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Monday, October 15, 2012

Study Guide

Key words and terms to refer to when visiting the trivial blogger's site:

demonization

fiction

flights of fantasy

Who knew I wrote about zombies here? To whom could they be referring?

E-mail received this morning - very seasonal as we approach Halloween. Maybe these standards to zombie-proof pole barns should be part of the Florida Building Code?

Hi there!

I stopped by wesblackman.blogspot.com earlier today and noticed you tend to write about zombies from time to time. Because of that, I thought it might be worth it to share an article with you published by CB Structures Inc. with detailed information on how to prepare a barn or garage for the zombie apocalypse.

Check it out here:

If you have a second, I'd love to have you check it out and see if it may be of interest to your readers or tie into one of your upcoming stories. Or, if you'd be willing to share it with any of your fans and followers, that would be great, too!

Any questions, please let me know. It's also cool if you want to give me a call at the number below. And thanks for taking a second to check out this article.

Have a great weekend! Oh... and if you watch it, enjoy the premiere of 'The Walking Dead' on tonight!

Jonathan Bentz
ProspectMX

Hedrick Brothers project earns prestigious award | BIZPAC Review

Two items from the "This and That" file. Click title for link to article which announces Hedrick Brothers winning an award for green building for a Palm Beach State College building out in Belle Glade. Many readers will remember that Hedrick Brothers was part of the team that also responded to the same RFP issued by the city that Greater Bay responded to redevelop the beach property.

And for those obsessed with all the "Old Florida charm" we have in Lake Worth, you might want to take in this conference later this week on a Sustainable and Authentic Florida at Anna Maria Island. If you do go, take good notes and I will post them here.

Mulligan’s to open this week in renovated Lake Worth Casino | www.palmbeachpost.com

"Press Release" Willie lifts the iron curtain on information dispensed at last Tuesday's City Commission meeting on problems with the Casino. Why not wrap the story with the rosy glow of Mulligan's planned opening so that the absent Commissioners (not mentioned in article) won't be hurt by any bad news coming from the beach? And he can't seem to get rid of the word "renovation" either - feh! Maybe the pool can become one of those "Magic Spot" tourist attractions where you can actually see water go uphill since the water is higher on the west side than it is on the east! Click title for link.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

From the campaign trail...

We were in the heart of Mango Groves yesterday where we bumped into many old friends and made some new ones too. It was nice to have the breeze to keep us cooler.

Here I am in front of 431 North L Street - a city-owned property - formerly a notorious "den of iniquity." It was built in the 20s and designed by noted local architect G.. Sherman Childs as a four unit walk-up - rare in south Florida. I believe the property is on the surplus list for the city to dispose of - it would take some work and it would be good to place a condition on the new owners to limit the number of units to four rather than what the zoning designation would allow. It would take some work, and there are other potential uses for it. I have already written much about the property here. You might want to search "431 North L Street" in the search box above.

Anne Frank

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature"

Friday, October 12, 2012

Palm Beach County Partners with 11 Cities on Business Development Website - Where is Lake Worth?

For release: October 12, 2012
Contact: Sherry Howard, Deputy Director Dept. of Economic Sustainability 561-233-3653

PBC Interactive, Palm Beach County’s first and only business development research website offering real-time, parcel-based data, now features zoning and future land-use designations for 11 municipalities in addition to unincorporated Palm Beach County.

Working in cooperation with Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Jupiter, Boynton Beach, Riviera Beach, Juno Beach, Lake Park, Palm Beach Gardens, Gulf Stream, Royal Palm Beach and Wellington, the county has added property information from these municipalities to provide an even more comprehensive research tool.
Palm Beach County Interactive

Efforts will continue to include zoning and land-use designations from each of the 38 municipalities in the county to further assist businesses in their search for potential sites for location and expansion, as well as help members of the public and private sectors interested in land development issues.

PBC Interactive was launched last year through an effective collaboration between the Department of Economic Sustainability (DES), Planning, Zoning and Building, Information Systems Services, and the Property Appraiser’s Office. Built within the design of myGeoNav, the application integrates several layers including industry codes (NAICS), land uses, enterprise zones, economic development organizations, property ownership information, and more.

To access the site, visit http://maps.co.palm-beach.fl.us/edo or go to the DES website atwww.pbcgov.com/des and click on the PBC Interactive icon.

Kim Ciklin

Special Projects Assistant

Department of Economic Sustainability

100 Australian Avenue, Suite 500

West Palm Beach, FL 33406

(561) 233-3671

Found: Pic of some Happy Campers!

Follow-up on Respectful Planning PAC Q3 Report:

This came as a comment on the previous post - from Laurel Decker, I presume:

In turn, this is my e-mail to Pam Lopez, City Clerk:

As of today, you can now see their Q2 report for the PAC on the city's website. There are itemized contributions reported by both cash and checks - and an "in-kind" donation of t-shirts. I guess, according to Ms. Decker, there will be amendments to the Q3 report. At a minimum to reflect that total monetary contributions to date are not ZERO.

And, it would be nice to see a value placed on the preparation of the petition itself, who performed the work and whether it was in-kind or not.

Bob Moore, former Town of Palm Beach Building Official 10/12 by High Noon in Lake Worth | Blog Talk Radio

Join me Friday as I welcome Bob Moore former building official and Director of Planning, Zoning and Building for the Town of Palm Beach. Mr. Moore has been part of many state committees involved with refining and the creation of the Florida Building Code. He happened to work for the Town while I worked at Mar-a-Lago during our various additions involving construction and conversion of the estate to a private club.

Click title for link to the live show on Friday at 12 p.m. - the link will also take you to the archived show after it airs. Leave questions here so that Mr. Moore can answer them on the air or use the call-in number to ask them during the live show.

Respectful Planning PAC Q3 Treasurer's Report

The Q3 Treasurer's Report for the Respectful Planning PAC report was due on 10/10/12. It was submitted to the City Clerk's office on October 4th. This is the first page of the report:

Note that the contributions section of the report shows no "monetary" contributions - only in-kind contributions. A good example of an "in-kind" contribution would be picking up supplies from Office Depot or food from Publix and submitting a receipt. However, the group shows "monetary" expenditures as well - three times for items from the Supervisor of Elections office and one $75 expense from the Chair of the PAC, Laurel Decker. These items would have been paid for by either writing a check or forking over real cash for whatever was purchased - voter lists, maps, whatever. That money/cash would have had to come from somewhere and should show up on this report. Here are the second and third pages of the report:

The money that was used (above) would have had to come from somewhere. Get it?

These items (above) are the only contributions to the PAC identified in the report. All were in-kind purchases of paper, ink and pens - logical and expected purchases for a petition drive. But, where did the money come from for what was bought on the previous page? Hmmm.

Now, here is the petition. Now I know Laurel Decker is a smart cookie, but looking at the petition, doesn't it seem as though that this was somehow professionally prepared? Like by an attorney or some other sort of professional? Should their time be indicated as an "in-kind" contribution, at least. Or, for all we know, someone could have handed over a bag of cash for the time put into the creation of the petition.

Note too that it was also filed before the reporting period of July 1st. Was the PAC formed before? Where is the previous report? It isn't on the city's website.

Then, on the group's FaceBook page, we have someone proudly displaying what the group's t-shirts will look like.

Where are the t-shirts on the treasurer's report? Here are some of the members wearing the t-shirts - so someone bought them with money or they were contributed "in-kind." But where are they recorded on the report?

Color me surprised that this group would be so flagrant in hiding where their resources came from - why we know this group plays by the rules all of the time. Or, maybe this kind of behavior has become second nature and they think that no one is watching?