Plainfield's Urban Enterprise Zone booth made a splash at the 90th Annual New Jersey League of Municipalities Conference in Atlantic City this week.Trade fairs have been a crossroads of business deals, gossip and renewing old acquaintances since the Middle Ages, and New Jersey's municipal trade fair continues that ancient tradition.
The cavernouse Atlantic City Convention Center is abuzz with thousands of attendees and miles of aisles where hundreds of vendors of goods and services needed by local communities hawk their wares.
Plainfield joined a group of other cities -- including Paterson, Newark, Trenton, Jersey City and Perth Amboy -- in touting the advantages of Plainfield as a business location. And the booth certainly made a splash as it was busy from opening to closing each day.
Every conceivable good or service -- from the newest ethanol-fueled emergency vehicles to mapping software for keeping track of Public Works trucks and equipment -- was on display.In addition, the Conference provides a setting where statutory employees [such as Assessors, Tax Collectors and Clerks] as well as state-certified employees such as Planners can squeeze in the state-mandated annual continuing education credits.
But topical issues are also a huge draw for seminars ranging from ethics to strategies for dealing with youth violence to grant-writing clinics.
The whole Conference comes to a climax with the Mayors' luncheon at which the Governor [and this year also the Governor-elect] make major policy speeches.
After the vendors and others have folded their tents on Thursday and vanished for another year, the League itself gets down to business with Friday morning meetings at which organizational housekeeping puts in place new officers and a new agenda for another year.
Keywords: Plainfield, UEZ, League
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