CAPE MAY – At the conclusion of Cape May City Council’s last meeting of 2023, Mayor Zack Mullock asked his fellow council members to add an item to the to-do list for 2024.

Mullock said that Cape May is no longer a sleepy town, even in December, and he wants to discuss how the municipality plans for service delivery in months that were once considered to have few needs.

Mullock said he had no specific recommendations, but he just felt the issue needed to be a part of “new business” in 2024. He added that the issues could run from ensuring that law enforcement has what it needs at one end to looking at the need for more trash collection on the mall at the other. “These were issue we just didn’t have three or four years ago,” he said.

Being as busy as we were in December is a good thing, Mullock said. “It was wonderful for our businesses.”

From the vantage point of the council, Mullock asked his colleagues to consider if the city was doing “everything it can to acknowledge how busy the town was in December?” He added, “How do we manage it; how do we pay for it in the most equitable manner possible?”

Contact the author, Vince Conti, at vconti@cmcherald.com.