March 24,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Wow Roberta shouldn’t be writing a letter in the Ridgewood News about nepotism. After all when Roberta was Village Manager she was one of the reasons tax payers are stuck with a below market value rent lease at the gatehouse. Roberta’s BFF Stacey Antine from which she knows from a Bergen school they graduated from got a fabulous lease on the gatehouse and a sweet contract for her business. Talk about helping a non tax payer succeed in Ridgewood and personally making sure her business is a success. Not only did Roberta help Stacey, Tim also provided services Healthbarn needed during his time with Parks and Rec.
Since Tim’s departure Nancy Bigos has continued in his place assuring Healthbarn weeps benefits other businesses don’t have access too. Such as classes that run thru Parks and Rec that are run at Healthbarn. Village claims it’s a partnership but Village doesn’t share in her profits. After all Healthbarn is still having its own classes during the Parks and Rec classes so who is helping who succeed?
It’s always baffled me how she got such a sweet deal but then I realized who backed her, the past council excluding Michael & Susan who voted against it. Roberta and Tim helped her along the way giving her perhaps inside information when she presented at VC meeting, because what she presented and what actually goes on isn’t the same. Replacing Tim with Nancy doesn’t change anything since she was one of the pack who brought this business to a neighborhood. It’s time to reflect on how much this business costs the tax payers and think about who has the tax payers back?
With Healthbarn violating her lease on several occasions and from what the neighbors can tell not getting fined only shows that they support the business not the residents.
Enough stop supporting Healthbarn and start supporting the taxpayers needs and concerns!!!!
Roberta is one pissed-off old woman. She hates that she lost her job. She hates that she got slapped with an ethics violation for her illegal behavior. She hates that Susan has done nothing wrong. Don’t get in the way of Ms Sonenfeld. She is ANGRY
All the classes at the health barn seem to be in direct conflict with parks and rec classes..ie healthy eating for kids, yoga and summer camp. How is this a good thing for Ridgewood?
Rules are not enforced in that park. The other day a bus was ideling for hours to keep the bus driver warm while healthbarn had a field trip. Doesn’t sound like healthy to me, the idling, Maybe Nancy Bigos should get her act together and actually take care of the parks, the parks and rec program and stop doing favors for “ friends” like providing generators to a private business on tax payers $$$. All the while tax payers were without generators,
Isn’t Roberta backing Alexandra Harwin? And so is Jeff Voight, both were at Roberta’s house for a coffee. If she wins Ridgewood can expect more favors for friends and less support for tax payers. Be careful who you vote,
Breath of Putrid Air
New nickname for HealthBarn: HeartBurn.
Why does anyone care what Roberta, Halaby or any of the other blowhards (that seem to think they are the only ones in this town that have a brain) have to say? Am i concerned about the ability of the current mayor to separate herself from her family situation and do what’s right for this town and it’s finances…yes, but to even think about the option of having some wannabe politicians who are going to push their special interest agenda, all in the hopes of financing some future political career is way more terrifying. We need to elect people that have some basic understanding of municipal economics and realize that this town’s tax base is not an ever increasing piggy bank. This and future councils have to be held accountable for every dime they spend or budget for….we all as taxpayers have to take larger roles in policing future councils in order to keep people from leaving this Village because it’s just not affordable to live. Who really cares what Roberta has to say, she’s proven time and again (contrary to what Mr Halaby thinks) that she was a complete and utter failure as manager of this town. As for Halaby, this guy is funny…..he’ll rant and rave about how not one dime should be spent on Schedler but is as vocal as anyone that this town’s future is wholly dependent on spending $11 million on a garage that is clearly not needed. I do look forward to his lectures on constitutional law and his waving of the American flag at council meetings…let those clowns attack the mayor or anyone else who doesn’t fallen in line…who cares? They are irrelevant at best.
Wants to be the only village manager in history to leave under a cloud and return.
Roberta put healthbarn there with the help of her cronies. The past council and Halaby supported all her selfish endeavors. She and them are resurfacing thru new candidates. Be careful. Haliby doesn’t want tax dollars to go to Schedler BUT is he aware of the tax dollars going to healthbarn. He doesn’t care about that because he supported it and Roberta and Tim which now means Nancy bogies. People are full of it, my advice is if you do not know what really has happened in the past. beware. They are trying to come back and none of it was pretty!
Just. Go. Away.
What is described in the post is not nepotism. Possibly favoritism, but this blog has never cared about accuracy
Free speech. Yes she can write a letter to the paper. If some of you were more articulate maybe you could get a letter printed in a real newspaper.
Move on.
a “real newspaper”
Let us not forget that Roberta also hired another one of her BFFs – Sharon Matthews the know nothing former HR Manager.
Thanks for reminding us of that glaring act of favoritism, 10:09pm! Fortunately it’s not a gift that keeps on giving…
10:06. No one wants to be in the Ridgewood news anymore because they sensor for their favorites also…if you don’t think the blog has real news don’t read it. Just like I know longer read the BS in the Ridgewood news.
Or maybe you just don’t agree with it like what is in the blog so you read it to keep up!!!
Wow we have a new shit storm in town.
This town is so overrated.it is true, time to move on and out , what a joke this town has been,