Secession should be a goal for Ocean Grove. Maybe the next generaion will see the light. Paul Goldfinger photograph on the Ocean Grove boards.
TO THE EDITOR:
Paul:
Read interesting article on Fox News ; www.foxnews.com/media/buckhead-atlanta-separate-city-crime-spike-inadequate-policing
It’s about the people of the Buckhead section of Atlanta breaking away from the city. Issue, of course, is runaway crime and no enforcement.
Buckhead pays somewhere between 50-70 percent of the total taxes of Atlanta, depending on who is reporting it. Sure sounds familiar.
Has also been reported by other media who typically lead with the race card.
Hoping to get to OG sometime this fall. My parents lived in Ocean Grove.
Thanks for all you do, for so many years, in trying to stimulate an apathetic homeowner base.
Rick Edwards
August 5, 2021.
Editor’s note. (2024). History shows us that OG cannot secede based on a vote of OG residents alone. Instead all of Neptune must approve, and that wouldn’t and didn’t happen. But in Atlanta it appears that secession is acquired by a vote of the affected citizens–a much fairer action.
MARGOT BINGHAM. From Boardwalk Empire.
It would seem Bradley Beach has more in common with Ocean Grove than Neptune. Perhaps a merger would be more acceptable.
Unfortunately secession needs State approval. The State Legislature is more interested in consolidation and regionalization of municipalities and school districts to cut down on the overhead.
Ocean Grove continues to be the cash cow for Neptune Township. An advocacy group should intensely focus on both the township and school district budgets.
With insufficient voters to elect or influence committee or board members, do we continually get “on bended knee?” That advocacy group needs to speak with evidence and the united support of Ocean Grove citizenry.
To present Ocean Grove’s problems and potential solutions, it should also use every form of public and social media. And, if necessary, turn the heat –or compliments– on public officials.