Commissioner Mulvehill -- Looking out for You!

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For anyone else besides the Dirty Dozen that just has an obsession with making personal attacks and being divisive, the following is a list of some of Commissioner Mulvehill's accomplishments since she has taken office.

Mary Lindsey says, "What's "rude" is inciting class division and neglecting real issues of importance - like a $1.6 million budget shortfall and depleted reserves."

Well, here is the truth of the matter:

Saved $450K-500K by NOT shoring up the Casino building and instead recommended the hiring of a structural engineer for $6K that determined that shoring wasn’t necessary, nor was closing the building.

Saved 80 jobs at the beach by fighting 3 red tags last year to keep the building open.

Generated more than $100K in rental revenue for the beach building by advocating to keep it OPEN.

Generated $300K (1/2 of the parking revenue?) in parking revenue by keeping the building open.

Saved $80K by NOT outsourcing the management of our golf course to JCD Sports.

Advocated NOT paying the $6 million to the County for the capacity charges, and instead advocated to renegotiate the contract. Saved multi-millions by standing up for the residents of Lake Worth.

Saved $100,000 this year by NOT renewing John Farinelli’s contract for which he was paid TWICE the salary of a typical building official.

Changed our policy to pay 10% retirement rather than what our previous city manager was being paid and was offering to directors of 40%. Total savings this year on just 3 new hires - the city manager, city attorney and community development director: $120,000 this year in savings and $600,000 in savings over 5 years.

Hired a well qualified city manager who is actually "hands-on" and responsive to the citizens. She has hired top professionals such as a new Finance Director who will not lead us astray. Mark Bates, former finance director when queried by me last year said that we were in good financial health. His estimate on the fall of property values was really askew, a big contributor to our financial difficulties we are experiencing in this new budget.

Saved $100K by hiring a new audit company under the direction of new city manager Stanton.

Saved $100K when city manager found a duplicate insurance policy.

Approved the re-design of the City's Web Site being done in house at no cost. Savings of $50,000.

Total budget shortfall could have been closer to $8 million.

Has given direction to the City Manager to negotiate with the Unions (Unions that Lindsey supports) that do not want to negotiate, costing us millions each year in raises and benefits that we can't afford. The biggest costs to the City are Police and Union.