ASSEMBLY, No. 881

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

 

 

By Assemblymen BLEE and ASSELTA

 

 

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 $4,459,120 for the purpose of making grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey, and the sum of $66,250 for the purpose of funding the monitoring and enforcement of historic preservation easements, restrictions, or other requirements associated with those projects.

 

    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 $4,459,120 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:

 

                                                                                    NAME OF           GRANT

COUNTY            PROJECT NAME             LOCATION        ORGAN.              AWARD

 

 

Atlantic                Lucy, the Mar-                   Margate               Save Lucy           $ 305,190

                            Gate Elephant                                                 Committee, Inc.

 

Burling-               Collins-Jones                     Burlington           Burlington            107,400

ton                       House                                 City                     Co. Historical

                                                                                                    Society

 

Burling-               Old City Hall                     Burlington           City of Burling-    514,927

ton                                                                  City                     ton


Burling-               William R.                         Burlington           City of Burling-    354,260

ton                       Allen School                      City                     ton

 

Burling-               Mt. Holly                           Mount Holly        Mount Holly         140,723

ton                       Friends                                                            Monthly Meeting

                            Meeting House                                               of Friends

 

Camden               City Water                         Gloucester           Gloucester City    180,000

     Works            City

 

Camden               Peter Mott                          Lawnside             Lawnside              48,624

                            House                                 Historical

                                                                        Society

 

Cape May            Cape May                          Cape May            Mid-Atlantic         512,594

                            Lighthouse                         Point                    Center for the

                                                                                                    Arts (MAC)

 

Cape May            Ocean City                         Ocean City          City of Ocean       634,046

                            City Hall                                                         City

 

Glouces-              Trinity                                Swedesboro         Trinity    115,610

ter                        Episcopal                                                        Episcopal "Old

                            "Old Swedes"                                                 Swedes"

                            Church                                                            Church

 

Mercer                 Lawrenceville                    Lawrence             Lawrenceville       113,210

                            School                                                            School

 

Mercer                 St. Michael's                      Trenton                St. Michael's         210,795

                            Episcopal                                                        Episcopal

                            Church                                                            Church

 

Monmouth           Longstreet                          Holmdel              Monmouth Co      135,000

                            Farm                                                               Park System

 

Monmouth           Sutfin-Herbert                    Manalapan           Friends of             228,978

                            House                                                             Monmouth Battle-

                                                                                                    Field for NJDEP

 

Monmouth           Marlpit Hall                       Middletown         Monmouth Co      390,219

                                                                                                    Historical

                                                                                                    Association

 

Monmouth           Walnford Park                   Upper                  Monmouth Co      467,544

                                                                        Freehold              Park System

 

 

TOTAL                                                                                                                    $4,459,120

 

    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.

    c. 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 $66,250 for the purpose of funding the monitoring and enforcement of historic preservation easements, restrictions, or other requirements associated with the projects funded pursuant to subsection a. of this section.

 

    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 1995 or Assembly Bill No. 3199 of 1995) 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 $4,459,120 for the purpose of making grants, to be awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey, which sum would include administrative costs of the New Jersey Historic Trust incurred in administering the bill. The bill would also appropriate to the New Jersey Historic Trust from the "1992 Historic Preservation Fund" the sum of $66,250 for the purpose of funding the monitoring and enforcement of historic preservation easements, restrictions, or other requirements associated with the projects funded pursuant to 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 northern New Jersey 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 $4,525,370 from "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992" for historic preservation projects in southern NJ.