Very sad that the First Aid didn’t sell to the town. For a non profit entity that served the community for decades that has to donate proceeds to a charity anyway it seems petty and spiteful and greedy. The residents of Belmar lose here. Personal grudges. The only winner here is Bill Merkler and his crew. Sad sad day for Belmar.
#4 What’s more sad is that the Borough tried to scare off other potential bidders with threats of condemnation, and then submitted an offer that was $201,000.00 LESS than the $1,341,000 value the Borough assessed the property at back in 2017.
The truth is that the Borough has plenty of buildings and garages. It doesn’t need the BFAS property to run two ambulances.
#5. Land in the 400 Block of 9th Ave is assessed at $500,000 per 50×150′ parcel except that when a lot consists of more than one 50×150′ parcel each additional lot is assessed at $100,000. It’s an oddity of the re-evaluation.
BFAS Land(414 9th Ave) is assessed at $500,000 + $100,000 + $100,000= $700,000 Total.
If these were three Lots(414, 416 and 418 9th Ave) the Land Assessment would be $500,000 each or $1,500,000 Total.
The BFAS Building is assessed at $641,400.($1,500,000+ $641,400= $2,141,400 potential value)
The Building has no value to a developer but rather represents a cost to tear it down.
#5. Still don’t understand why the BfAS didn’t just agree to sell that property to the people of Belmar. They would still be getting quite a haul with the borough’s bid. It’s not as if the proceeds of the sale can be used for anything other then a charity correct? For the good of the community. So why not look beyond personal conflicts. And you say there are plenty of buildings but you’re also the same person who fought tooth and nail to protect public lands. Why is this different?
#7 If the Borough had been the high bidder, it would be the one buying the property. But there’s no reason the BFAS should reject the high bidder’s offer and turn over the property to the Borough for less than its full value.
Generations of BFAS volunteer members raised the funds — primarily through decades of Bingo games (and brilliant investing by one of its trustees, the late Bill Quakenbush) — they used to build, expand and maintain that building, and until recent years to purchase all of the ambulances and other vehicles they used. And over the years many others in our community, including my electrical contractor Dad, donated their time and talent to make improvements and repairs to that building. They didn’t do that to save Belmar taxpayers money. They did that to benefit the Belmar community and its residents directly.
Whether you understand (or want to understand) that difference or not, the BFAS has earned the right to decide how best to use the proceeds of this valuable asset to benefit the residents of our community.
Last, the BFAS’s property isn’t public land. What I “fought tooth and nail” for was to prevent Borough officials in the last Administration from misusing funds for their own political purposes that the Public Trust Doctrine required be used for the benefit of beachgoers. Now, I’m working to make sure the BFAS receives the full value for its property, so its members can carry on its legacy by contributing the proceeds of their hard work to directly support charitable causes in our community as they see fit.
But why didn’t the BFAS “see fit” to sell the property to the borough? Then use the proceeds for whatever charitable organizations they wanted. It just seems it would have been a win win for both the BFAS and the public at large. Not the taxpayers of Belmar but the “community” at large like you stated.
#10,13,14 please explain to me why it wold be such a great idea for the town to go into debt to by the first aid building for what purpose, the borough cannot maintain its current properties we still have not painted the 12th ave water tank, we have horrible borough owned sidewalks and roads and this is mostly from the Doherty administration and remember the first aid building looks good because the borough didn’t own it, I believe we now have a full time first aid so we do not need a clubhouse for the medics to hangout in we have the building at 10th and ocean borough hall and 3 firehouses they can utilize.This would have cost us a lot more in the long run especially when they would have made this the new police headquarters.
$1.4M is the market price for 2 buildable lots without variances.
An above average outcome. Borough had zero business bidding on property. Maybe they are planning to build a new Borough Hall?
Very sad that the First Aid didn’t sell to the town. For a non profit entity that served the community for decades that has to donate proceeds to a charity anyway it seems petty and spiteful and greedy. The residents of Belmar lose here. Personal grudges. The only winner here is Bill Merkler and his crew. Sad sad day for Belmar.
#4 What’s more sad is that the Borough tried to scare off other potential bidders with threats of condemnation, and then submitted an offer that was $201,000.00 LESS than the $1,341,000 value the Borough assessed the property at back in 2017.
The truth is that the Borough has plenty of buildings and garages. It doesn’t need the BFAS property to run two ambulances.
#5. Land in the 400 Block of 9th Ave is assessed at $500,000 per 50×150′ parcel except that when a lot consists of more than one 50×150′ parcel each additional lot is assessed at $100,000. It’s an oddity of the re-evaluation.
BFAS Land(414 9th Ave) is assessed at $500,000 + $100,000 + $100,000= $700,000 Total.
If these were three Lots(414, 416 and 418 9th Ave) the Land Assessment would be $500,000 each or $1,500,000 Total.
The BFAS Building is assessed at $641,400.($1,500,000+ $641,400= $2,141,400 potential value)
The Building has no value to a developer but rather represents a cost to tear it down.
#5. Still don’t understand why the BfAS didn’t just agree to sell that property to the people of Belmar. They would still be getting quite a haul with the borough’s bid. It’s not as if the proceeds of the sale can be used for anything other then a charity correct? For the good of the community. So why not look beyond personal conflicts. And you say there are plenty of buildings but you’re also the same person who fought tooth and nail to protect public lands. Why is this different?
#7 If the Borough had been the high bidder, it would be the one buying the property. But there’s no reason the BFAS should reject the high bidder’s offer and turn over the property to the Borough for less than its full value.
Generations of BFAS volunteer members raised the funds — primarily through decades of Bingo games (and brilliant investing by one of its trustees, the late Bill Quakenbush) — they used to build, expand and maintain that building, and until recent years to purchase all of the ambulances and other vehicles they used. And over the years many others in our community, including my electrical contractor Dad, donated their time and talent to make improvements and repairs to that building. They didn’t do that to save Belmar taxpayers money. They did that to benefit the Belmar community and its residents directly.
Whether you understand (or want to understand) that difference or not, the BFAS has earned the right to decide how best to use the proceeds of this valuable asset to benefit the residents of our community.
Last, the BFAS’s property isn’t public land. What I “fought tooth and nail” for was to prevent Borough officials in the last Administration from misusing funds for their own political purposes that the Public Trust Doctrine required be used for the benefit of beachgoers. Now, I’m working to make sure the BFAS receives the full value for its property, so its members can carry on its legacy by contributing the proceeds of their hard work to directly support charitable causes in our community as they see fit.
But why didn’t the BFAS “see fit” to sell the property to the borough? Then use the proceeds for whatever charitable organizations they wanted. It just seems it would have been a win win for both the BFAS and the public at large. Not the taxpayers of Belmar but the “community” at large like you stated.
#10. See first sentence in my #9 above.
#10,13,14 please explain to me why it wold be such a great idea for the town to go into debt to by the first aid building for what purpose, the borough cannot maintain its current properties we still have not painted the 12th ave water tank, we have horrible borough owned sidewalks and roads and this is mostly from the Doherty administration and remember the first aid building looks good because the borough didn’t own it, I believe we now have a full time first aid so we do not need a clubhouse for the medics to hangout in we have the building at 10th and ocean borough hall and 3 firehouses they can utilize.This would have cost us a lot more in the long run especially when they would have made this the new police headquarters.
Nope, but I will most likely be voting for him.