VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
JUNE 8, 2022
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
Bee City USA and National Pollinator Week
3-20, Decorum, the Village Council meetings shall be conducted in the following manner:
Manner of Addressing Council
Persons other than Council members may be permitted to address the Council in the proper order of business. A person present may, upon recognition by the Chair, be heard either upon ordinances upon second reading or at the time of petitions and oral communications from the public and at such other times as the Council may, by majority vote of those present, specifically permit. No person shall address any remark or question to any specific Council member, nor shall any person be permitted to address the Chair while a motion is pending. A Council member may, through the Chair, respond to any communication or address received pursuant to this section.
Decorum
Any person who shall disturb the peace of the Council, make impertinent or slanderous remarks or conduct himself in a boisterous manner while addressing the Council shall be forthwith barred by the presiding officer from further audience before the Council, except that if the speaker shall submit to proper order under these rules, permission for him to continue may be granted by a majority vote of the Council.
8. Comments from the Public (Not to exceed 3 minutes per person – 40 minutes in total)
9. Village Manager’s Report
10. Village Council Reports
11. ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION – RIDGEWOOD WATER
NONE
12. ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING – RIDGEWOOD WATER
NONE
13. RESOLUTIONS – RIDGEWOOD WATER
22- Award Contract – Disposal of Soil Spoils
22- Award Sole Source Contract – Leak Detection Services
22- Title 59 Approval – Water Billing and Data Collection Services
22- Award Contract – Water Billing and Data Collection Services
22- Award Contract Under Bergen County Contract – Concrete and Road Repair Materials for Water Main Repairs
22- Award Professional Services Contract – Evaluation of Carr Water Treatment Plant
22- Authorize Change Order – Install and Maintain a CCTV/Access Control System – Ridgewood Water Headquarters
14. Resolution 22- Authorize Emergency Appropriation – Recycling Truck ($355,000)
15. ORDINANCES – INTRODUCTION
3908 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – Time Limit Parking, Overtime Parking and Repeat Parking
3909 – Amend Chapter 145 – Fees – Vehicle Fees for Police Details
3910 – Amend Ordinance Chapter 145 – Fees – Significant Discharger Sewer Fees
3911 – Bond Ordinance – Purchase of Recycling Truck
16. ORDINANCES – PUBLIC HEARING
3907 – Policy on Absences for Volunteers Serving on Village Boards and Committees
17. RESOLUTIONS
22- Waive Fourth of July Vendor Fees
22- Grant Permission to Fireworks Company for Fireworks Display
22- Title 59 Approval – School Bus Transportation for Day Camp
22- Award Contract – School Bus Transportation for Day Camp
22- Award Contract – Exhaust System for Garages – Fleet Services
22- Award Contract – Polartek Dual AC Servicing Machine – Fleet Services
22- Award Contract – Snowplow – Streets
22- Award Contract – Cool Net Shade for Graydon Pool
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Short Term Rental of Pickup Trucks – Police Department
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Storage Tank and Trailer – Parks Department
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Ford F350 – Parks Department
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Rearloader Packer Truck – Solid Waste
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Ford F-750 Chassis – Solid Waste
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Packer Body – Solid Waste
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Ford F-350 – Recycling
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Rack Body – Recycling
22- Award Contract Under State Contract – Packer Truck ($355,000)
22- Award Contract Under Sourcewell – Short Term Rental Cars – Police Department
22- Award Contract Under Sourcewell – Leasing and Maintenance of Vehicles – Police Department
22- Award Contract Under Cooperative Contract – Heavy Duty Tire Changer – Fleet Services
22- Award Contract Under Cooperative Contract – Fuel
22- Award Professional Services Contract – Drug and Alcohol Testing and Pre-Employment Physicals
22- Award Professional Services Contract – Annual Audit
22- Award Professional Services Contract – Fire Department and EMS Chart Review and Billing
22- Chapter 159 – Accept State of New Jersey, Department of Health – Strengthening Local Public Health Capacity Program Grant
22- Authorize Encroachment Agreement – 32 Sherman Place
22- Authorize Encroachment Agreement – 769 Upper Boulevard
22- Declare Fire Department Property Surplus
22- Authorize Execution of Subordination Agreement – Block 2603, Lot 8.01
22- Approve 2022-2023 Renewals of Liquor Licenses
22- Appoint Village Attorney
22- Appoint Village Bond Attorney
22- Appoint Village Labor Attorney
22- Appoint Professional Affordable Housing Planner and Related Matters
22- Appoint Village Prosecutor and Assistant Village Prosecutor
22- Appoint Village Auditor
22- Appoint Municipal Public Defender and Alternate Municipal Public Defender
22- Appoint Community Development Representative
22- Appoint Representative to Open Space Trust Regional Committee
22- Appoint Members to Planning Board
22- Appoint Members to Zoning Board of Adjustment
22- Appoint Village Councilmembers as Liaisons to Various Boards and Committees
18. Comments from the Public (Not to Exceed 5 minutes per person)
19. Resolution to go into Closed Session
20. Closed Session
21. Adjournment
Today I was talking to a few of the workers on sanitation, I said to the worker/driver you’re working by yourself what is going on. I was formed that the village is very understaffed.How about talking about hiring employees. Because in sanitation recycling and yard waste, they are short a good 6 worker’s. Here we go someone’s gonna get hurt. Again. Don’t we have working foreman. This is just ridiculous.
They need a good four garbage trucks.
See these problems can be repaired if the village manager makes rounds too each department and talk directly to the workers. Second we need to have foreman/supervisors getting back on the road and working with the crews. In the past we had supervisors that worked and got dirty and sweaty, now we have ,well we will be nice.
Well I guess if they don’t hire anyone, they’ll be overtime on the weekends.
It’s time for the supervision to get on the back of the yard waste trucks. It will do them good they need exercise. We all love to see that.
Well see ,
Talk about lazzy. Wow .
Sanitation and recycling have been deadly short workers for a long time. We used to have an adequate staff. the work is too much for one or two men and they are being pushed to complete it in the same time frame as before. Where did the money go that we used to pay them? Into that worthless garage? to pay for all the extra costs the luxury housing has incurred? the new water building? Now Ridgewood is serving the rich on the backs of the poor?
And speaking of the luxury housing…has anyone heard anything about the below market housing units? have they ever been built? The last I read was when the first buildings opened is that “construction would soon begin on the share of housing for the lower income people.” has it?
I think that a small portion of the buildings have a few units that qualify as below market (some call it low income) units, therefore integrating them into the overall project.
It’s all bullshit, one scam after the next. I’m watching sanitation trucks go down my block with one or two people on it, are used to be three people on a truck . This is why we have employees getting hurt. And we have yard waste cans 200 pounds. It’s ridiculous, all the towns have Weight limits and ordinances on no more than 51 pounds.
Some one is going to get hurt again. There should be weight limits on the cans. I do know in most towns they have a limit of (51) pound ‘s . That’s osha law in the state of nj.
Yes I live in a nearby town and we are not allowed to have our cans more than 50 pounds, and we are not allowed to use any large sanitation cans either they’re too bulky.