the staff of The Ridgewood Blog
Ridgewood NJ, when we first noticed this Closed Session item printed on last Wednesday’s Village Council meeting agenda, we thought nothing of it. Just some minor housekeeping we thought.
- Legal – Review of Faulkner Act
Now, however, we realize that someone on the Council (probably someone who was elected in November) likely made an egregious mistake and gave orders directly to a Village employee instead of communicating his/her demands through the Village Manager. The “Village Manager is gatekeeper” process is required by law – Faulkner Act – for the Village’s current form of government – strong manager, weak Council.
Furthermore, the posting and subsequent removal of a document entitled “Rules of Order,” posted on 01/24/2023 and removed on 01/26/2023 from the Village’s website, suggests the egregious mistake may have been associated with this rather odd incident. That is, the seemingly rogue document may have been posted without the Village Manager’s approval, but at the direction of an elected official.
The bottom line here girls & boys is that less than 30 days into the “normal” Village Council’s term, we’ve already got one of them running amuck. Let’s hope our new mayor is able to quickly leash up the new puppy and housebreak him/her before another mess on the carpet has to be cleaned up.
Guess who. Yep. You guessed it.
”One of these days, _______ – Pow! Right in the kisser!”
The council is a joke and the new mayor is a greedy, selfish POS!
I’m stupid.
I voted for him.
the first step in problem solving is admitting you have one
I have never seen a more fake and bigger hypocrite sitting in that chair.
Live from Village Hall – it’s Saturday Night!
And I’ll bet the guilty party balked at being spoken to, and immediately suggested the form of government be changed to one that puts most power in the hands of elected officials. Nailed that one.
Heads up ‘
Back door meeting , changes coming to supervision, across-the-board.
Time to pop more popcorn.
The mayor and council will have a conversation regarding planting a Christmas tree at a location that will stay there year round. Instead of bringing a tree from another location and going through all that. It’s a big cost saver.
Yes.
lol
Karen Winograd
I’m laughing too. But that’s what we over herd this am. Who knows, who cares, doesn’t matter what happens.
Hey good point.Hey it’s definitely cheaper! And easier. Who needs to do it that way anyway. The park’s department doesn’t have the personnel to handle it. So it makes sense.
Thanks crew for the info.
Every Day and in Every Way, Ridgewood gets crappier and crappier…
No thank you , why are the streets so filthy, are we even lysing our sweepers in the village. There’s no excuse for this when we didn’t even have a snow storm yet, the village has the weather on its side. Our streets should be spotless. What the hell is going on.
Forget about the tree. That was tried before ( tree in the park) Mayor :Mr. Gyro put stop to that. Bad for his restaurant
Can someone stop Phil and all these potholes in town. Please, do we have a patch crew gang out repairing roads anymore. I’m going to send a bill for my front end of my car to the village. The law states that if the local government knows about dangerous potholes they are responsible.
They can’t pay for your front end damage all the money is going to pay the debt on the garage.
Wait till you see the cost and bond service for the Schedler ball field and Gyro Stand
Anyone see the powerlines down on Glen Avenue that mess is been like that for a month, come on, I understand it’s a utility company responsibility looks ridiculous already.
Again, we ask the main counsel to look into this issue, regarding village vehicles, not properly being labeled, and marked. And we are not talking about on the cover police vehicles. I’m talking about municipality vehicles why is this continuing. Do we need to call New Jersey news and embarrass the village.
Village of vehicles should be marked just like every other municipality. The manager needs to address this.
This is ridiculous. Why is this continuing, what are they trying to hide the true? Looks like sneaky tactics. Damn hypocrites.
The village manager has lost control of town. Since we have a new mayor and council, we’re going to need a new manager and new directors. So many problems.