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Village of Ridgewood Council Meeting ; is the Honey Moon Over?

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August 4,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, It was a long night and long agenda at last night council meeting. Yes , some readers suspect the Honeymoon  is over. It also seems that after spending in excess of  six hundred thousand dollars on plans, study and test for the Hudson Street garage some council members seem to want to build it somewhere else.  Perhaps the Walnut St lot and the Town Garage property. We wonder if the expense of purchasing  the Town Garage and the environmental  clean up of that property will cost the Village tax payers.
However we can not blame the new council for trying to clean up the mess of the former council after all the “3 amigos” were voted in by residents so the residents are in essence cleaning up the mess they created .And this mess is a very big mess !

The Board of Trustees of the Library are back with force. We now have council members talking about a performing arts center next to  the library. What will be the cost to the taxpayers to build, staff and maintenance for this building. Maybe this new council should complete on thing before moving on to other projects and they should remember that they have a fiduciary responsible  to ALL residence .

As NJPAC’s total expenses grew, so did its state funding. The annual grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts increased from $750,000 in 1999 to a peak of $1.7 million in 2005, before falling back to $1.1 million this year.In contrast, NJPAC’s expenses for artistic programming have remained flat. In 1999, the arts center spent $10.6 million on concerts and other events, and according to its tax returns it recently spent $10.9 million..