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Grow Monmouth, Tourism, Shared Services

By Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arone

  • HIGH_RES_ARNONE (571x800)·         As a way of continuing to encourage businesses to come to Monmouth County, my team and I are conducting ongoing Grow Monmouth presentations around the County.  In the past two weeks, we have completed presentations in Aberdeen and Bradley Beach.  Additionally, we are continuing work on the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.  This week we have had roundtable discussions on topics that were suggested by the public during prior meetings. We have begun sending welcome letters to all new businesses registered within the county.  In less than a month, we have sent just over 90 letters offering assistance through the Grow Monmouth Initiative.
  • ·               Monmouth County will also be hosting the first meeting of the new Tourism Advisory Committee on Monday, April 29 at 6 pm at the County Connection in Neptune. The group includes 15 municipal mayors and 15 members of the Tourism Community. The group will focus on tourism promotion and issues as we head into the 2013 tourism season. This year beaches, boardwalks and businesses are busy preparing for a very different tourism season.  We are optimistic that the work performed and the relationships strengthened post-Sandy will create a better tourism economy for our county.
  • ·                 Additionally, a general Monmouth County tourism ad ran in the Great Vacation Getaways newspaper promotion (East coast edition) on April 7, 2013. The campaign has an internet tie in as well.  This week the Tourism department received 870 requests for information from interested visitors. There were 244 in-state requests and a total of 626 out-of-state requests from potential visitors. These types of numbers certainly indicate a reason for optimism regarding our 2013 Tourism Season. The Tourism office will continue to receive new leads as a result of this ad campaign through early June.
  • ·                 Lastly, Monmouth County still remains in the forefront for its Shared Services Program. We have recently renewed our commodity resale agreements with Allenhurst and Rumson and encourage all municipalities to act quickly to renew their agreements that expire in September 2013 so they can continue the economy of scale savings through this shared service for their municipality. Also, regarding Shared Services, I had the pleasure of attending the New Jersey Conference of Mayors Seminar in Atlantic City, New Jersey last week where I was asked to participate as a panelist with Senator Stephen Sweeney and a few other local elected officials to discuss the success of the Shared Services Program here in Monmouth County. As liaison to the Department of Shared Services, I was very proud to be able to represent the Board of Chosen Freeholders in Atlantic City and inform those in attendance of the great track record we are having with our Shared Services Program in Monmouth County.

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Posted: April 26th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Monmouth County, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, Tom Arnone | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

3 Comments on “Grow Monmouth, Tourism, Shared Services”

  1. Municipal outreach said at 10:15 am on April 29th, 2013:

    second to none: thanks, Mr.Director.

  2. are you kidding me said at 11:17 am on April 29th, 2013:

    this is campaigning on the taxpayer dime. When are you going to wake up????

    Signed,

    A Republican that can think for himself.

  3. Name any elected official said at 7:49 am on April 30th, 2013:

    who doesn’t capitalize on their office by trying to meet more people. The thing is, some do it all the time, not just when running again. This particular candidate has had a long career of outreach into the community, and actually walking the walk besides talking the talk when it means votes, and he does deliver. Am sorry for those who can’t seem to know the difference. Superficial negativity is sad.