Following a month of mounting criticism over the governing body’s approval of a site-specific redevelopment plan for the LBI Grade School, Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck addressed the fault-finding and questions about roughly $940,000 the local school district has recently forgiven in its sales contract for the property.

“I’ve been asked, I don’t know how many times, about the supposedly $140,000 legal fees that were given back to the developer and $800,000 taken off the original price of…