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The first Jersey City testing site is in the eastern side of the city is walk-up testing site with an expedited process out of the Public Safety Headquarters building located at 465 Marin Boulevard. 

The revenue loss comes from significantly decreased payroll tax collection, from the absence of municipal court fines, construction code fees and parking enforcement fines and from “other critical financial factors,” according to Fulop.

Critical to the state’s response are the four temporary “field hospitals” being planned by U.S. Army officials, the first of which Murphy said would be open within a week at the Meadowlands convention center in Secaucus. Three other units will follow within roughly a month, he added, with two located at the massive convention complex in Edison and another at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Each will have roughly 250 beds.

A week into his full “stay at home” order for New Jersey and its schools, Murphy started his daily COVID-19 press briefing with an announcement that the state would seek a waiver from the federal government on required standardized testing for students this spring, a contentious issue in this state.

In a message from Councilman James Solomon last night, he said “this is a living document that we’ll update with new projects – so please share widely! Know of another way JC can help support each other through COVID-19?”

Hudson County Coronavirus Testing PSA with County Executive Tom DeGise

Some suggest that New Jersey’s past experiences leave it better positioned than some states to face the current crisis. “I have to tell you New Jersey is certainly better prepared maybe than some (states) in terms of emergency preparedness. We had Superstorm Sandy. We had Ebola,” HMH’s Garrett said. (The system’s flagship hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center, was a designated site for Ebola patients and treated several suspected cases that turned out to test negative for the deadly disease, he said.)

In an effort to adhere to social distancing protocols and best practices imposed by City and State authorities, the City of Jersey City has canceled all public meetings and closed non-essential services as of March 16, 2020 until further notice.  As a result, the council caucus and council meeting will be held virtually as a video conference with public access until further notice. 

The order could result in the release of as many as 1,000 individuals on probation or serving a term of less than a year for a disorderly persons or other low-level offense, according to ACLU-NJ. It applies only to those in county jails and is a temporary measure while the state of emergency continues. It is meant to prevent a major spread of the virus within a jail. It does not, however, cover state prisons, where officials remain concerned about a possible outbreak.

If approved, it would increase the school tax levy (the part of assessed property taxes allocated to the public schools) $64 million, bringing the levy to $201 million.