Frustrating to read that a few elected officials want to hold funding for Sandy relief hostage, in trade for eliminating beach tags. Do they think the shore communities make a profit from this revenue?
The reality: money generated from the sale of beach tags is used to off set the cost to maintain, clean, and guard the beaches.
For more detail, I have attached the article from today’s Press of Atlantic City: Beach Tags
Yes, it’s a user fee- similar to paying a toll on a roadway. Â And, yes, the year round residents and property owners (aka tax payers) buy tags, too.
We purchase 6 seasonal tags each summer; $126 total for the privilege of using “my beach” and sharing it during family visits. Â For that nominal fee, I see the tractors raking the beach each morning, the Borough Public Works crew emptying the trash cans, and the well trained lifeguards in their assigned spot. Â A bargain!
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Not only does it not make sense to do away with the beach tags for financial reasons but there are some of us that would miss the tag. Even though we are only summer visitors for a couple of weeks, there are times that we have bought the season passes because they are a collectable little work of art.