Petition link here - let's free the beach!
https://chng.it/qTxhg58Qks***Update: Please DO NOT support proposed legislation
Assembly bill 4816 which gives access rights
to surfers and fishermen only!
We ALL deserve free beaches.
A re-write of A-4816 by lawmakers is underway.
Contact chief sponsor Assemblywoman Donlon
& other state leaders with your own ideas.
See ours in the BLOG below. Thank you!***
DO YOU HATE HAVING TO
BUY AND WEAR BADGES OR WRISTBANDS
TO USE OUR PUBLIC BEACHES?
WHAT A PAIN IN THE NECK!
AND FOR SOME,
THE COST MEANS WAITING
UNTIL THE LIFEGUARDS GO HOME.
NEW JERSEY'S BEACH BADGE SYSTEM
IS ROOTED IN
RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION.
ITS PURPOSE IS NOT TO RAISE FUNDS,
BUT TO RESTRICT ACCESS
TO OUR PUBLICLY OWNED BEACHES.
WE CAN AND WE WILL CHANGE THIS!Governor Phil Murphy’s 2024 State of the State Address stressed making NJ “the best place anywhere to raise a family” – more affordable, more inclusive, with the best possible quality of life, each of us secure in our fundamental rights and freedoms. Leave our kids a state that is better than we found it, Murphy said, stronger and fairer than ever before.
So let’s make our beaches free! The governor can include funding in his upcoming budget proposal for our beach towns to pay for lifeguards and maintenance, ending their need to raise the money themselves through
the discriminatory, aggravating, inefficient, and environmentally harmful badge and wristband system.This will bring the state into compliance with the law Murphy signed in 2019, S-1074, codifying the public trust doctrine which
guarantees our right to cross the beach, swim, fish, and walk or sit on the sand below the high tide line. So if any town declines the state’s money in exchange for free beaches, they need to post signs informing us of
our legal right to enter and use the beach without paying.
This welcome reform will add only about .002% to the state budget, a tiny sliver of the pie. And that might be balanced by revenue from increased tourism to New Jersey’s beautiful and wonderfully free beaches.
Thank you,
Neil Vincent Scheck
410 Fourth Ave.
Belmar NJ 07719
732-233-2430
neilscheck@yahoo.com
makenjbeachesfree.com
Here's the link for the petition:
https://www.change.org/MakeNJBeachesFreePlease consider signing and sharing.
NOTE: If
Change.org sends you an email to confirm
that you're a real person and not a bot,
please click, so your signature counts. Thank you!
THE PETITION:
Make New Jersey beaches free!
We ask the governor and legislators to act now
to eliminate entrance fees
and make all publicly owned beaches free for everyone.
Only in NJ must you pay
to walk on the beach and enjoy the ocean water.
It is wrong to deprive the economically disadvantaged
the basic human rights of swimming and sunbathing.
It is cruel to force the poor to wait
until lifeguards have gone home,
when most drownings occur.
It is harmful to wildlife to litter the ecosystem
with lost and discarded plastic badges and wristbands.
The beach fee system
is repressive, discriminatory, and inefficient.
The state government should dedicate
a tiny sliver of its yearly budget to reimbursing
beach towns for lifeguards and maintenance.
The resulting boost to tourism revenues
from ending the aggravation and indignity
of badges and wristbands
might even make the switch to free beaches pay for itself.
See makenjbeachesfree.com to learn more.
The time is right to free the beach!
Scroll down and click on the blog entrees to learn more.Our publicly owned beaches should be,
and will be,
free for everyone.
It is inevitable.
Make NJ Beaches Free!
This website is young and growing.
The site and the movement will grow bigger and better.
Any help you can offer is appreciated.We will Make New Jersey Beaches Free!