The employees shouldn't be taking up revenue generating spaces for free. They
don't work for the city. They don't drive revenue to the city. The businesses
do. And they pay MM for the space. MM should be providing space to
accommodate as part of their leases with the businesses. It's not the city's
job to provide free parking to employees of private businesses. Otherwise it's
not the city but the homeowners in the city who in fact are paying for employee
parking.
So why should I as a homeowner pay more in taxes to provide free parking to
employees of private businesses?
That's MM job. The city's doing everything right in this case, and is trying
to be a good partner by providing a discount.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote:
>
> It's simple. Why should the city make money off of employees that are already
> making money for the city due to their employment. I agree with one thing:
> let the boardwalk biz's and MM work together and provide an employee only
> parking area. It just seems like the right thing to do in my opinion. The
> employees aren't there for fun, they are there to work. How many employees
> are we talking about? 50? 100? Is it really worth taxing them? I guarantee
> this will leave a bad taste in the workers mouths.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dan,
> > > Stop talking down to me. I get it. And last summer, the area in front of
> > > my home was employee parking. And some of those employee's got their cars
> > > broken into. One of those employees is a long time friend of mine. Do you
> > > simply lack empathy for people who are probably making very little money?
> > > Put yourself in their shoes.
> >
> > > The city isn't doing the employees a favor at all, and neither are the
> > > biz owners nor MM. The boardwalk's success is driven by it's business's.
> > > They business's and MM thrive due to the hard work of the employees, and
> > > they are viturally all in the service industry, which is low paying and
> > > exhausting. In my opinion, it would be a nice benefit to give employees a
> > > dedicated parking area. Why is it wrong in your opinion to think that?
> > > Does everything have to be about money? Why not do things because they
> > > are simply the friendly and right thing to do?
> >
> > I have working kids. For many years I (with two kids) was part of the
> > "working poor." I have empathy. Let their employers pay for the parking. If
> > its a paid spot they need to pay and the City IS doing them a favor. They
> > could make them pay the market price instead of favored price.
> >
> > You still have not made an argument why the city should give free parking
> > to employees of the BW businesses? Why? Because its nice? Its nice also to
> > let me park for free on Ocean Ave, or to let a visitor who pays for a beach
> > pass or eats in a restaurant.
> >
>
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