Will It Never End


Team Santiago paid back another contributor at the March 6th commission meeting. The Field of Dreams contributed $1000.00 to the campaign of Michael Santiago, James Parent, Ashleigh Udalovas, Joseph Pepitone, and Bruce Cooper. What did the $1000.00 contribution get the Field of Dreams? A reduction of over $10,000.00 in their past due sewer bill. Here is the background information.

The Field of Dreams is a motocross track by the Millville Airport. The Field of Dreams purchased land from the Motorsports Park in the Sport and Entertainment District of the Airport. Why this is important will be brought up later. The Field of Dreams has been operating for over three years without a certificate of occupancy. Why? Because the Field of Dreams has never met the requirements for its operation ordered by the Millville Planning Board and the Judge in the lawsuit with Citizens United. The last commission concluded that the Field of Dreams would not be able to open for business in 2018 unless they met the requirements. Time will tell what the new commission led by Mayor Santiago will do.

Part of the requirement of the planning board was that the Field of Dreams connected to city sewer within 5 years. That the Field of Dreams did but without telling the city.  So the city never inspected the sewer hookup, never received the sewer connection fees, and never paid a sewer bill.

The previous commission found out and discussed the situation at a public work session. It was decided that the bill calculated by the city engineer would be the one charged to the Field of Dreams. The bill was  $14,505.80. Bills were sent and ignored; the Field of Dreams never paid the city its money. However the Field of Dreams did manage to scrape together a $1000.00 contribution to Mayor Santiago’s Team. The sewer bill was still not paid and at this last commission meeting Michael Santiago, James Parent, Ashleigh Udalovas, Joseph Pepitone, and Bruce Cooper voted to reduce the bill to $3619.20.

Why is the Field of Dreams entitled to a discount when the citizens of Millville are not? Everyone should be treated the same. The good old boys club is alive and well in Millville.

The other interesting aspect of this is the Field of Dreams is in the Sports and Entertainment district of the city of Millville. That means an additional 2% tax is supposed to be collected there. This tax is supposed to be used for projects in that district. For example: The city could use those funds to pay the bond for the water and sewer that was run to that area at great expense to the city. The Field of Dreams has not been collecting this. This commission is aware of this. Let’s see what they do.

Comments

Dennis Romanik said…
Good old boys strike again. People voted for this crew . You deserve what you get! Everything that was corrected the last 2 years . Getting flushed down the toilet now
March 9, 2018 at 10:26 PM
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