After Verona voters overwhelmingly approved the referendum funding the renovation of Verona High Schools’ athletic fields in March 2014, a group calling itself the Be A Good Neighbor Homeowners Association forced the project into a full site plan review in front of the Verona Planning Board.
To move the project along, the Board of Education has met repeatedly with the BGNHA and its attorney, as well as with Town Engineer Jim Helb and both the former and interim town managers. It has had to retain an attorney, site engineer and architect, spending more than $200,000 in the process. It took two Planning Board meetings to get the tennis court renovation approved and, after a first meeting drawn out by questions from the BGBHA’s lawyer, the field plan must also extend to a second meeting.
Here’s what the spending went to:
