The bouncy script is to drive Wes crazy :)
I was surprised that the surf was not up. Emily, so far, has had no effect on our beach. Beautiful and hot, not too many people were there early this morning other than a few jellyfish. The couple in this slide show had bicycled here from Ft. Lauderdale, a 75 mile round trip. I had to ask them if bike riding was what kept them in such lean shape or was it diet as well. They then told me they stopped at Benny's to buy Pepsi for energy and stamina for their return trip. We all chuckled on that one.
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Thank you Lynn for the great photos of the beach. Some of us do not have the time to visit and the slide show is darling... Wes will love it... I especially like the heart opening to a photo and the bouncy text! Fun for everyone!! You are the best!!! Arete
Wes reporting all the malfeasance and corruption at the beach is driving you crazy so what the heck.
"Nobody comes to the beach for the building". They only come for the oceanand sand".
Wes giving his OPINION you mean. People go to the beach for the beach. The building is secondary to why they go to the beach. That is true. You don't believe that?
It is the other way around...the only one who is being driven crazy on the casino is Wes. The rest of the city wants it done and where it is. You don't believe that?? Are you WES?
No surf possible from Emily until Saturday (maybe) as she is on the other side of a land mass with even more land from the Bahamas blocking any surf action from us. Storms really need to be our North and stationary or moving slow and then we get an open ocean swell with no Bahamas blocking us. That is when LW Beach gets big surf.
As far as the Casino and from a 40 year LW Beach goer prospective, I do not want it just done, I want it done right! After all it is our precious tax dollars. If code calls for something different then what was planned I do not want it circumvented, I want it done right! If the building should have been built further west and we circumvented it, then someone screwed up and that needs to be done right. If pilings are needed in its current location so that it lasts for generations, and we are circumventing that just to get it done, then we to stop and do it right. If all of our experts led us into constructing a building that simply circumvented codes that are there for a purpose then heads should role. If everything is as it should be and it is designed to a very high standard then get it built and I can't wait to enjoy it.
Bye.
I trust the professionals involved in our casino rehab. They have had a lot of experience building over the Coastal Construction line. Every single architect as well as contractor was vetted thoroughly. No one is going to put their professional integrity on the line to build something inferior or a building that will not stand--NO ONE. I do remember one of the architects at one time mentioning pilings and they were referring to the suggestion of building a parking garage. Any new construciton would have to be on pilings I believe. This is probably Wes' argument as he sees it as primarily a demolition whereas they are looking at it as a rehabilitation.
Nothing to do with Wes. I just know if I did that to my house the city and county would do everything possible to make me comply with every new code. So yes my faith with this project is in the experts and I am trusting that they went abovw and beyond with our dollars
I think most people want to trust that the experts "went above and beyond with our dollars." If that is truly the case, then nothing will change and the OIG will issue a finding that everything was on the up-and-up. It it isn't correct, we need to know now so the impact on our dollars is minimized. People want the beach and casino projects to succeed, but some are concerned because the truth is sometimes hard to find in Lake Worth.
I can well understand the skepticism when it comes to trust within our city government. But at what point do we ever get beyond the cynicism? If you read the LW Herald, you would believe everything is rotten and every decision is simply the wrong one. Parrish forgot to mention in today's LW Herald, as do all the naysayers, that the only forensic done on the casino came in as structurally sound. The rest were based on??? If we can't believe experts in this field, who can we believe? Who?
Then I guess no one including you Lynn will have a problem with the additional 3 million dollars that is now being added to the cost of the rehabilitation of the Building
Start looking into the mirror every morning and working on your personality.
NO $3 mil will be added to the beach redevelopment. GOT THAT?
Next, I have a problem when the City spends money that it does not have and does not cut waste.
You must have had a bad day so I will leave it at that.
No I did not have a bad day.... If the contractor is saying there is more damage than he or the company expected, and another three million dollars is needed how can you begrudge him??
I also have a problem with the City Wasting money that it does not have. But instead of firing 70 people form the bottom of the totem pole, maybe we should have started at the top, and eliminated some of the new departments that have been added since the BCM took over the position
Ok, to answer both your comments--
1. There are a lot of people getting the beach redevelopment and the casino rehabilitation confused. They are separate projects. The $3 mil suggestion was for the beach redevelopment over and above the $5 mil Bond money, not the Casino. The Casino will be done for the $6 mil contract price with no change orders that would cost us $$$.
2. Management has been fired consistently over the past two years. The new departments, as I have now been told that are listed in the new Budget, will move present employees (promote from within) to these spots.
no change orders yet
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