Phil Donovan, a former Lake Worth High School graduate, has been with Lake Worth's water department for 29 years with his last assignment as a Water Treatment Plant Operator A-Class. Phil's last day is July 17. After that he can do what he wants: lie on our beautiful Lake Worth beach every day, play golf at our wonderful golf club or just relax and enjoy. One thing that won't change--he will still be drinking the world's best RO water. He loves his job; he loves working for Lake Worth and he loves our Reverse Osmosis plant devoting long hours to its success. Enjoy your retirement, Phil.
Phil's Retirement Party, June 26, 2014
A few former elected Lake Worth officials were there one of whom was commissioner Jo-Ann Golden who spoke to the crowd reminding them that the RO plant was a political struggle and the city nearly burned $14 million dollars that we had already spent towards wells by going with Palm Beach County. The County finally backed off on the contract and we ended up building our RO and saving millions to boot. At that time in 2009, the only dissenter to not pay the County under the Water Contract was Jeff Clemens, then mayor. Mary Lindsey now president of the Neighborhood Association council, sided with Clemens. Former city manager, Susan Stanton, negotiated the settlement price with the County, again saving millions. And now, we have the best water around.
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I get some malcontents who awaken from their naps and go on a comment writing rampage-- This is to answer--
The city taxes all of us in various ways. One of them is through electric and water usage by raising rates and taxes on utilities. Now they will be uping the water rate once again to generate revenue. This will allow all the naysayers out there to complain about high rates and blame it on building the the RO to begin with. Building the RO has nothing to do with rates or the fact that our water, the most precious resource on Earth, is expensive. It has everything to do with the LW government and what it wants to charge us so it can operate. If we had gone with the county, the cost to do that would have been millions more.
Enjoy your retirement, Phil
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