Members of the Save Lucy Committee and the Margate City Commissioners met Thursday over long-running issues of ownership of Lucy.

Both sides have been working on an agreement where the city would formally sell the 65-foot-tall, 127-year-old elephant to the non-profit committee for $1.
But the talks came to a stand-still with the city's proposal to assume control of the snack bar that sits beachfront of Lucy.
The Lucy Committee leaders argued that construction of the snack bar cost them more than $122,000 in payments to the city.  They further stated that they have been serving lunches from the counter during the day and sit-down dinners at night. They feel, that if they are being asked to give up the snack bar, the City should pay back the  $122,000 -- plus $35,000 a year in payments, as well as a percentage of the gross sales of snack bar (of whoever leases the snack bar from the city).
Rich Helfant, executive director of the Lucy committee feels they couldn't maintain the elephant without the income.  He noted that Lucy has to be painted every three years at a cost of $65,000.
According to the Press of Atlantic City, the three commissioners "balked" at the notion of the city making such big payments to take over the snack bar.
The only decision was to allow Mary Siracusa, city solicitor, to draw up a proposal to allow both sides to share proceeds from leasing the snack bar.  Both sides would have to share in the cost of improvements to the snack bar structure as well.