Readers says Valley’s Board of Trustees needs to be accountable for this adversarial action.
The Valley Board of Trustees/Directors has not only allowed but financially rewarded the mismanagement of this now disgraced entity for it wrongful and failed attempts to bully the entire region.
The names of Valley directors should be made public so they can directly hear the wide annoyance at the poor decisions of its management team including the latest slap in the face to our village who has hosted and subsidized their tax free entity which is a farce to be discussed in detail another day.
First there was the Pascack Valley fiasco where Valley tried to sue to close that hospital agaisnt the wishes of that region instead of capitalizing on a golden opportunity to cheaply purchase a properly situated location that would have expanded their regional scope and market share while appeasing two communities. Valley’s lack of vision and their unethical legal maneuvering failed causing much lost of respect and goodwill and likely much business from that area , now Valley and its Board are repeating the same error that will further tarnish their standings in our community and the legacies of their predecessors.
The management and Board of Hackensack Hospital showed itself to be more attuned to the marketplace and prepared and likely will be again when other opportunities arise. Valley’s embarrassing doubletalk and repeated attempt to blatantly overdevelop a limited site despite knowing past rulings and objections reveals arrogance, incompetence and their over reliance on past back room brokering instead of sound management . To try to force something so sizeable and detrimental upon this town against its wishes was a Valley blunder and PR disaster and this high handed suit just tops off their list of errors.
There needs to be accountability for this adversarial action. Again, who are the Board of Trustees/ Directors? Time for them to be identified and properly addressed in good form for wearing blinders and showing disregard. I fully support and stand with the rightful decisions of our planning board and council and will gladly pay more taxes if that is what is required to fend off an hypocritical entity that argues positions without merit solely out of self interests and employs distasteful tactics to boot.
Our town reps were recognized by our residents for their thoroughness and integrity in this wasteful fiasco and my hope is that they wont feel pressure to succumb to the pressure tactics of a bully. Valley and its loud lawyers can scream like petulant children who don’t get their way to an absurd request . They can rant and threaten all they want but the resolve of this community to stand up for itself and its future generations will remain . High time for the Valley’s Board of Trustees to step up and stop the nonsense once and for all or face the music from the community