Ridgewood Looks to Purchase equipment from Fair lawn skate park
APRIL 29, 2015 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015, 12:43 AM
BY TRACEY PUTRINO
MANAGING EDITOR |
COMMUNITY NEWS (FAIR LAWN EDITION)
Fair Lawn – The borough will be making some money off the skate park equipment that it purchased five years ago but did not use.
Borough Manager Jim Van Kruiningen told the council at the April 21 work session that the borough has an interested buyer in some of the equipment.
A skate park was built in 2010 on a tennis court on 30th Street and Pellack Drive at the Warren Point Annex. It was open for 13 days before being closed, explained Van Kruiningen. It was shut down after residents complained about after-hours use, noise and trash.
Since then the equipment, which Van Kruiningen said was purchased for $45,390, has been kept in the parks department facility. The funding for the skate park was part of a matching grant with the county, but the borough did not get the matching funding since the park was not put in place.
“This has been five years and I think it is time that we at least try to get something back,” he said.
Officials in the Village of Ridgewood reached out to Superintendent of Parks and Recreation James Graff and expressed an interest in purchasing some of the equipment. After reviewing the pieces, they ended up selecting six pieces out of the 13 for use at a skate park near Graydon Pool.
“It is my recommendation that we sell the equipment to Ridgewood,” said Van Kruiningen.
He suggested selling the equipment for $7,500, which is about 35 percent of the original cost. The six pieces Ridgewood wants were valued at $22,000 when the borough purchased them.
Besides getting some money from the equipment, Fair Lawn residents can also take advantage of using the skate park in Ridgewood.
“They will allow our residents to go there,” Van Kruiningen said.
https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/borough-to-sell-equipment-from-skate-park-1.1321439
That thing is horrible. Shut it down.
If it’s junk for them it’s junk for us too. We could buy a couple of kids portable swimming tanks for greater use.
Really Dom!
and who is going keep it clean the day labors.