Jerry Green

TOP ASSEMBLY LEADERS: GIVE TOWNS MORE TIME TO SUBMIT HOUSING PLANS

Cite changing regulations, slumping economy, environmental concerns

(TRENTON) – Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. and Assembly Housing and Local Government Chairman Jerry Green today sent a letter to the state Council on Affordable Housing asking it to give municipalities more time to submit housing plans.

COAH has given municipalities until Dec. 31 to submit their plans.

Roberts and Green, who is also Assembly speaker pro tempore, asked it to extend that deadline by at least 90 days.

GREEN STATEMENT ON HEARING FOCUSING
ON HOME MORTGAGE AND FORECLOSURE CRISIS

(PLAINFIELD) - Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Jerry Green (D-Union) released the following statement today on the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee's Monday hearing on the ongoing home mortgage and foreclosure crisis.

U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-Newark), and Piscataway grassroots organizer Nadia Brown: Politicker photo 

ROSELLE - It’s Garrett Smith country on a Saturday.

Emptying a chair alongside the young Roselle mayor, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-Newark) stood in front of a microphone and gave Gov. Jon Corzine props for playing a role in discovering Sen. Barack Obama (D-Il) when Corzine chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Obama’s romping here in Roselle by every indication, but Payne and Obama aren’t eyeball to eyeball on everything, including last week’s Wall Street bailout.

While Obama and his Republican rival in the presidential race on Wednesday quietly supported the $700 billion measure that its critics say falls disproportionately across the shoulders of American taxpayers, Payne twice vociferously bucked the controversial bill in the House.

Today he laid out his views before a cheering crowd in Roselle’s Warinanco Park, where several hundred people gathered in support of Obama on the front-end of a Union County voter registration drive days before the Oct. 14th registration deadline.

GREEN STATEMENT ON PLANS TO HOLD JOINT MONDAY HEARING FOCUSING ON HOME MORTGAGE AND FORECLOSURE CRISIS

(PLAINFIELD) – Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Jerry Green (D-Union) released the following statement today on plans by the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee to hold a joint hearing Monday on the ongoing home mortgage and foreclosure crisis.

The hearing will be held with the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee as part of a daylong emphasis on the economy.

LANDMARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN SIGNED INTO LAW

Bill Implements Most Comprehensive Reform  Of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - Landmark legislation reforming the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine during a ceremony in Mount Laurel, the South Jersey community at the historic heart of the affordable housing issue.

COMPREHENSIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN
CLEARS ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS PANEL
Bill Would Implement Most Comprehensive Reform
Of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Appropriations Committee today released legislation to reform the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state.

U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1) won the official support today of Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Plainfield)Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Plainfield) as part of Andrews’s quest to unseat U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary.

"After watching Rob Andrews travel this state to meet with voters, listen to their concerns and explain his vision for the future, I am convinced he is the kind of strong, effective advocate our citizens here in Union County and across New Jersey need in the U.S. Senate," said Green. "I enthusiastically support Rob, and I urge all Democrats to vote for him in Tuesday's primary. He is our best hope for change."

ASSEMBLY CLEARS BILLS TO MOVE SCHOOL ELECTIONS,
SLASHING SCHOOL OVERHEAD COSTS CLEAR COMMITTEE
Bipartisan Measures Aim to Enhance Accountability at School Board Level,
Clamp Down on Non-Classroom Administrative Costs

(TRENTON) - The General Assembly today passed two bipartisan measures Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. championed to enhance local voters' ability to hold elected school board members accountable for their fiscal and policy decisions and to slash inefficient non-classroom administrative spending in public schools.

BIPARTISAN BILLS FOR NOVEMBER SCHOOL ELECTIONS,
SLASHING SCHOOL OVERHEAD COSTS CLEAR COMMITTEE
Measures Aim to Enhance Accountability at School Board Level,
Clamp Down on Non-Classroom Administrative Costs

(TRENTON) - Two bipartisan measures Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. is championing to enhance local voters' ability to hold elected school board members accountable for their fiscal and policy decisions and to slash inefficient non-classroom administrative spending in public schools were released today by the Assembly Education Committee.

BIPARTISAN BILL TO MOVE SCHOOL ELECTIONS
TO NOVEMBER INTRODUCED IN ASSEMBLY
Speaker Aims for June Vote on Measure          

(TRENTON) - Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. today formally introduced legislation first proposed last month to eliminate the state's April school elections and to move school board member elections to the November ballot.