Just like the glass being half full, making your numbers more impressive is done all of the time. But what is fact vs. embellishment or twisting the reality? What is just a marketing ploy to cement your narrative? We know and we were told that 30% of the roads would be resurfaced. That is a fact. Then after the finance director left in the middle of the night, the facts changed. Now we are being told that 73% of the roads will be rebuilt or repaved and in another report it is 70%.
Let's get some definitions from the city of
resurfaced
rebuilt
repaved
Basically the city says it's all the same. Now The Lake Worth 2020 presentation states that 71.5 miles of roadway will be repaved. This is 70% of the City-owned roads. It includes both reconstruction and roads where needed and resurfacing of other roads. Reconstruction includes improvements to either the road base and/or asphalt. Resurfacing includes improvements to the asphalt. The online map allows people to identify a road segment and receive information concerning the type of project related to that road. Either type road improvement will result in the road being improved to a newly paved condition.
And after we let all of that sink in, let's get the specifics on exactly what will be done to each road on the very red map and the cost for that work. City Manager Michael Bornstein says “There’s only so much you can fit on a postcard.” Well, you've been "educating" the people for two years, why isn't the estimated cost all broken down precisely on the web page?
The city has gone to hell Lynn. Just look at the blight and deplorable conditions, where the hell is Codes? They are not doing a good job here at all, the city looks so bad, so many dumpy properties, look the the 2 foot high grass at 201 North E St. They turned a garage into an apartment at 131 N E St, there is so much graffiti, so many properties a real mess, no codes, 504 5th Ave North has a huge rig parked there, since when can we have these huge trucks just parked here indefinitely? The city looks very bad. Our city cannot even get Codes to clean this city up! How can we think they can properly address the issues they want to do with the $64 million with this big tax. I am not voting for this, our city is incompetent, this has to be one of the worst city managers we have ever had in LW. The city has gone to hell.
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