We want to take this time to thank the new Atlantic City business merchants, residents, and visitor members and continue to encourage everyone to support “ACBCA Go Green and Keep Atlantic City Clean Campaign”. We all must encourage businesses, visitors, and community to not litter, graffiti, loiter or jaywalk and we all should utilize the Atlantic City Special Improvement District (S.I.D.) and other city services to help us keep the city clean. We have received complaints from merchants who are being harassed for the use of advertising signage and general clean-up of their properties. We feel this is a joint effort between the city, the merchants and residents, (particularly in the back of the merchant stores, where we see drug needles, alcohol bottles, condoms and other trash not created by the merchants.) We have been meeting with some city officials to share your complaints and have gotten graffiti removed, trash picked up and grass cut. We met with Mayor Lorenzo Langford to share ACBCA, Inc.’s goals and programs.
We met with Thomas Carver (President of C.R.D.A.) and receive his support in our (ACBCA, Inc.) effort to re-paint the Kentucky Ave. Mural. We have contacted the Atlantic City High School Arts department to solicit student art majors participation in this process.
We are currently meeting with each of the Atlantic City councilmen to give them an update of ACBCA, Inc. and to get their support for ACBCA, Inc. programs.
We supported (S.O.S.) Save Our Seed Program and their initiative to deal with teen violence in Atlantic City; which was launched at the Atlantic City Boys and Girls Club.
We are working with the county for recruiting, screening and training welfare recipients in the Back to Work Program as, ACBCA, Inc. Business and Community Information Ambassadors. We have also met with Atlantic City High School officials to identify students who might participate in our business and community learning service programs.