Jackson Township (Ocean)

1511 Please see Color Key at bottom of sheet for limits on answers

Answer Question Comments

Disaster Preparedness/Resiliency - DP

47 Prospective Has your municipality 1) reviewed within the past year its master plan and zoning ordinances and, if changes are recommended by your engineer, planner or land use board to ensure greater resiliency in the face of flooding and storm damage, with a plan to implement such changes; and 2) amended your zoning ordinances as necessary to allow homeowners to raise conforming structures to the Base Flood Elevation (BFE) set by the new FEMA maps?

48 Yes Has your municipality within the past year reviewed and updated as necessary its emergency management plan, taking into account lessons learned from the impact of Superstorm Sandy and other recent natural disasters?

49 N/A P.L. 2013, c. 37, known as the “Sandy Integrity Monitor Law”, requires the State Treasurer to assign monitors to recovery and rebuilding-related contracts $5 million or above, and grants the Treasurer discretion to assign monitors on contracts below $5 million.\nPursuant to authority granted under the law, all Sandy-related recovery and rebuilding contracts over 2 million awarded by local governments must be reported to the State Department of Treasury. Please access Treasury’sSandy website at http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/news-sandy.shtml for more information on your municipality’sresponsibilities under the Sandy Integrity Monitor Law.nHas your municipality reported all Sandy-related contracts over2 million to the State Treasurer? The municipality did not have any contracts over $2 Million. However we did enter into a Shared Service Agreement with Ocean County for debri removal.

50 Prospective A municipality’s participation in FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System can lead to significant flood insurance premium reductions for its homeowners. An explanation of the program may be found on FEMA’s website at http://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program/national-flood-insurance-program-community-rating-system, and more information on how the NJDEP’s statewide CRS coordinator can assist with improving your rating can be found at http://www.nj.gov/dep/floodcontrol/about.htm. Does your municipality have a Community Rating System ranking of at least Class 9?