Reader says who has time to look? We’re too busy making money and driving our kids to soccer practice
All but a few old-timers and insiders know what really goes on inside the Village Hall. For most people, Ridgewood is a place you live while your kids go through school, after which you sell up and move out. It’s quite a transient community. An affluent town. Lovely houses. We wave at our neighbors and have cocktails and BBQs. We are a pretty sophisticated bunch, mostly wrapped up in the lives of our kids and the long, stressful hours we put in at some big corporation. We have this natural impression that all our fellow Ridgewoodians are the same. Sophisticated.
That nice looking Village Hall is not staffed and managed by people like you. Just because Ridgewood has that Norman Rockwell image, does not mean it’s run by Norman Rockwell types. These people know all too well that the typical Ridgewood resident is blasting through life full speed and living a very comfortable life, to pay attention to the nepotism, insider perks and the feasting at the trough of what these residents pay in the form of taxes, fees, and yes, parking meter coins.
Hey, who has time to look? We’re too busy making money and driving our kids to soccer practice.
Democracy is not a spectator sport
Sounds like a typical newby ‘temporary’ resident.
you like, I like.
Oversight is the responsibility of the village manager. 25,000 residents can’t take over supervision.
Good point #3 but that doesn’t fit in with the old timer rhetoric.
Am I the only one wondering why all these quarters are laying around Village hall? Seems ripe for this type of behavior. When I was responsible for a cash business, I seem to recall there existed “banks” where you could deposit your money for safe keeping. The lack of oversight and controls that this brings out is frightening. But of course, it’s only half a million dollars, that deserves a slap on the wrist.
Hey listen, your sense of connection to Ridgewood is not mine. I’m raising my 2.5 children and managing to keep the town’s best interests at heart. Why don’t you find a way to get connected to your neighbors? Help an elderly neighbor, maybe with one or two of your children? Ridgewood has lot to be proud of, you just need to look harder for where you fit in.
The thief walked right past the pictures of our Mayor and Village Council every single day with over 100 lbs of quarters.
What a sad statement.
yea but the top bended over over the road work that should of been done. all I can say is no ball’s.
Don’t miss the point of the article. It basically says that although Ridgewood may be an affluent and sophisticated community, but the Village Hall is not a reflection of that. It’s still a place bogged down in NJ-style local politics of favors to friends and family. The key point is that these types takes advantage of knowing that the residents are too transient and too occupied with their lives to notice.