Improvement Noticed in City Press Releases

Click the following links for examples of announcements from the city over the past few weeks. Both the frequency and quality have improved.

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However, the last one leaves me wanting as it relates to subject matter. Here is an excerpt:

The Lake Worth Resource Center (LWRC) is pleased to announce the launch of “Hire One Worker For One Week”; an economic and employment relief initiative to help struggling families, while stimulating our local economy. The goal of this initiative is to match 500 registered jobseekers from the LWRC with local employers for one week during the month of February.

Registered workers are at the ready to perform such jobs as: cleaning the pool, yard or house; painting; packing or unpacking; moving; polishing; repairing patio screens, fences or sprinklers; pressure cleaning; foreclosure cleaning; landscaping; roofing; filing; stuffing envelopes; typing and companion and elderlycare!

“Our President has told us that it will take a bold, unprecedented approach and requires all of us to turn the economy around. This is our audacious plan! We are appealing to the good people of Palm Beach County to create a temporary job, fill it with a LWRC jobseeker and provide short-term relief to struggling friends and neighbors” said Wilson.

This is the press release many would like to see instead:

Lake Worth, Fl. - The Mayor of the City of Lake Worth announced the relocation of {Fill in name of high tech research or information technology or green product manufacturing company here}. The company selected a site within the City's Community Redevelopment Agency district and will employ 500 local people once fully staffed. Offices for the firm will be state-of-the-art and eligible for gold LEED certification - further establishing Lake Worth as the center for the "Green Revolution" in the United States. Ms. Amelia Longterm, the company's CEO, stated, "We really enjoy our relationship with the City of Lake Worth. They have been very helpful through the zoning and permiting of the project. It's great to feel like we are part of a team that knows where they are going and how to get there." The Mayor commented, "This will solidify Lake Worth as a place of economic re-birth and the model of redevelopment in the region."

By the way, how do the 1099s and income taxes in general work at the LWRC?