AN UPDATE ON THE CITY BOARD OPENINGS:

The City Commission has a number of positions they are asking those that are interested to apply for:

For those not familiar with how this part of our local city government works; The city commission, made up of the Mayor and the 4 commissioners representing one from each of our 4 districts relies on a number of boards that have been created to help in an advisory capacity in looking into different issues affecting or involving our community. While they do have staff, limited as it is, it's important for our community as a whole to also be involved through a series of their own meetings to work through what residents and business owners would like and see as challenges, or opportunities in accomplishing different goals going forward.

This brings me to the current list to follow. There are 20 open positions, opportunities for all of you to get involved and help out our fellow residents and community members, city staff, and city commission.... Please contact city hall for an application to one of the boards with openings that you would like to help out on. You may also choose a 2nd or 3rd board as alternative choices. So check out the city website www.lakeworth.org if you want to to download the application. The sooner you apply, the sooner we help out the existing board members with their responsibilities.

Here's a copy of the current openings as taken directly from this weeks upcoming Tuesday nights commission meeting....

On February 5, 201.3, the Commission adopted an ordinance amending the board member appointment process to allow for the selection of board members by individual elected officials. In accordance with the ordinance, the board appointments would be effective upon ratification by the Commission as a whole.

If ratified, the following vacancies still need to be filled:

City Recreation Advisory Board: 2 vacancies (Mayor and Vice Mayor’s appointment)
City Tree Board: 2 vacancies (Vice Mayor and CommissionerDistrict 2’s appointments)
Community Redevelopment Agency: 1 vacancy (Mayor’s appointment)
Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals: 1 vacancy (Mayor’s appointment)
Electric Utility Advisory Board: 1 vacancy (City Commission’s appointment)
Finance Advisory Board: 5 vacancies (Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners from Districts 2, 3, and 4’s
appointments)
Library Board: 2 vacancies (Mayor and Vice Mayor’s appointments)
Planning & Zoning Board: 2 vacancies (Mayor and Vice Mayor’s appointments)
Sister City Board: 2 vacancies (Vice Mayor and Commissioner District 2’s appointments)

www.lakeworth.org (copied from Lake Worth Live on FaceBook)