Saurabh Dani in the Facebook Group Ridgewood Moms and Dads with Free Speech
“The board of education was scheduled to vote on the 95M referendum question in Feb/March. They were working towards this goal for last couple of years while denying it as”rumors”.
Last night the board decided to push this vote by a few weeks, without providing exact timeline, probably pushing it out beyond the April 21 election date.
Kicking the can beyond April 21 election date doesn’t change the bond/debt amount or the fact that they all expressed their willingness to go with the 60+M HVAC projects last night with ONE firm LAN associates, which is the same firm involved with Orchard mess. None of them had reservations or questions on the 60M part of the referendum and their rationale for the delay in vote had to do with parking and traffic studies for Hight school PAC plan and alternative costs for the PAC.
The longest serving board member and the only member from facilities committee accepted the fact that parking deck proposed at the HS was not even something that she would support. That reaffirms what Steve Kim has been posting here that the proposed PAC plan and parking deck plan was not a real plan and it was included just to make some voters happy. There is no way that proposed parking deck could have happened in 3M budgeted and they were just keeping it there in order to get their rest of the projects approved on referendum.”
Can the residents not take any legal action?
How can the district award 95M contract to one firm and how do they get repeat business year after year for last 20 years?
Isn’t any other firm ready to compete?
Just say no
RICH and STUPID
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What more is there to say…
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Dr. Fishbein’s relationship with LAN has to be more heavily scrutinized. The mere fact that only one firm was awarded or sought to submit bids for these projects screams conflict of interest. Our Village resources are both limited and sacred. Formal RFP’s should be sought from numerous accredited firms demonstrating the wherewithal required to both execute and provide warranties for these critical projects, which should then be collectively vetted and selected by the board. Given the magnitude of dollars, and the associated impact on the Village’s fiscal health and on resident tax bills, anything short of a thorough and transparent process is a grossly negligent fulfillment of their fiduciary responsibilities to the residents.
This referendum should be a hard “NO” until these matters are fully vetted and cross checked.
No way on any day.
I’m voting yes. We need some improvements.
I’m sure you are…idiot.