Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer believes her city received less Sandy aid money than it should have because she refused to support a real estate development project favored by the governor. The Christie administration denies the charge that politics played a role in the awarding of aid.
An analysis by WNYC and NJ Spotlight shows Hoboken would have been awarded $697,600 more had it been scored the way other New Jersey municipalities were scored. Mouse over or touch the scores for details.
After the request was submitted, the state clustered the items above into three groups, shown below. It's unclear how those groupings came about, as the new "estimated costs" don't match any combination of generators. The regrouping dramatically changed the scoring -- and the amount awarded. Mouse over or touch scores for details.
Hoboken's original letter of intent for 12 generators
State of NJ's scoring methodology (see last 2 pages)
List of facilities that have conducted energy audits
FEMA public assistance history totals, pre-Sandy
FEMA public assistance requests from Sandy
To determine the number of points to assign for the FEMA public assistance history, the state added the total of all requests for that municipality (or municipal department) received prior to 8/2013 and gave 40 points for more than $2 million, 20 points for between $500,000 to $2 million, 10 points for $50,000 to $500,000, and zero points for $50,000 and less
https://project.wnyc.org/hoboken-scores/
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Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer believes her city received less Sandy aid money than it should have because she refused to support a real estate development project favored by the governor. The Christie administration denies the charge that politics played a role in the awarding of aid.
A WNYC analysis shows Hoboken would have been awarded $697,600 more had it been scored the way other New Jersey municipalities were scored. Mouse over or touch the scores for details.