Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Lake Worth Commission passes budget with 9.7% increase

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The wild, wild West

The first motion to pass the 2014/2015 budget did not get a second. It went down in flames. Questions were asked as to why there was no second. If they had asked me I would have said, "Well commissioners, you are spending $25,000 on entertaining yourselves but only budgeting $15,000 for asphalt. That would have been a starter.

Vice Mayor Maxwell asked, "Is this politicking? I'm tired of the game playing. We have fundamental issues in this city that need to be fixed. Man up. Fix the problem. Cut it out with the politics. It's not a pretty job; it's a dirty job and we're kicked every single day by that faction of the city that wants to keep things the same since the wild, wild west was rule of the day. I'm over this. Like the mayor said, put on your big girl panties and let's move forward."

Playing the blame game and insulting your constituents just doesn't cut it, Vice Mayor. Making up excuses and denying that there is great concern, doesn't cut it either. Start listening to people. Shouldn't elected officials be honest instead of accusing people of "nit-picking the stuff" as Maxwell suggested?

This commission just raised taxes by 9.7%; it raised our water rates by 5% for five years and our sewer by 8% for the same amount of time. We will be paying on a new ECR facility that will cost its members $112,000,000 for 30 years. This tax increase affects this new budget. A new motion to accept the $167 million dollar budget was made and passed on a 3 to 2 vote with McVoy and Amoroso dissenting.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The ill mannered conduct of this Commission , shows their lack of proper upbringing(slum parents?), and their
misinterpretation of the role of their chosen,begged for positions.

That of public servant.A Public servant owes respect and humility for their superiors,the taxpayers/paymasters,who pay their checks,for which they have their hands out.
Incompetent losers,make excuses, and lie about it.Competent people create solutions and get projects done with knowledge of execution.

Anonymous said...

Not sure they had the right to bring it back.

Anonymous said...

Maybe none of them care that now they will not be re-elected for raising taxes on us. they have the nerve, they do not listen to us so we will now vote them out. Andy and Chris are the ones that think of us!

Anonymous said...

We can't put blame on the entire comission. Andy and Chris have and are trying to fix this city. The mayor, do nothing and say nothing Szerdi, and racist, and bully Maxwell are running wild and need to be corralled. The City Mgr is about as useless as tits on a bull.