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The Budget discussions for year 2012/2013 begin tomorrow at 6pm City Hall. There is NO back-up yet on-line. This will be Discussion #2. The first Budget discussion was on March 15. This is where they got the brilliant idea to "steal" from the Simpkin Trust for our Library no doubt.
I would like to see Vice Mayor Maxwell give this the same sort of attention that he gave to Susan Stanton whenever back-up was slow to trot or just not provided. As Mondays are hell, maybe that is the excuse for not having the details of the meeting on-line such as the 5 year projection.
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I am sure there will be a huge tax increase for all of us here. How about some pay cuts for the mayor and commish? Take away their travel pay? 10% reductions for anyone making over 100K. Stop all the waste in government first.
Susan Stanton was fired.
Rather disengenuous of elected officials to claim accountability and transparency in their campaigns and then cut the Public out of important matters such as these.
What coverups are necessary for Mulvehill & Mcvoy's reelection campaigns, the new CM and outgoing Utility Sr People?
Rather disengenuous of you, anonymous to to bring up "coverups" for McVoy and Mulvehill. They made all the RIGHT decisions over the past few years.
Where is Maxwell in all of this? Someone who made many of the WRONG decisions here. I would say that this new visionary has made the most mistakes of any commission has in years.
Why don't you explain your attack instead of attacking just for fun.
List the mistakes the visionary has made.
My concern about no backup for either Tuesday’s or Wednesday’s Commission Budget Workshop is twofold. I think that the repeated dance of campaign promises and Commission stated promises vs. how the Budget Revenues are allocated must stop now. I am also convinced that we are way past due in knowing the facts of life with respect to the:
General Fund: What is the Staffing and Orientation of Code Enforcement and the Building Departments as revealed in the Revenue projections?
General Fund: CIP---when is this going to be revealed in detail so that specific Streets and Roads are identified
Beach: What is the cost and how much General Revenues plus Lease Payments must we allocate for debt service for those Total costs.
Water Utility: What are the Operational costs of the RO Plant? What is the status of the SFWMD Permit application? Why are the bills the highest in the county?
Regional Sewer: What CIP will we have to absorb in the next 5 years if any current customers change suppliers? What Past Due Receivables did the Audit reveal?
Self Insurance & General Reserves: What exposure do we have because of the current levels of these Items and what prudently anticipated liabilities do we face? It seems the deficiencies are very significant.
Mulvehill & McVoy have never addressed any of these Budget Items. Are Triolo and Amoroso going to be equally uninterested. If they are interested, will they get sufficient current data in form and content sufficient to make prudent decisions and to perform ongoing oversight?
4:18 above--All of them are listed on the right column of this blog.
Good god. What on earth is 4:18 blathering about??
MY concern about no backup for the budget workshops is that there's no freaking backup. Our new CM has apparently not yet been introduced to the concept of TRANSPARENCY.
1. Raquel reports that she lost 3 code inspectors this month. How much do you want to bet that it was not the dregs (Kuntzman, Vega, Caraballo)but instead the ones who were smart, competent, and productive?
2. Mr Brown reports that the street and sidewalk master plan is in process. Stay tuned.
3. The beach cost has been established. Pay attention. The revenue model is being tweaked, apparently. The debt service has been estimated over and over. It will not be firm until we take out a loan. Duh. What do you mean "General Revenues"?? As in General Fund revenues? NONE will be used to pay beach project debt. PAY ATTENTION. The revenue from the beach will go into the beach special revenue fund and will be used to service the debt. NOT general fund money.
4. I don't think that permit applications will be addressed in the budget. Do you really think that .06 cents is too much to pay for a gallon of water?? I guess you can buy bacteria-laced WPB water for a bit less. Or pay $1.59 at Publix. Be my guest.
5. Has someone surreptitiously built a regional sewer network that our customers will suddenly be switching to? How did we miss that? You're really on the ball! And why don't you take a gander at the audit if you're wondering about receivables? It's right online. click click.
6. Self-insurance exposure? Check the audit. Our self insurance is sufficient. Prudently anticipated liabilities?? Deficiencies are SIGNIFICANT?? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? DO YOU HAVE A CLUE??
You do not have some of the most obvious and readily available information that any conscious person who can find lakeworth.org would have. We're supposed to believe that McVoy and Mulvehill have never uttered a word about any of these items just because you say they haven't?? You're absolutely wrong.
you say:
If they are interested, will they get sufficient current data in form and content sufficient to make prudent decisions and to perform ongoing oversight?
I say:
Huh?
As of September 30th 2012 the average price per square foot for Lake Worth FL was $80, a decrease of 12.1% compared to the same period last year. Investors and property owners are leaving LW as the overzealous code enforcement brigade continues to overstep their authority, improper noticing, hampering progress of folks trying to make improvements in this town. The spiral continues, I'm out of here for sure !!!! If Diaz or Ruiz or Vasquez and Kuntzman and the likes of Vega were to be replaced with team oriented allies with real qualifications this town could attract and keep investors who would improve the town. Ruiz fired from Pahokee, Kuntzman released from WPB (only 1 of 2 that could not be repositioned) In meantime I guess we just wait for another federal grant ?!?! The entitlement oriented mentality proliferates LW from within the administration. Working as a team is just too much work for LW code enforcement. Like LW utilities maybe we should outsource the code dept too !!!!!!!!!! Even the City Attorney's got tired of making excuses for these clowns and they both resigned in August/September.
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