the staff of The Ridgewood Blog
Ridgewood NJ, during Wednesday night’s Village Council Public Work Session, Village of Ridgewood CFO and Parking Utility Director Robert Rooney publicly announced that the Village’s only full-time Parking Enforcement Officer recently submitted her resignation effective June 30, 2023. Additionally, Ridgewood’s only part-time Parking Enforcement Officer just quit after being on the job for only 2 days.
The bad news for Ridgewood’s tax payers is until the Parking Enforcement Officer jobs are filled, there will be no incoming parking summons related revenue because there’s going to be no one to issue those summonses.
The good news for anyone who regularly parks their vehicle at Village of Ridgewood locations where payment is required (business district streets, Hudson Street Garage, train station, Village owned parking lots) is that parking will in effect be free until such time that new Parking Enforcement Officers are hired and trained.
Another hit to the municipal budget; just what taxpayers needed!
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No matter how hard you tried, you just couldn’t make shit like this up. What a riot!
The new Village Manager will be stepping in to one huge pile of shit.
The New MGR will not be good for Ridgewood, he is Paul’s puppet former Campaign MGR. He will NEVER fill Heather’s Shoe’s
Hostile working environment.
Right. Tripping over all the garbage spilling out from the new too small trash cans. Thanks Siobhan.
Thanks for your service Brittany.
This Village is so mismanaged and being run into the ground. Residents need to wake up.
Or leave?
Pedestrian Plaza is the straw that broke the camels back. Thanks Mayor Pau-lie.
This Village is so mismanaged. Sadly, Ridgewood is no longer what it use to be.
It is on a fast continuous decline that will last for years. We’re far from rock bottom.
Your are so right
It’s been in the shitter for years…come on open your eyes
Village employees quitting left and right, literally days after starting. Someone needs to read between the lines and investigate Village Hall.
Maybe they’re hiring the wrong employees.
Do realize that Police Officers are fully able to enforce parking ordinances and in most towns, they do. Cops should spend downtime issuing tickets.
100%
there is a police cruiser parking in the van nest parking lot every day…get out of the car an issue parking tickets. The cat in the tree can wait.
That’s the fire department job
Ridgewood cops are not trained in software necessary to issue tickets for pay to park systems.
Its time
trained? Press ‘print’
Its automated via parkmobile license plate readers
Well then train them. The cops that stand around watch the 13 pedestrians walk by over the weekend can walk around a couple of blocks and write a few tickets. Everything is this town has to be over analyzed 8 times over with committees and “experts”. See a problem, fix it.
Amen
Who is paying for the software to look up who paid? You gonna provide every officer with a phone, or you gonna demand they use their personal ones and order licenses? By the way you can’t,So that’s out. Your endeavor just got really expensive.
How hard can it be?
For over 100K they should have do parking tickets
take a look at the weeds growing in ridgewood ave sidewalk as u turn on maple ave towards renato’s
great job council ..our cbd looks like crap
Actually that is the responsibility of the property owner who abuts the sidewalk: https://ecode360.com/6695077
I give it a few days village hall will have the police department writing tickets, they’re going to need the revenue or there’s going to be even more layoffs in the future. No one wants that job working for parking authority. It sucks. Dead end opportunity. And speaking for the rest of the village, it’s such a joke, morale is at the lowest level ever. No one cares, the villages done. Everyone knows it. I every department is mismanaged, no one knows what the hell is going on. They lost all the experience.
The mayor and council need to wake up, start cleaning house from the top straight down. Look what’s been going on in the past few years what a shit show. So embarrassing. Poor leader ship across-the-board. They’re all washed up. You can deny it. we never see so many employees come and go. What does that tell you. Hey if they can utilize full-time employees to do a part-time jobs throughout the village, they can utilize police to write tickets. What would be their excuse we’re having too many calls. Oh well suck it up. Just like every other department. Suck it up.
Start with Nancy Bigios and her letting HB in habernickle destroy it. Tarps on grass. Killing it! Tents everywhere. A mess. Overflowing garbage from the parties
Get rid of Nancy Bigios. She can’t even get life guards and she is letting HB destroy Habernickle park
I know, I know, we are Stoopid and Rich….
Truth is Truth
We heard through the grapevine. The man is coming back.
Would like to see the comparison of the ticket revenue compared to the expense of three full time PEO’s, plus new cars etc. Would not be surprised if the PEO operation broke even, especially when you factor in the lack of tickets with the PEO’s sitting under the clock (usually distracting the LEO’s)
good point.
Well of course the “article” didn’t touch on the savings that would come from this…but then that doesn’t feed their narrative so why would they?
lest this be a ploy to get village residents to relax and not pay meters which will result in yet more revenue, enforced by cops or otherwise. beware
People will still pay, only the people on the blog will . Out of towners will still pay
I not paying shit. Let’s see the cops walk in the rain. Yeah ok. We can’t get them to check the oil in the cars they drive.amazing. The manager said that’s going to change. Oh well. Lazy.
Nancy needs to retire.
Then mustache boy needs to go. Manager it’s not working out.
Please. She is the worst. What she lets happen at Habernickle is unforgivable
I’m going to tell the new manager everything. Some people are going to be very scared. Yes you know who you are.
I have stuff too. On paper! Threats and mis management
We heard that he will be back. ( ? )
Clean out your desk! ( ? )
Only 2 people know. Who it is.
We heard that extreme changes coming, there’s no more money. The writings on the wall. Everyone knows.
Extreme change… The fire department is going all volunteer and saving the town millions like most of the towns around us? About time!!
You are right people. Overheard a fire man and EMT talking at Valley. They talk about village hall decimated the Vilunteer EMS. Fired their chief and other leaders that know everything, the volunteers left and joined other towns, only the teenagers left. No one wants to work here anymore
Fire department is one big political department. It’s amazing this is not New York City some of us just don’t understand help other big towns like Mahwah, Fairlawn, Paramus, handle all of her accidents and fires pretty amazing for being volunteer. They deserve a real big stipend.
No self respecting parking officer would work in a town with overflowing garbage cans
Boy or boy they screwed up on that one, we told him the garbage cans wouldn’t work. If that was a manager making that decision, they would be fired now they have to double up garbage cans and have you locations to address this issue dummies.
Amazing. What’s going on isn’t it, don’t worry more garbage to come. In this town it’s never ending episodes of bullshit, ridiculous, poor management, no wonder Morale is at the lowest level ever. It’s so embarrassing. let’s see what the new boss can fix.
The only reason a few people take that job because it’s 1 foot in the door at getting to the next level as a police officer. which they think, but that doesn’t happen. That’s a dead end job, it’s good for somebody that’s retired. At this point they should have free parking for July and August. Just maybe that would help the business section out.
You know, it’s amazing. The village thinks they can do whatever they want, they go against laws, rules, like in the past the governor implements laws, and they do the opposite. Do they think the employees are really stupid. This is not 50 years ago when most of the employees really didn’t have an education that’s why they became a municipal worker. Not saying that. There was anything wrong with them. They just didn’t want to go to college to further their education. Not saying there’s anything wrong with that. If you look at, let’s just say police and fire 40 years ago what you need to get that job versus today, is night and day. Shit we have many employees across all departments that have call George Acacian today. And that’s wonderful and actually some of the employees have more education and brains than management. Yes, I said it and management knows this that’s why those and employees are a threat to the top. Those are the employees that are reading contracts, laws, paying attention to government speeches, to follow of all the laws, but yet upper management doesn’t follow the laws then they wonder why they’re in a pickle.