Two years ago, Paul Coughlin was on a committee appointed by then Mayor Christopher Cullen to find a site for a new town hall. Coughlin and the committee eliminated the site of the old town hall and the 4.5-acre site in Veterans Park.
Mayor Coughlin has spent almost one year and $62,543 trying to put the new town hall on the site of the old town hall. Now Mayor Coughlin and Deputy Mayor Michael Sachs want to put town hall on a 1.5-acre site in Veterans Park. If a 4.5-acre site wasn’t an option, why is a 1.5-acre site in the park a good idea? How much time and money will they waste before they decide this isn’t an option? In the meantime, town hall has taken over the Cullen Center. The senior citizens and all the other programs have been moved all over town. It has been almost a year and it will be at least two more years before a new town hall is built.
Moving the Office of Emergency Management to the Holmdel border and putting town hall at the entrance to Veterans Park should not be an option. Mayor Coughlin and Deputy Mayor Sachs should stop wasting time and money and come up with a viable plan for a much-needed new town hall.
Terry Moore
West Keansburg section
of Hazlet