Selectmen in a public-forum section of their Thursday night meeting were asked to consider ways in which beaches might be upgraded in town and how that might be funded.

Better beaches? That takes better revenue flow, the board was told.

How to improve beaches? Well that might start at Town Neck with an upgrade there and a start to pay for the work by increasing stickers issued to one-time day users. That fee this past summer totaled $10.

Selectmen were told such an approach pivots on conducting a needs cost-benefit analysis of beach revenue and its future potential.

Selectmen did not respond to the ideas, but Town Manager Bud Dunham said his office might be able to generate fiscal data related to beach revenue that could be extrapolated in new ways.

To be clear and put things in some sort of perspective, Sandwich generates about $220,000 in total revenue, Dunham said. In contrast, the Town of Barnstable collects over $1 million at Sandy Neck alone.

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