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Village Council Public Workshop Agenda
For the duration of the Coronavirus pandemic, Village Hall is closed to the public and meetings are being held with participants at remote locations, connecting to conferencing software provided by zoom.us.
Continue reading Village Council Public Workshop Agenda For April 7th 7:30pm
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, in regards to your post today about Ridgewood EMTs – this is an issue manufactured by the Fire Chief in a time that they have been responding to less and less fires. These issues started in 2019 when we made a presentation to Susan Knudsen, who saw the writing on the wall that the fire department is too expensive when compared to EMS. She is working to protect her son’s job on the fire department. A letter was sent to the Village Council the day after the Chief of Emergency Services was blindsided at the public budget meeting. This will not provide 100% coverage of EMS, as the Fire Department has provided no plan of who would respond to EMS calls in town or handle fire rehab if there is a working fire – the firefighters are still being assigned double-duty on fire apparatus and ambulances, which has already caused issues in the past. Also, this will not be cost savings as stated by the manager. All per diem EMT salaries combined are under $70,000 a year ($20.83 max pay per hour, not all employees at max × 13 hours a day × 5 days a week × 52 weeks a year) while the announced salary of the new firefighters would be $37,000 × 2, plus pensions, benefits, and training costs, with raises up to $110,000 a year each for these positions, making them the most expensive EMTs in the state – triple the average EMTs salary. I would be happy to provide a copy of the letter via email if you contact me with a good address to reach you.
Surely you must be joking Mr Halaby!
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, an ordinance was introduced at the Village Council meeting as a first step toward resolving noise complaints by residents around Glen School’s courts. The ordinance, introduced last week, and will be up for a public hearing during a special Feb. 24 meeting. The ordinance would eliminate pickleball memberships for non-residents and an end to free senior badges.
Village Council Regular Public Meeting
For the duration of the Coronavirus pandemic, Village Hall is closed to the public and meetings are being held with participants at remote locations, connecting to conferencing software provided by zoom.us. Members of the public are invited to view meetings live using Zoom, which also allows them to “raise a hand” and contribute with voice and video when they are invited to do so during Public Comments as well as during Public Hearings during the meeting.
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the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the recent lock down of the Pickleball courts at Glen School has lead other neighbors to wonder why their complaints seem to be ignored ?
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
December 2, 2020
7:30 P.M.
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, since 1927 Village moms and dads have complained about inadequate parking in Ridgewood’s central business district . In the late 1960’s parking meters were added to the CBD to pay for a future parking garage , the chance was misplaced . Plans were drawn up over and over and finally after much debate in early September of 2019 the Village Council pushed forward with the Hudson Garage . Progress came quickly ,but in March of 2019 COVID19 struck , wiping out the demand for commuter spaces . then restaurants were shut down leaving the Village with a great white parking garage elephant . While things have started to return to some semblance of normal with outdoor dinning ,now partial indoor dinning . Al Gore’s internet continues to steal retail sales ,restaurants are struggling to survive and commuters may never return . At lest the massive high density housing projects will now have access to more parking .
Continue reading The Best-laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry…the Hudson Parking Garage
Village of Ridgewood Regular Public Meeting
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
8:00 P.M.
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridghewood NJ, FORMER Councilman Jeffrey D. Voigt submitted a ridiculous piece of fiction to The Ridgewood News in the form of a letter this past week. We learned from the newspaper that they had to edit out (and they refused to publish) the particularly outlandish paragraphs in which he self-righteously criticized the bullies on social media (he himself is the KING of bullying on social media, posting here on The Blog incessantly). They also deleted the parts where he talks about how others need to be decent human beings (since he certainly is not one), and how some people are “big men” behind computer screens but not in public – wow, doesn’t this describe this horrible man just perfectly?! KUDOS to the Ridgewood News for recognizing that even a “DOUCHEBAG” can go too far into the realm of non-science fiction.
Continue reading Former Councilman Voigt Attempts to Rewrite History in Ridgewood News Letter
“No resident uses all of the features of this town. Some residents don’t even use the school system. Some use the parks, some don’t. Some play tennis, some don’t. Some use the communal garden, some don’t. Some go to concerts at the band shell, some don’t. For those who enjoy using Graydon, it’s a wonderful thing that the VC went ahead and opened it up this year. It’s kind of shocking to me that there was even a dispute about it. Nancy Bigos and Heather Mayländer pushed back so hard against this that it was shocking. Spoke to me of complete abject laziness on their part.”
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Village Council Meetings, which are streamed live on the Village website through Swagit and shown on Zoom teleconferencing, will be held on the following dates/times:
On this day, 244 years ago, the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence. Even though they had already declared independence two days earlier, the American people were so moved by the Declaration that thereafter July 4th became our birthday. Happy Birthday America!
