The Second Annual Sea Level Rise Symposium was held in July. It was said that Florida is ground zero for sea level rise, and we on the south east will be the most impacted. Most people aren’t sure how it will impact them personally but one thing in which experts agree, "There will be a lot of impact to infrastructure as well as insurance and the real estate industry."
Commissioner McVoy has been ridiculed by his fellow commissioners and the Lake Worth Herald for even bringing up the subject and his desire that engineering and planning be incorporated into our future infrastructure projects by seriously addressing sea level rise. The city wants us to tax ourselves $63.5 million to repave roads and redo infrastructure. Richard Grosso, expert in this field, agrees that planning for the inevitable of sea level rise is an absolute necessity. Lake Worth has not told us that they have done that. If by some miracle this bond should pass, could we be wasting $131 MILLION of taxpayer money? Many people believe so.
There are four counties that have collaborated on sea level rise, working together to adopt projections, informing local governments on action plans. Does Lake Worth know about them? As money is tight for most all families, we need to know that tax dollars are being used in the right way in planning for the future, not just the short term.
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