Roof Repairs At Secaucus Rec Center, New Kiddie Pool Equipment Coming

SECAUCUS, NJ — Here's a summary of what happened at the late August Secaucus Council meeting:

Construction is scheduled to start this spring on the brand-new Secaucus Senior Center, which will be located at 101 Centre Avenue.

The Secaucus town Council approved a $1.5 million bond to begin construction on the new Senior Center.

The new Senior Center will be much bigger than the old one, and will serve as both a senior center and community center, said Mayor Mike Gonnelli. It will be a two-story building, with the first floor designed for seniors to hold activities such as bingo, and a very big room on the second floor, which anyone in the community can rent out for birthday parties, etc.

However, an opening is still far off: Gonnelli does not expect the new Senior Center to be completed until 2024. For now, Secaucus seniors are using the first floor of the Tot Center on Front Street to meet for bingo, etc.

Also at that meeting, the town also approved funding for a series of improvements it will make to the outdoor town pool complex, said Gonnelli. The town makes pool improvements every winter while the pool is closed.

"We have a lot of improvements planned," said Gonnelli. "Including possibly adding more gazebos, doing concrete work and concrete repairs over the winter and we're looking at new equipment for the kiddie pool."

He did not specify what kind of new equipment.

Also this fall and winter, the town of Secaucus will be making roof repairs to the Rec Center; they are redoing the roof and shoring up the steel beams, according to the Hudson Reporter. The Rec Center will remain open while this work is being done.

Secaucus is also purchasing new police cars, and a new electric garbage truck, paid for with state grant funding. In order to get the state funding for the new electric truck, Secaucus has to retire its current diesel garbage truck, according to the Hudson Reporter.