Old fences will be replaced at Dumont’s Memorial Park

Officials in Dumont are going out to bid for new fencing at Veterans Memorial Park.

Borough Administrator John Perkins said fences at two of the parks baseball diamonds and at its pair of tennis courts will be replaced by the fall.

He said he did not know how many feet of fencing will be required to do the job but that the project will cost roughly $100,000.

Perkins said the existing fences are old and unsafe, noting errant foul balls often are hit beyond backstops at both fields.

The Borough Council passed a resolution at a recent regular meeting authorizing the borough clerk to advertise for bids.

The borough received a matching grant worth $157,000 from the Bergen County Open Space, Recreation, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund to buy new fencing.

The funding also will go toward purchasing exercise equipment at the park; re-grading Ginas Field at Aladdin Avenue and Second Street; and replacing two scoreboards one at the park, and another at Columbia Field at Columbia and Johnson avenues.

Those three projects are exempt from competitive bidding.

~Philip DeVencentis

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Old fences will be replaced at Dumont's Memorial Park