{"id":3194,"date":"2019-07-10T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2019-07-10T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:46:10","slug":"toms-river-approves-funding-for-new-skate-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/toms-river-approves-funding-for-new-skate-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Approves Funding for New Skate Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3195\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3195\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3195\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Skateboard (Credit: Naoki Tomeno\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o-681x511.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skateboard (Credit: Naoki Tomeno\/ Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River will soon be home to a new skateboard park, following the adoption of the township\u2019s capital budget Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The township council set aside $300,000 for the design and construction of the park, which will be located within Bey Lea Park, off Bay Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually have a design underway and the funds are in the bond [ordinance],\u201d said Councilman George Wittmann.<\/p>\n<p>The governing body is expected to approve a contract for an architect to complete the design of the park at its next meeting, said Township Administrator Don Guardian. Then, bids will be solicited for construction.<\/p>\n<p>The skate park will be located in the area of Bey Lea near the existing township police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the next six months you\u2019ll see a skate park there,\u201d said Guardian. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty easy \u2013 you only have a couple builders that design skate parks, so if they present a good bid it will go quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/toms-river-approves-funding-for-new-skate-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River will soon be home to a new skateboard park, following the adoption of the township\u2019s capital budget Tuesday night. The township council set aside $300,000 for the design and construction of the park, which will be located within Bey Lea Park, off Bay Avenue. \u201cWe actually have a design underway and the funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,2],"tags":[856,857,11],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-toms-river-life","tag-skate-park","tag-skateboard-park","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3674686610_b9f55fe5f7_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}