Council discusses funding for lights for Boyer Ave. soccer fields
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approached by the HYSa President Paul
Massey and they’ve requested a letter of interest for a grant application sponsored by
the U.S. Soccer foundation,” Barberio said.
according to Barberio, since the town
owns the Moss Mill property it will need to
submit the grant application in conjunction
with the HYSa.
“Since we are the property owners we
have to, in conjunction with them, submit
the application,” Barberio said.
Barberio also noted that the next round of
the application is due on September 24 and
will be for a grant amount up to $50,000 to
be used for lighting from the vendor Musco.
“it’s up to a $50,000 grant for lighting
from a specific vendor, Musco. The deadline
for this next round is September 24,” Barberio said.
according to Barberio, the money is a full
grant with no matching required.
“One hundred percent grant, up to
$50,000. i reviewed the grant application
just a few minutes ago and there’s nothing
in there for matching or anything like that,”
Barberio said.
Councilman Dan Bachalis expressed
some concern regarding the safety of playing soccer at night and the effect that lighting
will have on that particular area of town.
“i’m not a big fan, i’ll say it right now.
i’ve heard various, i’ve heard it said, it’s,
soccer’s not a game you play at night. i’m
also worried about the effects of lighting at
night in that section of town … i’d
like to see the research associated
with playing soccer at night,”
Bachalis said.
Council approved the submission
of a letter of interest with the condition that Bachalis’ concerns be further explored.
“i would move that conditional
on the concerns that Councilman
Bachalis has raised be addressed
and looked into in the interim,”
Councilman edward Wuillermin
said.
Town engineer robert Vettese, of
adams, rehmann and Heggan,
gave an update on applications the
town made for two different items
related to the town, one being the
subsurface drip irrigation and the
other the SCaDa system.
Vettese reported that a tentative
amount of $666,000 was awarded to
the town for the subsurface drip irrigation project.
“One would be the drip irrigation
for the subsurface area. We received
notice that they’re going to recommend, and this is a tentative amount
because it’s left up to the legislature,
of $666,000 for the town,” Vettese
said.
There was some discrepancy
about the estimated figure and it’s
relation to the actual costs being accrued for the subsurface phase.
“i have a feeling our most recent,
the one that i work off of, estimate
that we were working on for the
subsurface was quite a bit more than
that for supplies, just for supplies. in
probably an excess of $300,000
more, close to a million dollars in
supplies for that next phase,” Barberio said.
according to Barberio, the 12
inches that the town is being required to extend to reach Moss Mill
road will cost approximately
$180,000 in pipe material alone.
“Specifically with the 12 inches
that they’re requiring us to go all the
way to Moss Mill road with. That’s
probably close to $180,000 in pipe,”
Barberio said.
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Wuillermin noted that New Jersey environmental infrastructure Trust (NJeiT) was
providing guidance to the engineer in regard
to the second phase of the drip project and
if maintaining town forces to complete the
work would be possible moving forward.
“NJeiT really gave pretty good guidance
to Bob [Vettese] in terms of how that second
phase would have to evolve and just how
easy it would be or not so much, to try to do
that like we have done with phase one with
town forces. So that really needs to be considered pretty carefully in committee and try
to assess what the implications of what their
guidance is in terms of how we do that next
phase,” Wuillermin said.
Vettese reported that he drafted a memo to
send back to NJeiT to clarify the specifics
of their phone conversation regarding the
next phase of the drip irrigation and what
would be necessary to retain town forces for
the project.
“We had a phone conversation and i
drafted a memo back to them just to be clear
on what they were saying … they can fund
the program with town forces but there’s a
lot of hoops you have to go through,”
Vettese said.
Vettese also noted that the SCaDa system
funding was probably not necessary.
“if we’re not going to take advantage of
the SCaDa system, which we probably
don’