{"id":3492,"date":"2015-02-19T05:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2015-02-18T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:21:18","slug":"brick-officials-reject-1-3m-price-for-colorado-park-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/brick-officials-reject-1-3m-price-for-colorado-park-rebuild\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Officials Reject $1.3M Price For Colorado Park Rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2772\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-11.28.42-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2772\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-11.28.42-PM-240x160.png\" alt=\"Colorado Park (Credit: Google Maps)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-11.28.42-PM-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-11.28.42-PM-290x195.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado Park (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials unanimously voted this week to reject a $1.3 million bid \u2013 the lowest the township received \u2013 to rebuild Colorado Park in the township\u2019s Herbertsville section.<\/p>\n<p>The park, which has fallen into disrepair over the years, is still due to be reconstructed, though officials will go back to the drawing board to figure out how to lower the price tag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur recreation committee feels design changes can be done and we can save money,\u201d said Council President Paul Mummolo. \u201cRevised plans are in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original plan to rebuild the park included two new playgrounds, one for children ages 2-5 and one for children ages 6-12, plus basketball courts, a new baseball field with a proper backstop and clay infield, and a perimeter walking trail. The park would also have been equipped with infrared security cameras following incidents of vandalism which have plagued the park in recent years. In Nov. 2012, someone set fire to the park\u2019s playground area, causing significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not elaborate on what kind of design changes would be necessary to reduce the cost of the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/brick-officials-reject-1-3m-price-for-colorado-park-rebuild\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials unanimously voted this week to reject a $1.3 million bid \u2013 the lowest the township received \u2013 to rebuild Colorado Park in the township\u2019s Herbertsville section. The park, which has fallen into disrepair over the years, is still due to be reconstructed, though officials will go back to the drawing board to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,776],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-colorado-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-11.28.42-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-Uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}