Contact Information:
Designated Model Lead-Safe City Coordinators: 

Antionette Bennett, Director
Department of Community Development and Planning
(973) 399-6659
 
Sandra M. Harris, Director and Health Officer
Department of Health
(973) 399-6647

City Hall of Irvington
Irvington Municipal Building
1 Civic Square, Irvington NJ 07111
973) 399-8111
http://www.irvington.net/

View Model Lead-Safe City Agreement Between The New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate and The City of Irvington

News Release: Irvington signs “Model Lead-Safe City” agreement with NJ Public Advocate, 9/25/08

Highlights from the Agreement:
The City will:

  • designate two Lead Safe City Coordinators who will head up all efforts related to responding to and preventing lead poisoning, 
  • distribute lead poisoning educational materials to parents through township public and private schools including through PTAs, PTOs, school nurses and preschool programs;
  • require that lead testing dates be recorded on children's school immunization records;
  • in partnership with UMDNJ, identify neighborhoods most at risk and test children living there;
  • consider adopting an ordinance that requires a full lead inspection/risk assessment be completed by a private certified lead evaluator before the issuance of a certificate of occupancy in all multi-family dwellings built before 1960. 
  • require that all people living in a multi-unit dwelling be notified if a child who lives there is diagnosed with lead poisoning;
  • require landlords to provide actual addresses, rather than P.O. boxes, for properties they are renting;
  • tighten oversight of lead abatement contractors and require that the lowest bidder on public lead abatement contracts also be subject to quality criteria;
  • apply for federal grants to support increased lead screening, home inspections and abatements, and family relocations.
  • ensure that contractors and demolition experts are trained in lead-safe work practices
  • ensure that owners or developers who are using Township funds to rehabilitate property use lead-safe work practices and licensed abaters.



Community Based Organizations
Below are the community based organizations that have pledged support to the City of Elizabeth in the elimination and prevention of childhood lead poisoning.

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  • Prevent Child Abuse NJ
  • Northern NJ Maternal Child Health Consortium
  • Essex Visiting Nurse Association
  • Irvington Family Development Center
  • Catholic Family and Community Services
  • Nurse Family Partnership Program, Youth Consultation Service Institute for Infant & Preschool Mental Health