>Although The Valley Hospital is currently petitioning Ridgewood’s Planning Board for “favorable” modifications to the Village Master Plan, as applicable to the existing Hospital Zone, The Valley’s Renewal project can’t take place as planned unless Village Council members vote to approve any recommendation presented to them by appointed Planning Board members. Thus, The Valley’s ability to move forward with its Renewal project is ultimately dependent upon five elected officials (barring court intervention, of course).
Paradoxically, two of the five Village Council members sit on the Planning Board (Mayor David T. Pfund and Councilwoman Kim Ringler-Shagin). Hence, two “yes” votes on ANY recommendation presented by Planning Board members are relatively assured. If a majority vote of the Council is legal and binding, only one more Council member “yes” vote would be required.
The Fly asks: “is this arrangement of having two members of the Council voting on their own Planning Board recommendations ethical and/or legal?” The Fly would be less concerned if we had a seven member governing body, but of course we have only five.
>”The Fly asks: is this arrangement of having two members of the Council voting on their own Planning Board recommendations ethical and/or legal?”
ABSOLUTELY NOT ETHICAL AND IF IT IS LEGAL, IT SHOULDN’T BE!!
>for a fly you get around real fast like a bee;hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm;
>Fly you are so right on….
Sting!!!!!!!
>Wow! One of those potential yes votes, Mayor Pfund, should recuse himself based on his father’s long time association with Valley’s board.
>Remember when Anne Denyeau was a board trustee? She served six years and several of those as board president. Anne was intelligent, admired and served our school district well.
After serving six years (two terms), she stepped down to give other residents an opportunity to serve their community. She was a class act.
Ms. Brogan is finishing her 12th year as a trustee and I know her effectiveness has faded over the past several years. Mr. Bombace is finishing his 6th year and in my opinion was never effective. Both these trustees should not seek reelection.
>Valley has been screwing the community for years. Our Village Council has been screwing the community for years. Put them together and we’re doubly screwed. Oh, the pain of it all.