file photo by Boyd Loving
August 5,2016
the staff of the Ridgewod blog
Ridgewood NJ, Readers accuse Ridgewood’s Village manager of continuing to push the agenda of the former Village council known as the 3 amigos . During Wednesday’s council meeting Village Manager Roberta Sonnefeld was taken to task over her actions on Schedler Park and Health Barn at Habernickle Park . The theme was an old theme of ignoring residents and continuing to push the out dated failed agenda of the former council .
“The biggest news from the meeting – Mayor Knudsen publicly apologized to a resident who was the subject of a very nasty and inappropriate letter to the editor of The Ridgewood News written by Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld. Sonenfeld offered no apology herself, however.”
Reader report , “Several people came down hard on Roberta Sonenfeld, and all had very specific reasons. I hope the council is listening to them. They have to get rid of her.”
While others say , “She will never resign from her “dream job” (her words). Big bucks, big power. Resigning would be an admission that she had actively followed Aronsohn’s personal instructions. That’s the truth, but she can’t admit it. And we have no way of knowing whether she has continued to do the same, only receiving his orders other than from the dais. Well, lots of those orders were given out of public view. However, if the council is wise, as several residents asked them to do in the public comments last night, she’ll be gone in a puff of smoke, ideally by Labor Day, no resignation required.”
Another reader reminded us that , “Paul Aronsohn blew a trumped up fit at our prior VM. Why? Because his formal political affiliation was notoriously out-of-phase with Aronsohn’s. Aronsohn swept out the old and ushered in someone he thought would be beholden to him. But Ridgewood has now moved on, back to a proper non-partisan VC. For anyone currently in village management publicly to defy the new councilmembers and the new mayor seems foolish. Maybe they are dead set on acting ideologically. Maybe they have become partisan hacks. Either way they need to get a clue, and fast.”
ALL e-mails and phone calls sent and received by her taxpayer funded accounts should be reviewed by Village Council members. The woman is not to be trusted.
She has an axe to grind.
She has to go.
She has to be fired… she will never leave of her own volition.
She is both “too proud” and “too shameless” to quit.
She is an employee, not the sixth council member.
She reports to the council and should give her opinion when needed. Otherwise she gets her marching orders from the current council, not Ahronson.
There will be no firing of the VM or the HR person. Talk is cheap.
she’s a bull shiter.
12.18, pm a few more need to go.
They will be here long after most other village employees.
She is not going to leave of her own accord. This is the best gig she’s ever had. Forget that impressive-looking resume of hers. There was a certain amount of creativity in it’s description. She’s a full-on political operative. Just look at her FB page.
The only problem with that photo is that you cannot see her head bobbling up and down as Aronsohn, and now Voigt, speaks. And Rutishauser.
She needs to go.