VILLAGE COUNCIL
SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING
OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:00 P.M.
- Call to Order – Mayor
- Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act
MAYOR: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided
by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall,
by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
- Roll Call
- Comments from the Public
- Resolution to go into Closed Session
- Closed Session
- Personnel – Village Manager’s Office, Boards and Committees and Professional Appointments
- Adjournment
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:30 P.M.
- Call to Order – Mayor
- Statement of Compliance with Open Public Meeting Act
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
- Roll Call – Village Clerk
- Flag Salute
- Public Comments (Not to Exceed 3 Minutes per Person – 40 Minutes in Total)
- Village Manager’s Report
- Village Council Reports
- Presentations
- Verizon Cell Site Project – Public Safety Communications Enhancements
- Shade Tree Commission – Updates to Tree Ordinance and Big Tree/Heritage Tree
- Discussion:
- Ridgewood Water
NONE
- Parking
NONE
- Budget
- Ambulance Fee Schedule Updates
- 2023 Budget Transfers
- Authorize Settlement Agreement – Notice of Violation for Underground Storage Tanks
- Award Contract – Heating Unit for EMS Facility – 33 Douglas Place
- Award Contract – Upgrades for Desktop Computers, Monitors, and Webcams
- Policy
- Manner of Addressing Governing Body and Decorum
- Location of Christmas Tree in Central Business District
- Ridgewood Bus Station
- Operations
- Accept Donation of Vehicle – Office of Emergency Management
- Public Comments (Not to Exceed 3 Minutes per Person)
- Adjournment
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LOL love the picture for the caption
Really because I don’t get it….Pee Wee avoids confrontation. He does his best work when no one is watching.
you are very right!!
The bus station is a disgrace.
All the wood at the top is all rotten . The place is so dark at night, it always smells like a bathroom. The place is constantly filthy. It is extremely embarrassing for the village.
“Policy: Manner of Addressing Governing Body and Decorum”
Watch that bully yell at the populace for daring to voice their opinions, as his mentor and his mentor’s mentor did.
and the council will continue to do nothing about it because Paul, Siobahn, Evan and Matt are all friends with these guys like Delzio (allegedly).
How about repaving W. Saddle River Road from route 17 to the. Hohokus border .
This council needs to take serious action against anyone who is disruptive, even if they have a personal relationship with them. You don’t get a pat on the back for agreeing not to come to a meeting for a month. You are a grown up man who needs to start acting like one. Bullying will not be tolerated.
The last time West Saddle River Rod was paved, our grandson was not quite four. I remember because we were down there every day watching them. He is now 34! Don’t you think that 30 years is long enough to repave? Especially since the State paved HOHOKUS”s side to our border several years ago.
You know, some people should not throw rocks when they live in glass houses, because there are a few people that own food establishments in the CBD that had major exposure to waste water in their basements. We wonder just wonder if that was really cleaned up how it should’ve been beard but the problem here is is the village Board of Health really going to go away after certain individuals, the answer is no. So how do you go around this contact the county, or the state to step on the toes. That’s what I would do.
There is so much corruption in this town. if we opened the curtains and rolled up the rugs, the cockroaches would scurry and hide.
And yet you continue to live there, pay absurd taxes, and elect complete assholes year after year and now your going to complain?
With the exception of Lorraine Reynolds, the only sane council person in Ridgewood’s Village, I didn’t vote for any of these assholes with their Tiffany blue lawn signs. If you saw the picture of Brooks and Price’s house you know they had a Vagianos lawn sign on their property and got a nice loan too. As for Weitz, he is a lame dude with nothing important to say and seems to be quite arrogant and a waste of a seat. Pam just goes along with anything Paul says but as a former tree hugger and liaison to the Green Ridgewood Committee it is quite comical that she has pivoted quite dramatically.
So a tree isn’t historic unless The Council deems it so? All very confusing that we are spending our tax dollars to pay the Village attorney to spend countless hours to address a concern over a tree status.