Corzine is scheduled to sign the New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of 2009 at an event at 3 p.m. at Penn Station, in Newark. Both houses of the Legislature passed the bill June 25.

The bill includes a series of components, including providing grants funded by future development to provide incentives for the development. It also expands eligibility for the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit program, provides a break from affordable-housing fees on commercial developers, allows rental-car tax increases around Newark Liberty International Airport and boosts construction on college campuses.

Corzine’s plan to sign the measure drew praise from Michael McGuinness, chief executive officer of the New Jersey chapter of NAIOP, the commercial real estate development association.

“It’s all going to have a positive impact for our industry,” McGuinness said of the law’s sections.

McGuinness was particularly supportive of the affordable-housing fee suspension.

“I think it’s going to incentivize some projects that are sort of on the fence to move forward more quickly,” McGuinness said.

He said the grant program, named Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant, or ERGG, would create jobs. While critics have said ERGG would take away property tax receipts that are needed by local governments, McGuinness said the proposal to bring development to land where building hasn’t already occurred is, at worst, “revenue neutral.”

However, McGuinness said the program would prompt more development once projects begin and would become a positive for towns.

“Everything about the bill is certainly positive,” McGuinness said.

The bill has received criticism from some environmental and other public policy groups, who contend that it is a giveaway to developers and could open environmentally sensitive land to development.

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Brown was among 140 business people who packed Monday morning’s state Chamber of Commerce seminar in Monroe on doing business with the government, and he said government work has been a growing source of revenue since he landed his first contract in 2007.

He said government red tape is daunting, but companies “need to understand that the system does work — so talk to the people in these agencies that offer to help you navigate the system. It’s a matter of listening to the people who’ve done it before you, trusting your instincts and marketing yourself accordingly.”

Today’s Chamber event was led by three veteran government contracting consultants who have joined forces to form The Contract Connection, which provides state, local and federal government contracting assistance to businesses. In a partnership with the chamber, The Contract Connection is providing a 10 percent discount on consulting fees to chamber member-firms.

The three principals of The Contract Connection are:

— Henry Savelli, of Henry Savelli & Associates, who worked 30 years in government procurement before retiring in 2001 as assistant director of the New Jersey Treasury Department, Division of Purchase and Property.

— Patrick Guidotti, president of PJG Consulting, who spent 35 years in state government, where he worked in the Division of Building and Construction and the Department of Commerce.

— Michelle Hermelee, an expert in federal contracting, who heads BH SKY Associates.

Guidotti said it takes four or five weeks to get certified to sell to the government, but it takes longer to learn how to bid successfully. He said in the last few years, he’s helped hundreds of companies do business with the government, often through referrals from the nonprofit Small Business Development Center.

Government work can get a business through the recession, he said, but business owners “have to understand that there are rules, and they have to know what those rules are.”

Savelli said in the past few months, he’s seen a 50 percent increase in businesses seeking his help in winning government contracts. He pointed out that New Jersey has 2,000 government entities, each with its own purchasing procedures.

He said it’s not too late for even a novice small business to get certified with the government in time to take advantage of the federal stimulus dollars awarded to contractors.

“Once you get registered, you can start bidding. We help people with bids and, after a while, they learn how to do it and they don’t even need us,” Savelli said. “You don’t need me forever, you just need me to get started.”

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Daggett announced his choice at the Statehouse, meeting today’s filing deadline for lieutenant governor candidates. With Daggett’s choice made, the lineup is set for the November elections.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine selected state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) as his running mate as he seeks re-election. Corzine made the announcement late Friday, ending speculation that just last week included Randal Pinkett as a possible lieutenant governor.

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Weinberg, a state senator since 2005, described herself as a feisty grandmother from Bergen County. She currently serves as chair of the legislative oversight committee in the state senate; vice chair on health, human services and senior citizens; and vice chair on state government.

Weinberg’s nomination follows last Monday’s Republican pick, Monmouth County Sheriff Kimberly Guadagno, for the lieutenant governor post.

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Al Matos, vice president of renewables and energy solutions for Public Service Electric & Gas, said the company has hired 13 energy auditors, and should have 200 or more on board in three years. The training and deployment of energy auditors is funded through state and federal programs, and overseen by the state Department of Labor’s Green Job Training Partnership Program.

The state’s utilities industry could eventually provide 1,000 or more of these entry-level green jobs, Matos said.

“I think this is going to be very big,” Matos said. “Between the federal and state support, we are going to have more and more of these green jobs to do home and business energy audits, and to install solar panels.”

The auditors check insulation for signs of leakage, and look for holes in walls and gaps under doors that let in cold winter air and drive up heat bills and energy waste. “People think automobiles” are the big climate change culprits, Matos said, “but homes and buildings are way up there, also. If we can seal up these homes, provide more energy-efficient light bulbs, we have a fighting chance of meeting the governor’s goal of reducing the state’s energy use by 20 percent by 2020.”

On Friday, Gov. Jon S. Corzine addressed a graduating class of energy auditors at Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, in Newark, one of the state’s four Green Job Training Partnership programs.

“We are in the midst of a green revolution that will require the creation of new jobs across virtually every sector of our economy,” Corzine said.

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While the company talked up positive points in its process solutions business and new long-term contracts, it is feeling the effects of the ongoing economic challenges.

“We are not planning for any recovery in 2009,” said Dave Cote, its chief executive, in a statement.

The company said profit fell 25 percent for the quarter in its aerospace segment because of decreasing sales volume. Profit from its transportation systems business was down 83 percent, also due to lower sales.

Shares of Honeywell were down 10 cents, to $33.89, at midday.

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