New bathhouse at Gilford Beach

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by The Real BigGuy

It would seem to me that it should operate similar to the way most local transfer stations operate:

A residential tax payer should be able to acquire a yearly “beach sticker” to for a vehicle at a nominal cost ($5 or $10/sticker) with a household limit of 2 stickers;

A a non-resident hospitality business (hotel, motel, B&B taxpayer should also be able to acquire up to 2 passes (so they can be temporarily distributed among employees at the owner/managers discretion) at a more substantial cost ($25-50/sticker);

Residential hospitality business can acquire up to the 8 passes previously mentioned but at a cost of $100 per pass. (I believe the price is justified because the business will be able to make a profit by selling use of the pass)

The town could also sell stickers to non residents for a yearly fee and make it substantial if they want to “keep outsiders out”.


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The transfer station expects you to go in, drop off, and leave... not park all day.

The town/city beaches only have so much parking area... and in Gilford's case has 7000+ potential resident users. When you add even more to that, the risk that someone gets turned away increases... especially on high use days.

[The Real BigGuy]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

The transfer station expects you to go in, drop off, and leave... not park all day.

The town/city beaches only have so much parking area... and in Gilford's case has 7000+ potential resident users. When you add even more to that, the risk that someone gets turned away increases... especially on high use days.

But with 7000+ residents the potential to be turned away is already high.

If they are not going to allow all taxpayers the opportunity to use the beach then the only fair way to do it is to require tax paying residents who want to use the beach to buy stickers, priced high enough to bear all costs (both fixed and variable) so that other taxpayers (non-resident & business) do not bear any of the costs.


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