Interviews with Town & Voll (From Page 1) So, transportation of raw materials for production — and, once the goods are produced, exporting of the completed product - is an important cost factor. Which, to some extent, leaves us high and dry insofar as heavy industry is concerned. In the areas of light to moderate industry, I think we have some good opportunities here. (Jhe of the things that we could probably produce throughout the county are these goods that are related to the tourist industry. Printing could be one, for sure; but also the souvenir-type products, the t-shirt industry, the food industry. The processed food industry is used very heavily during the summertime. And this goes along very well, I think, with our increasing fishing industry in Cape May County. We could begin to process processed food right here in Cape May County - fish food, that is. Because in that case we are directly in the main channel from sea to the store; because, naturally, the fishing boats come right into Cape May, Wildwood, and Sea Isle City. In that respect, in Cape May County we could begin to relieve our high unemployment wintertime figures. By the same token though, I don’t think it’s possible to eliminate them. We’ll always have unemployment in Cape May County. Let’s face it, some people who live and work at the shore during the summer have no intentions of working during the

winter. They work their 16-18 hour weeks during the summer, make as much money as they can; then they’rq eligible for unemployment, according to the rules. MH. VOLL: In the area we live, Cape May County being geared as a resort community, a seasonal community — I feel that we should make all possible efforts to cut down on the unemployment in this county, of course. Some people have made it a way of life in Cape May County, and I don't agree with it. I think we should work frith whatever ingredients, products, we have here to make year-round resources. I don’t want to see any of the farmlands be disturbed. I think we should really be going into*and using the things that we have here — the fishing industry. I’m for fish processing plants. * We have to work with what we have, and gear our industries around that. Obviously, we have a goo* fishing trade; fishing industry — I think fre’re the third largest in the country in the area. So, whatever’s related to fishing - if it may just be the clothing the fishermen use, or the fishing hooks, or the fishing boats, or the repair of the marine engines. I think this is what we ought to look irtto. The same with the farming. I don’t believe there should be any disrupting of the farming in this county area. Farmland’s very valuable to people. And they keep chopping away and chopping away. And before you know it, there’s not going to be any farms. I think we ought to encourage people to get into farming — and everything that works around the farming, we should look

for to help that industry in this area — to cut down on unemployment. There should be every incentive given to discourage people from getting involved with that slouch - the routine of working three or four months then collecting unemployment. Q. Assuming you feel the unemployment picture should be changed, should there be attempts to beef up the economy with any industry and business; or should emphasis

to improve the economy to only resortoriented (such as extending the tourist season and fostering compatible fishing and farming industry) ? MR. TOWN: I'm going to go back to aquaculture again. I think the fishing industry has been a fast-growing one and will continue to be a marvelously fastgrowing industry, thanks to some of the efforts made by (Congressman! Bill Hughes, we’ve got a 200 Mile Fishing Limit now, and we’ve got some cleaner waters out there; and they'll continue to get cleaner. So, there's no reason to assume that fishing won't grow faster and faster. And that’s the area Cape May County has to look to in the future. As I indicated in the previoas question. I still don’t see heavy industry, the manufacturing-type, coming into Cape May County. I think we’d kind of beat a dead horse if we take taxpayers' money and try to encourage it to come down here. MR. VOLL: I think I answered that in the last question. Like I said, use the resources we have, Extend the tourist system as long as we can. Invite as many people as we can to Cape May County. We have a lot to offer: We have clean air. We have clean beaches. We have nice boardwalks and beaches. I think that we ought to work on supplying the products that are sold in this area, with light industry and making the products. Keep everything right here in Cape May County if we can. Of course, we're not located in the best spot, but the resources we have, we should concentrate on using them to the ultimate. Q. More people are making the Jersey

Cape their year-round home: some because they're retiring to former summer cottages, others because they want to raise their family in attractive, clean, safe surroundings. There's also the casino factor. The result is increacing development and decreasing open spare. The very physical and social features* that attract people may be jeopardized by the numbers of people they attract: what should we do about it? MR. TOWN: Growth is one of the major problems Cape May County is going to face in the future. Although I would point out that I think land-use laws (in various sections of the nation! give us guidelines for the future as to wehat we can and cannot do with regard to growth. And in almost every case, exclusionary zoning, which is the one way to stop growth, has been prohibited by law I think the best way that we can have a control to whatever extent possible, in our growth is to plan for it. Planning has to be th key We re not going to be able to stop the large influx of people that are going to come into Cape May County in the course of the next 20 or 30 years. I think every day, particularly in the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen more and more encouraging reports about the Baltimore Canyon — gas and oil reserves out there. If gas and oil reserves in great quantities are discovered out there in the

Baltimore Canyon, this area's going to be impacted far greater than casinos are going to impact us. (Unfortunately, then, we may have to face large industrialization.) But we have to plan correctly for it. We have to make sure that we're spending our money in a very cost-effective measure; to make sure we’re not allowing uncontrolled growth in some areas and only rqoderate growth where maybe we could permit slightly faster growth. MR. VOLL: There’s something that we have to go after. There’s the casino industry area; and, of course, we would

Page 35 / encourage new residents into Cape May County. On the other hand, that gives us more jobs, for people in Cape May County to w-ork up in the casino area We have to take advantage of this. But I think we're growing real quick, especially in the northern end of our county. I think there should be close planning with the local planning boards and the county planning board And I would recommend that we would have monthly planning meetings to work hand in-hand so that we’re not overlapping services, and that we would set up objectives that we could work hand in-hand to make sure these are seen thru We have to take advantage of all the good qualities that we have here in Cape May County and exhaust them CL The Jersey Cape has a very high Concentration of retired persons. Regardless of their finaheial situation, they, have helped improve the area economy insofar as business is concerned. Many senior citizens are highly skilled and experienced people willing, because of Social Security limitations, to work for low wages. On the other hand, they have little need to support costly educational systems, have created greater health care needs (volunteer-to-government supported rescue squads just one example) and displaced younger, less skilled persons in the job market. Is this a problem government should be involved with; and if so. what as a member of government would you do? MR. TOWN: 1 think on the county level we are somewhat limited. Some of the issues you bring up are Constitutional in nature A few years ago 1 was involved in a campaign and we brought up an idea of a talent bank; for lack of a better word, we called it a Senior Citizens' Talent Bank wherein we planned to organize an effort when a senior citizen moved in to get to meet them, to find out what areas of expertise they might have and try to channel those talents into specific areas by a form of communication; a typo of cm ployment agent, if you will Or, in the case where we ft; not talking specifically about income (where we're talking about advice or eouncelling or that kind of thing i. we might be able to hook something up And I think it's a good idea. I'm always surprised what communities can do when they put their heads together and work hard on it. Now I don't think at the county level we can legislate against some of the things that happen For example', you cited this one where a senior citizen might lx- able to displace a young fellow or a young la<Jy,

Michael Voll who has to have higher wage to support a growing family and is unable to get the job because a senior citizen is willing to work for less wage. But. that’s a fact of life I don t see anything at the county level you could doaboutthat. I do think in Cape MaV County, we’re about maybe 30 per cent senior citizens, and we’ve got some needs we have to address ourselves in that area loo. For example, nursing home cart; We have a dire shortage of nursing home beds in Cape May County. Last week I spoke to two members of the ( Pape 36 Pleaw I

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