{"id":419697,"date":"2026-07-31T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:07:10","slug":"three-things-to-know-about-ocean-beach-park-revenue-herald-community-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419697\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things to know about Ocean Beach Park revenue | Herald Community Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beach is not only synonymous, and eponymous, with Long Beach \u2014 it\u2019s one of the city\u2019s most notable, yet not most profitable, revenue sources. At the July 21 City Council meeting, City Manager<\/a> Daniel Creighton shared a presentation regarding the financial performance of Ocean Beach Park from June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

Revenue increased over $800,000<\/p>\n

For the first time, beach revenue collected from daily passes and seasonal passes surpassed $5 million. This reflects a 19 percent increase, nearly $807,000, from the previous year. Daily July admissions, specifically, increased 56% from the prior year and August daily admissions increasing a dramatic 84 percent. May and June admissions were tracked as being predominantly family passes, which remained on par with past years.<\/p>\n

Creighton believes the new beach entrance layout, with fewer boardwalk access points and relocated ticket booths<\/a>, were a key factor in the increased fees collected. \u201cWe\u2019re still looking at how to continue to raise beach revenue without raising the costs,\u201d Creighton said.<\/p>\n

Expenses decreased nearly $300,000<\/p>\n

Operational beach expenditures \u2014 including salaries, insurance and compensation, and maintenance costs \u2014 had held at a steady pace in recent years, with a gradually, notable decline over the past two years. In 2026, expenses increased slightly due primarily to staffing decisions \u2014 including adult employees at certain beach locations and more overall staff to ensure consistent beach pass collection.<\/p>\n

Taking a relatively longer-term perspective, comparing the recent year to 2023, Creighton pointed out that expenses were down roughly $300,000, even taking into account higher current wages and the cost of inflation.<\/p>\n

Net loss of more than $660,000<\/p>\n

\u201cI know everyone is concerned as to whether or not the beach makes money or loses money annually,\u201d Creighton said at the meeting. \u201cThe short answer is, it is still losing money.\u201d The beach tracked an overall loss of $663,000 in 2026. Net losses over the past several years have trended in a positive direction, with a loss of more than $2 million reported in 2023, with the gap lessening each year until its drastic reduction last year.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to work on it,\u201d Creighton explained. \u201cMaybe that $1.50 breaks us even next year. We\u2019ll see,\u201d he said, referring to a financial boost<\/a> from the increase in nonresident pass fees which recently went into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beach is not only synonymous, and eponymous, with Long Beach \u2014 it\u2019s one of the city\u2019s most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[167760,167761,131,133,132,4694,158337],"class_list":["post-419697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach-pass-sales","tag-city-manager-daniel-creighton","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-new-york","tag-ocean-beach-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}