My son is 20 years old. He is in a group home. He is autistic. One of the challenges i have seen is that, as far staffing goes, they have a cap on what they can pay the person, salary wise. My son is severely autistic. He hurts himself. Here is other people. He is 21. Gets cycled over again. They cant bring the proper people in. I was hoping that they can have or anotheressional level based on the intensity. I think i understand. Help me with this. Let me tell you a few things generally. It is the philosophy of this administration that we need to move more people out of institutionalization it into a group home setting. We believe that is where they get the most appropriate care and reach their highest potential. It would shock people i will it would not shock people you, i am sure. But new jersey has more developmentally disabled people next to texas. I dont believe that is right. Were looking at challenges in our model because of the differences that each individual brings. This is something where we need to listen to the parents and the community about how to staff it, and now we decide who goes where and how they are treated. The commissioner of Human Services is here good he can stand up and address that in particular. Sure, governor. Thank you. I should talk to you later to find out who your son is with because that would be helpful. Ratesetting process. There are various cost. I want to make sure that your son has the right budget assigned to him. That dictates how much the groupon manager will have to spend on his care. Weo, the ratesetting thing are going through will assign the appropriate costs three years ago, you got one rate. If you came in recently, you got a different rate. Weve to take a look at a normalized rate. We are committed to closing certain centers and then re investing into the community. It is a good program. Everything is run well. , we areking at it now trying to get another group home built. Seeing with my son, angelo, is his level of care is 24 7. It is an intense. His staffing is the same as somebody who doesnt have any behaviors. Staff comes. They work for a while. I get burned out. And i do not blame them. The staff differential right now on the state institutions versus the community is significant. Rebounds a nap from the more highly paid employees in the institution to address turnover in the community is going to be a result of closing mans tuitions. I cantalked afterwards, make sure he is on track where he needs to be. Hear lots of controversy about this, as we move forward. The closing of the developmental centers. The only way we weakened congress to goals that are important to accomplish is to do this. To get the resources to real to build an open more homes in the community, and the staff report really, is to move some of the population out that does not belong being institutionalize and have the money follow them. That will allow more in a group home setting than we are able to do now. This is something ive had in from the legislator for four years. The plan has been approved. Two of the centers will close in the northern part of the state. We are going to move forward. I am warning you. He youre going to hear controversy from those who dont want us to close developmental centers. The fact is that i do not ieve that, for the most there are some people who need institutionalism. They need to be cared for in an institutional setting. But the majority, probably a super majority, buffett in that category. What happens is that theyre not able to reach their full potential. There are not able to do things that other folks are able to do. There will be some bumps in the road here. There will be some controversy about it. I dont think the new jersey should be the secondlargest institutionalization state in the country for these folks. They deserve better than that. And so do their families. We are thinking about you. It is an important issue to me and my wife. Housing, he came out of the hospital setting, and there was almost a 1. 5 year wait for housing. It is part of what were trying to do. When we take some money out, we will have some more money to invested in homes. Willnstitutionalize care be so extreme they expensive that after we wretched that them, that will free up resources for us to do other things, that will allow them to be more available. The differential will help us do that. If we keep all the institutions , thered try to do this will never be enough money to build student. To do it. Humane tohink it is keep people there who could fly and do better outside an institution. As a parent, all we want for our children, no matter what their challenges are, is for them to reach their full potential, whatever that potential is. That is always hope for is a parent. Want is for them to be alone feel like the state is assisting in being a will to have the child reach the full potential. We are going to try to get there with you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it very much. Thank you very much. [applause] hello. My name is alicia. Im from new jersey. I am nervous here. Dont worry. Were even. I want to address the issue of family law reform. The force is a 50 billion a year business. Billion. I got divorced eight years ago, and i did and all my husband could use the system to bully, harassing, and abuse myself and my children. Over 17,000 to protect my children from their lawyer putuse some the idea in my husbands head that he does not to pay Child Support anymore, and that he should be a will to sorry, this is very important to me. Dont worry. Take your time. Doesnt have to pay Child Support anymore, and that our divorce agreement can be undone. I do 80 of the parenting. They need to update the formulas. A were updated 40 years ago. Apparents house is not parenting. Sleeping at somebodys house is not parenting. The number of women that the claire bankruptcy in new jersey is growing. Divorce affects a lot of people. [applause] i did not get married and have children to get divorced. I did not think i would have to be beat up by a system. I am entitled to counsel. I am not entitled to a fair trial. I have been to court. Ive been to mediation. It impacted my ability to work because ofred losses the hurricane. I am fighting this fight. It is raining. It is exhausting. I started meeting with my legislators to affect change. It would be helpful if it was from a topdown. I know you are a parent. Let me tell you first of all, thank you. That was really great. This is a topfive issue. Ive continued to urge the majority in the legislator to come to a decision on how they want to reform the family law system. How may tell you different bills have been introduced. I am sure you are aware. You semiqueue are aware. There are competing camps. Told them to come to a consensus in the legislature. Lets come to an agreement. Questionhink theres a on either side of the aisle. This is not a policy issue. They need to take some action on this. There are some who dont want any change to happen. Something gets momentum, they put a roadblock in front of it. I will continue to speak out in front of it. I am ready to change the laws and make them fair to the people who participate in them. But we have to get some consensus in the legislator to get it done. There is documentary they court. About divorce the judge said that for every inr it costs people 27,000 legal fees. It is up seen. It really is. The fact is, as you put it, no one goes into a marriage i think, almost no one. Almost no one goes into a marriage planning their divorce. No one has children thinking that someday they will have to parent alone or in an attenuated circumstance where some parents are involved and others are not or where theyre being destructive greed we see it happen all the time. This. E all experienced we need to make an adversarial situation, the breakup of an emotional relationship, we need to take some of the adversarial nature out of it, and some of the economic incentive out of it, which is what you are alluding to, as well. Those are the kinds of changes i like to see made, more mediation, more arbitration, to lower the temperature. Is so cost a lot of money. Mediation is over 5,000 a day. If you are in court, it is more. I dont want to get deep into this. So we can change the rules mediation and arbitration has more teeth. And some of the situation, youre the four things to get done. A lot of people, i dont want to be a pop psychologist, right, but a lot of people use the system to work their anger out. What we have to try to do is come up with reforms. There are good ideas out there grade we have to lessen the incentive for that. We have to deincentivize this kind of activity. Wheres jean . Get her our card. We will talk to about some of the ideas we have. Sign me up. We will get a card good and we will reach out. Let us know when it is appropriate. I appreciate it. Yes maam. My name is jesse. Since you cannot help everybody with the grant money, what are some who haveelp had to retain attorneys to get paid we are owed . Myself and the commissioner of banking insurance are fighting as hard as we can. This is something some people do not understand beforehand because they wrote their checks to a private insurance carrier of Flood Insurance. But now they understand that the entire Flood Insurance business in this country has been taken over by the federal government. It is called the national Flood Insurance plan. Fhould be called the new word. Word. The new f we put together a voluntary Arbitration Program for all the insurers in new jersey. Every homeowners insurer in new jersey entered the program nfip. T for one, the the federal government, the Obama Administration refused to go and arbitration with policyholders in new jersey. It is the only insurer that didnt. We do not regulate the federal government. We are at a loss. We yell and scream a lot. There are a lot of nice letters, but if you look at between lines, theyre not that nice. , eric urge allng know let me ask by answering your question. Theres not much i can do. For the ones we write, we can service forpriate those who paid their premiums. We have gotten that. By most of the damage done sandy was flood damage, not wind damage or other damage. So we are stuck dealing with the federal system that is broken. We need to get congress to change the situation trade the idea that the federal government should be given anything else to do is crazy. Why they think theyre the best pupil did you Flood Insurance in the country, i do not know. We can have use it with the banking insurance folks and give you some suggestions. There who of you out are having Flood Insurance issues, although the governor is correct we dont regulate them, if you sit with us and give us your name and information, we can make a call down there and try to get some attention focused on your particular situation, and hopefully, get somebody to look at it and be responsive on the federal level. It is messy. It is not even half the value of the damage. I agree with you. The best thing we can do is advocate for you. And we will. We have folks who will do that for you and advocate for you and try to become the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. Is they dont have, in my opinion, the first idea of what they are doing. A disaster of this scale is not what they were planning for. The first 10 billion was taken nfiphe top, sent to the because they had a debt and no money to pay the claims. The first 10 billion was taken off the top. If you say, you have 60 billion. It i say, hold on. They sent 10 billion and sent it away. This is a broken system. And they want to charge more. And the interaction between elevation of homes and the rates going forward. We need to get engaged. We are engaged everyday fighting with fema. A cabinet heree afterwards and folks that work at the cabin offices. We will advocate for you. Opinion, is why we should let government run as well as possible. To runfederal government an Insurance Company is just bonkers. Have certainly gotten along well with the Obama Administration during this, and i have worked as well as i can in making sure we have a good relationship, and we do, this is an area where they should have stepped up and gotten into the program. I do not know how the administration justifies not being willing to sit down and talk with their premium payers. , i dont careess if it was allstate, state farm, or any other Insurance Company, if they took the position that they were unwilling to speak to their policyholders to settle in good faith the dispute, you know would come down on them, the federal government. You hear them yelling and the rooftops, Greedy Corporations who take her money. Guess who the Greedy Corporation is now . The federal government. Theyre the people who are doing it. [applause] we just all need to be where when the government says theyre going to fix the problem. Beware. Although in the back. My name is tom. I have elderly parents who were flood victims. You are right that theres not enough money to make everyone whole. When going to get that. I would like to know the reasoning behind privatizing a lot of the Grant Programs. You paid 100 million to contractors to run the programs. [applause] hgi. F them is let me stop you for a second. What is your suggestion on how i should have done it. Should i have hired dozens of new Government Employees to administer the program . 60,000said he of employees, and they are hard to manage. New york did it differently. They did not privatize it. That is not correct. By the way, new york is significantly, i have measure of two or threefold behind us in the distribution of money to victims. Theyre significantly behind us. Say one fact you like that supports your position. You said, new york did not do it that way. Go talk to the victims in new york who have not gotten anywhere near the type of aid yet from the programs in new york that the victims in new jersey have gotten. We are trying to do this in a way to get this out to people as quickly and efficiently as possible. Dont take my word for it. I wont. I know you wont. They said the money got out faster than any disaster in american history. Not for me. Let me get back to the center of my question. Hired . Hgi why did you pay them millions of dollars . Why did you privatize . I just disagree. You said did not have to privatize. He alternative is i am answering the question. Is to have hired thousands of questions to administer the program. Who is going to administer it if, in fact it is a rhetorical question. Someone has to administer the program. We have a new company in place to run the Program Going forward. Pointct is, if we reach a where we believe that theres another company who can do the job better than that company was brought in on the bid, we will make that change. I will not hesitate to make the change if i think there is an option that is better. If what you are hoping for is that every decision that is made regarding billions of dollars is going to be made perfectly the then, here expectations are not where they need to be. The fact is we do not have Government Employees, thankfully, for you and your tax rates, on staff in the State Government that could run an additional 20 billion program. Runningd, we would be your government and efficiently from daytoday. We have the number of employees we need to run the 30 billion. Overnment you need i am not going to bring on people you have to pay benefits for and pensions for, to run a program that by its nature is temporary. That is something you bring in private contractors to run. Something that is going to be a temporary program. That is what this is. That is why we brought in people to do it that way g. It is significantly better here in terms of money going out to folks, then on the other side of the river. [applause] yes . Hi, governor. I am rabbi michelle. Im from the jewish federation. You said that the system is broken, and a lot of people need help. We have been working hard to togethernonprofits they came up after kachina does the difficulty of getting help to people who need it. After the difficulty of helping people who need it. How are you trying to bridge the gap . We have partnered with dozens of nonprofits throughout the state, both through using them as administrators and using them to administer Hurricane Sandy relief funds, as well. We dealt with seabright rising a lot. We will continue to, and every program that is appropriate. We are happy to work with nonprofits. We work with a lot of them that of done a great job with a wide variety of rebuilding issues, psychological issues childcare issues. A variety of issues. 28 Million Dollars have gone mostly to nonprofits to administer those types of programs, on the ground to help people. Two suggestions, come to the Governors Office and tell us what you want to do to help grade we will try to plug you in. We will get you information to in order to get help ending access to some of that money, as well. My mom passed away saturday night in a rental house because we can go home yet. I am sorry. Im going to try to keep this on topic. We tried reaching out to the nonprofits. I thank you so much for having her office call. I had three the book call. Red cross couldnt help because i we had a case manager from a Different Program that has not helped us grad. I have been in touch with the sandy fraud decision ,ivision, and they said that despite violations, and i have of theges printed out unlawful practices that he participated in, they told us it was also able. Ours is the only complaint against him and they cant do anything. We have been out of money just living in this tiny shoebox, which is a great place. The neighbors are great. Here to ask you to talk to them. Fema is not something you can control and the fact that they have not given us anything for our content or the 11,000 of , i justphy equipment momsd to know why my 35,000 that she took out of her reverse mortgage, which now means that we of the figure how to sell a house that isnt finished, when she took out the sorry. From it, im shes not very get. She really liked you read she is not buried yet. And she really liked you. I really want the best for you. [applause] let me try to help. I understand. You should not try to go through this. Will have the Attorney Generals Office look at the contractor. I h