December 15,2016
by Boyd A. Loving
Well, well, well.
Ridgewood NJ, It would appear that the barrage of negative social media posts regarding the Ridgewood Public Library’s planned $5 million “interior renovation and expansion of the current auditorium” have caught the library’s Board of Trustees completely by surprise. So much so that Mayor Susan Knudsen read a prepared statement during Wednesday night’s Village Council meeting in which the Board of Trustees claim that their discussions about renovating “. . . thus far have been merely speculative.”
Councilman Jeffery Voigt, who is the Village Council’s liaison to the Library Board, had publicly reported the Library’s renovation plan on December 7. Immediately following his report, The Ridgewood Blog and other social media sites were flooded with reader comments about the grandiose renovation plans. The Library Board of Trustees’ prepared statement, read by Mayor Knudsen, claimed that Voigt’s comments “. . . should not have served as an announcement.”
A review of Library Board of Trustees meeting minutes will determine if Councilman Voigt’s December 7 report was indeed accurate.
Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.