Photo by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood officials introduce bond ordinance for storm cleanup funds
Thursday December 6, 2012, 10:45 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Council has introduced a bond ordinance that, if approved on Dec. 12, will appropriate $613,000 for emergency capital improvements and work performed during and in the days after Hurricane Sandy.
Funding will be used to satisfy the village’s end of nine separate contracts awarded to outside vendors for extraordinary unspecified services (EUS). Those contracts were formalized during the Nov. 28 council meeting.
In response to questions raised by resident Boyd Loving, Village Manager Ken Gabbert said the standard bidding process was bypassed because of the nature and timing of the work.
“It’s a little different since it is an emergency situation where the work has to be done whether you have one potential vendor or five,” Gabbert said. “We do contact as many … landscapers as possible and secure the bids. We then go back and refine what we’re asking them to do to reach a better accommodation.”
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bull shit dr gabbert. then why is the same people getting all the same work as last year’s storm. come on. david’s tree service and down’s tree service. we don’t buy it. I smell a scam. some on is getting a kick back. this is two years in a row now. I say hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
so your telling me the village did not have other tree service people on the side for a storm like this. we just had a storm last year. and the same tree crew came in this year. this don’t look good people. this is a lot of money to do this work. we all know downes tree service is not cheep. the village should be buying tools that the village crews can use. and then we can do this kind of work in house.