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LEWISBORO, N.Y. – The Lewisboro Town Board has approved a $475,000 bond to help pay a swimming pool contractor as part of lawsuit settlement.
The town passed a $2,298,000 bond in October 2005 for the renovation of the swimming pool at Town Park on Route 35. That work has long since been completed by Scott Swimming Pools Inc. of Woodbury, Conn., but an undisclosed dispute between the town and the contractor has remained.
Town Supervisor Peter Parsons said that as part of the settlement, town officials are not allowed to disclose any details and have signed a confidentially agreement.
Town Attorney Anthony Mole said that, under to the agreement, the town could release only the following statement:
“The Town of Lewisboro and Scott Swimming Pools Inc. have resolved their dispute concerning the modernization and reconstruction of the Town Park pool prior to the conclusion of the arbitration pursuant to a confidential settlement agreement under which the Town of Lewisboro shall pay Scott Swimming Pools Inc. $475,000 on or before Nov. 1, 2012. There has been no finding of any breach or wrongdoing by either party.”
Comments (2)
The die was cast for this when the Nordgren Admiistration knowingly accepted the lowest bidder, one that did not post a bond, and had numerous pending lawsuits against it at the time. Despite the many warnings not to accept the bid, he and his land trust cronies were squirreling away every dollar they could to buy the garbage-strewn Levy Preserve property.
Both the subsequent Republican and Democratic administrations should be praised for rescuing the project after all the mistakes that were made, and in the end delivering a great facility enjoyed by all.
I don't think public expenditures should be confidential like that. Who knows what happened? Is this just money that the town owed them and withheld from payment? Did the town spend the money on something else in the meantime? Or is this payment above and beyond the original amount?