Trimper Amusement park

Just read that this year could be the last year for the Trimper family. Ocean City has raised their taxes so much that they won%26#39;t be able to stay open.

I think this is a sad state of affairs. The end of the boardwalk won%26#39;t be the same without them there. After all it%26#39;s a part of OC%26#39;s history.

www.nbc4.com/news/13210673/detail.html…

Trimper Amusement park

Note that ';state and local leaders would be willing to consider tax relief for the business.';

I suspect in the end this is what will wind up happening. To let a business like Trimper--firmly rooted in local history and associated with the family-type environment they like to promote--go away over a relatively small amount of tax revenue would be a PR disaster.

Trimper Amusement park

that would be heartbreaking.

the sunpapers had it tonight that the tax was RAISED BY $914,000...could that be right? that ain%26#39;t no ';small'; amount of tax!

i hope something can be resolved so they can stay open...such a part of history!

That sounds about right...a $39 million increase in assessed value at a property tax rate of ~2.3% would result in that sort of increase.

$914K may not be small to you or I or the Trimper family, but it is pocket change to the O.C. and Worcester County governments when measured next to the additional taxes generated by the run-up in O.C. property assessments.

It%26#39;s sad that they might leave. After all of it%26#39;s part in OC history, it just won%26#39;t be the same. The carousel is the oldest standing carousel in the United States, and it would be really sad to see it go else where.

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