file photo by Boyd Loving
VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
JULY 12, 2017
8:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order – Mayor
2. Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act
3. Roll Call – Village Clerk
4. Flag Salute and Moment of Silence
5. Acceptance of Financial Reports
6. Approval of Minutes
7. Proclamations
NONE
8. Swearing-in of Police Sergeant Salvatore D’Amico
9. Comments from the Public (Not to exceed 3 minutes per person – 40 minutes in total)
10. Village Manager’s Report
11. Village Council Reports
12. ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION – RIDGEWOOD WATER
3606 – Water Capital Ordinance ($1,600,000) – Purchase of Elks Club Property
13. ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING – RIDGEWOOD WATER
NONE
14. RESOLUTIONS – RIDGEWOOD WATER
17-197 Award Contract – Lafayette Reservoir Improvements
17-198 Award Contract – Polyphosphate Pumps for Corrosion Control
17-199 Award Professional Services Contract – Cedar Hill Reservoir Improvements
17-200 Amend 2017 Water Capital Budget
17-201 Authorize Lease of Property for Co-Location of Wireless Telecommunications Antennas
15. ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION
3607 – Blue Collar Union Salary Ordinance
3608 – White Collar Union Salary Ordinance
3609 – Amend Chapter 145 Fees – Establish Fees for Tree Protection
3610 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – No Stopping on Portion of West Ridgewood Avenue
3611 – Enact Title 39 on All Public School Properties
3612 – Unlawful Enrollment of Students in Ridgewood Public Schools
16. ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING
3601 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – Establish Stop Signs at Upper Boulevard and Glenwood Road
3602 – Amend Chapter 222 – Power Tools, Landscaping, and Yard Maintenance Equipment
3603 – Authorize Special Emergency Appropriation – Master Plan Revision ($250,000)
3604 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – Hours for Closure of Clinton Avenue to Through Traffic
3605 – Amend Chapter 260 – Trees and Shrubs
17. RESOLUTIONS
17-202 Title 59 Approval – Police Handguns and Magazines
17-203 Award Contract – Police Handguns and Magazines
17-204 Award Contract Under State Contract – Ammunition for Police Handguns
17-205 Award Contract Under State Contract – Holsters for Handguns
17-206 Award Contract Under State Contract – Tires
17-207 Award Contract Under State Contract – Lifts and Support Stands – Fleet Services
17-208 Award Contract Under National Joint Powers Alliance – Front End Loaders with Snowplows
17-209 Award Contract Under National Joint Powers Alliance – Two Sanitation Trucks with Snowplows
17-210 Award Professional Services Contract – Feasibility Study for 240 Car Parking Garage
17-211 Title 59 Approval – Paint Curbs Yellow
17-212 Authorize Additional Funding for Special Attorney for RCRD Lawsuit (NTE $100,000)
17-213 Approve Major Soil Moving Permit – 240 Associates – Chestnut Village
17-214 Declare Fire Department Property Surplus
17-215 Appoint Members to Schedler Park Ad Hoc Committee
17-216 Endorse Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund Application – The James Rose Center
17-217 Appoint Clean Communities Coordinator
17-218 Appoint Recycling Program Coordinator
17-219 Authorize Release of Cash Bond – Capital One Bank
17-220 Accept Donation from Ridgewood Board of Education for Stigma Free Initiative
17-221 Award Contract – Central Valet Services
18. Comments from the Public (Not to Exceed 5 minutes per person)
19. Resolution to go into Closed Session
20. Closed Session
A. Sale of Property – Barrington Road
21. Adjournment
Elks club becoming the water works office is really dumb and really sad. Office space is super cheap right now. Go rent some existing office space somewhere. $1.6m to buy the property plus who knows what to renovate into an office is absurd. It is sad to lose a public space like that but it is only made worse when we have to raise taxes to pay for it.
17-210 Award Professional Services Contract – Feasibility Study for 240 Car Parki
Here’s the summer special …these folks are determined to pay some favors to someone
3606 – Water Capital Ordinance ($1,600,000)
Why not put the $1.6 Million towards improving the supply of water for the low pressure areas in Ridgewood where its really needed, as in another water storage tank and/ or water towers. Think ahead in the future with increased population and supply and demand.
Concrete Muni Garages are a market signal that the inmates are in charge..very bad signal in a town with high small business turnover. On west side the entire row of small businesses turned over across from at lease 30 metered short term spots across from bagel store towards the new bank
Take the 1.6 and Pave a few of the worse roads in bergen county
…we are approaching newark NJ quality levels of road surface conditions potholes sinkholes. A disgrace..
The water dept is mismanaged. Leave them where they are, they do not merit the investment.
It’s really being proposed to cloak the future location of the RIDGEWOOD PAC Performance Center pipe dream..
The current VC must be reading the playbook from the last VC. 1) forget buying the Elks and just sell Ridgewood Water to Suez, 2) forget more garagezilla studies, 3) reduce the staff at the breakfast club at village hall to those who actually WORK
Funny this was done on the Elks building when many residents are away down the shore, etc…. reminds of when Pfund pushed through ordinance 3066 in July 2007… what is this Council trying to hide?
In addition to what the other folks are saying about the Elk’s, street conditions, garage etc. don’t underestimate the wireless towers. Wireless towers while improving wireless phone service come with a lot of bad side effects. The radiation (especially for those living close to it) is very dangerous for young children. In addition after installing a tower chances are the providers will add more on top of just repeaters. They can add microwave equipment which is a killer. I know many people are complaining about their wireless coverage at home but the benefit is much less than the damage. Not to mention these towers are an eyesore and tend to affect real estate. When I was looking to buy in NJ one the good reasons to buy in Ridgewood was the lack of wireless towers and high voltage lines.
This VC is obviously blind to this becuase the residents have expressed a need for quality of service. Many don’t even think when they ask for something.
Anyone knows where the tower/s will be installed?