>Ridgewood municipal taxes will increase anywhere between 5.2 and 7.4 percent
Ridgewood budget hearings come to a close Friday, April 8, 2011 BY MICHAEL SEDON THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS Staff Writer
Ridgewood municipal taxes will increase anywhere between 5.2 and 7.4 percent based on the outcome of meetings with village department heads and four scenarios crafted by the village manager.
“Introduction does not mean in any way that the budget process is over,” said Village Manager Ken Gabbert. “It’s introducing it, starting the discussion process, hold a public hearing and it will be adopted at some point down the road.”
All four scenarios include tax increases higher than 2 percent, the state mandated cap on tax increases passed by the state Legislature last year. The law allows for three big ticket items to be excluded from the cap: health benefits, pensions and deferred charges and emergencies, Gabbert explained.
>Village of Ridgewood: Village Council and Board Meetings
04/12/11 7:30 PM Board of Adjustment Public Meeting 04/13/11 8:00 PM Village Council Public Meeting 04/19/11 7:30 PM Planning Board Public Meeting 04/20/11 7:30 PM Village Council Work Session 04/26/11 7:30 PM Board of Adjustment Public Meeting
>Just because you were STUPID enough to purchase a home with a VERY LARGE BUILDING next to it does not give you the right to prevent ME for having the best hospital services available
Being anti valley will not get my vote…..when are you NIMBY’s going to get it through your thick heads that valley is expanding? just because you were STUPID enough to purchase a home with a VERY LARGE BUILDING next to it does not give you the right to prevent ME for having the best hospital services available because YOU are worried about your property values…should have thought about that when you bought a home next to A VERY LARGE BUILDING. dopes !
>BOE Elections : it is time for a change on the BOE and Krauss is smart, articulate, savvy and quick. Her anti-Valley position is a pro-children position
First, all of these posts against CRR or CCR, whichever it is, are clearly written by the same person! So let’s put it to rest now. Krauss is a strong candidate who has studied many of the issues and is quite knowledgeable. Is she as knowledgeable as Sheila or Laurie, of course not that would be impossible, but it is time for a change on the BOE and Krauss is smart, articulate, savvy and quick. Her anti-Valley position is a pro-children position.
Laurie supported Valley and its expansion openly but now says she has no position. Valley is not a strong supporter of the BOE and our students. Valley made calculated as strategic moves after the failed BFMS land grab six years ago. After that debacle Valley began introducing programs for students with the RHAP program, Shadow Professionals and summer programs. But it is disingenuous to suggest these are anything other than a public relations campaign to prevent the BOE from taking a stand against the new Valley proposal. The BOE should sever all programs with Valley immediately and do the right thing by taking a stand against this huge expansion thrust upon all of us, with the greatest adverse impact to our children.
BOE members are charged with the education, safety and well being of our children. This BOE has neglected their responsibilities to our kids and to their learning environment. It is a disgrace. The BOE and Valley have acted with a reckless disregard for our Village children. To the person who suggested Krauss bring cookies and milk to the BOE: you are irresponsible and ignorant. Maybe Laurie will bring a cake.
>BOE Elections: After speaking to Krauss at length I plan on voting for her.
After speaking to Krauss at length I plan on voting for her. My other choice will have to be Sheila even though I think she has been there too long it seems there is no much of a choice when it boils down to the lesser of two evils.
Goodman has no regard for neighbors! She inflicted that duck pond dog park on everyone without consideration to anyone. The eyesore, noise , stench and crap everywhere is a disgrace. People from all over bringing their dogs. Now the plan is to move that eyesore closer to the road out of concern for the neighbors. Great! Now Ridgewood will greet visitors with a chain link fiasco perpetrated by Goodman. Can it be moved to her backyard?
Then the issue of the lights which Goodman voted on as BOE Liaison to Fields and now, as candidate in the hot seat she back peddles to mitigate her responsibility in the illuminating fiasco.
from the patch; ‘Laurie Goodman, who had voted in favor of the proposed (light) revision as liaison, said it was difficult as “much has to be left to the imagination.”
what part was left to the imagination? can the taxpayers of ridgewood take this candidate seriously? short answer is no.
>BOE Elections : It is well documented that Christina spoke against and Laurie Goodman spoke for the Valley expansion
First of all, it’s CRR (concerned residents of ridgewood), second, the issue of Valley Hospital did not come up and was not addressed by any candidate. It is well documented that Christina spoke against and Laurie Goodman spoke for the expansion at the planning board meetings.
Christina is new to speaking in public as well as debates. I have seen her speak among small groups of people and she comes across beautifully. She has done a lot of research, knows her facts, and has strong opinions on many of the issues. She wants to reduce the tax burden while maintaining the quality of education we have and I for one know she can help. I can only guess that nerves played a part in her performance. She has been considering running for a long time and is not a one issue candidate. I believe she will bring a fresh set of ideas and opinions to the currently “cloned” and “robotic” opinions of the board. She will be the only candidate I vote for.
>BOE Elections : Are we now requiring a litmus test for our BOE elected officials
I too am a concerned citizen of this town and I am concerned that the CCR would endorse a candidate for the BOE. Are we now requiring a litmus test for our BOE elected officials? This is an endorsement that does not speak to the needs of our children but just to someone’s anti-Valley stand.
How very sad…As far as I am aware, neither Sheila nor Laurie has taken a pro or anti Valley stand and this is how it should be when you are running for the BOE. The CCR may be correct on their Valley position but they are turning this town into a one issue community. Stridency is never good particularly when it comes to an issue as important and complex as the BOE and the education of our children. In fact 9:17 PM, Sheila has taken a strong stand on the safety of our children and construction requirements IF it comes to that. The CCR has really done a disservice to this community.
The Ridgewood blog ( https://theridgewoodblog.blogspot.com/ ) was founded in March of 2006 by James J Foytlin aka PJ Blogger .[1] Mr. Foytlin was born and raised in Ridgewood ,New Jersey and is a graduate of Ridgewood High School .[2] [3]
After many years living in New York City[4] Mr Foytlin returned to Ridgewood after a divorce and the tragic events of 9/11 . Once he settled in he noticed a lack of sufficient news coverage of local events . One day a friend from Brazil[5] showed him her home town on the internet and to Mr. Foytlin’s great surprise when he tried to reciprocate he was utterly dismayed at the absolute lake coverage of his home town. After all Ridgewood is only 18 miles from midtown Manhattan[6] the media capital of world and there was not a single picture of Ridgewood to be found . How could this be? Ridgewood is a picturesque upper middle class village of around 25,000 located in Bergen county in northern New Jersey[7] . Founded by Dutch settlers before it became an English colony[8] . The town or village as its called is steeped in rich history and tradition .Known for a large amount of Victorian era housing , a quality school system and a family friendly atmosphere.
Though busy getting reacquainted with his home town the fact that the Village of Ridgewood was so under represented on the internet continued to disturb Mr. Foytlin. Mr. Foytlin had been writing news letters for his job in financial services since the mid 1990’s . The popular flip, off beat investment strategy news letters had become email blasts with the advent of readily accessible internet.[9] By 2004 the email blasts were converted into blog format for the One Small Voice blog ( https://onesmallvoice.blogspot.com/ ). [10]
Around that time the Village of Ridgewood had finally completed it’s much anticipated and long delayed renovation of the Village hall which has been flooded out due to Hurricane Floyd.[11] The renovation was marred by huge cost over runs and lengthy delays. In 2005 it opened with great fan fare , was once again flooded with the very first rain . Mr. Foytlin was more shocked by the abject lack of responsibility taken by elected officials than the fact that the $9 million dollar renovation had to some extent been a failure . That was the breaking point and Mr. Foytlin had had enough so he decided to give , citizen journalism a go and created the Ridgewood blog in March of 2006. [12]
The birth of PJ Blogger .By this time Blogging its seems had become quite the rage and mainstream news anchors such as Dan Rather had questioned the validity of information from non professionals sitting around in their Pajama’s blogging.[13] Mr. Foytlin not a fan of Dan Rather or any of the mainstream media decided to blog under the name PJ Blogger as a play on words and to plant himself firmly in the camp of the new digital media.
Innovations by the Ridgewood blog to citizen journalism.
“The Fly” is a column on the Ridgewood blog the originates from the expression ,”I’d like to be a fly on the wall “ . The idea is that every citizen has both a unique perspective and experience and these two factors can be used to gather news and opinions about local issues. Originally only of handful of people in town participated but with time the Ridgewood blog can now count on 20–40 semi regular contributors. These post are both anonymous and signed and are largely opinion as well a breaking news.[14]
The Ridgewood blog brings a free market lassie fare point of view to local issues . Mr. Foytlin aka PJ Blogger has stated that for local issues there are only two kinds of people ;the ones who say spend what every you want because I will not be around to pay the bill and the second group which are more focused on the ,”be careful this is my money your spending” . The Ridgewood blog is dedicated to the interplay of there two groups.[15]
[1][12] the Ridgewood blog website https://theridgewoodblog.blogspot.com/
[2] Birth Certificate born in Valley Hospital , Ridgewood 04/09/1962
[3] Ridgewood High School Class 1980
[4] 444 East 86th street ,530 East 72nd
[5] Monica Rocha
[6] Mapquest
[7] United States 2000 Census, the village population was 24,936.
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>The Ridgewood Guild will hosts its first Spring Film Festival on Wednesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 28 at The Clearview Cinema in Ridgewood.
Film Festival Schedule Wednesday, April 27
Time Theatre 1 Length Genre
6:45 Ogres 3 min. Music Video Havana Nights 4 min. Short Subject (student) Butterflies 3 min. Short Subject (student) Hallways 5 min. Short Subject (student) 7:00 Scarecrow 17 min. Short Subject
Break
7:25 Cuts Marked in the March of Men 5 min. Music Video Mr. Summers 9 min. Short Subject (student) Redemption 7 min. Short Subject (student) By Chance 7 min. Short Subject (student) Heidi Knight: Katrina Ate My House 8 min. Short Subject
Break
8:10 The Dogerrel 3 min. Short Subject The Memory Box 3 min. Short Subject How to Disappear without a Trace 3 min. Short Subject Q&A 11 min. 8:30 George Washington’s Headquarters 5 min. Documentary 8:35 Delayed 83 min. Feature Length
Time Theatre 2 Length Genre
7:00 The Love Kills Theory 4 min. Music Video Dream House 11 min. Short Subject Bigger Than Jesus 27 min. Documentary
Break
7:45 Smokestacks and Steeples 28 min. Documentary Restare Uniti 16 min. Short Subject
Break
8:35 Power in the Pristine 24 min. Documentary 9:00 A Jersey Christmas 88 min. Feature Length Doc.
Thursday, April 28
Time Theatre 1 Length Genre
6:45 Dialysus “Remind You” 4 min. Music Video (student) Underage Drinking: Think, Don’t Drink 8 min. Documentary (student) Teenage Pregnancy: A Challenge… 7 min. Documentary (student) Science is So Fly 2 min. Music/Rap (student) Breast Cancer Awareness 3 min. Documentary (student)
Break
7:20 The Duck Incident 6 min. Short Subject Q&A 9 min. 7:35 Girls of Daraja 15 min. Documentary Q&A 10 min. 8:00 Seaside Story 27 min. Documentary Carved 4 min. Short Subject (student) An Early Morning Walk 3 min. Short Subject (student) The Swamibapa 12 min. Documentary
Break
8:50 Hidden Battles 65 min. Documentary
Time Theatre 2 Length Genre
7:00 No Children 3 min. Annimation Requiem for Kosova 20 min. Short Subject
Break
7:30 Adjusting Well 22 min. Short Subject Family Hour 5 min. Short Subject Girls, Robots, and Digital Cameras 14 min. Short Subject
>The Planning Board has authorized the New H Zone Ordinance
The Planning Board has authorized the New H Zone Ordinance to be sent to the Village Council for possible introduction and adoption. Click Here for H Zone Ordinance document : https://tinyurl.com/3ojzpjm
>A new rule is on the books for all math classes at Benjamin Franklin (BF) Middle School, geared toward relieving students’ stress and promoting well being.
Ridgewood school adopts new homework policy Friday, April 1, 2011 BY KELLY EBBELS THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS STAFF WRITER
A new rule is on the books for all math classes at Benjamin Franklin (BF) Middle School, geared toward relieving students’ stress and promoting well being.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School recently adopted a new math homework policy that has become popular among parents, students and teachers. The policy: If a student doesn’t finish homework within an allotted time set by the teacher, a parent or guardian can sign the paper where they left off, and the student receives full credit.
Implemented a month ago, Principal Tony Orsini said the new policy has so far been popular with parents, students and even teachers – who have said it has helped their students focus, and given teachers the information they need to better tailor their homework and their lessons to students who just aren’t grasping the concepts of quadratic equations or other subjects.
