Township Bonds $55K for Skateboard Park Surveillance System
The no-bid contract to upgrade camera surveillance at the skateboard park was approved by the town council.
The cost to monitor the goings-on at a Woodbridge skateboard park will cost a tenth of the price of the skateboard park itself.
The Woodbridge council approved a resolution that will fund an almost $55,000 camera surveillance system to be upgraded at the skateboard park located next to the Evergreen Center in the Colonia section of the township.
The skateboard park itself cost $500,000 in borrowed money. It still hasn't been officially opened yet, but that hasn't stopped skateboarders, including some with New York license plates, from using the park on a daily, and noisy, basis.
The skateboard haven is located cheek-by-jowl with St. John Vianney Church, whose proximity to the township-run skateboard park has proven to be a headache. Litter, noise, cursing, and the constant use of the park from dawn to dusk - and the parking of the skateboarders on church property - has caused church officials to complain to the township administration that something has to be done.
The Woodbridge town council included the $54,800 camera surveillance resolution in two bits of business at the December 4 council meeting.
The first was the second reading of an ordinance that would limit parking at the St. John Vianney parking lot to parishioners and people there on church business.
The camera surveillance resolution was awarded in a no-bid contract Integrated Systems and Services, Inc. of Eatowntown. The resolution approved bonding the money for the camera system.
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hd 1981
6:59 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
How do I get on the No Bid List???????
Joe Bifigliano
7:48 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
More good money after bad. Reckless spending by this administration driving taxes up and increasing Woodbridge debt. Apparently no thought went into this skate park, it's location, and its impact on the surrounding community. We're left with a $500,000.00 nuisance that will continue to cost the township in policing and enforcement and endless complaints from residents. (Why do they call it a "planning board" since apparently no planning went into this.)
I have spoken
10:19 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Compliments of the already over taxed Woodbridge taxpayers.
VOTERS WAKE UP
Mr. C
10:20 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Who will monitor and how much will that cost? Wow, I wish I had money to burn. seems likely that the park will be a persistant problem and it's not offically opened yet. Anybody know who, if anyone, voted against this expenditure?
I have spoken
10:31 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Integrated Systems and Services, Inc. is who does the survailance of 1 Main street. I wonder who ISS is friends with? Maybe the mayor?, maybe the council members? I feel it's time to clean house in Woodbridge starting with Mac.
Good $ after BAD.
Wil Mitchell
1:13 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I was about to ask that same thing about who will be monitoring it and how much will that on-going cost be.
JenniferS
2:45 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
You have got to be kidding me 500,000 for this? And who was the brilliant person that decided to build this right next to a church and school?
Tom Maras
11:37 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hey folks, there was a time when this project could have been stopped. That time was before the mayor got the council to put its "approved stamp" on the expenditure.
Only Councilman Luban voted NO! on the appropriation, the rest wouldn't dare!
If the cartoon posted above, just imagine what may becoming in 2013!
Will Freedom
12:48 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
SO myself and the fellow tax payers now have to pay $55k for cameras when we could have paid a few hundred bucks for a porta-potty and some garbage cans! That makes sense!
slyfox1961
1:20 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Why does everyone only see one side of this story? Are there really legitimate complaints coming fromt he church, or is just a couple of old busybodies at the church with nothing better to do? As far as the out of towners using the park, did anyone thnk that they are bringing revenue to the local businesses with their patronage? I agree with @will freedom, a couple of porta potties seem to be in order, along with an adequate amount of garbage cans.
CKS
3:54 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Just post your address at the skatepark and leave the back door open so they can use your bathroom.
Tom Maras
4:23 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hey sly, at who's expense? How much revenue are those kids or their parents bring to the community/ $500,000.00+++++? Glad Mac can afford you, Woodbridge can't!
Jim Norton
1:39 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
How can this author claim to be a "journalist" when she interjects her own opinion into the article by posting a political cartoon alongside it? If I wanted your opinion on the issues of the town, I would look in the op-ed section. Keep the front page articles as just the facts and let us form our own opinion from those. Until then, I will never be surprised why the Mayor's office does not respond to your requests for comments.
Tom Maras
4:20 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hey Jimmy, Ms. Bell didn't post the cartoon, I did. Next time read the caption and credits, before you accuse someone of anything. Perhaps, if you and those like you paid more attention to want your elected officials are doing with everyones money, we would not behaving this discourse!
Deborah Bell
3:19 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I did NOT post that cartoon. That was posted by a Patch member, as you could've seen by the credit. It's been removed.
Tom Maras
8:15 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Sincere apologies to Ms. Bell for my inserting a cartoon in her article. Apparently, some readers didn't notice the credits for the cartoon posting and assumed Ms. Bell had done it. She did not nor did she know that I had, until after the fact.
In March 2011, I blogged about $7.1 Million in new spending by the McCormac Administration, which included monies for the skate board park. A link to that blog, which now includes the cartoon that Ms. Bell correctly removed from her article, follows: http://woodbridge.patch.com/articles/71-million-in-borrowed-debt-is-pork-barrel-spending-woodbridge-cant-afford
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