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders

$831,250

Essex


Metropolitan Baptist Church/ Oheb Shalom Synagogue

Newark

Greater Newark Conservancy, Inc.

$300,000

Hunterdon


Locktown Church

Delaware Twp.

Friends of the Locktown Stone Church, Inc.

$72,162

Hunterdon

Riegel Ridge Community Center

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Milford

Holland Township

$475,000

Monmouth


Asbury Park Convention Hall & Paramount Theater

Asbury Park

City of Asbury Park

$1,245,000

Monmouth

Woodrow Wilson Hall

West Long Branch

Monmouth University

$269,845

Morris

Museum of Early Trades and Crafts

Madison

Museum of Early Trades and Crafts

$194,944

Morris

Church of the Redeemer

Morristown

Church of the Redeemer

$39,192

Morris

Obadiah LaTourette Grist and Saw Mill

Washington Twp.

Washington Township Land Trust of Morris County, Inc.

$97,304

Passaic


Allied Textiles Printing Site - Colt Mill

Paterson

City of Paterson

$359,000

Union

Saint Mary's R.C. Church


Plainfield

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church

$273,459

TOTAL

 

 

 

$4,423,989

 

    b. Any transfer of any funds or project sponsor listed in subsection a. of this section shall require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.

 

    2. To the extent that monies remain available after the projects listed in section 1 of this act are offered funding from the "1992 Historic Preservation Fund," the projects listed in P.L. , c. (now before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. of 1996 or Assembly Bill No.  of 1996) shall be eligible for funding, including administrative costs of the New Jersey Historic Trust in administering this section, in a sequence consistent with the priority system established by the New Jersey Historic Trust, and shall require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.

 

    3. The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.1992, c.88.

 

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill would appropriate to the New Jersey Historic Trust from the "1992 Historic Preservation Fund" established pursuant to section 25 of the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, the sum of $4,423,989 for the purpose of making grants, to be awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for historic preservation projects in northern New Jersey, which sum would include administrative costs of the New Jersey Historic Trust incurred in administering the bill.

    The bill provides that any transfer of any funds or project sponsor listed in the bill would require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.

    The bill also provides that to the extent monies remain available after the projects listed in the bill are offered funding, the historic preservation projects listed in a companion bill for southern New Jersey (Senate Bill No. of 1996 or Assembly Bill No. of 1996) would be eligible for additional funding, including administrative costs, in a sequence consistent with the priority system established by the New Jersey Historic Trust, but only with the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.

 

                             

Appropriates $4,423,989 from "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992" for historic preservation projects in northern NJ.