To the Editor:
Your Altamont Enterprise candidates’ forum helped bring to light town-wide questioning on parks [“Guilderland elections: Four vie for two town board seats,” Oct. 11, 2023].

I wish you had asked Jacob Crawford about the decisions leading up to MVP Healthcare installing playground equipment and advertising on town-owned Tawasentha Park. Who owns the playground equipment, MVP Healthcare or the town of Guilderland?

Did [Guilderland Supervisor] Peter Barber allow MVP to buy the equipment, install the equipment on the town land? Or, did Peter Barber buy the equipment, install the equipment on town-owned parkland then charge MVP a sponsorship fee thus creating a perpetual revenue opportunity for the town?

Did Supervisor Peter Barber and Jacob Crawford and other board members allow residents to vote on whether our town parks should be free from advertising?

Please, tell us more about the land rights as a result of MVP installing equipment on a section of town-owned land.

Christine Duffy

Guilderland

Editor’s note: As The Enterprise reported in May, in November 2021, when the county awarded naming rights for its arena to MVP Health Care, originally Mohawk Valley Physicians Health Plan, the contract included an annual $1.4 million over five years for the Innovation Fund that is to support community projects like the fitness facility. The facility was installed by the National Fitness Campaign, a for-profit wellness consulting firm supported by a consortium of health insurance companies, including MVP, which has a goal of building 5,000 outdoor fitness courts across the nation by 2030.