Ventnor Social Media is buzzing with suggestions on how to improve the value of Ventnor:
Marc Silver says: No tax reduction, no property value increases until nepotism eliminated and Ventnor hires the talent to move forward. Harsh words, but this is how you start to restore the “culture and values ” in City Hall. Raising our taxes $1.8 million and borrowing $21 million is like sticking a finger in the taxpayer’s eye. It hurts.
Who wants to purchase a home or develop property when the Ventnor Mayor calls it’s finances a mess and raises taxes $1.8 million? Then, with scarce details, authorizes borrowing $20.8 million in debt.
Why would any prudent family invest in Ventnor? This causes the supply of homes to greatly exceed the demand.
- Michael Carr says: Taxes up, values down, new people moving in along with new attitude.
- Sean Gleason says: Civil service unions & tenure make it an employee- oriented system.
Fine print of “open” job postings in Ventnor: Ventnor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Job applicants whose grandma is friends with city hall, or whose daddy already works in the department offering an open position are simply assigned a 3rd base starting position to help level the imbalanced playing field and make it more equal. Motto: “We’ve always done it this way.” TIRED of seeing “least qualified” hirings.
One of the harder working PW fellas mentioned that he would’ve liked to go out for an opening EXCEPT FOR THE OPEN SECRET that no one should bother to apply because the job was “tagged” for somebody’s relative.
Challenge: neighbors see what’s going on, but are gun-shy about reporting what they see. Fear of downstream consequences of living near someone whose employment might get flushed down the proverbial shitter, if they go on record as firsthand eyewitnesses.
Don B.: Still no way to hear Ventnor commissioner meetings online. What are they hiding?