LAKE WORTH, FL. - The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the Lake Worth NSP2 Consortium have been recognized by the National League of Cities and the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO) at the 2013 City Cultural Diversity Awards for the remarkable Lake Worth NSP2 Consortium Affordable Housing Program. The CRA won first place in the 25,000-100,000 population category. In total,seven cities were honored on March 11th 2013 for implementing programs that enhance and promote cultural diversity in communities. The City Cultural Diversity Awards recognize municipal programs that encourage citizen involvement and show an appreciation of cultural diversity. Cities honored for 2013 are: Fort Worth, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Lake Worth, Florida and Hermiston, Oregon. In addition, three cities were honored as runners-up: Tempe, AZ; Coral Gables, FL; and District Heights, MD.
The City Cultural Diversity Awards program was established in 1995 by the NBC-LEO to promote cultural diversity in community governance through citizen and community participation. Winning cities are selected from a pool of applicants and are grouped according to population.
In 2009, the Lake Worth NSP2 Consortium (led by the Lake Worth CRA and made up of 20 community based organizations and local companies) was awarded $23.2 million as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant authorized under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. These funds were used to purchase over 100 foreclosed and abandoned properties and provide rehabilitated or brand new housing to revitalize a culturally diverse area of the city.
"It is always satisfying being recognized for the hard work you do but this Award is special to us at the CRA. We strive, with our consortium partners, to reach out to those who voices may not always be heard. Our mission includes building and strengthening our diverse community," says Joan Oliva, Executive Director of the Lake Worth CRA. "On behalf of our Board, Staff and many consortium partners we are thankful for the opportunity to provide much needed housing and jobs in our City and hope we can continue these efforts for years to come."
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Good job! Without the CRA the city of Lake Worth would be dead in the water.
Here is a nice little comment from one of the biggest fans of the CRA, a comment left on Pinkie the Revisionist Blogging Clown's blog from one her ghost writers, Katie Mcgiveron:
"People, we need a Commission that listens to the majority here in Lake Worth,not Greg Rice and his small and depressing band of bullshit slingers."
Katie Mcgiveron
March 13, 2013 at 8:31 PM
A little angry? There is a reason the anarchists and monkeywrenchers are not happy after this election. For a year now they were expecting an 80/20 vote for "Yes." The "Friends of the Gulfstream didn't even put out their first yard sign or send a mailer until three weeks before the election and they almost won this vote. The problem the Respectful(?) Planning PAC has is they now realize their support is 7 square miles wide but only an inch deep. It's all a mirage.
Despite all the flack the CRA gets, the work they do is not smoke and mirrors, it's real progress. Of all the cities in PBC the three on the economic bottom are Belle Glade, Lake Worth, and Riviera Beach. Belle Glade is at the bottom. The one thing Lake Worth has keeping us off the bottom is the CRA.
Thank you for all your hard work.
I'll go one step further. If it wasn't for Joan Oliva, nothing would get done. Under her stewardship, the CRA has accomplished amazing things.
Amen to that. We all need to stand up and support the CRA. They have been and will be a thorn in the anarchists side. They keep targeting the CRA hoping for a crack in the armor. Keep up the good work CRA.
Jon
Cara, Skippy, and the anarchists HATE the CRA, not as much as they hate the PBSO. They are against a hotel district and thwart progress at each turn. Two things are curious, the Respectful Planning PAC has never proffered an economic plan going forward, is this by design or a plan doesn't exist? And how is it that Cara can get so many disparate groups to vote against their own interests? If you are a plumber or a painter, work in a restaurant downtown, or have a business just bumping along the bottom, how does Cara convince these people to further limit the potential of this city?
http://bloggreen.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/anarcho-breeding/
Pathetic: The Respectful Planning PAC has been organizing for over a year. They got 1700 petition signatures. For over a YEAR they have been explaining what this vote means and they are crying that their supporters WERE CONFUSED. Huh?
And 1700 petition signatures delivered with such aplomb last year and a TOTAL OF 2311 VOTES were cast on question 2 this last Tuesday.
Huh?
If you are Mulvehill, or Cara, or Larry and you are thinking of running for Mayor or taking out Andy, you have to be saying to your so-called organizing "brainiacs":
Huh?
Respectful Planning PAC petition signatures delivered to the Supervisor of Elections, minus the invalid signatures: 1729
Total voters who voted "NO" in last Tuesday's election: 1291
1729 - 1291 = 438
438 people were apparently motivated enough to sign a petition but not enough to go vote.
And Katie Mcgiveron continues to attack Greg Rice.
Do you own a mirror, Katie?
Mulvehill must be so proud of your efforts.
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
Simple Math above, get your point but the numbers are really much, much worse for them than you posit. You are assuming that only the petition signature signers voted in the election. That is absurd. If the total No vote was 1291 need to get the voter list from the supervisor and compare that with the petition signature list and highlight the ones that didn't bother to vote. And then find out why. The ones that did vote are their hard-core group which is good information. My gut feeling is a many of them discovered they were lied to. Either way this will be valuable information in the next election for Mayor Pam Triolo, Scott Maxwell, and Andy Amoroso.
Pathetic. We are all pathetic. We are the ones with the brains and the means to really turn this town around, yet in the last year alone Dr. Do Nothing McVoy got re-elected AND this terrible height limit got passed. How in the heck is this possible? How can we not defeat a dude who has done NOTHING but mutter and mumble and create a smoke screen. And an amendment that likely be a detriment to every business downtown and everyone who lives here. The time to act is NOW for the 2014 election. Strategy meetings, fundraisers, etc. need to be planned immediately, because the wackos will be using this "victory" as ammunition for the next election cycle. Get your friends and neighbors in LW motivated NOW - not when it is too late and this city becomes 100% ghetto.
The wackos have an unlimited amount of free time to walk door to door "informing" people. I saw the same women going door to door in my neighborhood at least 7 or 8 times. There was 1 yes sign on my block.
The other "side" has jobs, families, mortgages, obligations you know, lives.
It's not a matter of being pathetic. Due to the fact these people have nothing else to live for every political battle is their super bowl. Their leader Laurel Decker said it- "whatever it takes". Great mentality for a war or football games but not so much when it negatively impacts people's lives.
And Katie Mgiveron's an idiot.
how does the 1,200 people that voted for yes make up the majority of a city with 15,000 registered voters?
God I hope she runs against Maxwell.
If you think the time to act for 2014 is now then you're 8 months behind them. A big part of their door to door campaign was to bash the current mayor as pro developement, willing to sell the city to developers (sound familiar Rodney) and to inform unsuspecting residents we must get rid of this terrible mayor.
Who might be running for mayor? None other than Laurel Decker's little chippy Suzanne Mulvehill.
3:03 you are 100% correct. we have to start now. our current mayor and commission have let us down. we worked tirelessly to get them elected. we need a clean slate. we also need dedicated volunteers. we have far to many chiefs instead of in the trenches workers.
Well, even if we are 8 months behind them (I disagree, maybe they have a few months on us) we still need to organize like they do. And why play fair? How many of those Yes signs were on vacant lots, city property, and business property? We should follow their strategy and adopt a whatever it takes attitude. And yes, we have jobs, and lives, etc., but that doesn't mean we can't be successful. I am fairly certain that those of us with common sense and dreams of prosperity for LW far outnumber the anarchy wackos.
We just need to convince our friends and neighbors to be at least somewhat involved and to vote for crying out loud. It took me 5 minutes to vote. I think we can all spare 5 minutes to make a difference. Hotels are willing to build in Abacoa - a make believe suburb. LW is way cooler than that, so let's step it up!
I overheard Waterman at Publix talking to one of the smelly people about the election and she said "well now they have 4 more months" as if they will regain control after that. The smelly person claimed that thieir side was successful for both Yes votes because they had been so adamant telling everyone vote Yes and it carried over to the other question on the ballot! I am not gonna let someone like Waterman back in City Hall and this is definitely motivation for me. Hopefully more LW voters wake up too.
the smelly people are already in control, Bribrarian, above:
as evidenced by the silence of the Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell.
Andy Amoroso could have made a difference in the Jim Stafford race and seriously could have put the "NO" vote over the top, but he is a busy businessman.
Pam can always be counted on, she's the rock, if you need someone to support you, encourage you, energize your soul...the day before a vote.
You know, a clever person a few months before the election, might make a nice comparison of our courageous leaders and the Wizard of Oz.
Pam: the innocent girl
Scott: the cowardly lion
Andy: the scarecrow
John: the tin man
Jim lost and the "NO" vote lost because we have no leadership. We have bureaucrats, but at this point in Lake Worth's history we need leaders.
Loretta showed all of you numbnuts how it is done. You take the fight to them. YOU use their tactics against THEM. The missing link are leaders. All those on the other side can list each and every one in the leadership. On this side? There is no one at the top. But even worse than that is no one has the balls to grab the ring. It's there. Hanging. All you need is a brass pair. Tic toc tic toc April July November tic toc February tic toc tic toc................
You want a funny visual? All day long on Tuesday Our Beloved New Commissioner John Szerdi rode shotgun with Loretta. But that is as far as it went. He stayed in the shotgun seat. Once or twice he ventured into the public eye, but mostly he stayed hidden behind Loretta's skirt. You assholes were given a gift on Tuesday. The SAPs, Scott, Andy and Pam, were given a reprieve, a big window to grow a pair. Need an example? Look at Shanon Materio. She grew a pair and she won. Big time. So many of YOUR people, YOUR voters, are looking for LEADERSHIP. Who is going to lead us? Pam? Scott? Andy? Or does someone WITH A PAIR going to have to take the job? There is a void at the top and that void will be filled.
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