Saturday, January 5, 2013
Another stretch of boardwalk added to the post-Sandy rebuild project
Two Point Beach council members were sworn in and council agreed to add another stretch of boardwalk to the upcoming renovation project. Andy Cortes, just elected to council for the first time, and Stephen Reid, who had originally been appointed to council in December, 2011 and then won election in November, 2012, were both sworn in as council members. Cortes, just after being sworn in, said, "I want to thank the Republican club and the voters who came out in adverse conditions to vote for Stephen and me. I also want to thank my family, all three rows of them, and my friends." Cortes' family filled the first three rows of one side of the meeting room. "I'm proud to represent the town on council," Cortes said. "I hope we can get away from…
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Andy Cortes will be sworn in as new council member
The Point Beach Council Organization meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Jan. 5. The Point Beach Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night for the scheduling of the organization meeting, as part of a vote for a "consent agenda" that contained numerous agenda items. However, at least a few council members were not delighted about the date. Council members Stephen Reid and William Mayer asked Mayor Vincent Barrella why the meeting was not Jan. 1, which has often been the date for the council's organization meeting every year. Mayer said, "I was disappointed my schedule wasn't consulted." Barrella said Council member Michael Corbally, who was absent Tuesday night, will not be back from a vacation by Jan. 1, so he postponed the meeting until …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Unusual mayor-council alliances tank ordinance to bill businesses for part of cost
Point Beach Council voted nearly unanimously to fix an Irene-ravaged section of boardwalk without help from boardwalk businesses, right after an initial move to bill businesses for part of the cost narrowly failed. The lengthy discussion, and, ultimately, the votes on the issue, did not play out along the usual political alliances. Councilmember Tim Lurie agreed with Mayor Vincent Barrella to not pass the first ordinance to bill Jenkinson's and Risden's for part of the cost, and disagreed with Councilmember William Mayer; Councilmembers Michael Corbally and Kristine Tooker agreed with Mayer and disagreed with Councilmember Bret Gordon; Councilmember Stephen Reid disagreed with Mayer, but agreed with Barrella and Gordon. Yes, it was unusual…
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 '…
valerie
7:23 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
My friends and I always take a bus trip to point pleasant beach,NJ every year just to get away for a day and I always love to go just to enjoy the beach and the especially the boardwalk I was so devastated when I seen all the photos from sandy and what it had done to the shore I've been coming there for years now and I absolutely love it, it's the only yearly trip I get to make so I enjoy it very… more ›