110 North F Street

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Personally, I think the city has a lot of nerve placing many items that it does on Consent Agenda. This is one of them...it can't maintain one damn thing and their solution is to give all our buildings away to the CRA or to some non-profit and let the other guy maintain them and/or make the ad-valorem off of them and "scam" the government in the process. This commission says it is focused but their vacillation is costing you a lot of money.

What in the hell are we doing? This is all about obtaining grant money from the government which in this case is $500,000 max. When you're a poor city you make desperate decisions...this is just another one of them.  On top of that, the people have NO say on how our city should look even when they win an election. This was not my vision. And even if you speak to this item on Tuesday, it is a done deal...this commission does not care what you think.

Always talking about wasting money, even going so far as to vote nay on the Budget, Scott Maxwell, along with Triolo and Amoroso originally voted for the architectural and engineering work on our city owned building located at 110 North F Street formerly occupied by The Department of Health. We know of $40,000 that was 'burned" there, probably more. The goal was to use it for Utility Customer Service, Community Development, Code Enforcement, Planning & Zoning and Preservation Divisions.

In fact, it was Maxwell that made the motion back on June 21, 2011 --"I move to approve the transfer of $11,000 from the Project UT-EL 1112 to Project UT-EL 1010 and approve architectural/engineering services work order CPH Engineers, Inc. for design of Customer service and Building Department facilities at 110 North F street for an amount not to exceed $81,000," said Scott Maxwell. Read about it...

If there is anything good coming out of the city's "give-away" mentality, at least these buildings are three stories.
Concentrating on eradicating slum and blight should be the CRA's goal but not at the expense of turning over everything we own for development that no one has approved.

9. CONSENT AGENDA: (public comment allowed during Public Participation of
Non-Agendaed items)
D. (Added) Resolution No. 30-2014 - conditional conveyance of property located at 110 North F Street to the Community Redevelopment Agency

TITLE: Resolution No. 30-2014 – conditional conveyance of property located at 110 North F Street to CRA
SUMMARY:
This Resolution proposes to conditionally convey 110 N. F Street to the CRA for development of the “West Village”, a mixed-use redevelopment project.
BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, the City owns the property at 110 N. F Street (PCN: 38-43-44-21-15-012-0260) (a.k.a. the old Health Department building). The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency proposes to redevelop the property into the “West Village”, a mixed use redevelopment project which would include commercial, residential and office uses and a park area to be called “Luna Park”. Copies of the preliminary project drawings are attached.
The CRA is applying for a State of Florida Cultural Facilities Grant to assist with funding the project. The grant requires the CRA to own the underlying property. Pursuant to section 2-1(f) of the City’s code of ordinances, the City Commission at a scheduled public meeting by a simple majority vote, may waive the requirements regarding the minimum bid amount, method of sale and sale of surplus property and convey the property directly to the CRA. Since the CRA is still securing funding for the project, approval of this Resolution conditions the City’s conveyance of the property on the CRA securing sufficient funding to commence the project.