The meeting was a disgrace. Go to villageofridgewood and follow them on ustream (upper right corner) there are 2 parts to the meeting. Click on the one that shows the black screen and not a person. Go to 15:25-that’s basically when the bashing of councilwoman Knudsen starts. It is beyond my comprehension that she asked for some information to help her understand an ordinance they were voting on. Knudsen still has not received all the information she asked for, And the mayor gets the labor attorney to come to the council meeting to blast Knudsen and threaten her under the guise of “she’s here to explain things”.
If the labor attorney wanted to explain things, she could have picked up the phone weeks ago to speak with Knudsen and not left her in the dark about things since Knudsen’s request of March 11th.
They should all be ashamed of themselves, but of course this is typical of Aronsohn, Pucciarelli and Hauck. The village manager is a hot head. She can barely control herself. You can tell when she gets angry. She can’t stop fidgeting. Scratching her head constantly, bouncing in her chair, turning red, fanning herself etc. Shame on Matt Rogers for allowing the bashing to continue. I thought his job is to represent the council. He certainly did not represent councilwoman Knudsen last night.
Village of Ridgewood Public Access (180:00)
Village of Ridgewood Public Access
Wednesday at 4:57pm
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https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60890176
As much as I respect Ms. Knudson and I voted for her, if you question officials’ integrity in public you have to expect a legal response.
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If you were at the meeting or watched in on the computer and then read the story in the newspapers. The newspaper reported story do not do the meeting justice. The newspaper articles boarders on irresponsible
Never in the history of the village have I seen such a disgrace and I’ve been here for 50 years.
Yes your right 10:41 but I think her response went for more then an hour. Her calming that our VM is the best she ever worked was just a little over the top. Our VM is good but please.
Why change the law now. Could it be that a employee that is a resident had applied for a position and they don’t want him. There more to this.
Knudsen did not question the labor attorney’s integrity. The labor attorney said she and Heather were having trouble getting in touch with civil service for weeks, Knudsen needed her questions answered to form her opinion to vote, Knudsen figured she’d try to phone and called the civil service person it said to call on the letter sent to the village. The person at civil service answered the phone and proceeded to give Knudsen the information she requested. I don’t find that offensive. The labor attorney should have told Knudsen she was trying to reach a particular contact at civil service, and that person had been unreachable. If so, I don’t think we’d be talking about it now.
they are full of shit, the mayor and his two side kicks the manager are full of shit. and the manager know shit about civil service.
Knudson claimed officials were hiding info from her. I watched it.
Actually, I think she is the best. Very meticulous. First time ever that backyard garbage removal was officially stopped during dangerous weather conditions.
Living here since the 1970s . Always a problem for me and my husband. Digging a path for the sanitation workers after ice and snow storms. Worried about them.
I may disagree very much about Kensington and potential change of master plan, but is that manager’s fault? or fault of planning board.
Under her watch the stolen coins were discovered.
She is working on horrible problems of the past. She can’t wave a magic wand and recreate parking lots at schools where parking was removed during school bond renovations.
I would recommend she fire the planners , engineers who removed the parking at schools. But she stated on Wednesday that is very difficult to remove an employee.
She is learning and doing big time.
She has been year only one year; and I am aware of the change.
Village Clerk, when acting VM, violated ordinance and was called out on it by resident. Same resident had applied for a Village position. Resident denied position in violation of residency requirement ordinance by same Village Clerk while Acting Manager. New Vm (R.S.) learns of violation in May, 2014 and decides to amend ordinance to support her Village Clerk. Councilwoman Knudsen got to close to discovering the truth and the V.M. and 3 amigos decided to sic their attack dog(labor attorney) on her. All the rhetoric about wanting to hire the best available employee is B.S.
Thanks Roberta for that post.
Wow 5:32pm, thanks for piping up. That’s either a crass indictment, or a rare glimpse of truth and municipal reality that the public was not supposed to be afforded. One can’t necessarily decide between the two possibilities without more information or an alternative source, but you may be assured that at least one inquiring mind wants to know which is real, and which IS an illusion!
5:32 you right but if there was truly transparency with this Council we would not be wondering which is an illusion.
Councilwoman Knudsen, if she really sits and thinks about it, will realize that she has the municipal equivalent of Legislative Privilege to shield her from negative repercussions from the actions she took in an attempt to get to the bottom of this sordid affair, and the public statements she made in attempting to articulate her impressions of the apparent suspicious misfeasance and unaccountable nonfeasance of many of those with whom she shares the local governmental stage. We should all pray for her that she not buckle or crumple under the combined weight of all the unfair attacks lodged against her in response to her probing questions (and they really do seem to be rolling out the big guns). If Ms. Knudsen backs off now the precedent will have been set and this set of circumstances will be repeated as necessary and ad nauseum until legitimate political opposition by the minority becomes a lost art in Ridgewood. On the other hand, if instead she stands her ground (as she absolutely should, since she has done absolutely nothing wrong, and so much that is so sweetly right) and manages to carry her point to its logical conclusion, we will be blessed with a shining, Patton-like example of courage which we can then use as a touchstone during future disputes with the sulphurous political element that has unfortunately surfaced in Ridgewood (and those disputes will come…).
BTW, there is no way a contracted labor attorney can go toe-to-toe with an elected member of the Village Council, regardless of the pure truth of the matter, when there the criticisms made against the former party has such a clear basis in publicly-confirmable fact.
well people like we said what happen,’s up in mahwah will soon come to light hear in town.
time to call the state to clean this mess up. this shit has been going on for a long time. the top managers would love to see civil service go by by. but thats not going to happen. the state service dept is hear to stay.
I hope that these people that spoke up against the 3 amigos realize that there will be a price to pay for their comments.
Who works for who here? You’d never guess from the tirade but that attorney works for the Village Council and its council members, not the other way around.
time to out source the manager mayor and al and some of the top managers in town. they need to go. they have no smarts in them about running a town. they think they do, but it’s all a dream.