Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • August 14, 2013 Ridgewood Hauck urged to recuse herself from Valley vote by John Koster Ridgewood resident Marcia Ringel has urged Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck to recuse herself from any votes concerning the Valley Hospital. “Ms. Hauck must recuse herself on any matter related to Valley Hospital,” Ringel asserted at last week’s council work ses- sion. “This recusal situation is not an ele- phant in the room -- it’s a herd of woolly mammoths in the room and they can’t find the door.” Ringel said Hauck had received an $870 campaign contribution from Valley Hos- pital and that the councilwoman’s long- standing volunteer role with the hospital’s activities ostensibly made it impossible for her to vote objectively. The hospital is now making a second bid at a zoning change to permit a massive renovation that is unpopular with many neighbors. The council must endorse any such zoning change to the master plan. Hauck did not respond, but Mayor Paul Aronsohn said that the time for the council’s vote is not in sight because the Ridgewood Planning Board still has the matter under study. “That’s an issue we’re going to look at when the time comes,” he said. Leonard Eisen, a resident who fre- quently speaks at council meetings, urged the council majority to reconsider the ouster of Ridgewood Village Manager Ken Gabbert. “My personal experience with the vil- lage manager has been satisfactory,” Eisen said. “I have changed my mind about the village manager’s ability...The village man- ager has managed to keep the village taxes at no change. I feel that the village council should reconsider the probable vote on this matter.” The council majority -- Mayor Aronsohn, Deputy Mayor Albert Puciarelli, and Hauck, who were running mates in the last election -- have been projected as voting to remove Gabbert at the Aug. 14 meet- ing. The 12 percent raise Gabbert received from a previous council -- Aronsohn voted “no,” and Puciarelli and Hauck were not yet council members -- was a key to the election in which Hauck edged out former Mayor Keith Killion, a supporter of the raise, by just eight votes. Inaugural exhibit Nanette Ferreri recently held her first photography exhibit. A reception took place at the Ridgewood Library. Twenty-seven people came out on a rainy day, sampled hors d’oeurves, and had a look at 19 of Ferreri’s best landscape photographs, taken mostly around Bergen County. For the past nine years, Ferreri has lived in Ridgewood, where she has found many lovely areas to photograph. The exhibit will be on display throughout the month of August in the auditorium of the Ridgewood Library at 125 North Maple Ave., Ridgewood.