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A few residents spoke last night. Confused or unhappy, Lake Worth had them all. We mentioned an unhappy one this morning. The confused one, Jason Bailey who is also an employee, gave public commentary.
"I would also like to say thank you to the lifeguards who are here tonight, who have watched over my family when my family has enjoyed the beach. Thank you," said Jason Bailey, a Lake Worth resident. It is noble to protect your fellow employee from the hatchet. Jason also blamed our present state of condition on the city commission for ending the water contract with Palm Beach County implying they wasted millions. Who has he been talking to?
Jason, the City saved $3.5 million including the fine by ending that Contract and building our own Reverse Osmosis. Please read up on the facts.
Great point. Alot of people are confused or don't even know about the r.o. plant or the water contracts. To summaraize what we do know-
ReplyDeleteThe city signed a contract to get water from PB County and subsequently broke the contract resulting in the city paying a $1.3 million penalty.
The city then contracted with the city of WPB to obtain water, even though this took place when WPB had major issues with the quality of their water. (FECAL MATTER) As far as anyone knows the city is still getting water from WPB. So...
How much does the city pay WPB for water- is it substantially lower than what we were paying the county? Do they give us water free? How much were the legal fees the city paid to break the contract with PB county?
How is the city paying for the R.O. plant?
Why are our water bills 50% higher now than the same time and same usage as last year?
How can you consider paying a $1.3 milion dollar penalty SAVING MONEY?
We did not receive anything for $1.3 million.
What's the value of the city losing all creditabilty with PB County? Didn't they just refuse to negotiate a payment to the fire dept payments? See any connection?
Impatiently waiting for clarification on these items.
Thanks for helping me, Jason and so many other confused citizens.
I'm sorry that you don't read this blog very often or don't go to commission meetings to know what happened here or don't do your own research.
ReplyDeleteYour allegations/questions have been answered on many occasions.
THE FACTS:
If we had stayed with the Palm Beach County Water Contract (LW a buyer of water)
$25,786,000
$1,500,000 payback to South Florida Water management for a total of
$27,286,000
Reverse Osmosis System (LW a supplier of water)
$23,556,000 (this includes the cost of getting out of the PB County Water deal of $1.2 million)
Savings of--
$3,730,000 or approx $1,000 per resident.
Bottom line, we saved $3.7 million by building the RO. PLUS – we are getting an extra 500,000 gallons over the PB County contract – this is valued at $1.5 million dollars based on the $6million for 2 million dollar capacity charge that the County was going to charge us for a 30 year contract. PLUS, we get an expandable RO Plant – up to 9MGD and we are doing all of this without any future debt. One more thing, the rate for the RO water is now the SAME as was projected for the increases in the County water which is 11%. We had budgeted 13.5% increase in consumer water charges for building our RO Plant and have decreased this amount to 11%.
We had no special counsel to get out of this very bad contract with the County. It was all in-house as far as I know.
WPB water is tested daily and we use it only when we have a shortage--rarely..
To the unpleasant person who continues to post over here, don't bother. Your post will be deleted.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, if you are so damn smart, post under your own name. You don't have the balls.
I am talking about building the infrastructure to even get PB County water. Know your facts. Either way--County or our own RO, rates would have been raised and the County deal would have cost us much more money.
Take a hike. Do a little D&D. Change your local politics. Get smart. Stop being a puppet. Drop dead.
And not necessarily in that order.
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