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Summer camps spend a lot of money to make sure your kids have fun

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By Ed Zwirn

June 11, 2017 | 5:27pm

This is the busy time of year for Bradley Solmsen.

As the executive director of Surprise Lake Camp, he needs to make sure that his facility, located on 460 acres in Cold Spring, NY, is ready to welcome its incoming class of 650 kids, who will begin arriving on June 29.

Surprise Lake is among 2,000 licensed summer residential and day camps operating in the state. Collectively, as they pay staff, handle repairs and capital expenditures and cater to both campers and their families, they generate a direct economic impact of $1.3 billion, according to a new report by the American Camp Association, Northeast Region (New England, New York and New Jersey).

Overall, New York camps employ 60,000 seasonal and 3,500 full-time workers who receive more than $411 million in wages. In addition to payroll, New York camps spend more than $1.2 billion on goods and services throughout the Northeast, including food, fuel, supplies and banking, according to the report.

https://nypost.com/2017/06/11/summer-camps-spend-billions-to-make-sure-your-kids-have-fun/By Ed Zwirn

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There was a lot of money behind last year’s push to raise N.J.’s gas tax

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By Samantha Marcus | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on March 02, 2017 at 7:02 PM, updated March 02, 2017 at 7:57 PM

TRENTON — One of the state’s leading proponents in last year’s fight to raise the gas tax for the Transportation Trust Fund spent nearly $4.4 million lobbying last year, according to an Election Law Enforcement Commission analysis.

The Engineers Labor Employer Cooperative more than quadrupled its spending over 2015, making it the highest-spending special interest organization in 2016.

Total lobbying in the state last year reached $68.3 million, a slight drop from the year prior, but still one of the most expensive years on record, the commission said.

The engineers cooperative, embarked on an ad campaign pushing both the 23 cent gasoline tax hike and a constitutional amendment dedicating all tax revenues to the Transportation Trust Fund, beat out even the deep pockets of the New Jersey Education Association, the state’s prominent teachers union.

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/nj_groups_spent_5m_to_promote_gas_tax_hike_last_ye.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured