{"id":3035,"date":"2019-01-07T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairnessintaxes.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2021-08-29T19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:39:31","slug":"fit-meeting-minutes-from-december-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairnessintaxes.com\/fit-meeting-minutes-from-december-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"FIT Meeting Minutes from December 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fairness In\nTaxes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meeting Minutes 12-07-18<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Board Attendance:<\/strong>&nbsp; Dave Breeden, Bill &amp; Sheila Hartranft, Suzanne\nHornick, Dave &amp; Marie Hayes, Don Kerns, Donna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Moore, Cindy Nevitt &amp; Jim Tweed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting\nopened with the Pledge of Allegiance at 7:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November\nMinutes \u2013 Motion made by Jim Tweed to approve the minutes, seconded by Bill\nHartranft, carried unanimously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Treasurer \u2013 Bill Hartranft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Bank Balance at\n10\/31\/18 $24,738.00 with total expenses of $6,152.00.&nbsp; Balance at11\/30\/18 is $20,203.00.<\/li><li>We have received\nseveral dues payments through Stripes on our website.&nbsp; There is a charge of 2% per transaction for\nthis service.<\/li><li>The website is\nvery good.&nbsp; Is there a way we can track\nhow many hits the site receives?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Web Communications \u2013 Dave Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Suzanne Hornick\nasked if there could be a place on the website specifically for environmental\nissues, and in addition to an OC Flooding area, a place for Coastal\nKeepers.&nbsp; It was decided in the interests\nof maintaining the site that Coastal Keepers could be part of the flooding\narea.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OC Flooding \u2013 Suzanne Hornick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The city, to\ntheir credit, paid for color bands to be installed at specific locations to\nmeasure Mean Flood Levels.&nbsp; Photos will\nbe taken during events and sent to the DEP, along with other organizations\ninvolved in this issue to show where, when, why and how bad he occurrences\nare.&nbsp; This could potentially lead to\nadditional grants for mitigation and creating living shore line areas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Revenue &amp; Expenses \u2013 Dave Breeden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Resolution to\npurchase the lots at 16<sup>th<\/sup>-17<sup>th<\/sup> Streets was revoked\nwithout comment from the city.&nbsp; When\nasked if there were any plans for the future regarding the property, the Mayor\nresponded that they are re-negotiating.<\/li><li>New Jersey Fair\nHousing for affordable housing in all communities in New Jersey was established\nin the \u201880\u2019s.&nbsp; Ocean City agreed to\nprovide $15m-to$20m to the local housing authority to provide for this.&nbsp; Other communities do not pay any monites into\ntheir housing authority for this.&nbsp; Why do\nwe?&nbsp; As a Federal Program should any\nmonies be paid by local taxes for this purpose?&nbsp;\nI believe the&nbsp; housing authority\nis being mismanaged.&nbsp; We need demand\nanswers to these questions.&nbsp; Perhaps it\nis time for another petition.<\/li><li>Cindy Nevitt\nasked if other communities are receiving grants for various projects, why isn\u2019t\nOcean City.<\/li><li>Bill Hartranft\nasked what actions are needed.<br>\nJim Tweed commented that David Hayes and Dave Breeden should move forward.&nbsp; They now have some good leverage and\ncredibility behind them.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Environmental \u2013 Donna Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>There is a\nneighborhood group in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Street &amp; Bay Avenue area\ninterested in Living Shores in their area.<\/li><li>The zoning board\ncontinues to approve building that decreases permeable land.<\/li><li>I will attend\nthe next Planning Board meeting, and I continue to work on documents on\npesticides and their effect island-wide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guest Speakers \u2013 Marie Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Waiting to hear\nback from our new Fire Chief, Ray Patton.&nbsp;\nHave also put in a request to Patrick Kennedy of Brigantine to speak on the\ntopic of legal marijuana.&nbsp; Will keep\neveryone posted.<\/li><li>Also, will ask\nif a representative from the city would be interested in being a guest speaker.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Old Business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We got a good\ndeal of press (3 articles in the Sentinel), after our success with the petition\nfor referendum on the Klause property.<\/li><li>Welcome night\nwas a positive experience.&nbsp; Lots of\nfeedback from people, most of which was very positive.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Plans for the\nChristmas party scheduled for Friday, 12\/21 at 700 P.M. are moving along.&nbsp; Will be held at Ocean Plaza, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\nFloor, courtesy of Vic Staniec&nbsp;\nCarlucci\u2019s catering will provide the food at approximately $350.00.&nbsp; Planning on approximately 20 people.&nbsp; Cindy Nevitt asked why we were not using a\nlocal (OC) caterer in the interest of good will in the business community.&nbsp; Marie Hayes explained that she knew the\nquality of the food with Carlucci\u2019s and that they had given us a very good\nprice for the buffet, including dessert, and that we would definitely consider\nan OC business in the future.<\/li><li>Dave Breeden\nmotioned for an increase in annual dues from $15.00 to $20.00.&nbsp; Seconded by Marie Hayes and carried\nunanimously.&nbsp; Leo Burke asked if we had\nan operating budget in place?&nbsp;\nResponse&#8212; not at this time.<\/li><li>Based on recent\nlegal expenses and projected expenses, it is felt that we need to have a Legal\nFund Appeal and develop a letter of intent to all members.&nbsp; We would need to set up a separate bank\naccount for these funds.&nbsp; There was a\nquestion about possible confusion as to what a check would be for if not\nclearly marked.&nbsp; Sheila Hartranft\nsuggested that if there is any doubt, call the member for verification.<\/li><li>On the issue of\nterm limits, FIT is pro term limits for appointed local positions and will make\nthat known.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting\nadjourned at 8:35 P.M<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nnext meeting will be Friday, January 4, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respectively\nsubmitted by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheila\nHartranft, Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairness In Taxes Meeting Minutes 12-07-18 Board Attendance:&nbsp; Dave Breeden, Bill &amp; Sheila Hartranft, Suzanne Hornick, Dave &amp; Marie Hayes, Don Kerns, Donna &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Moore, Cindy Nevitt &amp; Jim Tweed Meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance at 7:00 P.M. November Minutes \u2013 Motion made by Jim Tweed to approve the minutes, seconded by Bill &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/fairnessintaxes.com\/fit-meeting-minutes-from-december-7-2018\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIT Meeting Minutes from December 7, 2018<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[84],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_edit_lock":["1546869884:6"],"_edit_last":["6"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["59"],"site-sidebar-layout":["default"],"site-content-layout":["default"],"theme-transparent-header-meta":["default"],"stick-header-meta":["default"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["60"],"_uag_page_assets":["a:9:{s:3:\"css\";s:263:\".uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-desktop) !important}@media (max-width: 976px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-tablet) !important}}@media (max-width: 767px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-mobile) !important}}\n\";s:2:\"js\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"current_block_list\";a:4:{i:0;s:14:\"core\/paragraph\";i:1;s:9:\"core\/list\";i:2;s:14:\"core\/tag-cloud\";i:3;s:11:\"core\/search\";}s:8:\"uag_flag\";b:0;s:11:\"uag_version\";s:10:\"1706048605\";s:6:\"gfonts\";a:0:{}s:10:\"gfonts_url\";s:0:\"\";s:12:\"gfonts_files\";a:0:{}s:14:\"uag_faq_layout\";b:0;}"],"rank_math_primary_category":["59"],"rank_math_news_sitemap_robots":["index"],"rank_math_robots":["a:1:{i:0;s:5:\"index\";}"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["86"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_uag_css_file_name":["uag-css-3035.css"]},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"OC FIT GUY","author_link":"https:\/\/fairnessintaxes.com\/author\/meltaylor\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Fairness In Taxes Meeting Minutes 12-07-18 Board Attendance:&nbsp; Dave Breeden, Bill &amp; Sheila Hartranft, Suzanne Hornick, Dave &amp; Marie Hayes, Don Kerns, Donna &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Moore, Cindy Nevitt &amp; Jim Tweed Meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance at 7:00 P.M. 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