The Mayor and City Commissioners of the City of Lake Worth cordially invite you to a ribbon cutting ceremony for Melrose Irrigation Supply & Sales.
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Tuesday, April 7 at 4pm 3540 Boutwell Road Lake Worth Park of Commerce Lake Worth, Florida
Melrose Irrigation Supply & Sales is the oldest family-owned irrigation supply house in the State of Florida, established in 1957, with headquarters located on Oakland Park Boulevard in Ft. Lauderdale. The company’s expansion plans include opening six new locations over the next three years. The Lake Worth site was a perfect fit given the convenient proximity to I-95. Melrose’s 5,000 square foot building on 1.25 acres was completed from start of construction to certificate of occupancy in 119 days – a testament to the city’s aggressive approach to helping the business locate within the Park.
All are invited to join and welcome Melrose Irrigation Supply & Sales to Lake Worth and celebrate as they continue to build on 61 years of business success.
Below is an excerpt from Kim Miller's story at the Real Time blog (read the entire article here):
The Florida Development Finance corporation, which will decide whether All Aboard Florida gets $1.75 billion in tax exempt bonds, had three members appointed today [3/30] by Gov. Rick Scott. The Miami to Orlando express passenger rail hopes to use the bonds to supplement or replace a Federal Railroad Administration loan, which is still pending. All Aboard Florida must issue the bonds by July 1.
Not much time. As of today, 3/30, that is only 93 days away.
A truly sobering article in the Sun Sentinel written by Scott Travis. Besides the school in Delray Beach being cut, 6 schools won't get needed roof replacements, and students will not have access to needed technology. The following quote sums it up:
"We postponed or cut projects out of the budget that we consider basic needs," Chief Operating Officer Mike Burke said. "Essentially all construction projects have been eliminated." [emphasis added]
[later in the article . . .]
The district's maintenance budget also has been reduced, which troubles Board member Debra Robinson. "I'm afraid if we don't keep our facilities up to date, we'll be paying more in the long run," she said. The district's financial woes are a result of state cuts and restrictions as well as charter schools siphoning off students and state money. The state has reduced the amount of taxes school districts can levy in property taxes, from $2 per $1,000 of assessed value a few years ago to $1.50. The Legislature has instructed school districts which want more revenues to ask voters to approve it.
Pic harvested organically from Facebook, attribution unknown.
For background on this story read this here. Somebody, and we know who it is, at the last minute tried to ruin the party. However, the community rallied and fought back. Viva Lake Worth!
[NOTE: This is one of the most viewed posts of the entire month; it was posted just 2 days ago. The original post (unedited/unchanged) follows:] If you think you're at a dead end and the world is better without you.
. .you're wrong. If you live in Lake Worth, Florida, and read the sensational newspaper's account of a young woman's purported suicide and think, just maybe, that may be the answer? Suicide is never the answer to any of life's problems. If you're seriously considering suicide you can:
Most importantly, you have to tell someone; a caring, responsible person who will help you through your crisis
The reason those in the responsible news media are reluctant to report and/or sensationalize suicide is the risk of encouraging others to do the same thing. Don't be manipulated into thinking taking your life solves anything. The living will have to live with your decision with the rest of their lives.
When a suicide is reported in the media the article should ALWAYS include information for those in distress with resources and phone numbers for help. Margaret Menge did none of those things. Irresponsible.
If I were Margaret Menge I would be hoping and praying no young person, male or female, takes their own life any time soon in our City of Lake Worth.
Don't be angry at Margaret Menge, pray for her soul.
The PrideFest Parade is a hoot. I would suggest getting there early for a good spot. The parade goes down Lake Ave in downtown Lake Worth to Bryant Park where the days festivities commence with music, food and fun.
Note that you can still see remnants of drawings on the streets from the last Street Painting Festival:
FDOT is a government agency and, as such, is required to follow strict guidelines for logging phone calls, emails, and must keep a visitor log. It would be much more neighborly for the person who logged the complaint to come forward and let us all know what is troublesome about chalk on the street.
Is this an opening salvo against next years Street Painting Festival?
This editorial appeared in the last edition of The Lake Worth Herald (LWHerald.com) on 3/26:
Tuesday night [3/24], the decorum of the Commission Chambers
took a big step back. The audience was disrespectful to
the commission and the governmental process. Rudeness
filled the room with loud comments being made at different
commissioners from every direction. [emphasis added] This behavior is
immature and has no place in a governmental meeting. Those attending the meeting are given an opportunity,
all be it two minutes to voice their concerns on any subject
they choose, and another two minutes on each item before
the commission. Refraining from outbursts will make the meeting
progress at a steady pace and will facilitate more business
being accomplished. This behavior is not tolerated in any other commission
or council chambers in the area, and will continue in Lake
Worth until people are removed for poor conduct. Lake Worth Commission meetings will rapidly become
the laughing stock they used to be if this behavior is allowed
to continue. It is time for the Mayor to take a firm stand and bring
the meetings back to order. More respect will be gained
for the City and the process when order is restored and
the City will be able to accomplish its business in an orderly
fashion. Ninety-nine percent of those attending the meetings
are adults and it is time everyone started acting like it.
Speak when it is your turn and give others the courtesy
to be able to speak when it is theirs.
Due to a prior commitment was unable to attend the last city commission meeting. From time to time was able to watch the meeting on streaming video and was appalled at the behavior of some in the chambers. The video stays framed on the dais and you cannot see who from the public is making the ruckus, although I can guess who two or three of them were.
On a completely different topic, below is a video from a city commission meeting on February 17th. This video comes from a post originally published on February 20th. During breaks at city commission meetings the video continues to record, however, the sound is turned off (the classical favorite Night on Bald Mountain is added for your listening pleasure). Pay particular attention to what happens starting at the 5:15 mark to the 5:45 mark.
In today's Palm Beach Post is a Q&A with a City of Lake Worth resident many of you will be familiar with. From the article:
Friederike Mittner talks the talk and walks the walk. The historic preservation planner for the city of West Palm Beach lives with her husband and two daughters in a 1939 bungalow in Lake Worth, where she was preservation officer before moving to West Palm Beach in 2005. She grew up in a 1924 home in Coral Gables until she came to Palm Beach County in 1998.
How did you get into the historic preservation business? I got my masters in preservation (Master of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Florida) after I realized historic buildings just have such a great story to tell and they’re much more authentic and interesting to me than modern architecture.
[later.
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Are there incentives? For private homes, we have an ad velorem tax program, where the increase in the property value is not taxed for a period of 10 years. That also works for commercial properties. And commercial properties can also participate in the federal tax credit program.
Below is an image from one of many 'news' stories that Pastor Olive inspired across the country. His claim against the City was untrue and he did nothing to stop this nonsense from spreading all across our nation. [Mostly unreported is Pastor Olive's $160 check to the City that all establishments have to pay, even churches.]
Below is a very interesting quote:
"And, you know, one of the things that we've tried to do at our church is to be one of those voices in the town. We've not tried to silence any other voice. But we've tried to just be a voice. To be that light, to be salt [sic] among that darkness, among those other voices and to trust God that the truth of that will set people free."
—Pastor Mike Olive of the Common Ground (no 's') Church on the Colin Gunn podcast titled, "Pastor Mike Olive - Church Persecution" (March 13, 2015 at the 20:35 mark).
At the 15:00 mark on the podcast Pastor Colin Gunn likens the City of Lake Worth to "the mafia offering protection", a "protection racket", and the City of Lake Worth having "a vendetta against Christ will use this opportunity [the "persecution" of Pastor Mike Olive] to persecute His church."
Pastor Mike Olive (below): the most irresponsible 'Man of God' to ever walk our streets in the City of Lake Worth.
This is the man who's given our little City such a big black eye. With help from people like Kathleen Walter at CBS12/WPEC.
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