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Ridgewood NJ, despite what Ridgewood Mayor Paul Vagianos said during Wednesday’s Village Council meeting, the paid fire department EMT contingent was not created in Ridgewood due to a “volunteer crisis.”
Village officials disbanded the previously deployed per diem/volunteer EMT staffing arrangement to improve overall response times, and to address several personnel related issues involving a number of per diem employees.
At no time was there ever a shortage of volunteer EMTs members of Ridgewood Emergency Services.
You can keep saying “volunteer crisis,” but it won’t make it true Mr. Mayor.
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It’s bone-chilling how this mayor and council get away with taking pages right out of Orwell as they literally rip the pages from the history books to cover their misdeeds. Wake up people!
How can this council and manager be getting away with so much crap if indeed it is all true! This does not sound right. I believe it because I have seen it with my own eyes but the fact that they are getting away with it makes us tax payers seem stupid. What can we do?
Be voice, go to a meeting or dial in via zoom and speak up. Writing it on the blog lets these idiots get away with their smoke show. Let’s make it stop. take one step in front of the other. every bit counts.
Vagianos is the biggest Pinocchio in Ridgewood.
The daughter in law of a frequent Knudsen administration critic was a per diem employee. This may also have been cause for the housecleaning.
This Mayor and his puppets are classic definition of corruption.
Spending tax payer money to increase his property investments
I’m so tired of there smoke and mirrors philosophy and actions.
Listen, the bottom line is I don’t trust anyone in the village hall, they are a bunch of bullshit artist. I was tallest 40 years ago and I experienced it times. I’m telling you it doesn’t matter, you can change the mayor of the council the manager a few top management positions. They have a playbook that they use and they’re not sharing it with anyone.
Frank is as dumb as a stump, I mean Cmon people! WTF is this guy doing on the council. While I don’t agree with some of Evan Weetz comments, or that wing nut Winograd, I cannot believe the brain trust that we have on the Ridgewood Village Council and that Mayor. help us all, Yikes.
That’s because the body department is totally against volunteers. It’s all part of the plan. The only time they want volunteers is to do cover them. The mayor, the council and a village manager are totally scared of police and fire unions so go after the blue collar unit. That’s why they treat them like whale shit.
The Fire Department ran the volunteers out after promising they could do it better. The former EMS members are volunteering but for other towns now. The lie that having paid firefighters be more cost efficient was the most egregious as that may have been the case year one but those firefighters make $170,000+ each. It’s all smoke and mirrors.