Thursday, October 11, 2012
.........if he puts it in writing
An attorney for Jenkinson's and Martell's said he is willing to look at the mayor's proposal for dropping the local midnight bar closing law - but he wants to see it in writing. "He should have his attorney send me his proposal in writing," said attorney Ronald Gasiorowski on Thursday, when asked to respond to Mayor Vincent Barrella's comments at the Tuesday night Point Beach Council meeting. Barrella said at the meeting that he would not mind repealing the midnight bar closing ordinance if the boardwalk businesses would first withdraw lawsuits against that and the District 4 parking plan. On Thursday, when told of Gasiorowski's response, Barrella said in an interview on Thursday that he thinks it would be a lot more productive to meet and…
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Barrella said he'd be willing to pull ordinance if all lawsuits were first withdrawn
Point Beach Mayor Vincent Barrella said at Tuesday night's council meeting that he would be willing to repeal the proposed earlier bar closing ordinance if all lawsuits against that and the District 4 parking plan were first dropped. During his committee report, Barrella brought up the topic of the controversial earlier bar closing proposal that was temporarily "stayed" by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control and still being fought in litigation filed by Jenkinson's and Martell's. "If the lawsuits were dropped, I'd have no problem dropping the midnight bar closing ordinance," he said. "But you can't withdraw an ordinance while litigation is pending." He said after the meeting, "I was told that the bars have been trying to quiet…
Friday, July 6, 2012
Barrella says state should send troopers since it won't let the town close bars at midnight
Point Beach Mayor Vincent Barrella says he will ask Gov. Chris Christie to send state troopers to patrol the boardwalk after midnight because the state is allowing bars to serve alcohol past that time. Barrella says he'll ask the Borough Council to support a request he'll make for state troopers to police "the center of the boardwalk from midnight to 2 or 3 a.m." since the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has temporarily blocked the town from enforcing an ordinance for bars to stop serving alcohol by midnight. "I'll write to the governor, in light of the state interference, to send in 18 state troopers a night, so I can pull our officers off the boardwalk and put them into residential neighborhoods," Barrella said. Since the …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Pat Storino, Jenkinson's owner, speaks at Point Beach GOP Club
Midnight bar closings would force Jenkinson's Boardwalk to lay off 50 of its 200 full-time, year-round workers, Pat Storino told the Point Beach GOP organization at the Woman's Club on St. Louis Avenue on Thursday night. "People have told me I should lay off the Point Pleasant Beach residents first, so they can picket," Storino said, adding, laughing, "So I may have to lay off my own kids." Layoffs would be one of the effects of a local ordinance adopted on May 15 that would compel all bars in Point Beach to stop serving alcohol at midnight, said Storino, who has owned Jenkinson's since 1977. That ordinance will be put to its first test today when the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is expected to decide whether to "stay…
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
So state left to decide if midnight closing starts Sunday
Jenkinson's and Martell's are confirming they are turning down the town's "compromise" offer to stop serving alcohol at 1 a.m. Council and Mayor Vincent Barrella voted narrowly on Tuesday night to offer the 1 a.m. bar closing as a compromise, after the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) urged the two parties to try to reach a settlement. On Wednesday afternoon, the two largest businesses on the boardwalk released the following prepared statement (published here in its entirety): “The payment of dollars has been inextricably linked to the hours of operation. At each and every meeting with members of the governing body over the past five months, the demand has always been money for extended hours. The proposal last night …
But that won't happen without boardwalk businesses agreeing
The Point Beach Mayor and Council voted narrowly on Tuesday night for bars to stop serving alcohol at 1 a.m. However, that won't happen without agreement from boardwalk businesses which are appealing the council's May 15 vote to stop serving alcohol at midnight. Ed McGlynn, an attorney representing Jenkinson's Boardwalk, said after the vote that he and other boardwalk business representatives have not yet decided if they will agree with a 1 a.m. closing and they will not be releasing any information Tuesday. The vote is an offer of a "compromise," according to the mayor and councilmembers who voted in favor of the 1 a.m. closing time. Councilmembers Michael Corbally, Bret Gordon, Kristine Tooker and Mayor Vincent Barrella (who broke a tie…
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Undercover police will be behind the counter in liquor stores across the Jersey Shore this summer
The state attorney general on Tuesday came to Belmar to outline his plan to stop underage drinking at the Jersey Shore. Jeffrey S. Chiesa, along with several state and local officials, and members of the liquor and prevention industry gathered at the Taylor Pavillion at the beach to discuss the "Cops in Shops" initiative, which puts undercover officers behind liquor store counters, to reign in underage drinking. Since its implementation in 1996, nearly 10,000 underage persons and adults have been arrested in the state as a result of the initiative, according to a release from the attorney general's office. This year 30 shore police departments — more than a dozen from Monmouth Beach down to Toms River were represented Tuesday — are …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Town and boardwalk bars went before state ABC on Tuesday
Point Beach is telling the state it has every legal right to shut down booze sales at midnight, and the town and the boardwalk bars argued their cases at a state hearing on Tuesday. Those are the two most recent developments in the ongoing issue of earlier cut-off of alcohol sales: that the town has responded to an appeal filed by Jenkinson's and Martell's and both sides appeared before the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) at a hearing in Trenton on Tuesday. A recently-adopted ordinance mandates that bars stop serving alcohol by midnight, two hours earlier than the current cut-off, starting July 1. Jenkinson's and Martell's reacted to the ordinance by appeaing to the state ABC, arguing that the state should invalidate the…
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Boardwalk appeals alcohol ordinance; asks state to block enforcement until appeal decided
Point Beach has 10 business days to respond to an appeal filed by boardwalk businesses asking the state to kill a new law that prohibits bars from serving alcohol past midnight, according to a state official. The town also has 10 business days to respond to Jenkinson's and Martell's request that the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) "stay" or block local enforcement of the new ordinance until ABC decides on the appeal, said Zach Hosseini, an ABC spokesman. "We'll make a decision shortly after that (on the 'stay'), we're not going to let this drag out," Hosseini said. The ordinance is scheduled to go into effect on July 1. Hosseini said attorneys at ABC are reading the appeal, along with a voluminous file of approximately…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
UPDATE: Council votes for preliminary approval for second ordinance giving bars the option to pay fees to stay open until 2 a.m.
Point Beach council voted on Tuesday night for bars to close at midnight, two hours earlier than the current 2 a.m. closing time. Councilmembers Kristine Tooker, Bret Gordon and Michael Corbally voted for the earlier bar closing, while Councilmembers William Mayer, Tim Lurie and Stephen Reid voted against it. That left Mayor Vincent Barrella to break the tie, and he voted yes. The ordinance goes into effect on July 1. The council also voted for preliminary approval for a second ordinance giving bars the option to pay fees to stay open until 2 a.m., which is the current closing time. However, councilmembers agreed to postpone the deadline for bars to request a later closing time from the town. That deadline had been May 24 but was moved to …
Iggy S
6:48 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
LIOtheF and NC...1) You both sound like bitter lawyers in and out of town that did not get their way. 2) LIOtheF... you are the one who sounds like a pin ball machine. 3) Boardwalk shills is not flattering nor the majority of this town... It is obvious who are the Boardwalk shills...This has nothing to do with Barrella, it is many of the town residents getting tired of the same crap for far to … more ›