Revisited Questions: Teaneck Voices Is Still Seeking the Answers
We posted these questions in our February 5, 2023 Newsletter. It’s Now One Month Later, March 6, 2023 – Same Questions, Different Commentary
What better time to ask questions than at Budget Time?
When will lunches and social activities resume at the Rodda Senior Center?
Teaneck Voices asked the Director why these activities haven’t resumed. In regard to the food service, we were told that post-Covid, staff members were required to take courses in food service safety. Some of Teaneck’s staff have completed the requirement, and successful inspection approvals by 3-levels of government (state, county and Town) are apparently required. Resumption of lunches may occur when summer classes begin.
The impact on seniors of the “missing” Senior Center services in post-pandemic Teaneck is well described in resident Laraine Chaberski’s lead article in today’s Teaneck Voices .
Teaneck Voices Request:
Since Teaneck Voices learned that there are NO financial issues delaying lunches, we suggest hiring a certified food service organization like one serving our schools. For example, could the township add the Senior Center at the Rodda to the Teaneck Public School Roster and have the daily lunch delivered for seniors Monday through Friday?
It is critical to the physical and mental health of our Teaneck senior citizens that they be actively engaged in enjoyable activities with their peers and eat healthy meal on a daily basis.
The following questions, and many more, reflect ongoing projects. Teaneck Voices requests that a once monthly Council Workshop Session be established at which a Councilmember reviews each ongoing project (perhaps kept on a giant wall chart) and reports on its progress. Here are the questions from February 5, followed by a few additions for the wall chart:
What is the status of the senior affordable housing and center at 1425 Teaneck Road?
o How many units will go to Teaneck residents?
o Will the first floor health and recreation center be open to all Teaneck seniors?
o When will this facility be completed?
When will the new Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) arrive?
o Who will deliver the training?
o Who will be trained?
o Where will they be stored?
o Will they be available at every Teaneck sporting event?
o How will they get there?
o Who will be responsible?
o What can we learn from the purchases and use of AEDs by the Teaneck Public Schools District?
What happened to the plan for Mixed-Use Zoning on Cedar Lane as specified in the Master Plan?
o Unchanged from the 2007 Master Plan is the agreement that Cedar Lane would develop 3-story buildings with ground floors solely retail, 2nd floor offices or apartments, and 3rd floor apartments.
o There is agreement that Cedar Lane, Teaneck’s main shopping avenue, desperately needs revitalization.
o The present plan, UNSUPPORTED BY ANY RESIDENT IN ANY G&W SESSION OR ELSEWHERE, is to declare the hub of the “Lane,” Garrison and Cedar Lane, a blighted Area in Need of Development (AINR), and to erect tall apartment buildings and hi-rise parking structures.
o Can Teaneck residents stop an AINR?
What is happening with Holy Name Medical Center Expansion?
o What is the status of the law suit brought by the Good Neighbors?
o Why is Holy Name being allowed to seek Planning Board site plan approvals based on the contested Ordinance 22-2022 while the litigation is continuing and the judge has ordered mediation of the dispute.
o Is what is threatened to the Good Neighbors likely to happen to others in Teaneck?
What is happening with the construction on Alfred Avenue and its intrusion into
Teaneck and Englewood residential areas?
When is Council Going to Honor Retired Senator Loretta Weinberg ?
o Residents have asked that Argonne Park be renamed for Senator Weinberg. Their second choice is the Municipal Building, third choice is the Council Chambers.
When will the Cannabis decisions be made?
When will Backyard Chicken decisions be made?
Teaneck Voices and its readers look forward to seeing the Teaneck Project Wall Chart and hearing the Council discussions at a monthly Workshop session.
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