Monday, November 26, 2012
The inclusion of turf funding has drawn public criticism.
Haddonfield Board of Education President Steve Weinstein said Monday that $800,000 for the installation of artificial turf at the high school football stadium will likely be taken out of the $16.8 million bond referendum for the Bancroft property purchase. The funds will be removed because a private-public initiative to turf the field has raised $600,000. The BOE and the borough agreed over the summer to pay the balance of just more than $1 million needed to install turf at the stadium, and an adjacent practice field, if the private fundraising reached its goal. It exceeded its goal by $100,000. The Bancroft purchase will still likely contain $1 million for an additional artificial turf field, Weinstein said. The construction of the …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
A grassroots Haddonfield group has raised nearly $600,000 for the installation of turf fields at the high school.
The Haddonfield Turf Field Committee held a gala Saturday to celebrate exceeding its $500,000 fundraising goal. The money will help pay for the installation of two, artificial-turf athletic fields at the high school. The event was held at Mercedes-Benz of Cherry Hill and included a tailgate buffet and a live band. Tickets were $75 each. The turf-field group has reportedly raised more than $600,000 so far. The money is part of an estimated cost of just over $1 million to turf the high-school football stadium and an adjacent field owned by the borough. The borough and school board have agreed to pay half the cost if the turf committee reached its fundraising goal. The turf-field effort could reduce a $16.8 million, Jan. 22 BOE bond …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The agreement of sale is the last step before a nearly $17 million bond referendum in January.
The Haddonfield Board of Education is set to vote Tuesday on an agreement of sale to buy the 19-acre Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. The vote is scheduled in a special meeting at the borough middle school at 6 p.m. The BOE and the borough have entered an agreement of sale with Bancroft after a decade of public debate. The parcel is seen by many as an oasis of possibilities in this nearly built-out, 300-year-old town. The public purchase of the land will allow a kind of manifest destiny to annex it to the adjacent Haddonfield Memorial High School campus and preserve parts of it for open space. The public purchase option was among three presented to borough residents last year after another in a series of exhaustive planning studies…
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The controversial plan is part of Bancroft public purchase initiative.
The Haddonfield Board of Education discussed its plans to install turf fields at the high school as part of the Bancroft purchase initiative during its regular meeting Thursday. The meeting featured a presentation from the engineering firm of Remington & Vernick. The turf project has been a lightning rod for objections over a $16.9 million plan for a public purchase of the 18.7-acre Bancroft property adjacent to the high school. Public opinion in three meetings on the purchase in July was generally supportive of the plan, which would acquire the property for current and future school use and to preserve open space. A sticking point was over the inclusion of funds to resurface the high school football stadium with artificial turf and to …
Joe T
5:15 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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