Same ole Same Ole. All we get is excuses on why things cant happen. Can anyone recall a decision taken and driven to resolution by the council We needs real leaders to help drive change, improvement, and repairs. Pick 5-6 items and drive them, no excuses, no blockers, just leadership.
Some suggestions
1) Repair/pave the roads, when you hit a pothole who cares who should have filled it. The village roads are a mess.
2) Do something, do anything to manage and lead the water department. Sell it, merge it, whatever, but get the village the water it needs (certainly no droughts, etc), sell any new buildings, Do something with this please.
3) Push the BOE to adhere to reasonable budgets, manage costs, and raise standards (stop saying you cant impact this!!, it hurts the village).
4)Get the Police to enforce local speed limits on residential streets, install stop signs on long roads that lead to speeding. This is just stepping up and doing something.
5) Stop selling train station parking spaces to non residents, impossible to get a spot after 6:45am, Help reduce traffic by installing a east heading parking lot exit by removing the bike lane and a simple ramp near the ticket office turnaround to Ridgewood Ave. Really not rocket science and woudl help traffic on many fronts.
Please just do something to lead and own some of these issues. .
1 & 2: No brainers
3: The VC has ZERO control over the school board and their budget.
4: RPD already breaks our balls too much and should be solving real crime instead.
5: There’s an NJT Train Station in Ridgewood, We have a responsibility to make it accessible.
It’s a myth that VC has zero control over the board of education. That shows the VC has poor support from public.
In every other town, the mayor is able to move things at the board of education, because of his or her popularity with the board.
In Ridgewood the board of education doesn’t listen to the Mayor because they know that mayor can’t move residents to oppose the board / lack of leadership / lack of trust in the Mayor.
you really need to start attending VC and BOE meetings to start getting informed , the state is going bankrupt and turning into a total sh$thole because far to many people are not informed at all . One has nothing to do with the other .
Come on James. When will you stop supporting Susan/Sedon so blindly.Elections are over. All the raised points by the poster are valid and VC can have a lot of influence in resolving them and it is also its duty.
And what you’re saying makes no sense.
instead of talking BS run for school board
Anyone interested in running to serve on the Ridgewood Board of Education?
https://theridgewoodblog.net/anyone-interested-in-running-to-serve-on-the-ridgewood-board-of-education/
The current BOE business administrator is leaving