"If the city took the money and used it to build a football stadium the
voters could sue. But as long as it's for infrastructure,
whether or not as [Lake Worth 2020] has it, the only recourse is
political -- vote them out in the next election."~ University of Miami School of Law Professor Stanley Langbein and University of Florida Levin College of Law Professor Joseph W. Little.
Both experts told New Times there is no way the bond referendum's language legally binds the city to use the bond proceeds as described at such great length in the Lake Worth 2020 flyers, brochures, power points, maps and graphs. And that's after the city commission voted to spend $50K selling the plan to the public.
Read more... at Broward New Times.
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How is this 50.000 theft from the public to sell us Lake Worth's version of the Brooklyn Bridge going to be spent? Oh yeah- ON POSTAGE ! That was right out of the mouth of that scholar Mayor Pam Triolo.The same one who told the PBP that Lake Worth has never had a plan to replace infrastructure before !Can all former Commissioners please e-mail this woman and tell her what happened before last month in Lake Worth ?
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