>Despite skyrocketing gas prices, Village Manager Jim Ten Hoeve and Director of Operations Frank Moritz are still commuting back and forth to Village Hall, from their respective out-of-town homes, in Village owned & maintained SUVs.
Ten Hoeve, who lives in Hawthorne, is assigned an unmarked, black Dodge Durango 4WD (EPA rated at 12 mpg city driving).
Moritz, who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ridgewood Water, commutes to Ridgewood from his home in Hasbrouck Heights. His assigned municipal vehicle is a white, unmarked Ford Explorer 4WD (EPA rated at 13 mpg city driving).
Although unmarked, both vehicles do have state issued “Municipal Government” license plates.
Many North Jersey communities are being forced to increase their fuel budgets by tens of thousands of dollars as a result of rapidly rising fuel costs.
