Politics & Government

Woodbridge Spends More than $30K to Market Community Center

All together, the town has spent $37,800 this year on hiring a marketing company to hype the community center.


For the second time in a year, the township council approved funding to hire a local marketing firm to promote the .

20 Lemons, a Woodbridge-based marketing company, will receive $30,000 to implement a marketing plan to bolster the fortunes of the community center. The resolution was approved at the August 7 council meeting.

In January, the council had voted on an agreement for a marketing plan with 20 Lemons, whose website motto is "Think it, build it, squeeze it." The cost of the January agreement was $7,800.

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The promotion includes the community center itself as well as , built on the rear of the capped landfill site upon which the community center rests. The 18-hole golf course, named Skyline because on a clear day you can make out skyscrapers in New York City in the distance, opened in April and cost $428,000.

The monies for the marketing agreement are being charged to the township's recreation budget. The contract was not awarded through public bidding.

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