Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • January 9, 2013 Glen Rock Late last month, the Glen Rock Board of Education held a special public session for the purpose of awarding a bid for work on the baseball field reconstruction project. The contract, which is being funded through the district’s capital reserve account, went to Turco Golf in the amount of $365,000. Turco Golf has been the general contractor for the other athletic complex projects at Glen Rock High School. While this project was originally an alternate for the district’s High School Athletic Fields Improvement Project, it was bid separately and expanded to include many of the items requested by the Glen Rock High School Baseball Association. Those items include: • Use of stockpiled extra soil for the existing baseball field, including expansion of the right field area, eliminating the cost of moving the soil off site. • Re-grading of the entire baseball field to smooth indentations and irregularities. • Removal and replacement of all fencing – dugouts, backstop, baseline, and outfield, • All-new clay infield, pitching mound, and batter’s box. • Grass sod infield and outfield. • New sprinkler system. • Relocation of existing scoreboard. • Miscellaneous items, such as new foul poles, and site preparation, including new grading and grass seed for non-baseball field areas consistent with the All Purpose Field and the Lower Field. The targeted completion date for the reconstruction Trustees award contract for field project work is March 1, with April 1 projected as the first date for play. All dates are subject to weather delays. Once completed, the Baseball Field will be limited to baseball events only and not for field sports like soccer, football, or lacrosse for the entire 2013 calendar year to allow grass sod to take root and stabilize. Borough council reorganizes (continued from page 3) don’t always agree, but we compromise to get things done.” Orseck, an RN and nursing instructor, had been a Republican for many years before becoming a Democrat during the insurgence that followed the 1996 tax revaluation. Orseck had been active in work with senior citizens and Scouts for many years before her election to the council as a Democrat for two previous terms. Mayor van Keuren thanked Pazan, a businessman in the food industry and member of the Glen Rock Library Board, for his dedicated work on the Finance Committee and noted that Nogara has a doctorate in accounting. He is also a volunteer firefighter. Board of adjustment members Barbara Schineller and Michael Peters, planning board member Bruce Vanden Assem, library board member Matt Jacobs, and board of health members Colleen Shea and Kathryn Feeney came to the meeting to receive their oaths of office. Pazan received a special oath as council president. Nancy Spiller, who works in the planning board office, took an oath as land use administrator. The mayor, noting that he would keep his remarks brief, listed some priorities for the New Year. First, van Keuren said, the council and other officials had to strike a balance between Glen Rock’s love of shade trees and the borough’s concern for public safety. Toppled trees knocked out electricity in Glen Rock twice in the past two years, with some neighborhoods deprived of power, land line telephones, and computers for five days or more. The mayor said it was important to find ways to keep the trees and protect the public at the same time. The mayor said he hoped to have a tentative plan for additional senior housing ready for presentation to the public some time in 2013. More public housing has been discussed, but no formal plan is now available. He also said that better communications during emergencies would be a priority consideration, though he admitted that the need for electrical power in communication posed some problems. The mayor also said recycling efforts would continue and he officially named the new entrance to the Glen Rock Recycling Area the Bill Gilligan Parkway, after a long-term local recycling advocate and organizer. Minna Greenberg, active in many local groups, spoke from the audience in praise of the efforts of Glen Rock’s road department in coping with the damage from Hurricane Sandy. “It was wonderful what was done, so thanks to the DPW,” Greenberg said.