Nonresident Property Owners' Commission
civic · active attested 1977
A standing advisory body existing by 1977, and the institutional residue of the 1976 franchise fight: the question of who counts as a voter in a town almost nobody lives in, converted from a contest into a committee. Its existence is the whole of what this record establishes about it, which is itself the point — the town answered the loudest argument of the decade by giving it a permanent seat and no vote.
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1977 · 1977-05-02
Non-resident owners told the council in May 1977 that dog packs ran the streets and Mallard Island, and the mayor answered that he had hired a second dog officer the week before
Melvin Krolczyk, for the Nonresident Property Owners' Commission, 2 May 1977: "One of the most frequently discussed problems to date has been dog control in Ocean City, or lack of it ... when they ride their bikes or they're walking on the streets they are harassed by dogs, or when they come here to Ocean City their first chore is to get a shovel and pick up the dog waste from their properties ... you can travel the resorts from Miami to Florida and nowhere will you see the preponderance of at large dogs as you see here in Ocean City. Now, Ocean City is too nice of a resort to go to the dogs." Walt Powers: "there are dog packs running in Ocean City." Al Berger could not get out of his car at his mother's on Mallard Island for two collies. Mayor Kelley: "we hired another Dog Officer last week ... He has the authority and the Mayor has told him to hire one and if it takes another one we'll hire that." President Cropper: "You don't need a badge and gun to pick up dogs." City Solicitor Cathell set out the ordinance: leashes year round, dogs barred from the beach and boardwalk from 15 May to 15 September - "I see them on the boardwalk all the time, those little ladies go ahead and take them up on a leash to go to the bathroom."
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1979 · 1979-05-21
Faced with a casino bus tour operator, the council declared itself against gambling as a family resort and confined the buses to loading and unloading at the 2nd Street Trailways terminal, six to nothing with one abstention
On 21 May 1979 a Mr. Denis, represented by Attorney Casey, sought to run casino tour buses out of Ocean City (the opening page of the item is missing from the minutes' text layer; the discussion resumes on page thirty). President Frame: "we're against gambling, we're a family resort and we certainly don't want to indicate with any billboards or any other kind of advertisement that we approve it. But, if the ICC approves you, if you have a loading zone even though you were making money and exploiting the visitors to Ocean City I didn't see anyway to stop you." Councilman Purnell moved, Trimper seconded, that the buses be allowed "to load and unload at 2nd Street only ... On the bus terminal lot, and only the bus terminal lot." Frame first put it as a motion "to disallow casino tours" and was corrected by Trimper and Mr. Hoover: "To allow them." "Six of Mr. Purnell's motion, and one abstention. Councilman Ayres abstained." Two weeks earlier, on 7 May, Purnell had told the Nonresident Property Owners' Commission, which had prepared a report on legalising casino gambling in Ocean City, "if you do come back don't come back with any advantages for gambling, please."
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