Jersey City Council expected to allocate $2M towards 6 COVID-19 vaccination sites
Twitter photo.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“We need to have a contingency plan in place to avoid any delays in making these critical vaccines available in the case that the state or federal government doesn’t provide resources,” Mayor Steven Fulop said in a statement.
“We feel that it is important to take the same approach as we did with testing, that we will use city dollars to get a program running and then fight to get the reimbursement later. As we saw when we took the initiative and became the first to offer city-run testing, we are finding ourselves in a similar situation with the vaccine rollout.”
Jersey City announces it will open 6 coronavirus vaccination sites
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Jersey City plans to establish six coronavirus vaccination sites across the city, Mayor Steve Fulop and the city Health and Human Services Department said Wednesday morning.
The city has confirmed four locations so far: the Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center, the Joseph Connors Senior Center, James J. Ferris High School and Franklin L. Williams School, said Stacey Flanagan, director of the city’s Health and Human Services Department.
Fulop said the City Council will vote Wednesday night on the emergency resolution to spend $2 million to create the sites. The mayor said the expenditure is necessary since communities have been provide little funding and limited guidance from the state in establishing vaccination locations.