After Frances destroyed the pier in 2004
Mayor Triolo wants to fight with FEMA. Were you even here then, mayor? When you take money from anyone you need to be accountable for those funds and that includes the taxpayers. You just can't go off willy-nilly and spend taxpayer money because you want to, i.e., $50,000 for a bond campaign.
FEMA originally wanted $8 million returned and asked the city to give them verification that their submissions were accurate. We went from a demand total of $8,152,776 in questionable, false or disallowed charges that FEMA had wanted returned to them and ended up with a request of $3.986 million that they still want.
The amount of time that has evolved from the three hurricanes to the present, has caused the city to lose some of the documentation and the mayor feels that should not be held against them. We are still talking about nearly $4 million big buckaroos! Click here for the scoop on what we owe FEMA.
Below is the real scoop, if you want to read the real scoop...not sure that some of you want to know the truth, or you can continue to listen to the present administrations' narrative that they are right and the government is flat wrong. FEMA does not want to bankrupt a city; they just want their money returned. This is the same sort of concept when we lost the Sewer case and had to capitulate because of bad record keeping and we could not support our claim.
HURRICANES FRANCES and JEANNE
HURRICANE WILMA
There is some truth in what you say. We do not have qualified leaders and they do throw around money like we had it. But 25 votes is no landslide regardless of your claim that you won on a 6thou. budget. It probably was all you could raise. Also a good bit of it came from an ex mayor forced to resign. So really your group does not have support and the people are going to be pissed when they figure out you have no platform for infrastructure except how to stop it. They will be especially pissed that the repairs would not have cost the majority one dime.
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ReplyDeleteIt is nothing BUT truth.
Your comments, however, are lies.
No one said it was a landslide.
I don't know what the PAC did or didn't do to raise money but as it turned out, they did what they needed to do whereas the city and YES people raised ungodly sums.
Mr. Dorsey was not forced to resign. STOP making false allegations. He resigned to look over his business and was re-elected again after 10 years. At that time he did not run again as he sold his business and retired. He went on to other things such as Dollars for Scholars.
I really wish you people would STOP besmirching people in this city and just speak the truth--for once.
We certainly did not win by a landslide! And that is extremely sad. It shows how people can be swayed with 70,000 of slick advertising that does NOTHING to really inform people of what the true facts where regarding the bond and it's consequences. What would have been the outcome of the vote if there had been a more level playing field? NO DEBATE was allowed. The city monopolized every venue, helped by a more than willing NAPC.I urge anyone that cares about this city to start thinking right now about how to change this Commission. We need REPRESENTATIVES ,not PREDATORS who are more than willing to bleed our businesses and Property owners dry.Unless these Commissioners are kicked out of office , no business or property owner should even THINK of relocating here. The risk of huge tax increases is too high.Katie Mcgiveron
ReplyDeleteI also believe it would have been a further lead that it was if we would have had access to the media support, and money and so-called info meetings. If people at these meetings could have heard what we nay-sayers had they also would have voted NO. City wanted us silenced and YES people failed even with all this on their side. They just can't take losing so they cry foul and try every which way to see how it can be reversed and then say "see how close it was". They make me laugh as they only make it more obvious. I do believe the City needs money and they will float their boat no matter where they can get it. Now what will they do? They have to face reality that they need to get to work. Perhaps if we had more educated people on the commission they could figure it out.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone could tackle someone it would be Pam. I wouldn't want to mess with her. Even Scott shuts up these days.
ReplyDeleteFrom a person who was working for LW at the time, FEMA is owed a lot of money, probably far more than they are even billing for. A forensic audit would possibly show that the city has little, if any, true paper trail of the storms. Owners of companies, many of which would only show up once a month, were billing the city for 112 hours/week for work done (16/hours*7/days). Companies were showing more men on their roster than they had working, etc., etc, etc..... The single greatest error on the city's part was the total lack of photographic documentation. They should have been taking before and after photographs and were not asked to.
ReplyDelete6:46 really it isn't our job to come up with another plan BUT we do have many suggestions....you all just have this one "dead in the water" plan that you wanted to ram us with. Didn't work so get your angry attitude focused on something else.
ReplyDelete"Dead in the water". Ilive by the water in a nice neighborhood that would not have qualified for improvements. I also save 85.00 a month. Inow do not have to pay for your improvements. So you are right 5:18 I will "focus" on other things most assuredly not you.
ReplyDeleteAll these elected officials should learn lessons from past looser elected officials who were not re-elected due to them not LISTENING to the public. Pam and the rest of them will be history soon too. They need to LISTEN to US!
ReplyDeleteThe problem here in Lake Worth is that NO ONE wants to run. They have had it with the disgusting personal attacks and all the character assassinations that are sanctioned by the politician himself. Look what was done to Rachel Waterman, as an example? And she was a very smart woman too. Power corrupts. Basically I hate politicians. Those bullies have a big power base and tons of money---a hard nut to crack. It's going to take a miracle especially when you do not sleep with the enemy or constantly hold his little hand by politicking yourself.
ReplyDeleteLake Worth is a mess in more ways than one. Douglas Wood should feel lucky he is out of this place.
To make my comment at 9:12 correct, Dorsey chose not to run again. It had nothing to do with resigning.
ReplyDeleteThe city's storeroom refused to work the storms so we had to take linemen away from the restoration process to handle the storeroom. an outside company actually had to procure the refrigeration truck and much of the replacement conductor because departments outside of one person's control refused to work during the outages.
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