Random notes and observations about the Lake Worth City Commission meeting last Tuesday (9/20)

By request from a blog reader, "important news everyone has to know":

I wasn't able to attend this City Commission meeting but did watch parts of it from the City's video. Here are random thoughts in no particular order:

• Mayor Pam Triolo got $3 million for Lake Worth from the MPO! Check back for more on that soon. Of course, news like this doesn't quite make the cut at The Palm Beach Post. Here is the video to watch for yourself:
• The City's Fiscal Year 2016/2017 budget passed unanimously. The 5 added PBSO deputies will start this October.
• PBSO Captain Baer's update was very good. He said many of the assaults and robberies have a connection to heroin and former sober home residents.
• It's about time the City replaces the microphone at the podium.
• Big news: Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell had a very productive trip to Washington, D.C. on issue of sober homes. He said there will be a joint statement soon by HUD and DOJ on "group homes" and distance restrictions. 
• Awaiting information to smack down Commissioner Ryan Maier's assertions about the Blueway Trail. Salt water intrusion? Manatees are being ignored? Nonsense. Maier attended the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council where they gave support for the Blueway Trail to proceed.
• From Maier, again, no quorum at the last Sister City board meeting. Sigh.
• Commissioner Andy Amoroso attended Monday's Parrot Cove neighborhood meeting and those in attendance were "boisterous" about JoAnn Golden's latest effort to stop the Gulfstream Hotel redevelopment project. They want the City to recoup all the money spent on legal fees.

This meeting was a short one but think many items on the agenda will have reverberations until the municipal elections next March, especially Maier's support for the homeless and panhandler's over the needs and concerns of residents in his very own district.