Recently New Morgan Borough appealed the assessment on 500 acres that was designated as a borough park. The location is a clearing and a small picnic area on the western side of route 10 near the northern boundary of the borough. Borough Manager Carolyn Williams said the assessment has been lowered from $1,700,000 dollars to $1,600,000. She said that “it isn’t much but it helps.” The land will no longer be a park. Council authorized Attorney John Iannozzi to sign the court order on behalf of the Borough of New Morgan.

Williams said “we were hoping for some residential and industrial development and we have neither.”

Borough Council is also seeking some reimbursement for about $600,000 which had been spent on engineering in preparation on widening Route 10 while anticipating development.