Thursday, February 25, 2016

Sans the hysteria and mis-/disinformation in the press: What's with the protest and that trailer park in Lake Worth?

Do you know what the word "sans" means? Here is the definition.

The Lake Worth Herald explains the situation clearly and concisely. NBC5/WPTV did a good job of reporting on this but CBS12/WPEC went off the rails again and referred to the situation as a "forced relocation". Nothing new about the poor quality of news reporting at CBS12.

The Palm Beach Post began all this nonsense after their reporter was given the plot and actors by a 'letter' that was circulated around the City a few days prior. You can read more about this using this link. Without further ado and sans the drama in the local press is the news from the Herald:

     "The City of Lake Worth Public Services Department did an audit of all mobile home accounts in December. It became evident the City was losing on average around 2,700 dollars per month on the Palm Beach Mobile Home Park, meaning the other city customers were subsidizing the mobile home park garbage collection.
     Palm Beach Mobile Home Park has 335 units, paying a flat 4300 dollars per month or 12.88 per unit for curbside collection. Residential units across the city pay 20.48 per month for curbside collection or 7.60 per month more than the residents of Palm Beach Mobile Home Park.
     Technically, per a 2009 resolution, the owner of the park should be handling the internal collection and placing it in a dumpster for City pick-up.
     Holtz Mobile Home Park and Holiday 2 Mobile Home Park are currently paying the residential rate and Orange Grove Mobile Home Park is paying a flat rate of 1,986.56 per month or 17.58 per unit for curbside collection and have two six yard dumpsters.
     According to resolutions 34-2009 and 41-2009, the mobile home parks in Lake Worth are classified as commercial and are entitled to receive commercial service."

Just about sums it all up doesn't it?