“Worth Noting” once again.

In The Palm Beach Post — in just eleven (11) days — the City of Lake Worth went from ‘inching forward’ to LEAPING FORWARD!

How did this happen?

It all started less than 2 weeks before the municipal elections held on Tuesday, March 13th.

On March 1st the beat reporter from the Post, Kevin Thompson, wrote that the City of Lake Worth was “inching forward” right after the byline in the print edition,

LAKE WORTH — Lake Worth, still a city inching forward. . .

Then on Monday, March 12th, the very day prior to Election Day, just eleven days after the beat reporter wrote that that City was ‘inching forward’ there were 4 stories in the print edition demonstrating this City was actually LEAPING FORWARD!

• News the City is beefing up Code Enforcement hiring two more officers, another staff employee, and everything they need to do the job (vehicles, office space, additional training, etc.).
• Another major contributing Downtown building is being rehabilitated on Lake Ave.
• Big news about the long-awaited Boutwell Rd. improvements in the Park of Commerce.
• And there was very good news about a new bakery and other wonderful news too in the print edition . . . all this happening just 11 days since being reported the City was ‘inching forward’. 

How did we get from ‘inching forward’ to making great leaps in just 1½ weeks?

The answer is this: The City of Lake Worth was never ‘inching’ along in the first place.

This City has been making great strides for well over 4 years now following all the many little strides that began in 2011–2014 and when City Manager Michael Bornstein was hired in 2012.

The editor at the Post acknowledged all that hard work two years ago in the endorsements for re-election of Mayor Pam Triolo, District 1 Commissioner Scott Maxwell, and District 3 Commissioner Andy Amoroso.

Here are the Post endorsements from March 2016.

District 3 Commissioner Andy Amoroso was unopposed this year. Mayor Pam Triolo and District 1 Commissioner Scott Maxwell were both re-elected to the City Commission.

So. In conclusion. . .

Our City hasn’t been ‘inching’ along for a long time. We’ve been LEAPING FORWARD all along. It just took a while for the editors at the Post to notice.