Wyckoff June 27, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 7 Fees approved, sponsored green zones eyed by John Koster The Wyckoff Township Committee has adopted the ordinance establishing fees for the use of the Larkin House by groups that are not otherwise exempt. The Larkin House fees, which were proposed, tabled, and re-advertised before last week’s adoption, will cover the cost of heating and air conditioning, electricity, and the eventual replacement of the carpets and any damage incurred by standard use. The fee scale provides for no-charge use by the Wyckoff Senior Citizens Club, the Wyckoff Community Emergency Response Team, the Wyckoff Board of Education, the Wyckoff Parent Teacher Organization, Wyckoff Recreational Sports Boosters groups, and Partners in Pride. The fee for other groups is $25 per use, but after negotiation, the Wyckoff Township Committee provided a special comprehensive fee of $1,000 a year for Activities Unlimited, a club for mature and retired men that makes frequent use of the Larkin House for an array of activities. “Activities Unlimited has agreed to the payment of an annual usage fee for the Larkin House,” Joseph MacDougall of Activities Unlimited wrote in a letter of acceptance to Wyckoff Township Administrator Robert Shannon. “The fee will cover the current usages of the Duplicate Bridge Group (Wednesday afternoons), the AU Guys Band (Wednesday mornings, three times a month), the Book Club (Wednesday mornings, once a month) and the Discussion Group (one Friday per month). The fee will be $1,000 annually, except that for the remaining months of 2012, the fee is $500.” Florence Larkin donated the house to the township many years ago. The building was to be used as a social center with the provision that senior citizens would be allowed to meet there at no cost. The house contains an assembly hall, kitchen, bathrooms, and several smaller rooms, and is surrounded by a large landscaped parking lot. In other business, the township committee discussed the concept of allowing private contractors to “bid” on the right to maintain green spaces in Wyckoff, such as the patches of grass and shrubbery between the paved surfaces at some road intersections, or the divider strips between separated roads. Partners in Pride, founded more than 20 years ago, recently wrote the Wyckoff Township Committee a letter indicating that the group was having trouble finding enough volunteers to maintain all the areas. At the work session, members of the township committee said they saw no problem with the concept of allowing private contractors the right to post a small sign in return for mowing or planting and watering at specific sites, and that the (continued on page 20)