Ocean City Community Association Elects New Officers

• Bob Barr – President
• Frank McCall – First Vice-President
• John Van Stone – Second Vice-President
• Bob Dubil – Recording Secretary
• Gerry Daney – Membership Secretary
• Ray Snyder – Treasurer

Barr succeeds Curt Gronert as president of the community organization, which is dedicated to "the improvement of the general welfare, health, comfort, safety and environment of the whole island."

"Our priorities remain the same," Barr said after his election. "We want to inform our members about the topics that matter to them, such as flooding and drainage, roads, and other capital projects. "We are also concerned with the other important areas of our community such as the.beach and the boardwalk."

Barr said the group will continue to do a number of environmental cleanups to remove trash from our community and continue to form working committees to address various issues.

"You should know that we have created a new back bay dredging committee that will work with the administration," Barr said. "In any way we can to assist with the dredging problem in town."

 Van Stone was named chair of the new Bay and Lagoon Dredging Committee. Other appointments are as follows:

• Bicycle Advocacy Committee:  Drew Fasy
• Environmental Committee:  Teresa Coggshall
• Technology Committee:  Gerry Daney (Emails/Web Site/Facebook)
• Public Relations Committee: Curt Gronert
• Drainage Committee:  Marty Mozzo
• Historical Preservation Committee:  Dale Nicholas
• Education Committee:  Ray Snyder
• Planning & Zoning Committee: Marc Shuster
• Archives Committee:  Jim Tweed

Anybody is invited to join the Ocean City Community Association. The next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 17 at the Howard S. Stainton Senior Center (at the Ocean City Community Center, 1735 Simpson Avenue). For more information on OCCA, visit http://www.occanj.org/.