Joint City/County Commission meeting - PBCC - 3 p.m.

Some things never change - but they will if you vote for me on November 3rd. This is the kind of public information we have come to expect when dealing with the City of Lake Worth.

First, a little background: There is a joint meeting scheduled today between the City and County Commissions regarding the bulk water agreement between the two entities. It's billed as "Conflict Resolution" and results from the City stiffing the county in the amount of $6 million - the current City Commission wants out of the contract. The contract was entered into when the previous City Commission could not get a permit for the Reverse Osmosis plant from DEP and canceled work on the project. The current City Commission is charging ahead with the Reverse Osmosis plant - which at the current time does not have the permits necessary to allow for deep well injection for the waste generated by the plant.

Below, after some searching, is the announcement of the meeting on the City's website.

The agenda for the meeting is not available on the City's website:

Since this joint meeting will be held at Palm Beach Community College's Lake Worth campus, we called the City Manager's secretary to get directions to Room NS29. We were told that the meeting was "not open to the public" - of course it's open to the public! We were then transferred to the City Clerk's office and given the following set of directions:

"It's in the Board of Trustee's room. Use the Lake Worth Road entrance, park in the blue lot - B-13 through 16, do not park in the reserved spaces, get out of your car and head south, there is a banner sign on top of the building and there is construction."

Below is the information from the Palm Beach County website (click title for link to complete listing of county meetings in October - this information is on page 7)

According to the County, the meeting is in room CE129 and, after calling the County and then PBCC, we received the following directions:

"Come in off of Lake Worth Road, take the first right and go all the way to the end, past Social Science, across from the Library. The meeting room is opposite the bathrooms."

This is the item as described on page 7 of the County schedule.

Given what we know about Lake Worth and the reliability of information coming from the city, I would go with the County's directions.
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