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Common Sense For New Hampshire
Liberty Begins At Home
30 Comments
The Verizon fix is in and someone has ill feelings against the long standing lifeguard administration. Oscar Awards all around!
How can a councilman have nothing to report ?!
CAFRA wasn’t necessary for boardwalk reconstruction because NOTHING was changed? Take a I minute: 5th Avenue and Ocean Avenue section of the boardwalk changed dramatically. The configuration and contents beneath and within the hastily constructed boardwalk definitely changed without CAFRA overview nor consultation.
#3 – Nothing seems to be enforceable in New Jersey.
Lack of Security is a Concern
One of the major disadvantages of public WiFi lies in its inability to offer proper security to the users. The people who are in charge of offering free WiFi to the inhabitants of a city are able to see each and every website that you surf or each and every click that you make on the Internet.
So, the privacy of the users is usually not there with free WiFi offered by the municipalities of different cities.
With every passing day, different governments are trying hard to provide citizens with free WiFi, which has nearly become a basic necessity these days. And the advantages offered by these services seem to outweigh the cons.
Lifeguards, who needs low paid ($10 ph) lifeguards more than Belmar Kolean? Nobody. Try working for $10 per hour in the boiling sun getting skin cancer (and dates) while entrusted with the lives of man, woman and child x 50,000 visitors and residents a weekend for $10 ph. Talk about Kolean’s low wages initiative to save the Belmar budget, why? Can you believe that she’s laying this potentially diasterous decision at the top cop’s feet instead of her own and then having the time ritual to put it in a resolution form for the Council to approve, No way? Take a management course please.
If the beach utility moneies werent diverted for non beach utility exspenses (Taylor just one) there should be ample funds to pay the people who protect the public at there own peril. I believe these guards dont get paid enough ( compare other towns). Patching financial holes created by this administration in the municipal budget by undermining public safety is of major concern
#7: You are absolutely correct. The news media hasn’t caught up with this human interest story yet. HUMANS are at risk on the beach. The Ocean can be very deceiving to a novice swimmer as well as seasoned ones. We need professional lifeguards on Belmar with seasoned Belmar Supervisors. Lifeguards are more or less paramilitary in structure so strong, mature leaders are essential. It’s not a party Baywatch job. Look up the Lifeguard Association for guidance or ask Cecile Lear. Very simple to do a cost analysis and then consult Actuarial tables for the expendibility of the average Belmar seasonal beachgoer.
McDonald’s highly unskilled hourly wage earner will soon be paid at what… $15ph?
Whattttttt?
Raise salaries then raise beach entrance fees? YES!!! The average person, myself included, should be happy to cough up more dough for lifeguards.
#8 – I call it the club house. The life guards and guardettes will be in their playing their usual games – the ones boys and girls play all the time.
#6 & 7 And soon, when Robin Kirk retires, Colleen Connolly will take over her job as CFO. She will be in charge of all the money in Belmar. Scary thought.
Jim Bean for Mayor
Not long ago, the Belmar Planning Board granted Conditional Use Approval to the Mayfair owners to install cell phone equipment that covers the entire beachfront area very well …. in accordance with FCC requirements, all cell carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc.) must co-locate there to minimize the number of antennas & public exposure to radio frequency energy.
Verizon wireless is currently at the Mayfair and they have provided no justification or need for additional antennas or equipment.
Verizon wants to weasel-out of paying rent to the Mayfair by throwing Belmar a WiFi bone.
If the Verizon deal sounds too good to be true, look deeper.
Thank you Eugene. I’m glad someone remembers the Mayfair deal.They make a tremendous amount of money each month from each unit located on their roof. It was supposed to be temporary. Belmar was supposed to install a large flagpole to house the wires on the beach and gain all that money . I did not vote yes at the time because they had gone to SL, Avon,Bradley Beach and they all said NO. The other towns didn’t think it was a good idea. I still think we should prosper from the units and not keep the Mayfair in business from using their unsightly display on the roof.
Any investment made by Verizon or any other vendor be it $1 or Millions will be taken by that company as tax write offs anyway which way they spin it. It’s the beach we were entrusted with and making financial giveaways are suspect.
It’s OUR beach and not Disney World. Stop trying to make Belmar something that it is not.
The Mayor of Spring Lake has a background in telecommunications and Spring Lake has terrible coverage from Verizon on its beaches. She would be able to make an informed decision for her residents. John Zeliga (Verizon Rep pushing this) lives in Spring Lake. Why didn’t Mr Zeliga put this in his own Town?? Did they ask Spring Lake??
#19: BULLSEYE
CVS boots min wage to $11.
Verizon proposal is terrible for Belmar- period.
Verizon potential windfall on Belmar/Public Trust dime is outrageous.
#22 You are right it is terrible. Belmar should provide every paying beach goer a free hamburger , french fries, and a soft drink.
What? The Verizon deal is FREE – just like the Merry Maker Pavilion. Tell the council members that something is FREE and they just jump right on board. Will the Planning Board review this and raise questions? Wait, the mayor owns the town. Mr. Zelega presumably knows the administration is stupid and falls for the FREE spin.
it was nice to hear from the BA that the boardwalk has linear electric conduit excess to her needs.
Unfortunately …. the Verizon deal would stuff all the ‘excess’ conduit for 40 years.
Who owns the electric poles? Is the owner Belmar, JCP&L or The Beach Utility?
#27The wooden poles are owned by either the electric or telephone companies they have id numbers on metal bands attached to the poles.
The taxpayers of Belmar own the light poles on both sides of Ocean Avenue, and the Mayor and councilmembers are only 5 of 3000+ taxpayers. It’s time to stop making foolish decisions.
I noticed the housing on the “new” electric poles in front of and around the post office…Al gouged chipped.
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