wooo fair lawn. good job.

So we bought "portable" trailers that weren't properly designed to be portable, stopped paying flood insurance on the nonportable trailers because they were portable, and saved all that money by kicking the can down the road - again. And here's another half to a quarter of a million dollars that someone politically manipulated to cost the taxpayers once they were out of office. How "Fair Lawn" is that....[sigh].

WOW! A real work of Democratic Genius! Cancel flood insurance in a documented flood zone!

how much each year does the pool cost all taxpayers who never use it. maybe in theses hard times pool should be run so fees charged to use the pool cover all costs. you do not want to pay do not use it. A ll voters should have a vote on this hight cost item as the large building put up years ago we are still paying and never had a vote. Interst rates have droped did we every look to re do that loan from the county? could we have a private company run the pool for a profit and save all the tax payers money. like you all have said " we have to think outside the box"

A private company? Since the employees at the pool are pretty much seasonal minimum wage workers, how on earth would a private company save the town money and still make a profit without further deterioration in the services at the pool. Pay toilets and showers? Cabana rentals? Having a pool is an amenity that is factored into the intangible thing called home value. This is not something new being built for millions of dollars like the Community Center was, but a matter of repair to an existing facility. As I have said elsewhere, I don't drive on every street in the state, but I pay for their upkeep. That's how government works. The number of times turning anything over to private operation has ended up being a savings to taxpayers? Pretty much zero because private corporations have to operate within the same laws and regulations as public ones and turn a profit besides. Almost always, the profit comes at the loss of jobs, or the use of minimally paid workers who are expected to increase productivity or come from outside the area - and from the loss of services and amenities. Government has the ability to use the economy of scale to lower costs, to provide local jobs, and to be in it for the long term rather than the fiscal year. To those suggesting we make the cost of membership be the cost of operating the pool, can I apply the same logic to the street in front of your house, too. I don't drive on it, so you can pay for it, the repaving, the sewers and all that.

Deleted, I am glad that we often agree on things to do with Fair Lawn, because (speaking only for myself) that is perhaps the most succinct, articulate explanation of government's role in the economy that I've ever seen.

Great cost saving move Fair Lawn. I vote to get rid of the pool

The cost of running the pool is factored into the budget and is considered a service in the boro. The fees associated with it are used to offset those costs. True, not all people use the pool. But do you get rid of something just because a few don't utilize it? Maybe there needs to be more of a "dynamic" way of running the facility other than it just being a "water filled hole in the ground". Come up with some creative ideas for children that will draw people there and increase membership. There are two camps in this town: Keep it and get rid of it.