Vacancy To Remain On Ocean City Council - Ocean City, NJ - City Council said the vacancy left by the resignation of Karen Bergman will not be filled before the upcoming election.
Ocean City Councilman Tom Rotondi did not concede Tuesday when just 48 votes separated him from his opponent Pete Madden for the third at-large seat in the municipal election.
Rotondi said he would await the final tallies and the official vote totals once all of the mail-in ballots and provisional ballots were received and counted.
Mayor Jay Gillian touted his accomplishments ranging from Ocean City’s recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy to the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic while launching his re-election bid Sunday for a fourth term.
In what is a major theme of his campaign leading up to the May 10 municipal election, he focused on the city’s extensive infrastructure program to improve the beaches, Boardwalk, roads and drainage systems during his 11 years in office.
OCEAN CITY â A plan for massive wind turbines off the coast received pushback at a recent Ocean City Council meeting, in which a council member questioned its impact on the local tourism economy. Â
âIâm as green as the next guy. I want green energy, OK? But I do not want to mess with a formula that has worked here for 100 years,â said Councilman Michael DeVlieger. Â
Kris Ohleth, a spokeswoman for the energy company Ãrsted, gave a presentation at the Dec. 4 council meeting, outlining the plans for Ocean Wind, a massive wind energy project planned 15 miles off the New Jersey coast, running roughly from Atlantic City to Stone Harbor. Â