TO THE EDITOR:

This summer is an especially auspicious time for the OGCMA to solicit donations. The Summer Program Guide, pp8-9, specifies their plans for spending if they reach their campaign goal of $1.5 million (which was what the Together Fund raised in 2013 to repair the boardwalk before they received FEMA money to do this.)

I was a bit surprised at their audacity to ask audience and participants at the Chor Festival on July 14 to donate $150 each (think of it as only $1.00 per year starting with the founding in 1869.)

Recently I saw this plea for funds next to the half-pier (see photo above.)  We are approaching 7 years since Superstorm Sandy. All the other shore towns made repairs years ago.

I guess the low land rent from most of us, the high land rent from some of us (construction since 2000,) the beach fees, regular donations to religious programs, profits from secular programs, and rentingn out the Great Auditorium to the Liquid Church do not total enough.

SUFFERING SURFER