From reporter Andrew Lofholm: Two views on a proposed resolution on the agenda at Lake Worth City Hall tonight.

FYI: Further down on this blog is more information about a planned protest outside Lake Worth City Hall today and much more information.


Worth noting is reporter Andrew Lofholm at WPTV/NBC5 was in the City yesterday to do a news segment about the topic of cracking down on slumlords (see that news segment below).

Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso and Commissioner Omari Hardy have a difference of opinion on the proposed Resolution No. 04-2019, “Business license fines for noncompliance”.

The issue comes down to whether or not the City’s Code Enforcement Dept. needs another layer of regulation. Hardy believes it is necessary and Amoroso believes it is not necessary.

This is item 9C on the agenda tonight. As per the rules of order, the City Commission will debate this issue for thirty minutes and then have a vote, either up or down. If no vote is taken this agenda item will be sent to a Commission work session to be scheduled at a later date.

Here are two excerpts from the news segment
by reporter Andrew Lofholm:


LAKE WORTH, Fla. — Lake Worth will consider a law at Tuesday’s [today, City Hall, 6:00] meeting that would fine landlords who are renting their home without a business license and use the fine money toward a tenant’s legal bills if they try to evict their renter.

The basics of the law would tell landlords, get a business license or else. That you can’t get into business illegally and then try to use the law to get someone out of your home.

Commissioner Omari Hardy says illegal evictions are a problem in Lake Worth.

“If we can just keep people in their homes, people who are being wrongfully evicted then that’s a good thing. And if we can do it with money that’s coming from slum landlords that’s an even better thing,” he said in an interview.

and. . .

Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso doesn’t support it. He says this law is unnecessary.

“I’ve been elected now for seven years, I’ve never received a call for somebody who has been evicted, I have gotten several calls for substandard housing and that’s why we’ve tried to be really aggressive with code enforcement,” Amoroso said.

The video from Andrew Lofholm’s news segment
follows a brief commercial message.

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