At Wednesday night’s meeting of the Newark school board, members of the public repeatedly pressed to learn the identity of the developer who was in line to win a $500 million contract to secure a new elementary school building.
This was an unusually large sum of money for a school building, awarded in a non-competitive contract, and board members would say only that the payments would go to a limited liability corporation.
NJ Spotlight has found public records that reveal the builder’s name: He is Scott Fields, a donor to Mayor Ras Baraka’s failed campaign for governor last year. His name is on a business status report filed through the state Treasury’s Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services…