Good-bye Second Floor...

Casino Building Demolition Pics from the 7/15/11 City Manager's Report

Click here for link to Morganti's Progress Report #6

On Vacation...

and I am not going to take the time to respond to the "other blogger's" CRAZY interpretation of what is going on with the Casino building.  She would like to think, as others would like to as well, that I am somehow against the project.  If you search through these 4,000 posts, you will find that I was always for the demolition of the building and support the current project as I do not want to see the City fail.  However, the prospect is still there that it will fail and what was represented to the public is not what is happening there today.  Those are concerns that the public should have in the forefront of their thinking.  Oh, and the fact the NEW building will be in the same place as the old has nothing to do with whether it is rehabilitation or not.  Nor is it considered rehabilitation if the new building is going to look like it was built in the 1920s.

And then there is that pesky lawsuit that, conservatively speaking, is costing the city $600,000+ to defend...

Ramiccio says he'll be back in November to run for Lake Worth mayor

Coming attractions...click title for link.

Genesis Adopt-A-Spot Rotary Park Clean Up

Save the date!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

9:00am

Rotary Park 

5th Avenue South and F Street

Genesis Adopt-A-Spot Clean up

We will be mowing, trimming and painting a fence.  It is a small park and the more hands on deck the sooner we have one of our parks looking a little nicer!

Best wishes,

Mark A. Parrilla

President

Genesis Neighborhood Association, Inc.

Genesis website

Plans unveiled for 134 room hotel in heart of Delray Beach

I guess we have decided that we don't want to be another Delray Beach. But we could still be a better Lake Worth. Click title for link to written story. From the article:

When complete, there will be nearly 900 hotel rooms in the city of Delray Beach. City officials hope that each one of those rooms will pump more money into the local economy.

Maybe we can send those Southend-on-Sea guests to Delray?

The rehabilitation machines are working overtime today

Like one-night stands, perpetual election cycles spoil relations

Insightful analysis of our political rough and tumble schedule of elections in Lake Worth by Tony Plakas. Click title for link. We need to establish a committee to examine and make recommendations for changes to our City Charter. One of those changes can be to fix the timing and frequency of elections. The other thing we need to look at is having four Commission seats be proportionally represented as districts. Those seats would only be elected from their district. Then we could have three at-large seats, with the Mayor being one of them. All things worth looking into as the Charter hasn't been looked at holistically for a very long time.

We do have a bad case of electoral dysfunction.

Lake Worth manager looks for increased tax rate

Timing of this announcement is interesting. It was posted a little over an hour before the polls closed yesterday. And we get this proposed budget in the middle of July? Strange how the City Manager calls out the Internal Auditor position for special mention, along with oversight by the Inspector General - something that I am sure is an irritant. Click title for link.

Waterman trounces Ramiccio in Lake Worth mayoral race

Trounces? Puhleeze...Golden said that this is good for the Commission. The Commission is the most recently formed special interest group in Lake Worth, I guess. Click title for link.

It would help us all get along if our real constituency was the truth.

Special Mayoral Run-Off Election Results 7/12/11

Betty Ford

“I am an ordinary woman who was called onstage at an extraordinary time. I was no different once I became first lady than I had been before. But through an accident of history, I had become interesting to people.”

Town Council objects to sinking barge for artificial reef near Everglades Island

Does anyone remember this barge drop by the City of Lake Worth and the County coming before our City Commission? Click title for link to Shiny Sheet article.  The Palm Beach Town Council doesn't like the idea.