Everyone on this board is studying the budget.
Let's see what we can come up with to defer the cost of lifeguards.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
> >>
> > I'm gonna disagree with you on that, Oak.
> >
> >> Maybe Asbury would be better off advertising a "bailout
backlash" or
> > a "bailout for people."
> >
> > No beach fees.
> >
> > No parking fees.
> >
> > Half the sales tax (UEZ).
> >
> > No hotel room tax.
> >
> > No tourist taxes whatsoever.
> >
>
>
> Ok.
>
> Whose gonna bailout the city to cover for it all?
>
> If the developer,whose using someone else's money is willing to pay
for
> all that free stuff you propose, like lifeguards, gate guards,
police,
> lighting, signage.
>
> If a room can go for $150-$250 night...or a drink $11 (at least my
blue
> was only $5)or dinner $30 plus appetizers, drinks, deserts etc or a
> knick knack old propeller decoration is $3,000...
>
> BASED ON EXPERIENCE over the years on the boardwalk when things got
> depserate, FREE BEACHES did bring people in and helped the
merchants
> out some BUT did nothing to help out the city.
>
> They still had to pay the bill.
>
> So it's ok for an individual business owner or developer with debt
free
> money to profit at the expense of the city?
>
> I think asking everyone to contribute $1 or $2 isn't the worse
thing in
> the world to help AP climb out of hibernation.
>
> If I (or anyone else) can for over money for booze, paying $1 for
> parking or another $5 on a room for $150 isn't the end of the world.
>
> And the landlords of the city should just give free rent? Remember,
the
> city is one giant landlord - collecting rent to cover and provide
the
> essential services so that their residents (tenants) can propser.
>
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