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Village services should be shared
Monday February 17, 2014, 11:42 AM
The Ridgewood News
Village services should be shared
0Wilkin Santana
To the editor:
As per current village ordinance, the police department table of organization calls for 30 patrol officers.
It is my opinion, a council’s public safety committee should have heard in advance about the intention of the police chief to extend an offer of employment to two individuals, especially when one of them, as reported by the media, is related to a former councilman and mayor and this action will increase the table of organization as per village code. All legal, ethical and managerial considerations should be first made at the village council’s committee level before attempting to support a last minute retroactive amendment to the code. There are legal, cost, ethical and managerial implications to increasing the size of any department.
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0Wilkin Santana first do you believe everything you read in the paper. !. The Council budgeted for these officer. 2. The Council was made aware at ever step of the hiring of these police officers. 3. In you opinion because the man father has been retired for 6 years and has not been on the Council for 2 years This should be bar this young man from ever working for the Village of Ridgewood. The way they treated these two candidates will create legal, ethical and managerial considerations for this Council.
The Idea of shared services has a built in flaw. The fact that sharing a service benefits the village more than the surrounding towns. I have been in contact with official’s from other surrounding towns who voice the same concern: Ridgewood is busier than us and bigger than us so if we merge what will we get out of it? Where would our manpower be if we merge with you (rwd) we would be supplementing your staff with our people because you don’t want to hire.
There is the additional complication of the VOR being a civil service town, and having paid FD, and ambulance Corps (daytime) Waldwick is a civil service town but . has a volunteer fire and ambulance as does Glen Rock, and Midland Park anyone familiar with the operations of a municipality can see there are numerous complications regarding volume of service between the adjoining towns.
We I guess the only way to fix this is that the candidates father will have to die first before he would be considered for and job in the Village.
yes I have the specs on the paid fire dept.
Who want to trade a full time fire dept for and volunteer fire dept for the few dollars it cost me. I sure don’t. Who are you going to staff a volunteer fire dept in this town? Our boys at the FD are well trained.
hohokus and midlandpark , it can been done. you know it can.
to # 2 in the end this is , going, and will back fire , witch it is doing now, the town did not replace workers is most dept’s because some of the top dog’s tried to out source all the job’s . when the bids came back to do the work they shit right on the floor. so now they are hiring some people back.
#7 I’m @ I hope they do hire back outsourcing isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Especially in the long run.
#6 ho-ho -kus and MP could merge with each other a lot easier than they could merge with Ridgewood, and their work loads are similar so the benefits would be equal to both towns