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Friday, June 22, 2012

Memorial Pool Opens Today

After months of hard work getting the pool prepared, it opens officially on Friday.

The Memorial Pool season started officially Friday morning. Devastated by Hurricane Irene-related flooding last year, but left untouched through the end of the year, getting the pool ready for summer became borough manager Tom Metzler's immediate top priority upon taking over the borough's reins this January. From the beginning, Metzler reiterated that he would have the pool open on time, and, despite the doubts of some residents, he has succeeded. Metzler attributes the pool's turnaround to a dedicated crew of borough employees who worked tirelessly to make sure the pool season would go off without a hitch. The borough replaced the damaged pool trailers with three new construction trailers and had the entire job fully reimbursed by its …

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Fair Lawn Borough Recreation Department: Memorial Pool, Memorial Park Flood Damages Total $250K, Trashed Memorial Park Trailers Hauled Away, and 2 more ›

FL-Rez

4:53 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I don’t think the issue is spending tax dollars on Memorial Pool, Parks, Recreational Center, and the Library. I think it is more the poor decisions the council makes spending the tax money. The Council was told years ago by the town finance officer that financially the Community Center will cost a lot of money to run. The Council then decided to create a nonprofit and obtained a 13 million …   more ›

Thursday, March 8, 2012

College-Aged Kids Now Included on Pool Family Plan

Children up through age 23 who are living at home can now visit Memorial Pool for free under a family plan

  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
  • Zak Koeske
  • Thursday, March 8, 2012

Children up through age 23 who live at home will now be covered under the Memorial Pool's family membership plan. At Tuesday's work session, council voted 4-1 in favor of the policy change, which will provide cost savings and convenience for some families at the expense of generating additional revenue for the borough. Deputy Mayor John Cosgrove was the lone dissenting vote. "I’d love to do it," Cosgrove said, "but under the current circumstances, as the manager continues to repeat, it’s a tough fiscal year and I just think we should keep it the way it was." In previous years, after a child who had been on his family's membership plan aged out of the school system, he would be forced to purchase an additional $85 adult pass to continue …

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Fair Lawn Borough Recreation Department: Memorial Pool, Meet John Cosgrove: Lifelong Borough Volunteer, Meet Kurt Peluso: Advocate for Young Families, and 2 more ›

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Jenne

7:54 am on Saturday, March 10, 2012

Isn't Trawinski also the guy who said the Fair Lawn Library was overfunded by $700,000 apparently using the lowball state/federal minimum? I certainly don't trust that estimate. Breaking out costs that are *only* for the pool-- water, lifeguards, cleaning, chlorine-- shouldn't be too hard, but if he's determined to add upkeep for the whole Memorial area to it, yeah, no wonder he can't tell.   more ›

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