Jackson Township (Ocean)

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

Answer Question Comments

58 Yes Has your governing body reviewed the municipality's policies on the use of criminal history when making personnel decisions, to ensure that it does not violate Title VII in light of the 2017 amendments to the Local Budget Law (P.L. 2017, c. 183)?

59 Yes Does your municipality have an established, documented process requiring department heads to submit notice of outside employment to the municipality prior to undertaking that employment?

60 Yes Upon receiving a notice of outside employment from a department head, does your municipality's human resources office or equivalent assess whether a conflict of interest exists?

61 Yes Employee personnel manuals serve as a valuable tool to convey a municipality's policies, procedures and benefits. Many insurance carriers encourage the adoption of such a document and offer discounted rates for their use. These publications should review employees' rights and obligations in areas ranging from discrimination, safety, violence, and harassment to vacation and sick days, holidays, use of municipal vehicles, smoking and political activity, among others. Has your municipality adopted or updated an employee personnel manual by resolution or ordinance within the last five years? If yes, please provide in the Comments section the date of the meeting during which the personnel manual was adopted. The Personnel Manual was updated on 4-24-18 Resolution 160R-18

Opportunity Zones Survey

If your municipality is on the list found in Column K, also answer the questions below. If not, please ignore and proceed to row 223: Opportunity Zone municipalities

The Opportunity Zones program was enacted as part of the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and is designed to drive long-term capital investments into low-income rural and urban communities. This federal program provides opportunities for private investors to support investments in distressed communities through participation in Qualified Opportunity Funds. Asbury Park (Monmouth County) Atlantic City (Atlantic County) Bayonne (Hudson County) Berkeley Twp. (Ocean County) Bound Brook (Somerset County) Bridgeton (Cumberland County) Burlington City (Burlington County) Camden City (Camden County) Carney's Point (Salem County) Carteret (Middlesex County) Cliffside Park (Bergen County) Clifton (Passaic County) Deptford Twp. (Gloucester County)

This survey is intended to gauge the needs, priorities, and capacities of municipalities with designated Opportunity Zones, to aid the State in helping these communities attract locally-appropriate businesses, investment, and development and make the most of their Opportunity Zone designations.

For more information about Opportunity Zones, click the following link: https://www.state.nl.us/dca/divisions/lps/opp_zones.html

For an interactive map of New Jersey Opportunity Zones, click the following link: http://nldca.maps.org/s/apps/ViewIndex.html?appId=e2c712634ced45cd91c3ca52ab3f9988

62 Select Has your municipality developed a strategy around attracting businesses and investment to its Opportunity Zones?

63 Select If "No", would you like help developing a strategy?