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Resident questions $5,350 rent payments to volunteer fire companies; council calls them subsidies
Summary
A resident asked why Long Branch continued $5,350 annual "rent" payments to volunteer fire companies despite city ownership of a building and raised concerns about a payment issued during a period of an employee separation and an ongoing criminal investigation; council president described the payments as longstanding subsidies to volunteer organizations.
At the Dec. 23 Long Branch City Council meeting a resident raised pointed questions about the city's practice of issuing $5,350 annual "rent" payments to volunteer fire companies.
The commenter, identified in the record as Vincent Laporte, said the city purchased 46 Atlantic Avenue on March 13, 2023, for $650,000 and asked why Resolution 284 authorized a $5,350 rent payment for 2024 to the Oliver Byron Fire Company when the city owned the building for the full year. He said the building was not occupied by the fire company during 2024 and questioned the…
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