Unrestricted grant request from town up 7.4%
The Town of Ocean City wants more money from Worcester County in the coming fiscal year.
Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan said town officials are seeking more unrestricted grant funds for continued support of funding EMS service in West Ocean City, and a share of the cost of buying a digital x-ray system for the Ocean City Bomb Squad.
“We believe all the requests are reasonable and important,” Meehan said.
Representatives of each of the county’s municipalities and Ocean Pines presented annual grant requests to the Worcester County Commissioners last week. Meehan told the commissioners the resort was asking for $198,428 more than last year.
“What we’re asking for is a 7.4% increase,” he said. “This will actually cover the CPI increases that have occurred over the last two years. We also think that probably this would be a good way to benchmark increases of this grant in the future. We’re hoping that would be considered.”
Meehan thanked the commissioners for working with the town to develop a formula to support funding West Ocean City EMS service. He asked the county to apply the formula again in the coming budget year, as providing EMS service to the West Ocean City area cost $823,794 over and above grants received and revenues collected.
Like I said, to only keep going up never down. And who do you think pays for these grants after they are used up, The citizens and their tax money. that keeps going up ever since they bought that abandoned property years ago. Just like I said they would, How is moving from taxes working for you morons now? I still don’t see any of you moving away from taxes. Thought it was easy huh? I told you to stand up and fight back or they wouldn’t stop, and for the last 10 years at least, they have gone nothing but up. And guess what, it never goes down, not for anything. So once it is up, it stays up, even when inflation around the country goes down. Same thing with people’s wages, including the town, city, county and state. You pay them more, it stays up even after. Same with regular employees at a place of work like a restaurant or engineering firm. So don’t think for one second it will get better, it physically can’t. You can’t take away wages form people unless you fire them. So get used to seeing that happen in the very near future once they tax you all of your money and are still broke.