The FAC is dead, keep it that way. No offense, but financial experience in the private sector does not equate at all to experience in the public sector. They are very different animals and the previous FAC was completely clueless on village operations and department function in hopes of saving pennies. Yet overlooked major holes such as the parking authority, human resources (remember that mess) and a manager who was living in candyland. We elect council members to oversee the operation, if they are doing their job there is no need for a FAC.
And lets be honest with each other, the zoo that needs a cleaning is on Cottage Place. If the FAC has no authority to give opinion on that money pit, then whats the point. Pennies saved on property taxes isnt worth the insane opinion of so called experts. Been There…. Done That.
Thank you for the educational outline. It makes sense.
This same absurd argument has been tried before. It was debunked by Mike Bloomberg, and is currently being debunked by, yes, Trump.
The reason so many States and Local Municipalities are in such dire financial straits is because the financial management is being done by idealists and politicians who are subservient to some political cause.
Really? How was Jon Corzine, hes from a well known firm. State did great under him. Im sure your boy Phil Murphy who is from the same loins as King Mike will do a great job. Maybe we will get smaller sodas. I find it particularly interesting that your example was a tried and true democrat independent who rode the coat tails of Giuliani and who actually changed the term limits for his own needs. But hey, NYC got bike lanes and citi bikes under his rule, so maybe Ridgewood isnt so far off…
Oh and Trump was a real estate developer and a business owner.
Corzine was a bit of a joke on wall street , like jack lew and Tim Geithner