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Bus, tram fares slated to go up one dollar Cost of all-day bus pass will increase to $4 with successful public hearing By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 10, 2023) An Ocean City Council majority advanced a request this week to raise both bus and tram
fares $1 for the 2023 season. At a meeting Monday, council members voted 5-1, with Councilman Peter Buas opposed and Councilwoman Carol Proctor absent, to raise all-day, year-round bus fares from $3 to $4 and Boardwalk tram fees from $4 to $5. Members of the city’s Transportation Committee unanimously recom-
mended the changes in hopes of increasing revenues for both divisions. “Considering the increase in expenses in fuel and in drivers and in the cost of providing the service, we felt these recommendations were warranted,” said Mayor Rick Meehan, who serves as chairman of the Transportation Committee, at Monday’s meeting. “Bus fares have not
been increased since 2011, which is 12 years. We figure we’ve held that rate as long as we could.” He contended that even with the increase to $4, which is set to go into effect following a public hearing, the all-day bus fare is still the “the best deal in town.” The change is expected to bring in See COUNCIL Page 4
Wage talks divided by geography Opinions on tip earnings shift based on location
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Oceans Calling lineup to be revealed Tues. Promoters slated to spend millions more this year on bringing in top performers By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 10, 2023) As the sting of the cancelation of last fall’s Oceans Calling Festival still lingers, organiz-
ers are laser focused on this year’s event, which is leaning toward featuring a more popular music lineup in a potentially bigger footprint. The massive three-day event is planned for Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 downtown on the beach and inlet and will feature dozens of bands and artists playing for an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 attendees per day.
Ocean City Director of Tourism and Business Development Tom Perlozzo said this week that organizers C3 Presents are putting more money into this year’s entertainment lineup, which is set to be revealed Tuesday. “They increased their budget significantly over the event last year and will invest millions into the producSee FESTIVAL Page 4
By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (March 10, 2023) The fight to end sub-minimum wages for tipped restaurant workers found its way in front of the Senate Finance Committee on March 2 with advocates — and restaurant servers — on both sides of the argument. “This bill is essential, particularly during the recent covid pandemic, to support thousands and thousands of restaurant workers in Maryland and hundreds of thousands of restaurant owners who are raising wages to recruit staff in the worst staffing crisis in the history of this industry,” said Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-Charles). “We’re asking for support to end this crisis.” Ellis went on to claim that the current business model disproportionately affects women and people of color and is rooted in the emancipation of slaves whose former owners created the system to take advantage of free slaves. “A small subsection of tip-wage workers make a lot of tips,” Ellis said. See WAGE Page 3
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Wage, tip bill goes to hearing Continued from Page 1 charge in order to cover the addi“They work in the white-table-cloth tional labor cost.” Sierra Dacre, a 22-year-old server restaurants generally. You rarely see African-American men and women who has worked at Harbor Watch in working there. The majority of people Ocean City for years, said the current who are hurt by this slavery system system has enabled her to pursue her are women and the majority are peo- education as a nursing student. Dacre spoke about how the current ple of color — African Americans, Latinos, Asian American. I strongly system is an incentive to earn every believe this injustice must end in last dollar of one’s wage and described the new bill as a “participaMaryland.” A representative from One Fair tion trophy wage.” “If I want to make more money, Wage, a national nonprofit looking to bring all servers up to minimum just climb the ladder,” Dacre said, wage, said that the workroom is “(The current system) was a path to better myself. Hav“overwhelmingly ing a tip system in women of color.” “We really need a ‘Employers would likely have to our industry offers law that will supadd a service charge to the the safety net of port great employ- customer’s charge in order to minimum wage if it’s a slow week and ers who are raising cover the additional labor cost.’ provides me an inwages right now to Melvin Thompson centive to make on recruit staff, create nights a a level playing field Senior Vice President of the some Restaurant Association of higher wage and top and signal to milrate.” lions of workers Maryland Sen. Mary Beth that it’s worth comCarozza has sided ing back to work in restaurants,” the representative said. with those against the bill. “This would be detrimental to On the other side of the issue, Melvin Thompson, senior vice presi- restaurant operators, which already dent of the Restaurant Association of run on razor-thin margins, who are Maryland, said the organization is still recovering from the covid-19 “strongly opposed” to the bill and pandemic, and hurts restaurant empointed out that restaurants must ployees, including food runners, make up the difference if their tipped bussers, servers and bartenders,” employees fail to reach minimum Carozza said in a statement. “With tips, their hourly range is wage. “The tip credit is a lawful acknowl- $17-50 an hour. If Maryland is movedgment that tips contribute to the ing away from a tipping industry as wages of tipped employees and al- this bill suggests, these employees lows employers to lose that portion of would have far less earning potenthose tips to apply to the employer’s tial.” The next steps for SB803 will be its obligation to meet the minimum second and third readings before wage,” Thompson said. “Employers would likely have to crossing over to the House of Deleadd a service charge to the customer’s gates.
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Festival footprint may expand further in ’23 Continued from Page 1 tion,” Perlozzo said in an email of C3. Last year’s event was canceled as a massive nor’easter approached the coast two days before it was set to begin, but the lineup featured headliners Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds and The Lumineers, with a mix of other bands of varying styles, genres and fame rounding out the performers’ list. Speculations about this year’s lineup have run rampant since organizers announced on the Oceans Calling Facebook page on Monday that they would be publicizing the details next week. Reported rumors lended clues from C3 Presents’ other festivals and concerts planned around the same time, which feature headliners such as the Foo Fighters, The Killers, Green Day, Weezer, The Offspring, Eddie Vedder, Sheryl Crow, The Beach Boys, and more. Perlozzo said the lineup for this year “is really good” but would not elaborate further. Talk of changing the boundaries for Oceans Calling this year have been floating around as well. While some downtown business
owners and stakeholders have been talking about and offering their opinions on some potential changes, Perlozzo said nothing has been formally proposed yet. “We are working with C3 on details of the upcoming Oceans Calling Festival. We are hoping to expand the footprint further than last year’s planned event,” Perlozzo said in an email. “Unfortunately, nothing has been finalized and it would be too premature for me to comment further.” City officials intricately planned the details for last year’s event, which consisted of three stages in the inlet parking lot and nearby beach with fencing set up around the area to ensure only paid attendees entered the setup. Vendor tents selling food, drinks and souvenirs were included in the footprint, which did not encompass the Boardwalk or any nearby streets. City staff members also created a detailed transportation plan last year that included specialized city bus schedules, strict parking regulations, and specific access and egress plans.
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A map shows where the stages, vendors and more were slated for setup for the Oceans Calling Festival last year in the Ocean City inlet lot and surrounding area. No plans have been released yet for this year but there has been talk of expanding the footprint.
Council to add $1 to fares for buses, trams Continued from Page 1 more than $390,400 extra in revenue and is not expected to detrimentally affect ridership. Buas, however, had a different take. He said after the meeting that he voted against the request to raise the bus rates because “$3 is a fair price.” He said he did not have the same reservations about the tram fare increase, but voted against the measure
because they were presented together. Meehan said the higher tram costs, which will go into effect May 1, are expected to increase revenues by more than $94,800 and will allow officials to raise staff salaries and run trams more consistently. The tram division has struggled since the pandemic, with an inability to attract and retain drivers and conductors over the last two summers.
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A Ocean City bus brakes for passengers at a stop near 118th Street. Fares for buses and Boardwalk trams will likely be going up by $1 on May 1 following council members’ support of the increases.
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OC Council supports balloon fest, new flag football event
PHOTO COURTESY CHESAPEAKE BAY BALLOON FESTIVAL
Glow balloons are pictured at a Talbot County vineyard during the 2021 Chesapeake Bay Balloon Festival. Council members issued support this week to hold the event locally at the end of August.
By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 10, 2023) Two out of three new events floated for the coming months in and around Ocean City are coming to fruition with support from the City Council and resort tourism grants. At a meeting Monday, council members voted to approve $5,000 in tourism development funds for a flag football tournament Fourth of July weekend and voiced support for a hot air balloon festival the last weekend in August. Details of the events, along with a strong man contest proposed for the winter, were presented to the Tourism Commission last month for support. The commission responded with fa-
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vorable recommendations and council members followed up Monday. Tom Perlozzo, the city’s director of tourism and business development, said the world-renowned strong man contest, which was floated for the second weekend in December at the convention center, will not happen this year despite staff members’ best efforts. “Unfortunately, with the time between the approval process and all, they decided to go somewhere else,” Perlozzo said of the organizers. “We’re back on the list for ’24, ’25 as we speak. So hopefully we can get them back.” In response to the news of losing the international event, which is moving from Daytona this year due in large part to air travel costs, council members expressed disappointment. “I was sorry to see strong man go,” said Councilman Frank Knight. “It was a great date and I hope to get it back in ’24.” To help with those efforts, Councilman John Gehrig suggested pre-approving contracts for future events. “It stings with the strong man, and we lost it because of our process,” he said. Council members voted 6-0, with Councilwoman Carol Proctor absent, to pre-approve $15,000 in tourism development funds to support the strong man games for the next available date. The flag football event, which will take place at the OC Elevate fields in West Ocean City, also spurred some questions from council members about the July date. Knight asked if there were any attempts to urge the organizers to pick a different time given how busy the resort gets on and around the July 4 holiday. Perlozzo said staff members tried to move it but because the event is part of a national circuit there was not much wiggle room for the first year. However, he is optimistic about the future. “They’re very receptive of working with us,” Perlozzo said of the organizers. “My hopes are to eventually create that as a state-of-play event and move that more toward the end of the summer.” For the Ocean City Balloon Festival, as it is officially called, Perlozzo said staff members tried to find a location in city limits for the daytime events, which include flying hot air balloons, hosting vendor tents and more, but were not successful. Instead, the festival portion will take place Aug. 25, 26 and 27 at the OC Elevate fields, with a nighttime glow balloon show commencing all three nights over the beach downtown. Formerly called the Chesapeake Balloon Festival, the event is moving to the coast this year from Talbot County. See CITY Page 8
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