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Village Council Regular Public Meeting Agenda
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DRAFT
4/5/23
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
APRIL 12, 2023
7:30 P.M.
- Call to Order – Mayor
- Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act
- Roll Call – Village Clerk
- Flag Salute and Moment of Silence
- Acceptance of Financial Reports
- Approval of Minutes
- Proclamations
- Proclaim April as Tree Planting Month and April 28, 2023 as Arbor Day
- Proclaim May 7-13, 2023 National Drinking Water Week
- Proclaim May as Building Safety Month
- Proclaim May as Older Americans Month
3-20, Decorum, the Village Council meetings shall be conducted in the following manner:
Manner of Addressing Council
Persons other than Council members may be permitted to address the Council in the proper order of business. A person present may, upon recognition by the Chair, be heard either upon ordinances upon second reading or at the time of petitions and oral communications from the public and at such other times as the Council may, by majority vote of those present, specifically permit. No person shall address any remark or question to any specific Council member, nor shall any person be permitted to address the Chair while a motion is pending. A Council member may, through the Chair, respond to any communication or address received pursuant to this section.
Decorum
Any person who shall disturb the peace of the Council, make impertinent or slanderous remarks or conduct himself in a boisterous manner while addressing the Council shall be forthwith barred by the presiding officer from further audience before the Council, except that if the speaker shall submit to proper order under these rules, permission for him to continue may be granted by a majority vote of the Council.
- Comments from the Public (Not to exceed 3 minutes per person – 40 minutes in total)
- Village Manager’s Report
- Village Council Reports
- ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION – RIDGEWOOD WATER
NONE
- ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING – RIDGEWOOD WATER
3945 – Amend Chapter Water Rates and PFAS Treatment Surcharge
- ORDINANCE – CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING
3940 – Amend Chapter 269 – Water – Smart Controllers and Water Emergencies
- RESOLUTIONS – RIDGEWOOD WATER
23- Award Professional Services Contract – Engineering Design and Permitting Services – Southside Meter Chamber Interconnection (NTE $
- ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION
3942 – Administration of Government
3954 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – No Stopping or Standing – Various Well Houses
3955 – Amend Chapter 145 – Fees – Fire Department Fees
3956 – Amend Chapter 133 – Refuse Containers
3957 – Amend Chapter 18 – Green Ridgewood Composition and Membership
- ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING
3946 – Establish a CAP Bank
3948 – Amend Chapter 26 – Green Team Membership
3949 – Amend Chapter 145 – Fees – Parking Rates
- RESOLUTIONS
23- Title 59 Approval – Road Resurfacing and Repairs
23- Award Contract – Road Resurfacing and Repairs
(NTE $)
23- Title 59 Approval – Irrigation System Services
23- Award Contract – Irrigation System Services
(NTE $)
23- Title 59 Approval – Horticultural Supplies
23- Award Contract – Horticulture Supplies
23- Title 59 Approval – Emergency Escape Stairs – Streets Division
23- Award Contract – Emergency Escape Stairs – Streets Division (NTE $)
23- Award Contract Under State Contract – Diesel Fuel and Unleaded Gasoline
23- Award Contract Under State Contract – Tree Inventory – Phase 2
23- Award Professional Services Contract – Safe Routes to School Grant – Final Design Phase (NTE $)
23- Authorize Shared Services Agreement – Use of Styrofoam Densifier (Glen Rock)
23- Authorize Shared Services Agreement – Use of Styrofoam Densifier (Washington Township)
23- Support Green Amendment
23- Authorize Execution of Deed Notice – Hudson Street Garage
23- Accept Donation – Sports Fields Upgrades
23- Accept Donation – Repairs to Lower Hawes Field
23- Accept Donation – Planting of Trees
23- Accept Donation to 2023 General Operating Budget
23- Accept Donation – Improvements to Zabriskie Schedler House
23- Amend 2023 Dates for Dining Corrals and Pedestrian Plaza
23- Appoint Members to Pride Day Committee
23- Approve Plan for Schedler Park
23- Award Professional Services Contract – Historic Preservation Consultant
- Comments from the Public (Not to Exceed 5 minutes per person)
- Resolution to go into Closed Session
- Closed Session
Legal – Ridgewood Water NJDEP Administrative Consent Order
- Adjournment
“which also allows them to “raise a hand”
A friendly hand, a respectful hand, a hand with no council member’s name on it, raised slowly, not aggressively, a docile hand, an understanding hand…..
bois·ter·ous
[ˈboist(ə)rəs]
ADJECTIVE
(of a person, event, or behavior) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy:
“the boisterous conviviality associated with taverns of that period”
THE HORROR!!!!!!
add: “knowing bullshyte when he or she sees/hears it”
Where are Gilbert and Sullivan when you need them?
Decades ago I took a class at the Adult School (now called the Community School) in a music room at RHS. On or below a portrait of a man–I don’t remember who it was!–someone had written “Gilbert N. Sullivan.”
Just remember folks let’s see what the state says regarding the budget. Remember all budgets have to be approved through them. Let’s see once they receive it and go over it and if they feel that it’s not kosher guess what the shit hits the fan. So let’s see what happens. If they approve it, you get hotdogs all the way, if they don’t approve it well you get a hotdog with mustard.
the state should say no. and oeople know the only reason furloughs were taken off the table is no staffing left to setup the pedestrian plaza. The furlough days were planned for Fridays in July and August. No one left to do the pedeserian plaza work.
Taxpayers will be l paying more because Vagiaons plan is to move some salaries from operations to the capital budget. Ridgewood will bond those salaries, spread the cost and pay interest over the life of the bond.
Ridgewood tax payers will be paying more for salaries, subsidizing the pedestrian plaza and vagianos businesses.
The Record needs to stay on this story, Every week there should be a story after the Wednesday VC meeting.
The record come on, you just don’t know to you. It’s called influencers, you’re better off calling channel 12 news, or seven on your side. You need major networks get things done in the village, fight fire with fire.
I would like an extra helping of PFAS with my breakfast cereal, please!
As printed recently in The Guardian 2023:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/30/boston-bans-artificial-turf-toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas
Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, has ordered no new artificial turf to be installed in city parks, making Boston the largest municipality in a small but growing number around the nation to limit use of the product because it contains dangerous chemicals.
All artificial turf is made with toxic PFAS compounds and some is still produced with ground-up tires that can contain heavy metals, benzene, VOCs and other carcinogens that can present a health threat. The material also emits high levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and sheds microplastics and other chemicals into waterways.
“We already know there are toxic chemicals in the products, so why would we continue to utilize them and have children roll around on them when we have a safe alternative, which is natural grass?” asked Sarah Evans, an environmental health professor for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
“It seems kind of nonsensical to put ground-up tires in a field where children are playing,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA official and director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer).
Some companies have begun using cork as infill, but industry has said the grass blades and backing cannot be made without PFAS.
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of about 12,000 chemicals often used to make products resist water, stain and heat. They are called “forever chemicals” because they don’t naturally break down, and are linked to cancer, liver problems, thyroid issues, birth defects, kidney disease, decreased immunity and other serious health problems.
Testing of multiple artificial fields has found the presence of highly toxic PFAS compounds like 6:2 FTOH and PFOS. The EPA recently revised its health advisory for PFOS to state that effectively no level of exposure in drinking water is safe.
“It’s only a matter of time before [artificial turf] is banned,” Bennett said. “In a few years we’re going to be asking, ‘How on Earth did we ever allow this to happen?’”
So we are hiring a person with multiple criminal arrests who does not believe in paying child support?