December 3,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ , the Ridgewoood blog has learned from what we’ve seen in other presentations that this means they want to make things ‘regional’ and that means you’ll pay for costs in other towns even though you don’t get a vote? Bergen County officials are seeking to use your tax money to fund services in other jurisdictions .
The meeting was held at Bergen Community College on Wednesday December 2nd under the guise of “Uniting New Jersey: Cities and Suburbs Working Together”,hosted by Bergen County Executive James J. Tedesco. The keynote speaker was Bergen Professor Phil Dolce, Ph.D., a noted suburban studies expert.
Bergen Professor Phil Dolce, Ph.D.,led a panel discussion featuring: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino; Paramus Mayor Richard LaBarbiera; Teaneck Mayor Lizette Parker; and Jersey City Deputy Mayor Vivian Brady-Phillips on strategies for bridging the divide between suburbs and cities.
This would answer a lot of questions as to why the made dash to urbanize down town Ridgewood .
this is the invite
Officials Will Discuss Suburb/City Relationship at Forum
Elected officials from some of North Jersey’s largest suburbs and cities, including keynote speakers Bergen County Executive James J. Tedesco III and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, will gather at Bergen Community College to discuss how communities can enhance collaboration during a free and open-to-the-public conference Wednesday, Dec. 2.
The “Uniting New Jersey: Cities and Suburbs Working Together” program will begin at 5 p.m. with a light buffet in the Moses Family Meeting & Training Center at the College’s main campus, 400 Paramus Road. Along with the College, the Volunteer Center of Bergen County and the North Jersey Public Policy Network will co-sponsor the event.
In addition to the keynote speakers, Bergen Professor Phil Dolce, Ph.D., a noted suburban studies expert, will lead a panel discussion featuring: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino; Paramus Mayor Richard LaBarbiera; Teaneck Mayor Lizette Parker; and Jersey City Deputy Mayor Vivian Brady-Phillips on strategies for bridging the divide between suburbs and cities.
For the first time since 1950, growth in urban counties has outpaced their suburban counterparts in the New York metropolitan area, according to a Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy study. Experts believe the shift could have consequences for suburban areas that depend on significant property tax revenue. Bergen County, a major suburb of New York City, remains the state’s most populated county with approximately 933,572 residents according to the federal government. The county’s population has risen each year in the last decade.
For more information on the conference, or to RSVP for the light buffet and/or conference, please emailpdolce@bergen.edu.
Just take a look at Passaic County. High property taxes across the entire county to fund the toilet bowl called Paterson. This plan is all about money, control & patronage.
Eff that we will lose since they have no money
Can you please provide links to the other presentations you’ve seen? I’m curious if there are “hard” proposals that discuss financials and shared services, or if this is all about soft stuff like “working together”.
Or a power grab.
Why should my tax dollars go to another county that does not have enough of there own resources?
already does , just one example is Abbott Schools
redistribute the wealth… bend over and get on board…
funny this is the same complaint I hear from local towns when I talk about regionalized police dept.’s why would smaller dept.’s want to merge with a bigger busier town like Ridgewood and subsidize their dept. because they don’t want to hire. Same argument different subject.
This, I’m afraid, is the inevitable result of the current and worsening financial predicaments of our Federal, State, and local Governments. Yes, some are in far worse predicaments than others, but the most likely result will be waves of consolidations and sharing of services. Yes, it is a form of wealth redistribution, as it’s all a form of wealthier suburbs bailing out the highly dysfunctional and corrupt municipalities. We will experience crappier and crappier services as more and more services are inevitably needed in the more challenged neighborhoods.
Why is this, you may ask? It’s the result of a mushrooming pay and pensions system that had no realistic mathematical prospect of lasting.
“t’s the result of a mushrooming pay and pensions system that had no realistic mathematical prospect of lasting.” So other then that Declan everything is just fiscally fine in the Garden State ?
ha ha 12:05…
You do know that life is not an either/or proposition… or do they not mention that in union meetings?
Yes, that’s the main problem. Add to it the levels of dysfunctionalism and corruption that goes on throughout the system, but especially more in places like Paterson, Newark, etc.
ok start with fire and police, and we will see how that go’s.
Thanks Declan for clarifying that.
Oh, yes more and more towns should do that with fire dept’s. Do every town need a fire house.
There’s that word again, unsustainable. This is what happens when new revenues from every tax increase just gets inhaled by wages, pensions & benefits. But no one in Bergen govt ever questions the deal public workers get, or says their benefits need to be diminished because they are overly generous. Just look at Ridgewood – we have six cops retiring this year, all on +$100K pensions for life and $26,000 platinum health care plans + $80,000 accumulated leave payouts on retirement. That’s the result of six straight years of +4% annual base wage increases which compared to inflation less than 2%. No wonder their benefits are so expensive when you pay out 65% of their avg comp in the final three years and six months of accumulated leave at their highest final comp rate and only ask them to contribute 10% towards their own pension and pay only $480 a year for health benefits. These are amongst the most expensive cops in the history of the world… Is it any wonder this has no mathematical way of sustaining itself?
Yes and the CBA or did you say that.
Maybe they can pick up our leaves