{"id":2343,"date":"2016-06-09T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2016-06-09T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:17:09","slug":"lavallette-builds-on-record-season-of-beach-badge-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/06\/lavallette-builds-on-record-season-of-beach-badge-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Builds on Record Season of Beach Badge Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lavallette life boat. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2016 summer season has gotten off to a good start in Lavallette, with beach badge sales up from last year, a season <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2015\/09\/lavallette-sets-beach-badge-record-in-summer-2015-lifeguards-praised\/\">which set a record<\/a> in the borough.<\/p>\n<p>Seasonal badge sales are up 4.4 percent over the same date last year, Councilman\u00a0Michael Stogdill said this week. The positive early start to badge sales is a good sign that 2016 may break last year\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat bodes well is that we really nipped at the heels all summer long and finally got there at the beginning of August,\u201d said Stogdill.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the borough is up\u00a0$16,782 in revenue this year, up by 462 seasonal badges and 164 senior badges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering we\u2019ve only been open a month, it\u2019s remarkable,\u201d said Stogdill.<\/p>\n<p>Parking permits are down by 17 from last year, though the borough expects those sales to pick up. Lavallette has not yet begun selling daily badges.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the borough generated\u00a0$909,678 in beach badge sales in 2015, the first time more than $900,000 was taken in. The previous beach badge revenue record was $866,845, set in 2012.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/06\/lavallette-builds-on-record-season-of-beach-badge-sales\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 summer season has gotten off to a good start in Lavallette, with beach badge sales up from last year, a season which set a record in the borough. Seasonal badge sales are up 4.4 percent over the same date last year, Councilman\u00a0Michael Stogdill said this week. The positive early start to badge sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,3,2],"tags":[65,29,337],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-beach-badge-sales","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-summer-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0355.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-BN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}