>The Village Council voted 3-2 at a meeting Wednesday to increase water rates by 5 percent in Ridgewood and neighboring towns serviced by the utility.
Ridgewood council approves water rate increase
Thursday, December 9, 2010
BY MICHAEL SEDON
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer
The Village Council voted 3-2 at a meeting Wednesday to increase water rates by 5 percent in Ridgewood and neighboring towns serviced by the utility.
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Glen Rock Mayor John van Keuren speaks at a Village Council meeting on water rate increases.
Officials from those towns – Glen Rock, Midland Park and Wyckoff – pushed back, claiming that the 5 percent increase set for 2011, on top of a 21 percent increase in 2010, is unjustified.
At the opening of the public hearing on the rate increase, Wyckoff Township Attorney Robert Landel explained that the Ridgewood council found itself in a “unique” position, as water utilities normally go before a state Board of Public Utilities (BPU), which approves any rate increases. He explained that the council, in essence, acted as a BPU and had a “fiduciary duty” to make “proper decisions” for residents in the neighboring municipalities, as well as Ridgewood’s residents
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