SENATE, No STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 212th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED JANUARY 26, 2006

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1 SENATE, No. 00 STATE OF NEW JERSEY th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED JANUARY, 00 Sponsored by: Senator STEPHEN M. SWEENEY District (Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester) Senator THOMAS H. KEAN, JR. District (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union) Assemblyman DOUGLAS H. FISHER District (Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester) Assemblyman UPENDRA J. CHIVUKULA District (Middlesex and Somerset) Assemblyman REED GUSCIORA District (Mercer) Co-Sponsored by: Senators Allen, Karcher, Bucco, Turner, McNamara, Assemblymen McKeon, Burzichelli, Wolfe, Bramnick, Merkt, Bateman, Holzapfel, Munoz, Assemblywomen Karrow, Beck and Assemblyman Doherty SYNOPSIS Appropriates $,, from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT As introduced. (Sponsorship Updated As Of: //00)

2 AN ACT appropriating $,, from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" for the purpose of making grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for certain historic preservation projects. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:. a. There is appropriated from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund," established pursuant to section of P.L., c. (C.:C-), to the New Jersey Historic Trust the sum of $,, for the purpose of making grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for historic preservation projects listed in this subsection. The following projects are eligible for funding with the moneys appropriated pursuant to this subsection: County Municipality Name of Project Grant Organization Name Award Bergen Edgewater Edgewater Edgewater $,0 Municipal Building Burlington Burlington Trustees of St. Mary's Hall-, Burlington Doane Academy College Burlington Mount Holly First First Baptist, Presbyterian Church of Church of Mount Holly Mount Holly Burlington Mount Holly & National Society Peachfield Plantation, Westampton of the Colonial and the Old School s Dames in House America in New Jersey Camden Camden Home Port Battleship New Jersey,0 Alliance for the USS New Jersey Camden Camden South Jersey Camden Collaboration,000 Tourism Corp. Cape May Cape May Cape May Stage Cape Island 0,000 Playhouse Presbyterian Church Cumberland Bridgeton St. Andrew's St. Andrew's Episc., Episcopal Church Church, Bridgeton Cumberland Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich Lower,000 Friends Meeting Meeting House and Orthodox Cemetery Walls Cumberland Millville Millville Army Millville Army 0,000 Air Field Airfield Hanger # Museum and Building

3 Essex Glen Ridge Glen Ridge Glen Ridge 0,00 Municipal Complex Essex Montclair Montclair Evergreens, Crane &,0 Historical Society Clark Houses Essex Montclair Montclair Upper Montclair 0,000 Library Bellevue Ave. Library Essex Newark Deliverance Temple B'nai, Evangelistic Abraham, Newark Center Essex Newark Lincoln Park South Park 0,000 Coast Cultural Presbyterian Church District, Inc. Facade Essex Newark Newark Ballantine Mansion 0,000 Museum Carriage House Association Essex Orange Orange Free Orange Free, Public Library Public Library Gloucester Woolwich Historical and Mount Zion,0 Educational Cemetery Lodge-Hall Preservatory (HELP) Hudson Jersey Save Ellis Island Ellis Island Laundry 0,000 Building Hunterdon East Amwell Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick Memorial, Memorial Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Church Hunterdon Flemington Flemington Fleming Castle,0 Hunterdon Franklin Franklin Pittstown Station,0 Hunterdon Stockton Stockton Board District, of Education Schoolhouse Mercer Hightstown Hightstown Stockton Street, Historic District Mercer Princeton Princeton Princeton Theological, Theological Seminary Seminary Mercer Trenton St. Michael's St. Michael's Episcopal,0 Episcopal Church Church, Trenton Mercer Trenton Trenton Meeting Trenton Friends, of Friends Meeting House Mercer Trenton Trenton Public Samuel Dickinson, Libraries Mansion/ East Trenton Branch Library

4 Middlesex New Catholic Convent of St. Peter, Brunswick Charities, Diocese the Apostle, New of Metuchen Brunswick Monmouth Manasquan Manasquan Squan Beach,0 Life Saving Station Morris Harding Harding Glen Alpin 0,000 Morris Madison Madison Masonic Presbyterian Church, Lodge No. of Chatham Township Morris Long Hill All Saints' All Saints' Episcopal, Episcopal Church Church, Millington Ocean Barnegat Barnegat Mary Etta Cox,0 House Outbuildings Passaic Paterson Eastside Eastside Park 0,000 Neighborhood Horse Stable Association Salem Salem Preservation Telegraph Building, Salem, Inc. Salem Salem Salem County Alphonso Eakin,000 Historical Society House Somerset Bound Presbyterian Presbyterian Church, Brook Church at Bound Brook at Bound Brook Warren Hope St. Luke's St. Luke's Episcopal,0 Episcopal Church Church, Hope Warren Washington Port Colden Port Colden United,000 United Methodist Methodist Church Church TOTAL $,, b. Any transfer of any funds, or change in project sponsor, site, or type, listed in subsection a. of this section shall require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor. c. To the extent that moneys remain available after the projects listed in subsection a. of this section are offered funding pursuant thereto, any project of a local government unit or qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organization that previously received funding for historic preservation purposes appropriated or reappropriated from any Green Acres bond act, any annual appropriations act, or the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund, shall be eligible to receive additional funding, as determined by the New Jersey Historic Trust, subject to the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor. For the purposes of this subsection, "Green Acres bond act" means P.L., c.0, P.L., c., and P.L., c..

5 0 0. This act shall take effect immediately. STATEMENT This bill would appropriate to the New Jersey Historic Trust from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" the sum of $,, for the purpose of making historic site management grants, as awarded by the New Jersey Historic Trust, for certain historic preservation projects. That trust fund was established pursuant to the "Garden State Preservation Trust Act," P.L., c. (C.:C- et seq.). Historic site management grants support non-construction activities such as long-term planning of operations and programs including building assessments, accessibility, landscape plans, and creating educational campaigns to increase public awareness. The 0 projects listed in this bill have been approved by the New Jersey Historic Trust and the Garden State Preservation Trust. The bill provides that any transfer of any funds to another project, or change in project sponsor, site, or type, listed in the bill be approved by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee. The bill also provides that to the extent that there are funds remaining after those projects listed in this bill are offered funding, the New Jersey Historic Trust, with the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee, may use those funds to provide additional funding for historic preservation projects of local government units or qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations previously approved for funding pursuant to various other laws.