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Is Village exempt from NJ State motor vehicle inspection requirements?

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April 30,2015

Boyd LovingDoes anyone know if the Village of Ridgewood (VOR) is exempt from NJ State Department of Motor Vehicle regulations as they pertain to motor vehicle inspection?

On Thursday, 04/30, two (2) VOR owned vehicles were observed with expired inspection stickers (Parks Department pickup truck and marked police car) and another VOR vehicle without an inspection sticker (looked like a fleet maintenance truck).

Considering that the inspection stickers are expired (or non-existent), it is possible that the vehicle registrations may be expired as well.

So are we above the law/exempt from the law, or is it just gross incompetence on the part of whomever is supposed to keep track of these things?

Inquiring minds would like to know . .

59 thoughts on “Is Village exempt from NJ State motor vehicle inspection requirements?

  1. Yea Charlie posting at 10:10 PM, just as I thought, no facts, just rhetoric. The only thing you got right is that the previous village manager, who also had no civil service experience and was doing OJT like our current manager, cost us plenty. Watch as more money is wasted while our current manager continues to make major mistakes.

    Interesting that you chose NOT to refute what the Society for Human Resource Management says about labor costs in my earlier post at May 4, 2015 at 1:37 pm.

    Had you even read that post you would have not made the stupid statement “He wants the Village to be run like a business.

    I clearly stated the following:

    Considering that the Village is NOT a for profit enterprise the labor costs for Police and Firefighters, by percentage in the Village budget, is well within accepted guidelines for government accounting. Particularly for a business in the service industry, which exactly describes the Village end product, a service, not a product. In this case, payroll will make up at least 50 percent or more of the gross revenue. In the service industry, your employees are your merchandise; instead of buying goods, you pay for your employees’ labor.

    Your loosing creditability fast Kime!

  2. Sorry 7:29 am but 10:10 pm never had any credibility in the first place. He is obviously one of the council members or one of their supporters. Either way he’s so full of crap it’s amazing. He brains everything on Police and Firefightets. Whoever it is has not a clue about government !

  3. James, I suggest you watch what this poster says unless you want a defamation suit. There are plenty of facts cited from the Village’s own budget, and why are you allowing James Bombast to name someone who has made anonymous postings. If you are disclosing IP addresses to individual posters like the discredited Bombast then I think that should be made clear. Remember the $3.5mn jury award against the Village when a jury found Ridgewood Firefighter Kevin Reilly was denied promotions because he blew the whistle on alleged safety violations he claimed superiors committed in 2007 and 2009? He was awarded $3.5 million but a judge later reduced the amount to $500,000. That $500,000 could have paid for lots of vehicle registrations and fleet mechanics.

  4. 7:29 keeps going about “no facts, just rhetoric”. Typical union ploy to discredit and distract attention away from what’s really going on. Here are the facts, taken directly from the Village’s 2015 budget presentation (link posted above): Fact #1: 2015 Village expenses are seen up approximately 1.8% from prior year despite reductions in fleet mechanics, gasoline (oil prices are down 40% since last summer) and reduced parking meter slippage. Fact #2: Village taxes are seen up 1.2% to cover for this increase in expenses, which includes Police contracts & ammunition ($367K over 2014 budget), Group health insurance (up approximately $350K), additional legal expense for PBA negotiations ($35K), and the absorption of blue & white (1.5 + 1.5 + 1.5) due to a late contract settlement in 2014. Fact #3: fixed costs from contractual obligations (salaries, pensions, healthcare, terminal & accumulated leave) are 60.1% of the projected 2015 Village budget, which means we only have 39.9% of the budget for non-fixed, discretionary spending. Fact #4: this is a post about vehicle registrations, so what doe the BoE have to do with that? Nothing, unless it was a BoE car Boyd is referring to? Fact #5: Unfunded Liabilities for accumulated leave payouts upon retirement are $7.14M, and the 9 Confirmed Retirements will result in accumulated leave payouts as follows:
    ◦ 2015 – $ 432,607
    ◦ 2016 – $ 161,570
    ◦ 2017 – $ 121,000
    ◦ Total: $ 715,177 which equates to $80,000 per retiree. That alone could have paid for six fleet mechanics.

    These are all facts, yet you claim it’s just rhetoric. Why is that? We live in a County with the third highest property taxes in the entire United States. Seven of the top ten Counties in US with the highest property tax bills are in NJ (pretty impressive in a state which only has 21 Counties… that’s Jersey Strong!), which should scandalize everyone in Ridgewood, Bergen County and the state. And yet, no one seems to give a sh*t. It really boggles the mind. And yet here we still have status quo thugs posting that everything’s just fine, no problems here. Are you serious?

  5. Hey Chuckie Slime you better be careful or you will find your self being sued. Good thing you used the word alleged in your post because you know those violations were proven false. Sure wish you hadn’t so Chief Bimbace could have sued your pathetic butt.

  6. Really 10:11 am, you actually believe the Village paid the FF out of the Village budget? It’s clear you l haven’t heard of insurance which all municipalities have for just such instances. Once again you prove your stupidity with every post you make.

  7. Hey James, it’s great that you post the delusional rantings of a discredited thug, but why is he claiming that he knows the IP addresses and names of anonymous posters? Insurance premiums go up when you lose a $500,000 jury settlement which leaves less money for vehicle registrations which is what this blog comment above was about

  8. Wow, kinda presumptuous of 10:11am & 11:15 am telling you how to run your blog isn’t it James.

    Funny he has to resort to name calling and threats when he doesn’t have any real facts to support his allegations.

    Anyone who ignores the fact that the school portion of the budget (BOE) is the runaway train in the property taxes has some other agenda.

    The fact he cherry picks his information and tries to make it look like the Village Municipal Budget is out of control when in fact it isn’t. The Village 2014 effective tax rate was 2.270. This tax rate is below 36 other Bergen County towns (listed below) according to the NJ Division of Taxation:

    https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/pdf/lpt/gtr14ber.pdf

    BERGENFIELD BORO 3.151

    BOGOTA BORO 3.222

    DUMONT BORO 2.998

    ELMWOOD PARK BORO 2.690

    EMERSON BORO 2.392

    ENGLEWOOD CITY 2.294

    FAIRLAWN BORO 2.830

    FAIRVIEW BORO 2.702

    GARFIELD CITY 2.507

    GLEN ROCK BORO 2.560

    HACKENSACK CITY 3.089

    HARRINGTON PARK BORO 2.471

    HASBROUCK HGHTS BORO 2.684

    HAWORTH BORO 2.355

    HILLSDALE BORO 2.412

    LEONIA BORO 2.677

    LITTLE FERRY BORO 2.586

    LODI BORO 3.122

    LYNDHURST TWP 2.608

    MAYWOOD BORO 2.562

    MIDLAND PARK BORO 2.498

    NEW MILFORD BORO 2.857

    NORTH ARLINGTON BORO 2.918

    NORTHVALE BORO 2.375

    OAKLAND BORO 2.437

    ORADELL BORO 2.473

    RIDGEFIELD PARK VILLAGE 3.006

    RIVEREDGE BORO 2.751

    RIVERVALE TWP 2.415

    RUTHERFORD BORO 2.622

    SO HACKENSACK TWP 2.492

    TEANECK TWP 2.916

    WALDWICK BORO 2.602

    WALLINGTON BORO 2.543

    WESTWOOD BORO 2.346

    WOOD RIDGE BORO 2.417

    These numbers are FACTS! The Village spends less than these towns in it’s municipal budget to provide superior municipal services. But Chucky boy keeps repeating his rhetoric and spewing false accusations and trying to vilify the town employees for some reason only he knows. One thing is for sure if anyone posting on this blog is delusional it’s Chucky our friendly poster at 11:15 am.

  9. No reply from the guy who complains about the municipal budget all the time i see. Guess these facts shut him up good job 4:02 pm

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