From alcohol to badge sales and hours of operation, perhaps it’s only fitting that on a Wednesday evening in July, Surf City beaches were front and center during the monthly borough council meeting.

“It’s a great idea,” Mayor Francis Hodgson said of a request for one lifeguard to work between 5 and 6 p.m., riding an ATV to guard the length of the borough’s beaches for beachgoers. However, “It doesn’t work out financially, doesn’t work out on paper.”