Matunuck area cleanup emergency meeting

[Joe]

Why is it that when there is a disaster - then, it's everybody's beach, but on a nice day in July it's private? It does not seem right that the groups that work so hard when things go wrong have so little voice in the access issues.

It reminds me of story Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. You know, Santa puts him down along with everybody else, but then when It's foggy - he asks him to lead the sleigh. Rudolph was a sucker. Instead of telling him, "It would be an honor sir," Rudolph should have told the fat man that the price has gone up.

There will be other opportunities like this one as time goes on. The odds of a monster hurricane get better each year. After it hits the nice sportfishermen will go down and help get the place back to it's previous state, and then what? Bend over as the no parking signs go back up?

I think the parties who have a stake in access - Surfriders, RISAA, etc, should get together and say, "Sure we'll bring 500 people down there and clean it up, but we want some other access opened or something along those lines - use that positive power as a bargaining chip.