file photo by Boyd Loving
July 1,2017
by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood NJ, During this past Wednesday evening’s Village Council Work Session (06/28), Ridgewood Mayor Susan Knudsen announced Ridgewood Water’s intent to acquire, via outright purchase, the building and property located at 111 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, which is currently owned by the Ridgewood Elks Holding Corporation.
Mayor Knudsen further stated that Ridgewood Water would make improvements to the Elks Lodge building to permit the relocation of water utility operations currently housed in Midland Park, and at Village Hall in Ridgewood.
No information was made available during the aforementioned meeting as to whether the Midland Park property would be sold when vacated, nor what would be done with the water utility’s space at Village Hall once the utility leaves it.
Ridgewood Councilwoman Bernadette Walsh and Councilman Jeffrey Voigt both stated their opposition to the purchase. Councilman Ramon Hache said that he’d initially been opposed to the plan also, but now viewed it as a good idea.
Costs for property acquisition and building improvements are said to be in the neighborhood of $3 million, according to Councilwoman Walsh.
Further public discussions about the proposed plan with take place later in the summer, as per Mayor Knudsen.
Nancy Greene must be pissed.
There goes the neighborhood.
Once the lawsuits are done Ridgewood water is going to be bankrupt and sold to Hackensack water. Complete waste of time and what little resources they currently have.
And Hackensack water will sell the no-longer-needed property to the friends of Ridgewood Library for a “song” (cough–performing arts center–cough).
I smell something , hummm dirty dirty dirty
Why would the village spend this kind of money or like you say the Ridgewood water company will spend the money and like others are saying village hall it’s a ghost town already what is the virtual going to look like when the water ball man pulls out what a waste of space empty rooms empty floors and so much for the expansion of the library is this part of the master plan because we all know they have a master plan and it’s gonna be 45 million from the fly on the wall here’s a major expansion of the police department . You’re going to see a police Annex like you never seen one and good for them people we are in a police state if they get funding from the government Because all the shit that’s going on around us it’s gonna happen maybe we need that
Ridgewood should sell the water company to Suez, let the Elks sell to someone else
hey pauly u are right , dirty dirty dirty.
Sell Ridgewood Water. They have a terrible operation. Incompetent.