August 11,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, an odd occurrence at the Village Council meeting last night Siobhan Crann Winograd who has recently joined the League of Women Voters along with some other notables including Paul Aronsohn. Asked to curtail public comment at Village Council meetings . Given the former mayor and his cronies tried engineer the turning the Village into Union City despite the public out cry . The 3 amigos were famous for presenting done deals to residents then ignoring both their questions and objections. Siobhan who was involved with the horrible “civility committee ” also spoke in praise of Roberta as well as Rurik Halaby.
Jim Griffith also spoke about the garage and some ambiguities in Susan’s position but the new mayor handled it very well. One other thing of particular interest was when the council was going over bills and the one for the garage video came up Mike and Susan both stated that they had never been informed of the decision to pay for the video and voiced real discomfort about. Jeff Voigt also voiced his concern and Bernie abstained from voting without comment. It was 4 yeses and one abstain but with vocal criticism.
Anne Loving asked whether the authorization of this video should be investigated and that those responsible should foot the bill. Boyd Loving also spoke about not reducing public comment.
You forgot to mention that Gwenn Hauck came to the microphone and asked a question that she should have know the answer to had she been paying attention during the meeting instead of chatting with her buddy Rurik Halaby.
Clearly, this was an attempt on Ms. Winograd’s part to generate a newspaper headline that the current Council was seeking to limit public comment. Nice try Paulie.
Why would they care..?
Isn’t she still part of this “civility committee”? Just the name is changed.
Why do they keep going on about the Hudson street garage? It was defeated in a binding vote. The whole plan needs to change
Griffith.
11:07am – follow the money.
Why would the former council members, who were defeated resoundingly, come to the meetings to attempt to advance their failed agendas?
Are they just spiteful? Do they need to grow up?
It really is time for Mrs. Hauck’s family to keep her at home for Council meetings. I feel bad and embarrassed for her at the same time.
It is embarrassing for her. An Intervention is needed.
Doesn’t Valley want her back?
Maybe the council can vote to approve funding to build a VC equivalent of a presidential library to capture and put on proud public display Ms. Hauck’s extensive career record of selfless public service and soul-fulfilling philanthropy. Would that satisfy her to the point that she will then finally stop pestering the current Village Council which is busy trying to clean up her messes and do the important work she failed to do because she is/was too fabulous?