Dear Village Council:
As I stated during the public comment period at the end of the October 14 council meeting, the process for completing grant applications leaves much to be desired. I particularly noted the casual ease with which the checkbox indicating that the Ridgewood population at large desires whatever is being applied for is checked. This happened with the grant for the Graydon wheelchair ramp, which after two full seasons, as I predicted for the three years in which I fought it, has never been used for its intended purpose. It was also done in the grant to level Schedler.
Let’s put it this way. We know what three of you have been doing and it is unlawful and unacceptable.
Today I learned that Bergen County Open Space official Robert Abbatomarco had written to Village employees noting numerous discrepancies and missing information related to the Schedler grant application. The county considers the October 14, 2015, public hearing on the grant application to be the only official meeting of record regarding the development of Schedler. Once again the Council has “put the cart before the horse” and proceeded as a few insistent people wished before inviting public comment in the proper way.
The county now demands a new resolution that incorporates and represents the public comments made on October 14. Reports and public comments from 2012 and earlier shall not apply. We all know what happened on October 14. I got home from that meeting at 2:45 AM. (In the future, for everyone’s sake, it would be most helpful for topics of wide general interest to be given discrete meetings and not be crammed into general meeting agendas. Trying to exhaust people into not speaking obviously does not work.)
Please revoke Resolution 15-257 this evening and START OVER.
Sincerely,
Marcia Ringel
As usual, they didn’t act appropriately. When councilwoman Knudsen suggested they revise the language on the resolution, only councilman Sedon was a willing participant.
When can we vote these 3 supplicants out of office…?
Is there any way that these people can be recalled?
8:11-
As usual, the three of them very predictably, voting in lock step against a reasonable and sand suggestion
9:38 I’m all for an investigation and action. We can start by contacting the State Attorney General. They can direct us from there https://www.nj.gov/lps/formmail.htm
Thank you Marcia. Great letter. Last night our mayor went after Ms. Jacqueline Hone in this matter, deliberately and nastily. She was great, she calmly came right back at him and stated that she has emails from Robert Abbatomarco stating all of this, she held up a notebook with all the information she has carefully collected and collated. Aronsohn said he talked to Robert Abbatomarco and everything Ms. Hone said was completely untrue. He called a concerned resident a liar. REALLY? This is how you conduct business? Instead of meeting with Ms. Hone, as she has requested on numerous occasions, and going over the facts together, he just calmly “says” that her information is wrong.
Ms. Hone was not the only resident they went after last night. Clearly their nerves are frayed.
Keep up the good work everyone.
My favorite public comments at last night’s meeting among proponents of the 90-foot field were (1) a man who said he lived half a mile from Habernickel Park (NOT HABERNACKLE–it does NOT rhyme with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir–and by the way, is Councilwoman Hauck’s maiden name) and that this increased his property values, as Schedler would for the people over there, and (2) the woman with seven children, including a couple who have asthma, who likes living on Route 17 because she can evaluate the traffic just by looking out the window.
9:38 AM, a recall would be an enormous task taking longer than we need to get rid of them. Just encourage good people to run for council in May and we can get them off the dais on July 1.
@ 6:29 those were good ones. I also enjoyed the woman new to town who thought it would be so great for everyone to walk to the park. As if there would actually be sidewalks or a safe route to walk there??
Idiot Festival..
Among the favorite comments from last night – when Susan Knudsen explained that she wanted to rescind the entire Schedler Resolution or at least alter the wording to eliminate the 90′ field. Paul asks Gwenn to offer her opinion. She says “wait, wait, I didn’t hear anything you said, can you repeat the whole thing?” Really? What the hell was she paying attention to?
So then Susan repeats the whole thing and Gwenn says “I thought you already did this two weeks ago and that is why we were forced to listen to ALL these public comments all over again.” (said with great disapproval, so annoying for her to have to sit through these public comments from concerned citizens, not one of whom will ever vote for her again).
Yes. Gwenn does love to hear from the public.
Bye, Ms. Habernickel.
Hauck is a wreck. She needs an intervention. Every time she lifts her head, it reminds me of children that spin and spin until dizzy and then flop down, dazed, watching the room spin.