
The Council repealed 3066
Kings Pond will get a fix
Jackie Hone will be vindicated
Parking problems will be remediated
People at the mic are respected
Our Mayor is smart and educated
The best of the best were elected
All and all we’re feeling elated!
by Linda McNamara
July 21,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The council meeting was business like and everyone was respected. People are now allowed to ask questions and the new council actually answered. It is amazingly difference from when Aronsohn ruled and they all stared at the speakers or, worse yet, they attacked the speakers.
A couple of people spoke happily about 3066 being repealed. It will not be finally repealed until the August public meeting.
A man spoke about fixing Kings Pond and it sounds like that will happen . Susan has already put money in the budget to finance that. Saurabh asked and asked about the supposed $60,000 spent by Stacy Antine at Health Barn. Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld waffled on providing info and Boyd blasted her for this.
The swearing in of Chief Luthke was wonderful and the high point of the night The room was packed standing room only. There was much applause and John Ward came and pinned his own stars on Jackie’s epaulets. The whole thing was very moving. The female chief from Bergenfield was in attendance as were three freeholders.
The only blemish on the event was that the unelected village manager as usual planted herself in the midst of the swearing in, where she has no right to be. Someone needs to remind Ms. Sonenfeld that she needs to stay up on the dais as the other unelected members (Heather and Matt) do for proclamations and swearing-ins.
Party at village expense when 3066 is deep-sixed!!!!!!!!!! Ice cream and cake for all!
Party for sure, paid for by Judge Pfund
it’s amazing to watch the new council meetings. Respect for all those who ask questions. Even questions that are asked are answered or will be researched and followed up on. Keep up the good work.
is the nightmare really over?
First piece of cake goes to Pete McKenna. Let’s fly Paul Gould in! Has anybody told him about developments?
Keith Killion led council meetings with respect and aplomb. Let’s not forget that the bad times and INCIVILITY do not date to Ridgewood’s founding. Of course, there was also Mr. Pfund.
This is amazing. I will never forget my first and only meeting that I attended back in Novemeber. What a disgrace and so disheartening to have witnessed such disrespect of concerned tax payers by the 3 amigos especially Gwen and Paul. I am thrilled that this behavior is over !
Albert, Paul and Gwenn were basically run out of office. They will tell you that they chose not to run. What they chose is to not be humiliated into a terrible loss, which they clearly were going to endure. So instead they put up three candidates who they supported with all their might, lobbying for them in letters, with signs, with email blasts, etc. And those three lost in a spectacular crushing failure. The people said NO, NO, and NO to the three horrible replacements that the three dirtbags had put forth.
Now if you can believe it Albert and Paul are busy publishing letters and op-ed pieces slamming the new council. They are continuing their legacy of incivility and horrible behavior. Why can’t the two of them just take a back seat, way way in the back. Remember George Bush? He was quiet after he left office, even though he likely disagreed with every word out of Obama’s mouth. Bush was respectful of the fact that he was no longer in office. This is typically what happens. But no, not with these guys. They are going to continue to capture sound bytes of how right they are and how wrong everyone else is.
How perfectly ironic is it, that the civility and civic harmony that Ex-mayor Aronsohn was purportedly seeking, and supposedly trying to engender, by way of his signature series of so-called “civility forums”, has at long last come, almost like the break of dawn, the contrast being so stark and the transition so swift, and the only change that was required to bring it about was to dislodge his and his sidekicks’ sorry arses out of office!!! Ahhhh…. change is good. Change we can believe in. Si se puede! GO SCRATCH, P.A.! And let us enjoy our permanent vacation from watching you look down your nose at the rest of us from the VC dais.
And what about the new council talking to the village work force, And with out any top managers.