>Ridgewood turf field’s ‘wrinkle release’ costs $21,00
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer
The final repair of the wrinkles left on new turf installed on Ridgewood High School’s (RHS) Stadium Field after flooding this month cost the school district about $21,000, Superintendent Daniel Fishbein disclosed at a Board of Education (BOE) meeting Monday night.
Answering an initial question from BOE member Laurie Goodman, who asked for a cost estimate of the cleanup of the fields following heavy rains on April 16, Fishbein responded that the cleanup was being conducted by the district’s contracted custodial company, “so there’s no additional costs.”
However, when The Ridgewood News questioned Fishbein during the public comment portion of the meeting about the cost of hiring an outside company, LandTek, to repair the turf wrinkles, the superintendent reported that the field repair in fact cost about $21,000.
“I’m sorry. There was a cost for LandTek. I neglected to say that,” he said, adding that he considered the repair of the wrinkles a “correction” and not a “clean-up” cost.
