First Councilwoman Susan Knudsen was told to recuse herself from a closed meeting on this subject at the suggestion of the Village Manager and now information was withheld from her about this same subject.What the hell is going on in Village Hall. Who is the employee that contact Civil Service and who directed this employee to do this, Why can’t Councilwoman Susan Knudsen have that information. Why didn’t the attorney contact the Councilwoman and speak to her about this issue instead of directing another Village employee to withhold the information. WHO IS RUNNIG THE VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD.?
The circumstance described by Ms. Knudsen demonstrates that public matters are being discussed, and decisions made, by a majority of the council in advance of the public meeting during which the discussions and decisions are supposed to take place on the record. This reduces the public meeting to the status of a charade, because the result desired by the majority has already been determined in advance! As we all had suspected, it now appears clear that the Sunshine Law has been violated. Violations of the Sunshine Law don’t just happen–they are usually undertaken when the majority wants to avoid scrutiny for something they wish to do that the public might find odious. We all owe Ms. Knudsen a debt of gratitude for sticking to her guns and airing this issue out publicly.
Well lets have another civility meeting and all will be forgiven
Maybe Aronsohn and Menendez can share a cell block.
huh ‘ I dont get it. what is this about.
to 8:55 am, https://theridgewoodblog.net/bombshell-revelation-councilwoman-claims-information-deliberately-withheld-from-her/ has the story.
Do a little research 8:55 Try reading related stories on The Ridgewood Blog. Review past televised council meeting. Do you homework. Its all there if you want to spend the time. No one is going to do it for you.
This is the problem with Ridgewood Resident like 8:55. The don’t keep up on what the Village Councils is doing unless it a 0 % property. Be informed. Get involved before its to late and we can not reverse what is being done. Just don’t read the headlines in the Ridgewood News or the Record. This Mayor has them in his back pocket.
People need to go to the council meeting on April 8th and demand that they NOT vote on the residence ordinance until there is full transparency on what is going on. We need to demand that Ridgewood residents get a preference when the village is hiring. As long as the qualifications are equal, Ridgewood residents should get preference. We are the one’s paying the taxes or the high rents to live here. Why shouldn’t we be the one’s to work here as long as we are qualified. There is something going on here that smells bad. Who have they hired not following the civil service rules? I bet there were many. This all needs to get out in the open. Councilwoman Knudsen should be supplied with the information she is asking for and not be stonewalled for a month. The residents need to get their heads out of the sand and wake up. Do you understand what is going on right in front of us? This is an incredibly bad situation and needs to be clarified before any vote is taken.
It’s true. Unfortunately Ridgewood residents are not paying attention. They are trusting that our elected council people are protecting them, but they are not. Councilwoman Knudsen and councilman Sedon are the only one’s trying to protect our rights as village residents. Please go to comment 9:39am and click on the link to the previous story, then click on the link to the ustream video of the April 1st council meeting. Go to minute 24:00 when councilwoman Knudsen starts to explain the run around she has been getting for a month about information she has asked for in order for her to make an informed decision before she votes April 8th on the ordinance regarding residency preference. The rest of the council should have been upset that Knudsen was being blocked from receiving information. Instead, the village manager, the mayor and councilwoman Hauck seemed more concerned that Knudsen was speaking about this information in public. Sedon was not present at the meeting. I applaud councilwoman Knudsen for bringing this information out into the open. What is happening with the majority of our council? Why are they always on the defensive? They should be thanking Knudsen for bringing this to light. After all, they have been following an ordinance about hiring practices that is inconsistent with the law. All hires since Aug 2014 should be reviewed to determined if they were done according to law. Who was skipped over that should not have been? Who was hired that should not have been? Did these hires take place according to civil service rules? Instead of gushing over the village manager’s performance, let’s make sure her performance practices are according to law.
Go to the council meeting, Wednesday, April 8th, 8:00pm at village hall. Demand that the council represent the residents of Ridgewood by getting all of the facts before voting on the ordinance before them. Let’s get everything out in the open. After all, the mayor’s favorite term is “transparency in government.” I think it’s time the village had some of that transparency.
Tremendous amount of deflection and defensiveness does not speak well for Three Amigos and their new lackey.
% o no good.
Notice how there has been absolute silence from their supporters (which, to be honest, is the three or four including Roberta of them posting anonymously). They must be completely frantic. Usually they are running defense on the blog immediately. This is very telling. They are going down over this incident, it should be a very interesting week ahead.
they been silence on a few things like top managers getting pay bonus’s and stipend’s for not replacing workers and out sourcing work. we just would like to know who is getting it, and how much they are getting , and what did they do to get it.
thank you.