Elksfest To Return Home To Point Pleasant Beach

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NJ – The Point Pleasant Beach borough council unanimously passed the resolution approving the return of the Point Pleasant Elks annual Elkfest during Tuesday’s council meeting.

The resolution was tabled earlier this month as the decision was made to hold a meeting between the Elks, borough officials, and the borough’s chamber of commerce as the Elks wanted to hold their event on the same day as the borough’s seafood festival.

Similar applications were put in by the Elks over the past few years but were denied, forcing the Elks to have the event in neighboring Point Pleasant.

The Elks’ application was officially going to be denied via the recommendation of borough police chief Joseph Michigan due to lack of police available to deal with the potential crowd, but when a similar application for a wine garden at the seafood festival was also up for approval at the meeting, the decision was made to have the meeting.

At Tuesday meeting’s, Councilman Douglas Vitale read Chief Michigan’s report to the council, where he said that after the meeting about the resolution, Michigan felt that both parties made enough concessions that he felt comfortable enough to give his approval to both resolutions.

“The police department will no longer have any reservations on the approval of these two simultaneous events,” Michigan said in his report.

Mayor Paul Kanitra said that it was a “group effort” and happy to see a “local tradition” preserved.

“I’d like to officially welcome the Elks back to Point Pleasant Beach,” Kanitra said after the resolution was passed.