Addressing demand for greater transparency, a Margate Citizens Advisory Board is being formed by Mayor Collins, Commissioner Blumberg and Commissioner Horn.
All three want to appoint a group consisting of year-round residents and second homeowners.
Interested parties can submit a letter of interest.
Email: amodeo_kelle@margate-nj.com
By mail: 9001 Winchester Ave, Margate, NJ 08402 or just drop drop off in person.
Address letters to Mayor Michael Collins, attention Kelle Amodeo.
Residents are hopeful that Margate’s planned advisory board meetings can be viewed online via ZOOM video streaming and archived on YouTube.
Taxpayers also asking to review agenda and meeting minutes. Otherwise, residents could lose faith in this promising idea.
#1 Margate Taxpayer Request: Transparency. Turn on live ZOOM video streaming of the big 3 public meetings: Commission Meetings, Planning Board Meetings, and School Board Meetings. Allow remote public commenting. Archive the meeting video on YouTube for later viewing on demand. Anything short of that will not fulfill campaign promises of Collins, Horn and Blumberg.
Key Objective: Full transparency for all taxpayers, that includes non-voting 2nd homeowners that make up 75% of tax revenue.
Ventnor tried the Advisory Board concept a few years ago. Ventnor’s Mayor at the time hand-selected the board. Most discussions never made public. The social media page devoted to the Ventnor Advisory Board was rarely updated. The well-intentioned concept never took off. Within a short time, it went silent.
I can’t wait to how the usual terminally negative posters on here will immediately turn this very positive development into something negative.
In theory, this sounds good.
In reality, can you name an advisory board at the local, county, state and/or federal levels that actually had impact.
Sure, they will listen but in the end, they will do what they want.
It basically is a public relations campaign to say they did something.
That is not being negative, it is being realistic.
The Mayor and Horn want a advisory council because they promised it and to reinstate what Becker dismantled.
Unfortunately there is no written plan or description of the duties of the members.
Simple management. Begin with the end in sight.
Who would apply for a job with no job description?
I thought they ran on the slogan of experience?