Monday, September 20, 2010

Things I recall about Incumbent Commissioner Mulvehill's term of office...

Whenever I turn on my faucet in the morning and am greeted with a wretched sulphuric smell, I think of her breaking the agreement with Palm Beach County for water and temporarily getting back-up water from West Palm Beach.

Sitting in her office and her insistence that the Lucerne was 82 feet high, then the both of us bumping into Fedner Alcius (planner) in the parking lot and her asking him if he had laser measured the building yet.  Let's not let the fact that is the 82 foot measurement is from sea level.  Never get in the way of a good story.

Her refusing to acknowledge the recommendations from the Planning and Zoning Board on height and refusing to examine the long term implications of a "low rise" city.

Terrorizing property owners with Intracoastal frontage about making public parks out of unused adjacent rights-of-way.

Voting for five years of water rate increases which compound to nearly an 80% increase in resident bills.

Thinking that New Mexico had oceanfront property, or at least on the Gulf of Mexico.

Going on foreign trips to meet with our Sister City representatives who haven't acknowledged Sister City status with Lake Worth.

Voting to rescind the rezoning and land use change on the Sunset parcel which will cost the city money to purchase from the aggrieved property owner and more money to maintain as a park.

Attending a South Palm Park neighborhood meeting and saying that she didn't represent them, she represents the entire city.

Nearly choking the Publix deal with a plastic bag ordinance.

Having her campaign coffers filled with contributions from casino building tenants and proclaiming that she has them to thank for her being in office.

Referring to the electric utility as a "cash cow."  It's just that cow's udders issue what used to be residents' hard earned cash.

Record decreases in property values city-wide.

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