Short of putting a Hex on them, can anyone come up with ANY ideas as how to get the council to open their eyes and ears? Discussing, speaking up, writing letters–the council seems to be surrounded by an invisible force field. We don’t have the money to augment all their fancy ideas but they seem to think it grows on trees or falls from heaven for them. Does the allegory “little kids in a candy store” hit home? Their continued adoration of the Health Barn is only one of the places they absolutely refuse to see a problem. With all the ways the original lease has been defied, there should have been many adequate reasons to cancel their contract. Instead the council hurries up and produces generators so The Health Barn could continue with their profit making activities while almost everyone in Ridgewood lacked power. If our town lawyer said that was a necessity, then he should be replaced with a lawyer who will research the facts instead of responding with whatever comes to the top of his head when asked a question.
This council repeated gets bad legal advice.
Same ole Same Ole. All we get is excuses on why things cant happen. Can anyone recall a decision taken and driven to resolution by the council We needs real leaders to help drive change, improvement, and repairs. Pick 5-6 items and drive them, no excuses, no blockers, just leadership.
Some suggestions
1) Repair/pave the roads, when you hit a pothole who cares who should have filled it. The village roads are a mess.
2) Do something, do anything to manage and lead the water department. Sell it, merge it, whatever, but get the village the water it needs (certainly no droughts, etc), sell any new buildings, Do something with this please.
3) Push the BOE to adhere to reasonable budgets, manage costs, and raise standards (stop saying you cant impact this!!, it hurts the village).
4)Get the Police to enforce local speed limits on residential streets, install stop signs on long roads that lead to speeding. This is just stepping up and doing something.
5) Stop selling train station parking spaces to non residents, impossible to get a spot after 6:45am, Help reduce traffic by installing a east heading parking lot exit by removing the bike lane and a simple ramp near the ticket office turnaround to Ridgewood Ave. Really not rocket science and woudl help traffic on many fronts.
Please just do something to lead and own some of these issues. .
This is what happens when you have individuals doing a job with Very little experience. Just sit back and enjoy.
yea mean like Roberta?
I have to admit that Roberta probably produced more activity (mostly evil) than any of our current council members. A large number of residents hated what she did, but she DID do SOMETHING. Our resident council is pushing ahead with many unpopular ideas because they refuse to even consider that votes of several years ago are not necessarily what the town wants. The residents have made it very clear that the library board is really seeing pies in the sky when they think they are visualizing this lovely new library complex WHICH THE MAJORITY OF RIDGEWOOD DOES NOT WANT. Also, be prepared for “If the citizens of Ridgewood don’t want to change the library, we’ll just use the Elk’s Club”–which Nancy Greene wanted to do in the first place..
And residents are begging and pleading not to put a garage on that site. A parking deck there and another one in the center of town could accomplish wonders. Shoppers (not many any more except for the real speciality shops) and diners could find a place wherever they wanted to go. That would be a change from only odd times. bad weather, ice encrusted walks/ parking spots. And we wouldn’t have to hose the concrete down whenever it got dirty, or a salt buildup, or any other reason that the prospective builders said would have to be done for the new garage to be properly maintained.