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…
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 …
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 …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ordinances calling for earlier bar closings or payments are on Tuesday night Point Beach Council agenda
Point Beach Council member Kristine Tooker says Councilman William Mayer never came to her with a financial offer from the boardwalk and that he should not be saying she "rejected" one. Mayer says Tooker is wrong, that he did ask her whether she approves of a boardwalk offer of $140,000 that he describes as the boardwalk's "alternative" to ordinances calling for either earlier bar closings or payments to stay open later, as well as the removal of a separate ordinance restricting parking in the boardwalk bars' District 4. And so goes just one of many disagreements regarding the failed "negotiations" between the town and Jenkinson's Boardwalk and Martell's Tiki Bar. There is not even agreement that they were "negotiations." "They were not '…
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Mayor says plan might be expanded into District 3
Parking on residential streets in District 4 will soon be off limits during the summer overnight hours except for taxpayers, now that a new parking plan has been narrowly passed by Point Beach Council at Tuesday night's meeting at Borough Hall. The plan does not allow parking on residential streets in District 4 from midnight to 6 a.m. except for taxpayers, or those they share with, who have parking placards from the town, from the Monday before Memorial Day to the Monday after Labor Day, said Councilman Michael Corbally, who had initially proposed the plan. District 4's boundaries are the ocean on the east, the New Jersey Transit Railroad Tracks on the west, the Manasquan River and Inlet on the north and the north side of Arnold Avenue on…
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Text of proposal for bars to close earlier or help town pay for police
Point Beach Councilman Michael Corbally on Wednesday afternoon released the statement he read at Tuesday night's council meeting regarding a proposal for bar owners to close earlier or help the town pay for police services. Below (in italics) is the full text of his statement. The measure, to authorize Beach Attorney Sean Gertner to research the matter, as well as another alternative, regarding liquor licenses, and draft a proposed ordinance, passed at the meeting at Borough Hall, but Councilmen Tim Lurie and Stephen Reid voted no. After the meeting, Councilman William Mayer said that he did not support requiring all bars to either close at midnight or pay a fee based on occupancy to remain open until 2 a.m. He said he voted yes because …
Proposal may call for earlier closing for bars that don't help pay for police services
Bars may have to choose between closing earlier and ponying up to help pay for police if a proposal is passed into law by Point Beach council. A majority of council members voted on Tuesday night at Borough Hall to authorize borough Attorney Sean Gertner to draft an ordinance requiring all establishments in Point Beach with consumption liquor licenses to help pay for police if they want to stay open past midnight. Councilman Michael Corbally made the motion for the proposal at the meeting, including reading from a written version he had prepared. Councilman William Mayer said to him, "This is the first I'm hearing of this. Did our borough attorney see this?" "Briefly," Corbally replied. Mayer said after the meeting that he did not support …
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 ›