Below are the results of a statewide survey of shared services between counties and municipalities.  All of the information below was provided by the New Jersey Association of Shared Services Coordinators, one of NJAC's newest affiliate groups. 

Atlantic County

• Animal Control
• 911 Centralized Communications
• County Record Retention for Municipalities
• Countywide Fleet Maintenance
• Countywide Fleet Purchasing
• Annexation of Municipalities (Corbin City/Upper Township)
• Feasibility studies on Police Protection Mergers
• Countywide Tax Assessments and Revaluation
• Countywide Stormwater Maintenance and Compliance

Burlington County

• Provide Central Communications
• County Library System
• Recycling Program
• County Landfill
• Police and Fire Training Center
• County Health Department
• Regional Planning and Economic Development (including GIS)
• County Animal Shelter
• PARIS Grant initiative for county/municipal records storage
• Programs and services offered by county to municipalities:
• Free grant writing for all Share Program & Economic Development/Redevelopment
• Free feasibility studies w/county consultants (currently studying impact on small towns of state police patrol surcharge)
• Free credit courses through bimonthly Shared Services seminars
• Municipal Apartment Condominium Collection Services (MACCS) – 11 towns participate in consortium for collection of solid wate
• Free in-kind professional services for engineering, property valuation, economic and redevelopment projects
• Ongoing analysis of shared services opportunities
• Vehicle wash facility

Gloucester County

• Emergency Management, regionalized EMS program (estimated savings for municipalities: $2.6 million)
• Education – county Special Services School District and Institute of Technology share administration, equipment, facilities and staff.  This year they will share a school board. 
• Storm water management – county and municipalities shares planning, equipment, materials and buildings
• Health Services
• Animal Control
• Medical Examiners
• Tax Assessor (under consideration)

Hunterdon County

• Tax Assessor (between Clinton and Tewksbury)
• Recycling (between Lambertville and West Amwell)
• Field Maintenance (between Hampton and Hampton School District)
• Police Services (between Lambertville and East Amwell)
• Hearing Tests (between Hampton School District and Hampton Borough)
• Personnel (between Hampton Borough and Hampton Water Company)
• Leak Detection (between and Clinton and Bloomsbury)

Mercer County

• Cooperative Contract Purchasing System
• Recycling
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Communications System upgrades for Municipalities (county is upgrading local systems, including radios and dispatch systems)
• Police Academy (for county and municipal cadets)
• Dispatch (for six municipal fire companies)
• GIS and Aerial Pictometry (for land use planning and interactive mapping)
• Records Management (ongoing planning to make county regional hub for records storage, management)
• E-recording (for County Clerks and County Board of Taxation)
• Equipment Inventory (database to encourage and manage equipment sharing between municipalities and county)
• Equipment and Safety Training Consolidation (to coordinate safety training for municipal public works personnel)
• Vehicle Wash Facility
• Transportation (Mercer County Transportation Service provides service to most municipalities for public and private schools)
• Transportation for seniors (non-emergency transportation for seniors throughout county)

Middlesex County

• Planning documents and reports available to municipalities upon request
• Aerial Photography
• Demographic Data
• Project-related maps
• Access to county facilities for municipal meetings, functions
• Special Operations Response Team (law enforcement)
• Gang Intelligence (law enforcement)
• Law enforcement support (county agents to assist municipal law enforcement)
• Video Court
• Clean Communities
• Labor Assistance Program
• Color Guard (for funerals, parades, etc.)
• Storage of public records
• Economic Development (no formal relationship with towns, but county and municipal officials work frequently with each other on economic development planning)
• Emergency Management
• Bridge Inspection Services
• Engineering review and site planning
• Design and construction of traffic signals and roadway improvements (upon request form municipality)
• Storm water management
• GIS services (to all 25 municipalities)
• Aerial imagery and Pictometry
• Land-use planning
• Medical examiner
• Public Health (between county and 20 municipalities)
• Law Enforcement
• Solid Waste management
• Transportation (share certain facilities)

Morris County

• Countywide Communications Center for public safety and emergency management (for 15 of 39 municipalities)
• Records management
• Health Services (for all municipalities)
• Cooperative Pricing Council
• Equipment/Vehicle sharing
• Public Works Equipment Sharing (programs allows towns to rent form county equipment that they may need for public works.)
• Police and Fire Training (for all municipalities)
• Educational workshops (for county and municipal managers)
• Capital financing (through Morris County Improvement Authority)
• Joint Insurance

Salem County

Salem County opened its shared services office last year.  It is presently engaged with all municipalities in various feasibility studies to share services.

Somerset County

• Emergency Management
• Police Dispatch
• 911 Emergency Dispatch
• Consolidation of Public Works Facilities (several towns and county are currently studying feasibility of consolidation their public works departments, functions and assets)
• Green Tool Kit (a step-by-step planning tool for municipalities to green their facilities and make more efficient their energy consumption)
• Jointly-owned parks (three towns in Somerset share ownership and responsibility for a skate park)
• Shared Maintenance Supervision (several local entities have agreed to share maintenance for various facilities)

Sussex County

• Health Services
• Winter road maintenance
• Fueling agreements
• Salt and grit storage and loading
• GIS services
• Senior programs
• 911 emergency dispatch
• Employee assistance program sharing
• Purchasing co-ops (with Morris County)
• Joint court services
• Traffic light maintenance
• Library services
• Workers Comp insurance
• Police services (sheriff to municipalities)
• Prescription plan insurance
• Law enforcement psychological exams
• Training
• Equipment use
• Gypsy moth control
• Planning
• Animal control
• Recycling
• Tax assessor
• Tax collection
• Chief financial officer
• Prosecutors Office Narcotics Task Force
• Meals on wheels (with Passaic)
• Construction officials
• Zoning enforcement
• Proposed Shared Services
• Meals on Wheels (with jail)
• Regionalized police
• Police contract for services
• QPA services
• Insurance
• Fleet maintenance
• Vehicle washing
• Guard rail install and repair
• Radio maintenance
• IT Service
• Web hosting
• Facility cleaning services
• Records purging, management, archiving
• EMS services
• Commercial Drivers License drug testing

Union County

• Union county provides workshops and consulting to municipalities on how to share services.

Link to DCA's Shared Services Best Practices

Three Hunterdon towns seek shared police force

by Ralph Ortega/The Star-Ledger

Monday April 14, 2008, 1:21 PM

Hunterdon County is trying to find ways for three towns to share a police force. The county applied for a state grant today to study the feasibility of a shared police force that would serve Lambertville, West Amwell and East Amwell. Lambertville and West Amwell each have a police force. East Amwell relies on the State Police.

Under Gov. Jon Corzine's proposed budget, all three towns face losses in state aid and have been exploring shared services. Hunderton County's shared service coordinator, Michael Capabianco, said he electronically filed the application today with the state Department of Community Affairs for a Sharing Available Resources Efficiently grant.

The county is asking for about $39,000 to hire a consultant. All three towns have expressed support for the plan and have agreed on a consultant, Blue Shield LLC., a Long Valley consulting company. The owner is Ted Ehrenburg, a former police chief from Washington Township in Morris County.