the staff of The Ridgewood Blog
It is now being reported that possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees that should have been billed in connection with Village provided emergency ambulance transportation, and/or treatment, was neither billed nor collected because Emergency Services volunteers failed to process the required documentation.
Now the staff of The Ridgewood Blog fully understands why Village Manager Heather Mailander refused to appoint a new Emergency Services chief, and directed instead that the entire Emergency Services organization report in through the career fire department.
The Village has contracted with a Trenton based law firm (to the tune of $36k) in an effort to collect the monies due taxpayers.
What say you now Linda Scarpa?
Just amazing, who is the person that overseas emergency services.
Early April Fools Joke ? These are the basics of Cost and Recovery Management . Imagine how much more losses are out there? BURIED …
Reported by who?? Why is this not public? This seems like more RFD slander from a department that costs millions despite to keep their cash cow.
We got rid of the 3 Amigos but now we have The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse running the council. How many Chiefs will the Fire Dept. have? How any full time Fire personal will have to be hired to implement this plan? How can these two councilpersons be involved in this action (Faulkner Act )
Ridgewood Fire and Emergency Services Begin Merger January 1
Volunteer members raise alarm with concerns of cultural differences between the two departments
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22-417 Award Professional Services Contract – EMS Claims Procedures and Billing/Revenue Generation (NTE $36,000) – Awards a non-fair and open Professional Services Contract to Keavney & Streger, LLC, 103 Carnegie Center, Suite 300, Princeton, NJ. The required Pay to Play forms have been filed with the Village Clerk’s Office.
Dirty sneaky business, it’s cold meeting of the minds in the back door session.