Madison Park Receiving Funds for Renovation

Madison Borough’s Memorial Park will be receiving much-needed renovations after the Borough Council introduced an ordinance for repairs.

The ordinance appropriates $75,000 for resurfacing and repair of the skating rink and playing fields at Memorial Park, located off of Rosedale Avenue, according to the Borough of Madison. The ordinance was introduced at the Borough Council’s March 23 meeting and will be the subject of a public hearing and final vote of adoption at the council’s April 13 meeting.

Maintaining the park’s field has long been an issue which will be made worse when the playing field behind the former Green Village Road School is lost to a redevelopment of the property, according to the Madison Eagle.

“Two-hundred-and-forty kids are in a soccer program and will lose the place when GVR is developed,” Borough Council President Astri Baillie said in the report from the Madison Eagle.

Borough Councilman Robert Landrigan said all the fields need to be rested, the report said.

The funds were appropriated from the municipal Open Space, Recreation and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. Memorial Park has a soccer field and a separate area for outdoor ice skating in the winter and practice area for soccer and football in the fall and for soccer and lacrosse in the spring.

For more information, visit the Madison Eagle.