City of Lake Worth Commission Meeting 9/23/14—Discussion of Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) vis-à-vis the Casino/Beach

This happened to be one of the rare times that I missed recording a City Commission meeting (due to another work-related appointment). Of course, it had to be the day the City Commission discussed the Invitation to Negotiate vis-à-vis the Lake Worth Casino/Beach. A 'enhanced' transcript of this portion of the meeting was used by persons to "connect the dots" to form conspiracy theories about the process prior to the election on March 10th.

By the way, the Lake Worth Municipal Pool is still very much there, as this picture taken today attests. There is a self-described 'journalist' (Margaret Menge) in town who opines that she is not "satisfied with the explanations of Invitation to Negotiate so far. . ." and she asks, "When and where was that discussed in a public meeting?" It should be pointed out her lack of satisfaction and ignorance of the process is by choice, given the information presented here and by the city thus far.

Hopefully this provides some answers, along with the press conference the Mayor held on March 9th in full view of the public and not behind a locked door as was alleged and is completely false.

Below, again, is a video of the discussion on the ITN at a subsequent meeting held on October 7th:

And no story about the Invitation to Negotiate would be complete without noting that Commissioner McVoy voted for this process that he now claims was "fuzzy":