The event is being sponsored by the Bradley Beach Friends of the REC, Bradley Beach Recreation, Neptune City Playground Committee and Neptune City Recreation.

Admission is $12 and provides access to all rides and activities, excluding food.

At a meeting Monday the commissioners debated whether the borough should pay $2,800 towards a study, already supported by five neighboring towns, that will analyze the feasibility of sharing certain services among the participating municipalities.

The study, supported by Belmar, Bradley Beach, Lake Como, Neptune and Neptune City, is 75 percent complete and mainly concerns police and municipal court services including dispatch, prisoner detention, use of K-9 units, and management among other aspects.

Instead, the Borough Council is looking at smoking areas designated along the beachfront after residents and council members alike said they had second thoughts about implementing a total ban.

The total ban east of Ocean Avenue was proposed at council’s August 11 meeting after presentations by borough youngsters.

At Tuesday’s council meeting, however, residents broke out in a chorus of “God Bless America” when Councilman Gary Engelstad stood by a total ban.

Scully’s grandfather was a police officer in Newark for over 30 years and his father founded and ran a security company for years where he and his brothers worked.

“I became interested in police work after working at Monmouth Mall. I interacted a lot with the Eatontown police,” he said.

According to Harvey Rosenberg, one of the event’s organizers, 103 people participated in the contest while over 1200 came to watch.

At Tuesday night’s council meeting Rosenberg publically thanked residents and businesses that made the day so successful.

The mayors of the five participating municipalities proposed this feasibility study in response to the increasingly challenging economic conditions in New Jersey. While all of these municipalities already participate in shared service arrangements through inter-local service agreements with one or more of the other municipalities, this represents the first time these five neighboring municipalities have come together as a group to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study of opportunities for sharing these types of services.

Bradley Beach Mayor Julie Schreck said the public has been asking for sharing services and reduced costs for a long time.

Council listened to six members of the Youth Advisory Board speaking about the ills of smoking from every angle including health, economics and environmental.

Most of the children asked for smoking to be restricted to specific beaches, but in the end council unanimously agreed to an all out ban east of Ocean Avenue, which includes the gazebos and promenade.

O’Reilly said that as of Aug.1 total beach fund revenues were $112,902 above the same date last year.

The figure takes into account all beach revenues as well as money collected from parking and the miniature golf course.

At its Monday night meeting council held a lengthy discussion detailing the pros and cons of each piece of equipment before approving the final amount of $364,000.

Included in the list of equipment are two police vehicles.

Bradley Beach Chamber President Rich Simonsen said over 2,000 pounds of lobster were sold.

Steffan Manno, owner of Giamano’s and Chamber of Commerce member, said the day was “fantastic.”