July 22,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, as expected Superior Court Judge Lisa Perez Friscia has found in favor of three municipalities that sued the village of Ridgewood over 31 percent increased water rates for the years 2010-2012.
Judge Friscia agreed with the plaintiffs on Thursday and determined that Ridgewood had enacted rate increases for Ridgewood Water customers that were “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” and must recalculate the rates and refund its customers.
The plaintiffs, Glen Rock, Midland Park and Wyckoff,all serviced by Ridgewood Water, a water utility owned and operated by the Village of Ridgewood. These municipalities claimed in their lawsuit that Ridgewood had overcharged customers millions of dollars through rate hikes to offset village of Ridgewood operating expenses.
Perez Friscia ordered three Ridgewood water-rate ordinances be invalidated. She further ordered that the matter be remanded to the village of Ridgewood for a hearing to recalculate water rates within 120 days. Refunds will be calculated based on the difference between what was charged and the actual costs as determined by the recalculation.
Is the Council still going to by the Elks after this ruling?
My o my dirty dirty dirty
And you know that Ridgewood tax payers will end up paying for Ridgewood Water’s incompetence. Again.
What will this cost the residents of Ridgewood ? Those other towns do not have to curb their water use, we do.
Do not invest in a building for this mismanaged agency. They can’t honestly bill customers.
Sell to Suez, someone that knows how to run a water company. Ridgewood water is not more pure than Suez, we actually have a lot of problems.
Time to sell it, see ya the taste went to crap
These things do not happen in a vacuum folks.
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Guess what? Ridgewood will now face an operating shortfall and have to hike property taxes / cut budget significantly. And who is in control of the council now and will have to make those politically terrible decisions?
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Team Hackensack has 1000 ways of getting back at people who take power away from them.