Civic Association to Hold Meeting at Library

Still displaced from its regular gathering place, the West End Neighbors Civic Association (WENCA) will meet at the Long Beach Library on Saturday, it’s second meeting since Hurricane Sandy.

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Scott Kemins, the city’s building commissioner, will be among the featured speakers. He will discuss ongoing rebuilding activities in Long Beach and governmental procedures homeowners must follow when repairing or elevating their homes, as well as illegal rentals.

An appraiser Craig Kugler, described by WENCA as an expert on hurricanes, flood and wind damage, and Jerry Romanoff, an attorney and WENCA’s vice president, will also speak.  

“Craig and Jerry will discuss how to deal with insurance companies that are uncooperative or undervaluing claims, dealing with banks that are holding insurance checks and options available to residents to take action,” said WENCA President John Bendo in a press release announcing Saturday’s meeting.

Planned topics of discussion include beaches and dunes, West End businesses, Georgia Avenue playground, and the Barrier Island Alliance, a group of residents and business owners from Point Lookout to Atlantic Beach who formed their organization in the wake of October’s storm.

Other topics include movie nights on the beach, street fairs, beach events, and food trucks and tents, the latter of which the city is working to bring to beaches this summer.

Saturday’s meeting starts at 10 a.m. and is scheduled to run to 12 p.m. in the auditorium at the library, at 111 W. Park Ave. The library reopened last week after a nearly five-month closure and rebuilding due to damages sustained during Hurricane Sandy last October.

WENCA typically holds meetings at the West End Community Center, a city-owned facility that is part of West School, both of which sustained considerable flooding and damages during Sandy and remain closed. In the months after the storm the civic organization held its first meeting at City Hall.

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