Ridgewood March 14, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 3 Council candidates file for nonpartisan election The Ridgewood Village Council candidates who filed for the impending May nonpartisan election will include Mayor Keith Killion, a former police captain and chief detective, and Councilman Paul Aronsohn, an advocate for the handicapped and for fiscal caution. The other candidates are Ridgewood Planning Board Vice Chairman Albert J. Pucciarelli, running under the slogan Service with Experience and Dedication; former council candidate Russell R. Forenza, with no slogan as yet; Ridgewood Planning Board member Mary Jane Shinozuka, with the slogan Careful Progress for Ridgewood; and Gwenn Hauck, with the slogan Passion, Caring Leadership. Three, three-year seats on the council will be available in this spring’s race. Killion is a life-long resident of Ridgewood. He is a Vietnam veteran with the combat engineers, and served on the police force for more than three decades, ultimately as one of two police captains and the head of the detective bureau. He advocates fiscal caution and storm damage control. Aronsohn is a graduate of George Washington University and worked for President Bill Clinton and Governor Jim McGreevey before running for the Ridgewood Village Council on the same slate as Killion and the late Anne Zusy. He and Killion have disagreed over the 12 percent raise that the majority of the council approved for Village (continued on page 10) Ridgewood Village Council Member Berndette Walsh made it official at the work session last week: The council does not support an initiative by the school system to reserve Heermance Place exclusively for teacher parking. The council had held off on expressing an opinion because Walsh was not present at the meeting several weeks ago, though the members present were not in favor of the teachers-only parking proposal. Resident Boyd Loving has pointed out that, since many Council nixes Heermance parking plan of the teachers are probably not residents, while the high school students and the commuters are Ridgewood residents, the restriction could be an affront to taxpayers. Walsh agreed with the general consensus that taking the Heermance Place parking out of the loop for students and commuters in order to reserve the parking for teachers and administrators was not a good idea. The council forwarded the word to the school board. J. KOSTER