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Monmouth County Commissioner DiRocco highlights COVID relief, career academies and fiscal stewardship
Summary
Commissioner Nick DiRocco reviewed his path from local volunteer to county commissioner and outlined the county's COVID-19 response (including $109,000,000 in federal grants, per DiRocco), investments in career academies and fire training, and his emphasis on careful fiscal stewardship and tax-rate management.
Commissioner Nick DiRocco said he got involved in local government to improve the community for his children and outlined priorities he said the county has pursued since he took office.
"We delivered over $109,000,000 in federal grants to local businesses, Main Street businesses, nonprofits, municipal governments, chambers of commerce," DiRocco said, describing the county's role in standing up vaccine centers and directing pandemic recovery funds. He said those dollars were spent "right here in Monmouth County" to help respond to and recover from COVID-19.
DiRocco, who said he began as a volunteer on Wall Township's…
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