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August 30, 2013
The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
FROM PAGE 43
Thank you.
Steven Sexton
College Park
Our Tax Money At Work
Editor:
A little over two years ago, I wrote
a letter to this paper decrying the
decision by the Mayor and City
Council to give over $600,000 of our
tax money to a private organization,
the Art league of Ocean City (AL-
OC), a favorite cause of the city's
wealthy elite and their friends. In
that letter, I drew a distinction be-
tween "needs" and "wants" and
questioned if there was nothing
more important, nothing more bene-
ficial to all our citizens, than subsi-
dizing the Art League?
Well, alas, now we find there was
and still is the renovation or re-
placement of the mold-ridden slum
building which is home to our beach
patrol. I am sure that two years ago
it wasn't in much better shape than
it is now. Perhaps now ALOC could
donate part of their taxpayer-funded
building to the beach patrol or at
least conduct some fund raisers and
donate the proceeds to them.
I recall restaurateurs/nightclub
owners Fager and Moore attending
the council meeting prior to the AL-
OC funding vote to help plead their
case. They were even joined in their
plea by the local Fraternal Order of
Police, well-known long standing
supporters of the arts, especially the
art of negotiating excessive salaries
and pension benefits. Not long ago
that same art patron, Leighton
Moore, sold the city a super duper,
bay skimming, high speed fire boat
for over a half million dollars. You
might ask what that has to do with
ALOC funding. Well, it comes back
to "needs" and "wants". I can under-
stand why local firefighters would
"want" such a boat; it would be great
fun racing it around the bay in "train-
ing exercises." But do they really
"need" it? And do they need it more
than the beach patrol needs a new
headquarters building?
My memory isn't the best, but in
the 20-plus years I have owned
property here, I cannot recall any
fire on the bay, boat or property, that
could have benefited from such a
sophisticated firefighting craft. It
may someday help save a life or
prevent some property damage, but
the beach patrol does that every
day. Plus, safe beaches draw hun-
dreds of thousands of visitors to our
city every year. I doubt that ALOC or
the fire boat attract any.
I suggest that the new fire boat
be named "Hose Job" and that
when not fighting bay fires it be
used to give thrill rides to tourists. At
$25 per ride, we should soon have
enough money to renovate the
beach patrol building, or at least kill
off the mold. The fire department
may have gotten a new fire boat,
but as usual, we taxpayers got the
hose.
Steve Whitmer
Ocean City
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