Last night's Middletown Township Committee meeting brought the official end to the artificial turf field issue. The committee voted 3-1 to approve Resolution 10-310, which authorized that the unused bonded money that was meant for the installation of two artificial turf fields at West Front Street Park and Croydon Hall, be used instead to pay down existing bond debt.
In the audio clip below Committeewoman Pam Brightbill discusses why she reluctantly voted to approve the resolution, after which you can hear why outgoing Committeeman Sean Byrnes voted against it.
The one curious thing about Resolution 10-310 is the fact that it is the only resolution that was discussed last night that has not made it's way onto the Township's website, for some reason it is missing. I am wondering if it has anything to due with the potential controversy that may surround it.
The controversy being that the original bond that was issued in 2006 which allocated funding for the turf fields specifically stated that these funds could not be used for any other purpose other than recreation, and with the nature of bond issues those funds cannot be used for the purpose offsetting operational budgets.
Using these bonded funds to pay off debt may not be legal,so until the resolution is made available to the public we'll just have to wait to see how the Township intends to do this.
1 comment:
Nothing changes in this township.
Lack of transparency is the mantra of this REGRIME !
Truth ?? non existent !!
It will get worse before it ever gets better !
And they don't want to televise TC meetings. SHAME ON THIS GANG !
What more are they hiding or going to hide.
Legality ?? Do they really give a damn ??
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