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Westfield kids deserve BETTER!

On November 7

VOTE NO

$11,800,000

ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELDS

  • Vote NO to the outrageous cost – $11.8 million on a single project that doesn’t address the core issue! Learn more here.
  • Vote NO to adding 6 acres of plastic grass containing PFAS and other toxic chemicals behind a school!  Learn more here.
  • VOTE NO to hotter fields and more injuries. Learn more here.
  • VOTE NO because this project is WRONG for our kids and WRONG for Westfield.

Westfield does not have ANY natural grass athletic fields – only minimally maintained SCHOOLYARDS and PARKS, forced to serve as athletic fields.

Know where your candidates stand on the Edison Referendum.

These candidates have stated they are for improving our fields, but they will VOTE NO to spending $11.8 million on 6 acres of plastic grass at Edison Intermediate School:

  • Ward 1:  Todd Saunders

  • Ward 2:  Michael Armento

  • Ward 3:  Michael Domogala

  • Ward 4:  David Kiefer

Watch the candidates debate here

In the news...

10/19/23 Millbrae CA considers ordinance prohibiting the installation of artificial turf

10/8/23 California moves to restrict synthetic turf over health concerns

9/13/23 NFLPA calls for natural grass at all NFL stadiums

8/13/23 The term ‘turf’ is misleading

6/26/23 Massachusetts House advances bill that prohibits state and municipal contracts for the purchase and installation of artificial turf fields.

6/22/23 3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of water systems with “forever chemicals”

5/18/23 New York introduces bill to establish a moratorium on artificial turf

5/2/23 Environmental orgs demand Malden stop artificial turf installation

4/20/23 New injury data shows grass ‘significantly safer’ than turf

4/5/23 Vermont Senate passes bill to ban athletic turf fields containing PFAS

2/16/23 Massachusetts bill seeks 36-month moratorium on the installation of artificial grass

2/14/23 California Senate introduces bill ” School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023″

2/8/23 New Jersey DEP – PFAS in Artificial Turf

1/9/23 Connecticut presents legislation prohibiting the purchase and installation of artificial turf fields

12/12/22 Board of Health votes unanimously against using artificial turf at the Amherst Regional High School

12/2/22 Nick Bosa’s practical and powerful case against artificial turf

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