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Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Mayor Stifles Public Comments
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Ridgewood NJ, in a Facebook post a poster commented on the on going antics of a Ridgewood resident who’s self-styled, self indulgent bloviating has become a mainstay of the public comment portion of Village council meetings. The poster raised concerns as to whether the commentor had gone “too far” ? Whether a commentor goes “too far” or not is something the Ridgewood blog deals with on a daily basis . Sometimes we come in a little over and sometimes a little under , the balance is often difficult to get just right.
Continue reading So How Far is “Too Far” in Public Comments, Blog Comments ?
Continue reading Ridgewood Village Council’s Push to Curtail Public Comments Silenced
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Continue reading No Transparency: Village of Ridgewood Mayor Squelches Public Comment
Continue reading Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Pamela Perron says “no” to waiting public comments
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Ridgewood NJ, the bad news very simply is that our mayor controls who gets the opportunity to speak. If he sees a name on the queue list that he doesn’t like, he can bypass that individual. The public doesn’t get to see who is waiting in queue; only the mayor and his IT support employee can see the list. We suppose if you’re booted and complain, a mysterious technical difficulty will be offered up as an explanation.
Continue reading Village Council Special Public Meeting Monday, August 16, 2021, 5:30PM – 7:30PM
photo by Boyd Loving
September 14,2015
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Ridgewood NJ, The Mayor Paul Aronsohn and the Village Council has given in to the public outcry for a Second Meeting to hear public comments on the multi-family housing . On June 24 at a public meeting the Mayor basically told resident Boyd Loving to sit down and shut up when he suggested that more than one public hearing was in order.
Perhaps recent events such as the lawsuit brought by the CBR, as well as intense public outcry about the single meeting, and even the Ridgewood News editorial, have caused a change of heart. Boyd it seems, was dare we say it, RIGHT.
Now perhaps you will listen to Boyd’s other suggestion to secure a larger venue for the hearings, so that overflow citizens are not sequestered in the basement of Village Hall and are somehow shuttled up and down stairs to the microphone.
Jersey City BOE limits public comments at meetings – Will Ridgewood follow suit?
By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
The Jersey City school board approved a measure this week that significantly curtails when residents can speak at board meetings and stops recording those comments on video, actions critics say are an effort to silence them.
The changes force all speakers to notify school officials at least one day in advance if they want to make general comments or speak on a specific agenda item. Previously, notice was only required for general comments.
The measure also prohibits any speaker from speaking more than once, as opposed to once for an agenda item and once for a general comment. Instead of two sessions of public comment that act as bookends to the monthly meetings, there will be one instead.