Parsippany: Morris County And Towns To Share $8.4M In CARES Funds

Press release from the Morris County Government:

Oct. 10, 2020

Morris County and Towns to Share $8.4 Million in COVID19 Emergency Relief Funds

Morris County and its 39 towns will share $8,415,816 in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding out of $60 Million released by Governor Phil Murphy today for severely impacted county and local governments not qualified to receive direct federal aid.

Morris County will receive $2.3 million while $6.1 million is being shared among the municipalities. The funding is intended to help the towns deal with unexpected costs caused by the pandemic, including increased costs in health benefits, health and human services, public safety, overtime, equipment and supply expenditures.

The New Jersey Department of Human Services also is providing up to $10 million to support the state’s County Boards of Social Services with COVID19-related expenses such as technology to adapt to remote work requirements, meeting the growing demand for services, and supplies and materials to meet COVID19 health and safety standards.

Qualifying expenditures for the municipal funding include public safety and health-related expenses, COVID19-related overtime, increased residential and health-related garbage collection and services, remote working technology, signage and information technology related to the COVID19 response and recovery, and public health-related retrofit expenses for reopening.

The Governor said the allocation formula to determine the amounts provided used a variety of relevant metrics, including the municipal COVID19 infection rate, fiscal stress, the Municipal Revitalization Index (MRI), population, and public safety and health and human services expenditures share of the budget to determine the amount of funds counties and municipalities receive.

Funds awarded may not be used for government revenue replacement, including the provision of assistance to meet tax obligations. Eligible expenditures must be incurred during the covered period between March 1, 2020 and December 30, 2020.

A breakdown on the amounts provided to Morris County and each town in the county is below:

Boonton Town
Morris
$118,288

Boonton Township
Morris
$57,333

Butler Borough
Morris
$96,097

Chatham Borough
Morris
$92,289

Chatham Township
Morris
$107,457

Chester Borough
Morris
$19,535

Chester Township
Morris
$74,231

Denville Township
Morris
$189,791

Dover Town
Morris
$334,939

East Hanover Township
Morris
$145,011

Florham Park Borough
Morris
$137,460

Hanover Township
Morris
$163,531

Harding Township
Morris
$34,602

Jefferson Township
Morris
$271,494

Kinnelon Borough
Morris
$104,972

Lincoln Park Borough
Morris
$143,870

Madison Borough
Morris
$198,036

Mendham Borough
Morris
$55,294

Mendham Township
Morris
$57,672

Mine Hill Township
Morris
$43,911

Montville Township
Morris
$238,883

Morris Township
Morris
$251,522

Morris Plains Borough
Morris
$71,609

Morristown Town
Morris
$298,334

Mountain Lakes Borough
Morris
$42,651

Mount Arlington Borough
Morris
$68,644

Mount Olive Township
Morris
$371,865

Netcong Borough
Morris
$48,358

Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
Morris
$686,649

Long Hill Township
Morris
$96,558

Pequannock Township
Morris
$191,882

Randolph Township
Morris
$267,893

Riverdale Borough
Morris
$52,116

Rockaway Borough
Morris
$83,645

Rockaway Township
Morris
$294,345

Roxbury Township
Morris
$282,237

Victory Gardens Borough
Morris
$23,304

Washington Township
Morris
$205,311

Wharton Borough
Morris
$96,324

Total (Municipal)

$6,117,943

County of Morris

$2,297,873

GRAND TOTAL

$8,415,816

A complete list of how the $60 million was divided among all 21 New Jersey counties and their municipalities, go to:

http://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/dlgs/programs/lgef.html

This press release was produced by the Morris County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.