NJ Statute prohibits the use of primarily SID funds to improve facilities where Government and School is conducted. Mr. Politi knows that but is ignoring it. Dr. Seth Grossman, SID expert and Rutgers University professor stated that when he addressed the SID board. "Anything in prohibited in the ordinance (and State Statute) must be adhered to."

From the NJ State Statute 40:56-71.2,

"Improvement" means the purchasing, leasing, condemning, or otherwise acquiring of land or other property, or an interest therein, in the downtown business improvement zone or as necessary for a right-of-way or other easement to or from the zone; the relocating and moving of persons displaced by the acquisition of land or property; the rehabilitation and redevelopment of land or property, including demolition, clearance, removal, relocation, renovation, alteration, construction, reconstruction, installation or repair of a building, street, highway, alley, service or other structure or improvement; the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of parking and other public facilities and improvements, except buildings and facilities for the general conduct of government and schools; and the costs associated therewith including the costs of an appraisal, economic and environmental analyses or engineering, planning, design, architectural, surveying or other professional services necessary to effectuate the improvement.

The precedent set in our town was when the library paid in total the fees for the improvements in front of their property (the library is considered a government entity.)