Graydon Pool Memberships – Available to All Are Now on Sale!
After a big increase last year !!!
The Village Council and the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation are excited to announce memberships are now on sale for the upcoming summer season and all are invited to join the Graydon Pool facility as season members for the 2014 summer season. Come enjoy fun in the sun so close to home! Opening day is Saturday, May 31st.Â
Pool features include a shaded playground, water play fountains, shade kites, Adirondack chairs, picnic area, sheltered pavilion, charcoal grills, and The Water’s Edge CafĂ©. Additional amenities include a lending library of reading books, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong tables, shuffleboard, four-squares and hop-scotch. Special programs include “Storytime Under a Tree” for the little ones and swim instruction for children and adults, as well as an adaptive swim class. The Graydon Swim Team welcomes youth members, ages 8 to 14.Â
Resident fees are $120 per adult, $110 per child (ages 2 through 15) and $30 for seniors. Non-resident adults will be charged $200 and children, ages 2 through 15, will be charged $175 for the13 week season.Â
Badges are now on sale and can be purchased from the comfort of home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted). In person registration assistance will be available Saturdays, May 10 and May 17, 10:00 am to 12 noon, at the Graydon Pool Badge Office (onsite at the pool), 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges may be purchased daily throughout the operating season, May 31st through Septemer 1st.Â
Details are available at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon or you may call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
There will be no significant changes in membership at Graydon and that’s the problem.
Villagers are still seeking other swimming facilities that meet their expectations …. and that’s the way it is.
Is that why there was a increase last year ?
#2 James, that’s because they keep accepting memberships from out of towners …
and so do most pools in Bergen
The Senior discount is a joke. Make it $75 or something but $30 as compared to $110 for kids is absurd. If you can afford to give up that much income you should either make it free or reduce the regular prices.
Most seniors in this town have more disposable income than young families. Its going to cost me $690 for my family of 3 kids (plus babysitter). Even just a per family cap like GR has would help.
I’ve lived here since 1969 & never once used it.
Most seniors are on a fixed income. Where did you get the numbers that most have more disposable income than young families?
They are going broke paying for the schools that your young kids are going to.
Lots of seniors in Ridgewood are still working. They are 62-68 and still work every day. They are the same people who ride the bus every morning for pennies even though they are at their peak earning years.
I have no problem giving seniors a break at Graydon I just want to make it closer to the full fare. A 20% discount is appropriate not a 70% discount.
Seniors subsidize you people with children in the expensive school system.
Seniors are the best way to keep taxes stable.
They don’t use the schools or most other amenities.
Every time a senior moves out, the home is sold to a family with children, increasing the demands on the school system.
The people without children in school should be encouraged to stay here and deserve a 70% discount on their school taxes.
The number of students really does not greatly impact the school tax burden. another 15 kids=1 teacher which is another $80k (including legacy costs). As we have discussed a thousand times, pension burdens and other legacy costs dictate most of the school budget.
In other words, the burden of school taxes is mostly due to the contracts signed and mistakes made by the retiring baby boomers and previous generations who dictated the very policies that led to this mess. It is very just that these seniors now pay for the mistakes they made.
Not to mention that the school tax burden is far less than the burden the baby boomers created for my generation by failing to provide a balanced budget, to fund pensions, fund social security and protect the environment. Your property taxes are nothing compared to the taxes we pay (and will pay our entire lives) to fund the complete abdication of responsibility by the baby boom generation.
Sorry to burst your bubble, we never had any children in the school system and always voted ‘no’ on the school budgets.
You should be thanking the seniors that fought to make this a free country and protect your right to spew your ignorant comments.
I know your ‘me me” lazy generation wants everything handed to them,
but those days are over.
Any day now, the taxes will convince us to move.
Another 6 bedrooms available for a young family to fill.
NJ can fill the tax void created when we leave by raising taxes on those of you who belong to the ‘entitled generation’.
Just remember posters most of you will become seniors some day.