Harm has been objecting to the finethat is why an independent committee is now looking at whether he has to pay. That committee then issues an advice to the municipality. BVNL councilor Paul Meijer finds the state of affairs ‘ridiculous’.
“This is really the inverted world. Someone who constantly complains about bicycle nuisance and then gets a fine for placing a few planters,” he said tonight during the question time. Alderman Charlotte van der Meij said he would not want to go into the case after that as long as that process is still ongoing.
“But there is a policy that we maintain and that policy has been established here in the past.”
Shortage of enforcers
After the alderman, the mayor took the floor in a bright tone. She is annoyed that councilors use the meeting to treat on -stand disputes with citizens. “I really want to make an appointment about that now. We can’t act at case level.”
She also asks for understanding ‘the enormous shortage’ of police officers and enforcers. “We are unable to maintain this. We find that very much,” she says about sidewalk bikes. “It is really not that we are not trying to maintain. It has been looked and found that nothing is happening at that time.”
Meijer is not pleased with Schuurmans response. “Fan crazy. So she actually says that you can’t take it up for your people. Are you here, right?”
View the report that NH made with Harm below.