Petition on the Belmar First Aid Facebook Page

Referendum Petition in Protest of the Adoption of Ordinance No. 2021-17.

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on the Belmar First Aid Squad Facebook Page.

Comments

  1. If you want to petition, go door to door and have the voters of Belmar who are legitimate n valid sign. Not some anonymous fb page

  2. #1 Don’t think it’s anonymous. They have their names and address. You made an above average mistake.

  3. Perhaps worded incorrectly. I meant that a petition should be done door to door with true voting taxpayer Belmar residents.

  4. Omg. I’m so sick of hearing about the First Aid. The first aid gone. The boro put in a new paid EMS service to provide for the citizens. The old first aid era need to stop crying and move on with their lives. Let the town buy the property and do what they want to provide public safety. All firehouses and first aid buildings have always been in residential areas. Let it go!

  5. #5 FYI- every signature has to be from a Belmar resident and has to be an actual signature.
    It will be brought around door to door at least until the requisite amount of signatures is met. At that point it will be submitted and each signature will need to be verified.
    If you are interested in signing it you can contact someone through the Facebook page or contact one of the signatories.
    Thank you

  6. #6 I think that the town probably shouldn’t spend $1.5 million dollars on a building to ‘do what they want with’. Personally I’d like to see a street or two get paved.
    You said yourself- we already have a first aid building (that one cost $2.5 mil). This isn’t about a residential area. This is about the town spending money it don’t have on a building it don’t need. Surely that is something we can all agree on.

  7. # 8. You answered your own question. Why spend 1.5 million when we can get it free from eminent domain. Unless of course they want to donate the property to the citizens they care so much about.

  8. It’s an election cycle people. The sigies show the intention of what used to be privacy at the physical polls.

  9. Witnessing written signatures are rwuired by law with physical attestations. Common mistakes during covid.

  10. MISINFORMATION : the borough will NOT get the property for FREE even under eminent domain. Fair market value 1.5 million will go to BFAS.
    The Only first aid building in town housing all the rigs is the 9th Ave building in question

  11. # 8. 15th Ave. water lines and repaving in the works as we speak.
    12th Ave next.
    All with grant money the borough fought to obtain.

  12. #14 yes 15th is being done currently, 12th was already done. That’s two streets in what, 14 years? If the town has 1.5 million dollars to waste on a building that isn’t needed, then I’d rather they use the money to pave streets, or keep in the coffers, or use it to pay the over time for the cops that work as security at DJais or whatever.
    Spending 1.5 million dollars on that building just so the town can ‘have’ it makes no sense financially. And it should be something that the voters choose. Period.

  13. # 19. Ooh please if they asked for a vote on everything that comes up nothing would ever get done. But if the people who are pushing for a referendum want it they can try to convince their nieghbors to sign their petition. That’s the great thing about our form of government. These are our elected officials. The key word being elected. If you’re unhappy run for office or vote for someone else when the time comes. Some time you just have to put trust in someone and give some room for understanding that not everything is true or false that you hear on the street.

  14. 12 th Ave is not done It is going to be finished up to the ocean. So let’s see. This admin has been in office for 2 and one half years of the 14 years mentioned. And they have already done two streets ( on grant money). Pretty good odds there.
    And buying that first aid building isn’t about “having “ it. It’s about housing all of the equipment for public safty.

  15. #21 This town is doing fine without the ‘NEW’ facilities. We have been safe. Don’t need an above average costly building.

  16. #23 By the time the administration gets done with renovations it will be new. Just an average observation.

  17. Are the grapes getting more sour as we approach election day vs fair and balanced public safety? Rememver those who eschewed the Seat Belt Ordinance?

    Hines Charitable giving committees 1.5 m vs Belmar Residents and Visitors Public Health Building?

  18. 26. Totally agree the public safety building at the boardwalk is a 2.5 million dollar boondoggle.
    But that was then and this is now. That building does not “house” rigs. The housing of those rigs is very important to protect our already invested money. I’m all for paying to send them back to their cozy abode at 9th Ave.
    I don’t need a referendum vote. I feel it’s a good use of my taxpayer dollars. If others feel the need for a vote they have the legal ability by petition to force a referendum. Go for it. I personally thinks that is the true waste of time and money,
    but hey. That’s me.

  19. #27 Please elaborate. Seat belt laws? So you believe the town of Belmar should have two first aid buildings (totaling $4million)? Personally it seems a bit excessive.
    But if you disagree, then you can vote yes in November.

  20. Seems that most of you are missing the point- the Taxpayers of Belmar have supported the Belmar First Aid from its inception through donations- fund raisers and taxes – If the Hines Family and the First Aid Members really cared about Belmar and the Taxpayers the Building should be donated to the Borough to be used as First Aid Building now and forever – not sell it for a Million Five and donate the Taxpayers Money to a Charity of the Heinz Family choosing –

  21. My problem is the borough does not maintain any of their properties or sidewalks as it is now, so why let them have more responsibility, why have we not yet painted the twelfth ave water tank it’s been over ten years from the original contract and we have a full time first aid why do we need the vehicles to sit in a building the medics should be in the vehicles ready to go like monoc / meridian just like the police their cars don’t sit in garages and lastly if the town is too small for 3 fire departments get rid of one and make that a first aid building, we need to own less property and have more ratepayers to balance the overspending.

  22. Totally agree with #32. We don’t need 3 firehouses in a 1 sq mile town. Use one of those for first aid.

  23. Once again – your missing the point – yes we do have 3 firehouses that are undersized and not centrally located – the First Aid building is Centrally located and should make a perfect site for both our First Aid and Fire Department – seems like the perfect time to consolidate our Safety Services which would also be cost effective – isn’t it about time we give this administration some credit?

  24. just a reality check that 8th ad D is not centrally located
    tired of fear mongering that this purchase is necessary for public safety –
    because logically speaking, then we are unsafe right now? under this administration?

  25. #33, I doubt we need 6 firetrucks (per letter from Pringle June 7th) for Belmar/Lake Como. I don’t think you will find another comparable town with 6 fire trucks. If the town has authority over the firehouses to force a consolidation, then they should have done away with at least one of these firehouses years ago.

  26. So there it is
    In the Letter dated June 8th
    buried in the second set of letters link above….
    A town official signed and submitted the bid that included the requirement to execute the
    Certification Regarding Future Development
    Agreeing to not further expand the non conforming use of the site AND that the property not be developed except for single family homes or charitable activities.

  27. # 38. The letter dated May 11 from Mr Dasti tells the BFAS that they should tell other bidders of the towns intention of bidding under eminent domain. There may be legalities that override or change that.

  28. What if we had a plan? A real plan:
    Take the DPW area that consists of many parcels along the tracks(Water dpt., Parking lots, DPW area., and the recycling area) and we combined them to create a fully functioning Fire, first aid, DPW yard that takes zero net tax dollars. The current first aid building flooded during sandy and would not even be able to have a basement if a new building was constructed for future construction. This fact would eliminate valuable training or storage area from future construction. To pay for this Belmar sells 3 fire houses, 1 first aid building and if we add in the lifeguard storage building on 3Rd ave(and store lifeguard stands at this new location,(talk about improper land use of that building, wow!!??) We could net enough money to build something we are all proud of, oh yeah at ZERO dollars. This is the time to do this before patchwork plans are initiated and spending goes through the roof.

  29. #40 … the Borough owned property @ 16th Ave and railroad is the former Belmar Manufactured Gas Plant … Belmar won’t have enjoyment of the property until remediation is complete.

  30. 41,42,43 all incorrect and short sided. A proper plan could house all with room left over with proper design. Gene any-storage or activity on that land is permitted as long as the soil is not disturbed, plenty of room to reconfigure and store materials and this only pertains to the park. The other land is not contaminated as of last reviews. Please plan properly as this may be our last chance to have the proper plan executed.

  31. Eugene our wise Sage is the champion non-biased researcher who keeps us all in line. Not only well known historian by most thoroughly acknowledge Expert.

  32. The First Aid building should have been donated to the town. The town would have paid off the massive debt the BFAS incurred by not knowing how to run a business. How much was Jeannie paid to be the bookkeeper?
    Was a forensic audit ever done? This is a political hit job. Any party or candidate pushing for a referendum will never win.

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