Thank you State Senator Bobby Powell and State Rep. David Silvers for an exceptional Legislative Update last night.

Happy to report the state of our representation in Tallahassee is one to be proud of.

The City’s YouTube video and photos from last night’s City Commission meeting are below.

Following the Legislative Update from State Senator Lori Berman at the City Commission on April 17th we all can be confident our City and County are being represented quite well going forward.

Several times Sen. Powell made mention of our City being “one man down” last night due to former State Sen. Jeff Clemens’ resignation last year. The good news is with the election of State Sen. Lori Berman we can expect full and worthy representation in Tallahassee going forward.

By the way. . .

A few years ago when a young man named
Bobby Powell said he wanted to run for the
Florida House of Representatives:

Mr. Powell came to the City of Lake Worth and met with a fella named Herman Robinson. Mr. Robinson is now District 4 Commissioner Herman Robinson. Yours Truly looks on.

And then in 2016 Powell ran for the Florida Senate. . .

The results speak for themselves.

More information from last night’s Commission meeting follows.

What was expected to be the big item of the night, the proposed housing project called “The MID” passed on a 4-0 vote with all of the electeds showing strong support for the project (Vice Mayor Pro Tem Scott Maxwell was absent). But stay tuned for news about recycling. In brief, those green/yellow recycling cans are going away later this year. The City of Lake Worth and the Solid Waste Authority will have a public relations campaign in place soon to educate the public about what will be happening vis-à-vis “single-stream recycling” which ironically was introduced to the City by former Mayor Jeff Clemens.

And the 2018–2019 Election Season here in the City officially kicked off last night. Election Day is March 12th next year. District 2 Commissioner Omari Hardy and District 4 Commissioner Herman Robinson have already declared their intent to seek re-election without much drama last March. You can expect just the opposite from any challengers, if any do step up, or just opt to go on “huffing and puffing” instead.

Looking back, the decision by City Manager Michael Bornstein to put the question on the ballot last year to increase terms for elected officials from two years to three years makes him look even more brilliant. Once we get through this next election season there will not be another election for candidates until 2021. So enjoy the upcoming dramatic acts to come everyone!

State Sen. Bobby Powell at the City Commission
meeting last night:

To learn more about Sen. Powell and to contact his staff click on this link.

One of the many slides provided by Sen. Powell’s staff:

Opioids and the heroin epidemic were a big topic of discussion and so was “wet sand/dry sand”.

State Rep. David Silvers:

Use this link to learn more about State Rep. David Silvers and to contact his staff.

Strongly encourage everyone to watch this
Legislative Update. A tremendous amount of very
good information was provided.