NJBIA Statement on

Fiscal Reform Recommendations

NJBIA President and CEO Michele N. Siekerka Esq. issued the following statement in response to recommendations made by the Economic and Fiscal Policy Workgroup today.

NJBIA thanks the bipartisan leadership of Senate President Sweeney, Senator Paul Sarlo, Senator Steve Oroho, Senator Anthony Bucco and the Economic and Fiscal Policy Working Group for today’s recommendations. We were encouraged by what we heard today. While these ideas will require further review and appropriate stakeholder input, there is no question New Jersey needs to plan and adopt long-term, sustainable solutions to our fiscal challenges.

We need to see New Jersey’s future through the lens of regional competitiveness and affordability and many of these initial recommendations make a good first step in that direction.

NJBIA looks forward to working with the Legislature to advance proposals that will begin to set New Jersey on a path of economic vitality and business prosperity.