Fields Referendum: What You Need to Know
Parsippany residents go to the polls to decide if the township's high schools will get their Fields of Dreams.
Two months past Parsippany's last trip to the polls and more than a year after the town's Fields of Dreams debate began, residents are being asked to cast votes again: The Board of Education holds its special referendum Tuesday to decide the fate of its $7.7 million proposal for athletic improvements at Parsippany High School and Parsippany Hills High School What's proposed is a package including the installation of artificial turf fields to replace ailing football fields at both high schools and necessary stormwater management systems, new six-lane tracks, 80-foot lights (reportedly designed to minimize light pollution), Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant bleachers, fencing and public restrooms. The cost of the project, which would…
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Nicholas Robert Homyak
7:23 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Do not understand why artificial turf has to be on the same ballot as storm drain upgrades; which are delinquent through out the area not just the high schools. Is that storm water run-off a State Responsibility ? Perhaps if people "including high school students were more responsible tossing their trash about our drains and streets would be cleaner; Drug Free, Gun Free, how about litter Free? … more ›