Visualizations
Bespoke data reports built by reading the archive of published meeting records directly — not the automated per-meeting summaries, but a deeper look for patterns across years of decisions.
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What Gets Approved, What Gets Denied: A Decade of Historic Preservation
Historic Preservation Commission applications from 2015 through 2026 — approval trends, shifting caseload, and how permissive the commission actually is about vinyl, aluminum, and slate.
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How the Commissioners Vote
26 Historic Preservation Commission members from 2015 through 2026 — who served when, how each one voted by project type, and what they actually said, straight from the minutes.
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Minute by Minute
Board of Education meetings since July 2024, broken into searchable topics — a superintendent transition, HIB findings, budget votes, and a Linden Avenue ceiling collapse, plotted by category over time.
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Between the Stacks
Library Board of Trustees meetings since October 2022, broken into topics and named books — including the night the board unanimously defended six challenged titles before a standing-room crowd.
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COVID-19, According to the Council
COVID-related decisions from the Mayor & Council, January 2020 through 2025 — masks, closures, vaccine rollout, and the years of small aftershocks that followed, plotted month by month by category.
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How the Council Votes
11 Mayor & Council members from 2020 through 2026 — who served when, how each voted by category, and just how rare a real split vote actually is, straight from the minutes.
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Where the Money Went
Every Board of Education dollar figure and major decision, July 2024 through June 2026 — capital projects, grants, a superintendent's resignation, and a ceiling collapse.
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Phones Out, Chromebooks In
Glen Ridge's cellphone-restriction policy arc (2024-2026), matched against New Jersey's state policy timeline and a Montclair comparison, plus a Chromebook and Promethean-panel purchasing history running back to 2019 — including a 2023 building-level phone rule that preceded the board's own policy, and a "1:1 device" district that was never actually voted into being.
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The Board's COVID Arc
The Board of Education's own COVID-era policy lifecycle, told as a Gantt timeline — meeting format shifting from in-person to Zoom and back, the P1648/P2425 remote-instruction policies passed down in succession, and $2,049,868 in federal relief grants, spring 2020 through 2024.
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School Policies Over the Years
Glen Ridge's full 638-policy Board of Education manual: 340 policies adopted in one pass in 2002 as a stable baseline, and 152 more the board has individually taken up since — cell phones, life-threatening allergies, sports concussions, active shooter response, transgender student protections, and more — spanning every one of the district's 10 policy categories, 2003 through 2023.
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Three Manuals, Three Clocks
Glen Ridge, Montclair, and Bloomfield all license their Board of Education policy manual from the same vendor and share 650 policy numbers. This page compares when each board individually acted — adopted or revised — on the policies they hold in common, from each district's own wholesale-adoption baseline (2002, 2007, and 2016) through today.
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What the Borough Spends
Glen Ridge's own municipal budget — not the school district's — 2016 through 2026: total spending, the tax levy, and a tax rate that fell sharply twice on property revaluations rather than real budget cuts, straight from the borough's own User Friendly Budget filings.
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Where the Road Money Went
Every dollar figure Ridge Report has found naming a real Glen Ridge street, painted onto an actual map of the borough — paving contracts, water-main bonds, and grants, scattered across a decade of minutes with no ledger of its own until now.
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Which Zone Are You In?
Glen Ridge's three garbage & recycling collection zones — South, Center, and North — painted onto a real map of the borough from the borough's own street-by-street description, so you can find your own street at a glance.