March 31,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Hourly meter rates in all Village lots and streets are now $.50 per hour from 10AM to 6PM,
Monday through Saturday.
Monday through Saturday.
Ridgewood Nj, First it was parking with hourly meter rates in all Village lots and streets jumping to $.50 per hour from 10AM to 6PM,Monday through Saturday.
Then there was an increase in Ridgewood Parking Permits provides ‘coinless’ with annual permits issued for a calendar year coasting residents $750. RPP are issued to Non Residents at a fee of $1,500 and require parking in the Cottage Place or Rt. 17 Park & Ride Lots.
Now the Village is moving to increase Building Department Fees .At the March 25, 2015 Village Council Meeting the proposed Building Department Fees was discussed.
Whats next garage sales, parking tickets , keeping the tax increase flat add some layers of supervisors and the spend the reserve .
Who is providing all these methods of nickel and diming Village residents ? Perhaps, we should look into their work duties more closely ?
Don’t they have anything else to do?
This is not nickel and dining. building fees will jump exponentially if this passes. They have to pay for all the new people/positions that our new Village Manager has created …..two in building dept, one in community center, director of human resources. They want to keep taxes flat, so they will squeeze us in other ways. It is transparently disgusting.
Keep in mind you do have to pay people also.
Yes of course you have to pay people. But they need to come up with lots of bucks to cover all the newly created positions, benefits, salaries.
@11:37 no name (aka courageous I’m sure)… the VM is from the private sector… maybe she is trying to be strategic and position the village govt to be a professional,accountable enterprise, a rarity in NJ… let’s see what happens….then fire away if it doesnt work…
Pretty funny 7:56, you are also no name so what are you suggesting?
In any case, I agree with 11:37. Adding layer upon layer of employees to the payroll this will not go well for the taxpayers. Services will diminish even more in order to make up for the salary and benefits expenses.
Sorry 10:25, new sign in on th blog… I am 7:56… look at the budget, some snippets of which are in the paper…at least if you want to complain it’ll be easier to see where the bucks are going…