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Ridgewood council and residents clash over field scheduling, turf proposals and conduct at public fields meeting
Summary
Council members and residents debated overlap in field bookings, master scheduling, and a contentious public fields meeting that attendees said included bullying and disparaging remarks; council asked staff to produce GIS overlays explaining field overlaps and noted board of education interest in a full‑sided field at BF.
Council members and residents spent a lengthy portion of the May 7 meeting on sports‑field scheduling, grass upkeep and recent public conduct at a fields meeting held the previous day.
A council member summarized capacity across village facilities: “we have 5 fields, 5 field facilities,” noting specific booking counts for Habernacle, Hawes, Maple and Veterans fields and stressing that “that does not mean that all of those numbers… can be booked at the same time” because field layouts overlap. The council member said that explanation had been given to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and…
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