Our Beach today

At 9:30am about 75% of the upper level parking was filled or around 180 spaces.

The Commission in its no-bid design, will be eliminating 164 spaces in the upper level and leaving us with only 84 parking spaces. A few who say this is what the people want (to eliminate upper level parking), will gladly give up their upper level parking space to all of you who were here at 9:30 this morning.

The ocean was clear as glass

As one merchant said, "we are in the sun yet still in the dark."

He was referring to the possible red-tagging of the Casino at month's end per the city manager. This would indicate an emergency situation. Merchants have not heard anything new and are waiting for someone to call them and advise officially. Shoring was discussed and when I said that the city has already done some shoring, the question was, "What shoring? This building is poured concrete." One merchant did say that the pretense of holding up the building with boards made the building look far worse than it was and was just a ruse to solidify the opinion of those who want to condemn it. Even the hardware on those poles is rusting out already.

In the meantime, our pool was opened for the holiday weekend and it is opened today. The gal at the cashier's window said the problem has been cleared up. People were in the pool.