Readers Continue to doubt Ms. Price’s impartiality
The bias issue aside, Ms. Price’s job as the Planning Board attorney is to see that procedure is followed. Her job is not to weigh in on testimony or to offer any of her own opinions which she has done repeatedly.
Maybe we’d give her a pass if she at least gave the appearance of impartiality.
While the meetings have all been emotional. Price has consistently allowed Valley to get its message out and allow any and all of Valley’s “experts” speak. Now that the residents finally get to speak, she’s not allowing them. She should shut Drill up. Maybe then, we’d feel that she’s not totally favoring Valley.
Gail Price is simply scared to death that Valley will sue the PB if things don’t go their way. What this says about the process is that it’s completely flawed – skewed toward any developer who wishes to build here. Yes, any developer, in this case Valley, can come into Ridgewood and bully their way into doing whatever they want.
Gail Price should provide sufficient advice to the PB to allow it to stand on its own two feet and not be pushed around by any large entity corporation that can afford to pay a lawyer to shout people down. If she can’t do that job she should quit or be fired.
I don’t doubt her for a minute.
doubt her
what the H does that mean? you sound like a lemming. doubt her guidance to the PB that is afraid of pissing off Valley.
Seriously — i’m sure she’s a good lawyer but she should stay the hell out of the way and guide the PB to not give in to every Valley objection. It’s obnoxious.
Thed.
The tail is wagging the dog: Price is supposed to advise the PB who represent THE PEOPLE of RIDGEWOOD. Price gets tangled up in legalese, the Mayor sips his Starbucks, Nalbanthian admonishes and threatens the people in the audience, and the remainder of the PB sits in silence. Price and Drill make the public proceedings so tangled, most cannot follow. I guess that’s the point: the fix is in!
If the fix is in, why doesn’t Valley pay Price’s hourly rate? Why are the taxpayers of Ridgewood paying her when her client is Valley?
Good question. Same old story: the PB should be trying to decide IF the expansion should happen, not figuring out how to make it happen.I am completely disgusted with the way the residents are being treated. We’re the ones who live here. We pay taxes. The PB should be working on our behalf, not sucking up to Valley