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Ridgewood NJ, for the second time in a matter of weeks a serving Village of Ridgewood board member has attacked someone from the community.
Continue reading “I suggest that you carefully consider the meaning of your words in the future before sending similar correspondence.”
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL’S PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
MAY 22, 2019 7:30 P.M.
7:30 pm – Call to Order – Mayor
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
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VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
MAY 8, 2019
8:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order – Mayor
2. Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act
3. Roll Call – Village Clerk
4. Flag Salute and Moment of Silence
5. Acceptance of Financial Reports
6. Approval of Minutes
7. Proclamations
Strange. Schedler, which serves about 12 people and a family of bald eagles, always makes it on to the formal meeting agenda… and yet Mayor Hache can’t get a formal hearing for Nancy Greene and the Library, which serves thousands of Village residents?
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL’S
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
MAY 1, 2019
7:30 P.M.
7:30 pm – Call to Order – Mayor
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
Continue reading THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL’S PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA APRIL 24, 2019 7:30 P.M.
photo courtesy of Boyd Loving
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Ridgewood NJ, congratulations ,last night the following Ridgewood Fire Department personnel were sworn in by Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache during the Ridgewood Village Council’s Public Meeting held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019:
Probationary Firefighter Thomas Benintende
Probationary Firefighter Trevor Fetkowitz
Fire Lieutenant Matthew Ramge
Fire Captain John Judge
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
APRIL 10, 2019 : 8:00 P.M.
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Ridgewood NJ, In an ironic twist, Councilman Jeffrey Voigt reported at the April 3 Village Council meeting on the proposed “Ridgewood Community Center Rules of Conduct.” As Council liaison to The Community Center Advisory Board, he was apparently part of the discussion in which the new Code of Conduct for the Community Center was developed. So here you have an elected official who on several occasions (not once, but multiple times) has called a man FATSO, even following him through a bank parking lot shouting this body-shaming insult. And he called a citizen a “douchebag” on the microphone at a Village Council meeting. He lost his temper with The Village Manager at a public meeting, telling her “I’m f’ing pissed,” when the Manager fulfilled a legal request by the Mayor for documents. And there are several, in fact many, other instances in which his conduct has been anything but exemplary. We can’t wait to see the rules that he comes up with for appropriate behavior in the Community Center, considering that his benchmark is so low.
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Ridgwood NJ, Even The New York Times knows plastic bag bans only make people feel good, they don’t help anything. The Brits ran a real study and found:
“The study found that an avid shopper would have to reuse his or her cotton bag 131 timesbefore it had a smaller global warming impact than a lightweight plastic bag used only once. And, depending on the make, more durable plastic bags would have to be used at least 4 to 11 times before they made up for their heftier upfront climate costs.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/climate/plastic-paper-shopping-bags.html
And yet Village Councilman Mike Sedon spoke enthusiastically from the dais about the ban and then a new tax on bags. The facts don’t match the rhetoric or emotions behind the “ban bags” push. New taxes on Ridgewood’s’ already overtaxed residents make no sense either!
Stop the madness at Village Hall, more taxes and more bans on this and that aren’t doing anything. Leave us alone.
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING
MARCH 27, 2019
7:30 P.M.
1. Call to Order – Mayor
2. Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act
MAYOR: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided
by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall,
by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
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AGENDA
VILLAGE COUNCIL
SPECIAL PUBLIC BUDGET MEETING
MARCH 8, 2019
5:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order
MAYOR: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
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THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL’S
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
file photo by ArtChick
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
8:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order – Mayor
2. Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act
3. Roll Call – Village Clerk
4. Flag Salute and Moment of Silence
5. Acceptance of Financial Reports
6. Approval of Minutes
7. Proclamations
A. Dad’s Night Days – Hawes School and Somerville School
B. Read Across America Day
C. Super Science Saturday
8. Police Department Awards
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“The root of the problem is the failure of our Village Council to distinguish between their Narrow interests and the underlying drivers of value for Village residents. Their self-interests are reflections of important aspects of Village business; but however important and useful for Village planning, they should not be used in a self-congratulatory list of “accomplishments” as surrogates for the underlying value of the Council’s work. Genuine value creation fur residents requires a Council culture that compels our Governing body to pursue projects that promise to improve life for all residents, whether it be property tax reduction or paving our third world roads – while not treating their own narrow self-interests (Schedler, Elks HQ, Hudson Garage) as ends in themselves.”
