Following is an email I wrote tonight to the Village Council with commentary on the meeting of Wednesday 2 November.
Dear All:
To Bernie, I apologize profusely if my comment about Trump in any way reflected an intent to interfere in how various members may vote. You know how strongly I feel about the greatest of our rights as American citizens, and in no way would I ever do that. What I tried to say was how ironic it was with perhaps as many as three people on the VC being possibly Trump supporters and thus people speaking so loudly about how the country is being ruined with over regulations, here we have a VC that is regulating the town to death. Listening to your discourse on various matters, I could only think of a Soviet Politburo making plans.
To Jeff, you are one bright person, but unfortunately ,you continue to underestimate the intelligence of others. Including yours truly, with your answer about the garage. You made reference to the garage by itself not being a solution to the 1,000 space shortage. The garage with 350 spaces (?) would have made quite a dent, far more than whatever spaces you might achieve with your antics of repricing, Uber, etc.
To Susan, you would have made an unbelievably clever trial attorney. You are smart, articulate, and have an uncanny ability to come up with red herrings. You blame the lack of having a garage to the June elections, when in fact you did everything in your power to torpedo the garage from day zero. You seem to forget that if you had acted responsibly last year, the work on the garage would have started in November and it would have been done by now. The borrowing would have been at historically low interest rates, an opportunity we will not see for decades. History will not judge you well for that.
Lack of transparency in Village business. This opaqueness is reflective of the Mayor’s drive for total control of Village business. In 48 years of living here, I have not seen such a dictatorial attitude. Yes, welcome to the Soviet Republic of Ridgewood. I suggested you follow Mayor Aronsohn’s example of writing a monthly column on what is happening and why, but one of your enablers quickly came to your defense by stating this is unnecessary since the Ridgewood News reported on VC meetings. I don’t quite see that.
The Mayor’s style of governance is slowly beginning to impact our lives. Village Hall is closing on itself, after two years of a dynamic open operation under Roberta. Village employee morale is imploding! And it won’t be long before we go back to the bad old days of a bureaucratic non-responsive Village Hall. Also, many committee an board positions are going unfilled, as people get turned off with the Mayor’s antics. And to those misfits in the audience who cheered Roberta’s firing, just wait a few months.
Seeing the VC at work, I can only think of a puppet show of The Wizard of Oz. Easy to sort who’s who.
It is getting late. Cynthia comes to work with me tomorrow meaning we have to be at the station by 06:20. Otherwise no place to park.
I will be posting this letter on FB.
Cheers,
Rurik
plenty of parking at 702 this am and 737 yesterday. Maybe you are not looking hard enough.
Big- vision begins to significantly deteriorate around 90 or so. Probably he just can’t see the spots.
If you ignore him he will go away….
Village Manager RESIGNED–was not fired. Somebody tell this jerk to put a sock in it. His personal opinion of individual council members is of zero interest.
How about a cage match between Rurik and Boyd?
Unlike rurik, Boyd is fair and down the line. He calls it as he sees it regardless of who is in charge. I would imagine he agrees with this council more than the prior one, but that is just because they are logical, respectful and intelligent…not because they are his friends. Rurik could learn a thing or two.
Who does he think he is to give his evaluation of our council?
No one cares!
Even on Facebook his posts are met with disagreement. He seems to thrive on being a negative voice with no supporters. I guess that this is how he will wind up his life. Remembered as an angry and disagreeable man.
Roberta quit in a huff. She was not fired. And it is standard practice to escort a disgruntled employee who’s just quit from the premises.
To the VC and other interested parties: do not feed the animals. Let them have their legal rights to make statements and write letters. Then, ignore them. The VC is doing a fine job and I expect warming trend in the relationship with Village Hall and the villagers.
What a crock..zero out this guy ENOUGH
You just encourage him by putting his ridiculous rants on this site.
Enough already…..let’s all move forward.