Saturday, February 28, 2015

If you have read something, somewhere—about how there might be changes to the Lake Worth Beach—somehow, someway, someday...read this:

Click here for link to the City of Lake Worth's website where you will see something like this on the Bids and Proposals page:
It is my understanding that Hudson Holdings, the owner of the Gulfstream Hotel submitted a proposal through this process. So did others. They had one (1) meeting on November 4, 2014 and the sign in sheet is here:
Note that a representative from the Office of Inspector General was in attendance.
This is the public notice for that meeting:
Beyond this nothing has gone forward. Click here for the packet which solicits input on how to make the beach a financially sustainable operation. Note too that there is a whole "cone of silence" provision that makes it so no one can talk about the individual proposals until a recommendation is made by the selection committee, which is made up of staff; Commissioner Amoroso is the liaison to the committee. There is a lot of flexibility in terms of what is proposed and what the committee finally recommends.

[Now that a certain Lake Worth Commissioner has talked about one of the proposals, if true, that might have tainted the whole process and there could be legal/ethical fallout from it.]

Here is where Commissioner Amoroso was appointed the liaison to the commission related to the process, from the October 7, 2014 meeting. The vote was unanimous.

Here are Commissioner McVoy's thoughts on the matter expressed at the following commission meeting on October 21, 2014.

Note that Commissioner Szerdi cannot act (or vote) on anything related to Hudson Holdings and their property in Lake Worth, since he works for them under contract in Delray Beach related to the historic Sundy House. He is also prohibited from work on any project of theirs in the City of Lake Worth, per this advisory opinion letter sought from the Commission on Ethics by the city:

The Committee will eventually make a recommendation back to the City Commission and be fully vetted by the public at that time. No decision has been made yet.

As Commissioner McVoy states at the 1:28 minute mark of the first video above, this is the "idea stage" of solutions to fix problems at the beach created by a previous commission. And note, this "idea stage" is confidential at this time.