Tonight I will be holding a forum at Union County College here in Plainfield from 6pm-8pm. The forum will be held in the Annex Lecture Hall. All elected officials in the 22nd District are invited. This forum is to update the elected officials on how the Stimulus dollars are going to affect the municipalities in the 22nd district, and how the municipalities can apply for these dollars. Members from various departments of State government will be there to answer any questions that any elected official might have regarding Stimulus funding. This meeting is just for the elected officials here in the 22nd district. Already Plainfield has begun to receive some of the Stimulus funding. It is very important however that the municipalities in my district understand policy and procedure when applying for this funding.
I had an opportunity yesterday to participate in a tour of the new Senior Citizen Facility on East Front Street. It is a building that the citizens of Plainfield can take pride. Similar condo units would probably go for $100,000 or more in other parts of the State. It was also rewarding to hear that we are getting a lot of people from New York who has shown interest in purchasing these units.
In these economic tough times, to see people interested in purchasing here in Plainfield, it shows me that the City is moving ahead in the right direction. With that, I am hoping that the target day of the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony would be sometime in the middle of May. When the ribbon is cut, we all can be proud of the new direction the City is moving in constructing such a facility for our Seniors.
In three years, Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs has been able to move the City in the right direction when it comes to crime, quality of life issues, and in working with the State, negotiating taxes that we can live with, the handling of the Muhlenberg crisis, and now the planning of the future when it comes to economic development. She is putting us in a position that when the President turns around this economic crisis this country is facing, our City will be shovel-ready to move ahead.
These are the sorts of allotments coming into the 22nd District for Customized Training through the Department of Labor & Workforce Development:
As a part of our efforts to strengthen New Jersey’s workforce system, I am pleased to inform you that the Department of Labor & Workforce Development has awarded the following grantee a Customized Training Grant to be used to upgrade the skills of their workforce in approved training courses:
Global Auto Mall of North Plainfield Boro
-Grant Amount: $88,000
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