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Atlantis, Boynton Beach, Briny Breezes, Cloud Lake, Delray Beach, Glen Ridge, Greenacres, Haverhill, Highland Beach, Juno Beach, Jupiter, Lake Clarke Shores, Lake Park, Lantana, Loxatcheee Groves, Manalapan, North Palm Beach, Pahokee, Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach Shores, Palm Springs, Riviera Beach, Royal Palm Beach, South Bay, South Palm Beach, Tequesta, Wellington and West Palm Beach. Whew. That is a long list. Did you count them up? No Lake Worth there!
This was a BIG mistake of a past commission that was spearheaded by Commissioner Nadine Burns and voted on by Dave Vespo and Retha Lowe (the 3 to 2 again). They had it go to a referendum to give it the appearance that it was something the people wanted knowing all along that it would most likely be an easy sell for their objective--keeping Jeff Clemens in office 8 months longer. This Commission could have changed all of that when it had an opportunity on January 5, 2010 to go back to March elections.
Instead, Cara Jennings made a motion to table it to “time uncertain” and Varela, Maxwell and Mulvehill voted with her. Her thinking, that was stated to the public and an opinion that no one fully believed, was that the people should vote on it rather than it being done by Ordinance. If that were the case, then the people should have voted on our beach before we took the $5mil bond money to redesign parking lots--a really stupid waste of money...thanks to the greener than green commissioners, Rene and Cara.
Instead, Cara Jennings made a motion to table it to “time uncertain” and Varela, Maxwell and Mulvehill voted with her. Her thinking, that was stated to the public and an opinion that no one fully believed, was that the people should vote on it rather than it being done by Ordinance. If that were the case, then the people should have voted on our beach before we took the $5mil bond money to redesign parking lots--a really stupid waste of money...thanks to the greener than green commissioners, Rene and Cara.
Jo-Ann Golden was the only Commissioner who voted to move our elections back to March and the only one fully focused on the issue for all the reasons that make March the best choice.
Why does Lake Worth ALWAYS have to be different? Why do some of its decisions ALWAYS cost us money? It should never have been moved to begin with but this is true of so many past decisions from previous Commissions that got us into horrible, financial messes with water contracts, Greater Bay, etc. as well as others that didn't cost much other than a lot of time like the Sunset parcel.
And now this Commission cowered in fear to right the wrong...and did I say that self-serving interests got in the way?
We need to go back to March elections. People would actually be here to vote ! It's too hot to go door to door campaigning for people in the elections we have now. Dave , Retha, and Nadine changed the elections for their usual reason-more power. No regard for what was in the best interests of Lake Worth!Commissioners-put our elections back where they belong !
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