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New Jersey
American
Irrigation
NJAI
Four Seasons had an existing contract with Federal Irrigation, LLC to maintain the irrigation system at a cost of $189,010.56/ year. The irrigation system was original and desperately needed repairs however the Board would not approve extra man hours Federal requested to make the repairs.
Instead of paying Federal the money they need to repair the Irrigation system the board made a case against them so that they could break the contract and hired New Jersey American Irrigation WITHOUT letting any other irrigation company submit bids!!!!
The NJAI contract for 2024 was for $349,996.57 - a whooping 85% increase!!!!
On top of that for the six months from May 2024 until October 2024 NJAI was paid over $100,000 in extra billing.!!!
And now they have been awarded over a half million dollars in contracts to replace timers WITHOUT any bids from any other irrigation company!!!
These numbers are staggering!!!
Equally is disturbing is the fact the NJAI went into business in 2021. The same year that Shore Cleaning was registered, and the same year Sal Pirrera became the community manager.
NJAI OVERBILLING
I received the invoicing for NJAI for the period of May 2024 until October 2024 and found numerous billing errors some of which are detailed below. At the December 17, 2024 Open Board Meeting treasurer Dan Pagano thanked me for finding the below Sales Tax overbilling and stated the community would be getting a refund. When I told them there were other billing problems, he emphatically stated that I was wrong because all invoices had been justified. He never stated he would look into the billing issues I brought up and instead the board approved over 2 million dollars in new contracts to New Jersey American Irrigation!!!!!
Sales Tax
On December 16, 2024 I sent Sal Pirrera and the Board an email stating that NJAI had billed the community tax on the $29,166.39 monthly maintenance charge despite the contract stating that sales tax was included.
PRICE AND PAYMENT
3. The total Contract Price shall be $349,996.57 inclusive of sales tax.
The Contract Price shall be payable in 12 monthly payments (January to December) of $29,166.39.
Here is Sal’s reply:
Good morning Jacci,
I am the one that checks the invoicing that is submitted to our Avid payment processor via the vendors/contractors, and I see that the invoices submitted by the vendor, that were generated via their Quick Books program, added the sales tax to the already taxed monthly number of $29,166.39 per the agreement. The agreement is for a total amount of $349,996.57, inclusive of sales tax, divided by 12 months, equals $29,166.39 per month.
I have contacted the vendor, and the December invoice will include the adjustment for the 11 months of incorrect invoicing in the amount of $21,254.97. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
SAL PIRRERA
Regional Manager
Billing Errors of Items that are part of the maintenance contract
The Community paid $5,693.78 in man hours to put out flags to mark the irrigation lines for seeding projects when flagging for landscaping renovation was included in the maintenance contract. See included services here.
These invoices were not for the flags themselves which are very cheap. 5,000 flags would be only $750.
Duplicate Bills
NJAI has billed the Community for the same work on the same day on two different days.
An example:
The community was billed for Visit #1896 on 9/6/2024 on both Invoice 1851 and invoice 1847.
Even worse the descriptions says that Jim worked on the problem however the Community
was also billed 8 extra hours for Jim on 9/6/2024 on Inv. #1850 when the community was already billed for 8 hours of Jim's time on Invoice 1851 and 1847.