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Volunteers outline $118,000 estimate to replace slippery community center floor; council asks for more quotes

New Freedom Borough Council · March 9, 2026
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Summary

Volunteers and sports-program leaders told council the community center's concrete floor is slippery and hazardous for youth and older players; a vendor provided a verbal estimate near $118,000 and council asked staff to get multiple written quotes and invite a vendor to present next month.

Volunteers and program leaders told New Freedom Borough Council that the community center’s existing concrete floor is slippery, causing falls for players in indoor field hockey, pickleball and volleyball, and urged the borough to consider a urethane/epoxy resurfacing that vendors say can last about 25 years and be resurfaced rather than fully replaced.

At the meeting Brienne Monroe and a volunteer named Janelle described sample materials, explained that vendors spoke of a four-layer system with…

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