Knoll Utility or Golf Course

Public Utility and the Knoll Golf Coach $68,000 job.

Let us start with the definition of public utility and keep it simple. A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service, usually through some infrastructure originally subsidized by the common tax base. Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies. The term utilities can also refer to the set of services provided by these organizations consumed by the public: electricity, natural gas, water, sewage, telephone, and transportation.
Knoll provides golf for golfers, but was paid for with public funds originally stemming from open space, green acres State Programs. Although they allege to be self-sustaining costing taxpayers of Parsippany nothing, they still profess the title of utility. Therefore the following examination must occur. Does Knoll Golf use municipal department employees in its upkeep and maintenance? What are the costs of those man-hours and would they be better utilized elsewhere if possible? The Knoll is after all first and foremost a golf course for golfers; not exactly open space or green acres available for the public either for passive or recreation activities other than golf. In fact winter months are the only timespan one can use the course for walking, running, or putting around; some walk their dogs.
Golf is not exactly a passive form of recreation its manicured landscapes encourages excessive form of care. Many gold courses are responsible for pollution issues especially near water sources. Golf Carts burn gas, and incur maintenance cost or eventual replacements. In times of imposed austerity on much of the common society; over emphasis on golf seems out of place.
So we have municipal employees and their equipment and logistics being consumed in a landscape for golfers. This municipal owner course now professes to continue a job in its relation of the golf utility, Golf Coach paying $68,000 a year, the salary emanating from the “profits” of the golf utility? Is this proper?
Would not this $68,000 be better spent as a municipal benefit from its golf utility back to the municipal common good? For example: hiring another sanitation inspector, as sanitation practices are not up to regulations and ordinance compliance in Parsippany? Another police officer can be put into service, as our job positions here are short.
A utility of public ownership should not be used to merely serve itself, but give back to the public, not the golfers. If knoll is self-sustaining in reality than breaking even should suffice. The $68,000 would then benefit us all, and then suffice its utilitarian purpose. Utility means to create greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Knoll Golf already serves golfers through the taking of public funding. It is time for Knoll to give back to the community its benefit of the $68,000 it alleges to spare for a golf coach. Who pay the way would also make private income on the side while he cashes in on public income resources.
Although the present Parks Forestry is busy at the Knoll, for the tree disease issue, it is not uncommon to find municipal workers at the knoll this has been the case over the years..

There is a great divide in our Country that began long ago; it is the eternal modern battle of the individual and the common good. In Constitutional Terms States rights versus the Common good the purpose of political life. That is the common good.

ps: George Washington pitched a tent somewhere on the Knoll on his way to Morristown from West Point and the Pompton New Jersey Line, wonder where? Sacred landscape,poor George never played golf nor any of the founding fathers.. "We the People Own Knoll"..