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the fly was wondering if Albert and Gwenn recused themselves from the close door session

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the fly was wondering if Albert and Gwenn recused themselves from the close door session

The 3/25/2015 agenda posted on the Village website stated that the Council would discuss the Valley ligation in a closed session. The 64,000.00 dollar question would be ,did the Village Manager ask Mr. Rogers to tell Albert ,who has previously admitted a conflict  and Gwenn who despite overwhelming appearance to the contrary denies a conflict; to recuse themselves because of their previously mentioned conflict of interest with the hospital ? The presumption around town seems to be that they both attended and participated in the closed meeting . A fact which I am sure Mr Rogers vehemently objected to, not wanting anything to undermine that very lawsuit?

THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL’S

PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA

MARCH 25, 2015

 

1.         7:30 pm – Call to Order – Mayor

2.         Statement of Compliance with Open Public Meeting Act

            Mayor:  “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin             board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and           time of this meeting.”

3.         Roll Call – Village Clerk

4.         Flag Salute/Moment of Silence

5.         Public Comments (Not to Exceed 5 Minutes per Person)

7.         Motion to Suspend Work Session and Convene Special Public Meeting

8.         Special Public Meeting – See Attached Agenda

9.         Motion to Adjourn Special Public Meeting and Reconvene Work Session

10.       Presentations

            a.         Proposed Girl Scout Bronze Project – Planting of Tree on Veterans Field

            b.         Proposed Eagle Scout Project – Learning on the Trails of Habernickel

            c.         Central Bergen County Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plans

            d.         Ridgewood Shade Tree Commission – Adopt-A-Tree Program

            e.         Coalition Against the Pilgrim Pipeline (CAPP)

 

11.       Discussion:

            a.         Parking

 

1.      Automated Garage Solutions – Presentation by Engineering Department

2.      Amendment to Definition of Loading Zones

 

            b.         Budget

 

1.      Annual Audit – Corrective Action Plan

2.      Award Contract – Dewatered Sludge Hauling Services

3.      Approve Shared Services Agreement – Registered Environmental Health Services with Northwest Bergen Regional Health Commission

4.      Settlement Agreement – Park v. Village of Ridgewood

5.      Municipal Alliance Grant Application

6.      Approve Change Order – North Van Dien Avenue Drainage System Improvements

7.      Construction Code Fee Changes – Continued Discussion

            c.         Operations

 

1.      Building Department – Amnesty Program

2.      Building Department  – Building Safety Month Presentation

           

12.       Manager’s Report

13.       Council Reports

14.       Public Comments (Not to Exceed 5 Minutes per Person)

15.       Resolution to go into Closed Session

16.       Closed Session

            a.         Contract Negotiations – North Walnut Street Redevelopment Zone

            b.         Personnel – Appointments to Boards and Committees; Appointments of Village                                     Professionals

            c.         Legal – Valley Hospital Litigation

17.       Adjournment

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Tutor Doctor, One of the Top Math Tutoring Programs in NJ, Announces New Custom-Designed Programs

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Tutor Doctor, One of the Top Math Tutoring Programs in NJ, Announces New Custom-Designed Programs
March 26, 2015

The New Programs were Developed in Response to the College Board’s Decision to Update the Scholastic Aptitude Test

HAWTHORNE, NJ,  Tutor Doctor of North Jersey, a company that offers some of the best tutors in a variety of academic subjects, has just launched new learning programs that will help prepare students for the updated Scholastic Aptitude Test.

For the first time in almost a decade, noted a company spokesperson for Tutor Doctor, the College Board is updating the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to better represent and track what students have actually learned in high school and to assess a student’s college and career readiness. After the number of students who took the ACT surpassed those who took the SAT in 2012, the College Board came to realize that the SAT had become disconnected from the skills learned in high school and needed to undergo major changes to better meet the needs of students across the nation. The new version of the SAT will debut in the spring of 2016.

As the spokesperson for Tutor Doctor explained, the College Board is on a new mission to best serve higher education by propelling students toward success in college and work. With a similar philosophy, Tutor Doctor’s “at-home” approach is dedicated to student success by providing each student with the tools they need to meet and exceed expectations. Tutor Doctor of North Jersey prepares students for college by offering custom-designed programs that meet each student’s specific educational needs, objectives, and learning styles by working with teachers and current coursework to help each student master current academic requirements, while also maximizing his/her potential.

“We are very pleased the SAT will be more aligned with students’ curriculum and have a deeper focus on the important academic skills they’ve learned in school,” said Jessica Bush, business owner of Tutor Doctor of North Jersey.

“At Tutor Doctor, our tutors support teachers by working collaboratively with the school structure to help students learn new material while excelling at the topics they’re learning in school. This collaborative approach helps students succeed during their high school studies while preparing them for college.”

The new SAT format will reinforce the skills and evidence-based thinking that students should be learning in high school. Some of the drastic changes include eliminating the guessing penalty, replacing complex vocabulary words with those used more commonly in the college setting, and making the essay optional. Those who pursue the writing section will have 50 minutes to read and analyze a document and build an argument based on the author’s use of evidence and reasoning. Furthermore, the time will be reduced to three hours and the overall scoring will return to a 1,600-point scale, based on a top score of 800 in reading and math, with a separate score for the essay.

For more information on Tutor Doctor of North Jersey, which is known for having one of the top math tutoring programs in the state as well as tutoring for kids with special needs, please visit www.NorthJerseyTutorDoctor.com.

About Tutor Doctor:

For over 5 years in the local North Jersey area from Glen Rock and Ridgewood, NJ, Tutor Doctor has been dedicated to matching students of all ages, grades and subjects with dedicated, highly experienced tutors. All of their one-on-one tutoring takes place in the privacy of the student’s home. They take the time to match each student to a tutor whose skills and schedule matches his or her needs, and they will customize an academic game plan and set goals for every student’s success. For more information, please visit https://www.northjerseytutordoctor.com/

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Obama’s Mideast ‘free fall’

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Obama’s Mideast ‘free fall’

Mounting chaos in the region puts the administration on the defensive.

By Michael Crowley

3/26/15 7:40 PM EDT

Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to Iraq — along with deteriorating U.S.-Israeli relations — is confounding the president’s efforts to stabilize the region and strike a nuclear deal with Iran.

The meltdown has Obama officials defending their management of a region that some call impossible to control, even as critics say U.S. policies there are partly to blame for the spreading anarchy.

“If there’s one lesson this administration has learned, from President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech through the Arab Spring, it’s that when it comes to this region, nothing happens in a linear way — and precious little is actually about us, which is a hard reality to accept,” said a senior State Department official.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/barack-obama-yemen-isil-middle-east-116440.html#ixzz3Vb3ssOFB

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Climate Witch Hunt Is Bad For Science, Bad For Witch Hunters

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Climate Witch Hunt Is Bad For Science, Bad For Witch Hunters

by H. Sterling Burnett
March 26, 2015

Desperate times breed desperate measures, and for climate alarmists these are desperate times.

There has been no measurable global warming for 18 years. The majority of polar bear populations are stable or growing; hurricane landfalls have been virtually nonexistent in the United States for a decade; cold temperature and snowfall records are being set daily (more than 2,600 cold temperature records were set or broken between February 19 and February 25 of this year alone); Antarctica is setting sea ice records in the middle of its summer; and in the Arctic, the much ballyhooed sea ice decline of the late 1990 and early 2000s has recovered over the past two years.

By almost every metric, the predictions made by climate change believers have failed or are failing, and reasons for climate alarm are fading from view as a result.

Perhaps this explains climate alarmists’ desperate attempts to smear the reputations of climate researchers who scientifically reject any aspect of the “human-catastrophic-climate-change-connection.”

The latest salvo in this desperate gambit comes from Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. He sent a letter to seven university presidents demanding information on funding sources and all draft testimony and exchanges relating to the testimony of select researchers who have testified before Congress on climate change issues and did not express an alarmist view.

https://blog.heartland.org/2015/03/climate-witch-hunt-is-bad-for-science-bad-for-witch-hunters/

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Ridgewood Superintendent’s Column: On digital citizenship

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Ridgewood Superintendent’s Column: On digital citizenship

MARCH 27, 2015    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY DANIEL FISHBEIN
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Years ago I ran in a local road race that had a very strange outcome.
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Now you are probably wondering why is this guy telling this story? Well, it’s because I innocently signed up for this race as did a few hundred others and found that the organizers of the race gave away or sold that list. We do this same thing all the time when we hit the “Agree” button to get information off the Internet.

We hardly give it a thought when we electronically sign up, email, tweet, use Facebook, post on Instagram and blog as part of our everyday existence. Our lives have improved in many ways with the fast, easy, convenient and mostly free access to information at our online fingertips, whether we are researching directions, restaurant reviews or places to stay, ordering our clothing and books, or keeping track of our bank accounts, our photo albums, our documents.

Such convenience makes it easy to forget that when we log on, we also agree, yes, agree, to hand over access to all types of personal information about ourselves in exchange for that instant line of communication. Our privacy and personally identifiable information is easily shared, as we know from the personalized ads that appear on the sites we search. And yet, we get upset and outraged when the obvious happens, when a breach occurs and our files are hacked, or a company is called out as a spy on an individual.

Just this month, a student in another New Jersey district tweeted out some PARCC testing information. Pearson, the company that developed the assessment, followed its protocol to contact state officials, who then called to inform those school district administrators of a testing breach.

Many people were upset at this chain of events … and so was I … at first. Then I thought about Daniella. Sixteen years ago I had essentially “tweeted” out my personal information when I agreed to run that race, never thinking of the consequences. I did what we have all done dozens, maybe hundreds, of times when we readily fill out an electronic form, order over the phone, search for our next vacation and the like.

We know now that when we order from our favorite online vendor, they remember us. They know how our waist sizes have expanded or shrunk from the last time we ordered, our color preferences, the types of movies we like to watch.

As we move forward, others will know more and more about us because we have either given them this information directly, or granted them permission to access our files. We must hope that they use our personal information ethically, at least that is my expectation, but we must also make every effort to scrutinize to whom we give out our data so that it does not come back to haunt us. We must teach our children the same and pray every night that they’ve listened.

Taking responsibility for technology-based information, and having this conversation with our children, too, is called good digital citizenship. The Ridgewood Public Schools guards our data and only shares with state and federal officials the information that is required by law. We make every effort to teach our students about good digital citizenship and with the beginning next school year, we will teach it more formally through a Digital Citizenship Curriculum, from kindergarten through Grade 12.

As always, please feel free to contact me with your questions or concerns.

Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D., is Superintendent of the Ridgewood Public Schools. Dr. Fishbein can be reached at 201-670-2700, ext. 10530, or via e-mail at [email protected]. For more information on the Ridgewood Public Schools visit the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us or visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RidgewoodPublicSchools.

https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-guest-writers/on-digital-citizenship-1.1296988

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Neighbors of Ridgewood church view cell phone antenna as ‘burden’

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Neighbors of Ridgewood church view cell phone antenna as ‘burden’

MARCH 27, 2015    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

The Ridgewood Board of Adjustment is expected to begin deliberations March 31 on a telecommunication company’s request to mount a cellular antenna atop the cross at West Side Presbyterian Church.

Just before the midnight hour on Tuesday, board members were tasked by their attorney to weigh the pros and cons of a 3-foot-high antenna for the general public as well as the residential neighborhood surrounding the church.

For several months dating back to last summer, Verizon Wireless has ushered in experts to support its zoning board application, which calls for the installation of the antenna as well as stealth screening that measures roughly 2-feet wide. The company is seeking a use variance for the antenna, which is not permitted in a residential zone.

Verizon’s legal team and its radio frequency consultant maintain that an antenna, dubbed a micro site, would improve cellular data coverage in a location where a gap currently exists. Being one of the tallest landmarks in the area, the church cross is considered by Verizon as the most viable site for its equipment.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/neighbors-view-antenna-as-a-burden-1.1296914

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Parking is focus of Ridgewood forum

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MARCH 26, 2015    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015, 4:51 PM
BY BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Parking – and lack thereof – was the main focus of a Central Business District (CBD) forum held at Christ Episcopal Church on March 18 as village officials, residents and Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce representatives gathered for an informal panel discussion.

Over the course of the 90-minute session, the panel and audience covered strategies for building garages on municipal land, the parking space deficit in the CBD and the implementation of paying for parking with mobile phones.

The evening forum was hosted by Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli and featured a panel that included Mayor Paul Aronsohn, Chamber of Commerce President Paul Vagianos, Citizen Safety Advisory Committee Chair Charles Demarco and Janet Fricke, assistant to the village manager.

https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/parking-is-focus-of-ridgewood-forum-1.1296682

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Attorneys debate whether Valley Hospital exhausted all remedies

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Attorneys debate whether Valley Hospital exhausted all remedies

MARCH 27, 2015    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Oral arguments in the Valley Hospital lawsuit against the Village of Ridgewood and its Planning Board began last Thursday with the village’s motion to dismiss, but attendees were left with a cliffhanger until mid-April when additional issues can be briefed and may be argued.

The lawsuit comes after the Planning Board rejected Valley’s latest expansion proposal, which sought to nearly double the size of the hospital and would require years of construction in an otherwise residential neighborhood.

The June 2014 decision came after Valley successfully applied for a master plan amendment in 2010 at the Planning Board level, only to have the proposal rejected by the Village Council in 2011.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/crime-and-courts/attorneys-debate-whether-remedies-were-exhausted-1.1296814

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Ridgewood officials say no deal is in place for North Walnut Street

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Ridgewood officials say no deal is in place for North Walnut Street

March 26, 2015    Last updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 3:16 PM
By Mark Krulish
Staff Writer |
The Ridgewood News

Concerns that redevelopment at North Walnut Street was moving ahead without public disclosure were brought to Wednesday night’s council meeting as officials explained in more detail the steps that still needed to be taken before selecting a project.

Earlier this month, two different developers presented proposals to residents and council members for the 1.1-acre site on North Walnut Street that includes the Town Garage property.

On March 4, Kensington Senior Development proposed an assisted-living complex, which includes a garage that would be built and donated to the village in exchange for the right to build the facility. The project features a total of 98 assisted-living units along with commercial retailers on the first floor and a landscaped outdoor garden on the second floor.

Langan Development pitched a design that featured 13 high-end luxury duplex condominiums to be built above first floor retail space and allows for amenities such as rooftop dining, a billiard room and a pub room. The project included plans for both a standard garage and one that featured an automated parking system.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-officials-no-deal-set-for-north-walnut-street-1.1296657

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Aronsohn pokes fun at Mahwah Town Council Re: recent meeting fiasco

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Aronsohn pokes fun at Mahwah Town Council Re: recent meeting fiasco
March 26,2015
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Civility For Thee…

…but not for me. As if his verbal thrashings of former village council members were not enough, a certain someone is at it again. While pontificating on the importance of “civility,” he performs the nearly impossible feat of serving up a heaping helping of boorish incivility to yet another colleague. The next nonsensical forum Mr. Mayor convenes should be an in-depth analysis of why the fellow to his left can’t seem to mind his manners. The unintended consequence of those “transparent” public meetings is a never-ending video stream of reference for anyone who may have forgotten just how uncivilized Frick and Frack can be. Aahhh, Mahwah..such a lofty goal.

Ridgewood NJ, Just moments after Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli and Councilwoman Susan Knudsen got into a rather heated verbal exchange on the dais (over a report Knudsen had requested from the Village’s new Building Department Director Thomas Yotka), Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn publicly poked fun at Mahwah’s Town Council in connection with a recent meeting in Mahwah, captured on video, at which the tempers of several Town Council members flared up.

This longtime Blog reader and contributor now wonders if Mr. Aronsohn actually listens to or looks at anyone but himself during meetings of the Ridgewood Village Council.

Because if he did, he would certainly recognize that the behaviors of many people sitting on the dais along side of him (both elected and appointed representatives of the Village) are far from being what I would classify as respectful of others. Phrases such as “. . . don’t flatter yourself” and body language like a deliberately exaggerated rolling of the eyes (in response to an impassioned speech by a member of the audience or Councilperson) have no place on the dais.

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. An old, but appropriate, proverb with respect to Village Council actions of late.

https://politickernj.com/2015/03/council-members-criticize-mayor-after-mahwah-meeting-meltdown/

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Moments of terror, lifetime of questions; ‘No idea’ why co-pilot would crash airplane

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Moments of terror, lifetime of questions; ‘No idea’ why co-pilot would crash airplane

MARCH 26, 2015, 8:11 AM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015, 11:59 PM
BY ANGELA CHARLTON AND DAVID MCHUGH
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Passengers with moments to live screamed in terror and the pilot frantically pounded on the locked cockpit door as a 27-year-old German co-pilot deliberately and wordlessly smashed an Airbus carrying 150 people into an Alpine mountainside.

The account Thursday of the final moments of Germanwings Flight 9525 prompted some airlines to immediately impose stricter cockpit rules — and raised haunting questions about the motive of the co-pilot, whose breathing never wavered as he destroyed the plane and the lives of those aboard.

“We have no idea of the reason,” Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin said, revealing the chilling conclusions investigators reached after reconstructing the final minutes of the flight from the plane’s black box voice recorder. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s intention was “to destroy this plane.”

French, German and U.S. officials said there was no indication of terrorism. The prosecutor did not elaborate on why investigators do not suspect a political motive; instead they’re focusing on the co-pilot’s “personal, family and professional environment” to try to determine why he did it.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/co-pilot-deliberately-slams-plane-into-alps-families-ask-why-1.1296513

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Bowe Bergdahl, once-missing U.S. soldier, charged with desertion

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Bowe Bergdahl, once-missing U.S. soldier, charged with desertion
By Dan Lamothe March 25 at 2:03 PM

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who slipped away from his patrol base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held in captivity for five years, has been charged with desertion and misbehaving before the enemy, Army officials said Wednesday, setting the stage for emotionally charged court proceedings in coming months.

The charges were announced by the service at Fort Bragg, N.C., hours after the 28-year-old was handed a charge sheet, according to one of his attorneys. Bergdahl will next face a preliminary Article 32 hearing, which is frequently compared to a grand jury proceeding in civilian court.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/25/bowe-bergdahl-once-missing-u-s-soldier-charged-with-desertion/?hpid=z1

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Wikipedia head: NSA spying is unconstitutional

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Wikipedia head: NSA spying is unconstitutional

By Julian Hattem – 03/20/15 01:05 PM EDT

The co-founder of the world’s sixth most popular website thinks that the National Security Agency’s Internet spying is not only illegal but violates core provisions of the Constitution.

While explaining the rationale behind Wikipedia’s lawsuit against the spy agency on Friday, Jimmy Wales hoped that the legal action would lead to a landmark ruling declaring new limits on government’s spying powers.

The “minimum acceptable” result of the case, Wales said in a conversation on Reddit, would be to find that the NSA’s massive collection of data on the Internet’s backbone was illegal.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/236432-wikipedia-head-nsa-spying-is-unconstitutional

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Village seeks bidders for “2015 Road Resurfacing and Repair of Various Village Streets In the Village of Ridgewood”

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Village seeks bidders for “2015 Road Resurfacing and Repair of Various Village Streets In the Village of Ridgewood”

BID NOTICE – 2015 Road Resurfacing and Repair of Various Village Streets

Sealed bid proposals will be received by the Village of Ridgewood, in the Village Hall Level Three Conference Room, 131 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450, on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. prevailing time, and then publicly opened and read aloud for the following project:

“2015 Road Resurfacing and Repair of Various Village Streets In the Village of Ridgewood”.

The principal items of the work of the project include: Installation of NJDOT HMA 9.5 M64 Top Course, approximately 7,500 tons; Installation of NJDOT HMA 19 M64 Base Course, approximately 1,900 tons; Installation of NJDOT DGA, 6 inches Thick, approximately 8,000 S.Y.; Thermoplastic Line Striping, 6-inch wide, approximately 10,000 L.F.; Milling 0 to 3 inches thick, 48,000 S.Y.; Topsoil and Seeding, 4 inches thick, 2,000 S.Y.; Installation of 7-inch Thick Concrete Driveway Aprons or Handicap Ramps, 1,500 S.Y.; 9-inch by 18-inch Concrete Vertical Curb, approximately 6,800 L.F.; Concrete Sidewalk, 4 inches thick, approximately 1,200 S.Y.; Bicycle Safe ECO-Grates, approximately 10 each; Repair Inlets and Manholes, 5 Each; Cast Iron Extension Frames for Inlets, 5 Each; NJPDES Storm water Management Phase II replacement curb inlet heads, Type N, approximately 5 each; Bituminous Concrete Driveway, 4 inches Thick, approximately 400 S.Y.; Reset manholes approximately 50 Each and other related work for a complete project.

Specifications and bid forms may be obtained by mail from the office of the Division of Engineering, 131 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450, for a non-refundable fee of $50.00 per set of bid documents. Documents may be examined or picked up in person between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at 131 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450, Monday through Friday. Prospective bidders requesting bid documents be mailed to them shall be responsible for providing their own postage/delivery service remuneration. No Specifications and/or Proposal forms shall be given out after 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.

The contractual obligation of the Village of Ridgewood under this Contract for these items is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds from which payment for this Contract can be made.

Prices quoted must be net and exclusive of all Federal, State and Local Sales and Excise Taxes. Bids may be submitted in person or by mail prior to the bid opening, addressed to the Office of the Village Clerk. The Village assumes no responsibility for loss or non-delivery of any bid sent to it prior to the Bid opening.

Each bid must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the name of the bidder thereon and endorsed, “2015 Road Resurfacing and Repair of Various Village Streets in the Village of Ridgewood ” and must be accompanied by the following: a certified check, cashier’s check, or Bid Bond (Schedule B), drawn to the order of the Village of Ridgewood for ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, or $20,000, whichever is less; a Consent of Surety (Schedule A); a Corporation or Partnership Statement (Schedule C); a Non-Collusion Affidavit (Schedule D); and a Statement of Responsibility (Schedule E). Any award or awards may be made at a later or subsequent time or meeting of the Village Council. All required schedules, that is Schedule A, B, C, D, E, and G, are required to be submitted on the forms attached to the bid documents. No other forms will be accepted.

The successful bidder shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act, as determined by the New Jersey Department of Labor. All contractors, their subcontractors, and material suppliers shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Public Works Contractor Registration Act, pursuant to Public Law 1999 Chapter 238 and the Contractor Business Registration Program, pursuant to Public Law 2004 Chapter 57. Evidence of satisfactory registrations shall be submitted at the time of the bid. All bids submitted shall contain a copy of the bidder’s New Jersey Business Registration Certificate and a copy of the bidder’s Certificate of Employee Information Report.

The successful bidder shall furnish and deliver to the Village of Ridgewood a performance and payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the accepted bid amount as security for the faithful performance of the Contract. Additionally, the successful bidder shall furnish policies or Certificates of Insurance required by the Contract. In default thereof, said checks and/or bid bond and the amount represented thereby shall be forfeited to the Village of Ridgewood as liquidated damages, not as a penalty.

Proposals submitted by Bidders and/or Bidder’s Insurance Company(ies) not chartered in the State of New Jersey, must be accompanied by proper certificate(s) from the Secretary of State, indicating that such Bidders, Bidder’s Insurance Company(ies), and/or Surety Company(ies) is (are) authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey. The Village of Ridgewood reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informalities or to accept a bid, which in its judgment best serves the interest of the Village. No bids may be withdrawn for a period of sixty-days (60) after the date and time set for the opening of bids.

“BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 17:27). A complete statement as to these requirements is included in the specifications.”

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Chris Christie Rails Against Estate Taxes New Jersey Can’t Do Without

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(Bloomberg) — Everyone runs into death and taxes. New Jerseyans trundle on toward an afterlife in tax hell.

“I can afford to retire here,” said Susan Barbey, a 60-year-old resident of Ridgewood, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Manhattan. “I can’t afford to die here.” (Young/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-26/christie-rails-against-estate-taxes-new-jersey-can-t-do-without