According to the Draft Annual Operating budget for 2015-2016, the PBSO budget (page 3), costs are projected at $15,140,483.00 (MILLION) in a city that comprises approximately 36,000 residents, with 38.8% foreign born. (I'm trying to be politically correct here). The city has already told us that the PBSO will raise its cost "only" by $121,000. This computes to a cost of $420.57 per person.
The city estimates that revenues of $6,905,285 will be generated from ad-valorem taxes. Its total revenues come to $30,957,499 (MILLIONS) that includes a carry-over of $1,026,987. So, PBSO takes nearly one-half of our operating revenues just to try and contain all the crime we have.
Lake Worth has 32.3% living below poverty. With poverty comes slum, blight and crime. With all of that, comes 132 PBSO employees in District 14.
11 sergeants? It should be half that.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like they just take PBSO head count and divide it among the municipalities (using some formula). B/c otherwise these numbers don't make much sense. Communication officers, does that translate to dispatch? If yes, you know we don't have 14 assigned to us (just using that number as an example). Somehow I wish we had that many assigned, as it might mean when we call the non-er number we'd get more help and cooperation than what I normally experience.
ReplyDeleteGreenacres is considering going with PBSO.
ReplyDeleteTheir City Manager Wadie Atallah said the city budgets $13,400,000 for Oublic Safelt Dept expenditures, not including operating costs for fuel, insurance or car maintenance.
The $15M sounds about right when you throw in policing 'Regional' attractions like
our beach,
Better watch your attempt at being. Politically correct with that comment on ' foreign born' residents...we have a large expatriate population...Finland 3.4%, Canada 1.86%, German .52%. We are the largest Finnish ancestry population in the U.S. (And that'd as way the Funnish Consulate is in downtown), and the second largest diaspora as a percentage of population in the world .
As of the 2010 U.S. census there were 39,910 people and 11,732 households in the city.
Lynn, your gonna need to massage your numbers...
Racial make up 60% white, 19.8% African-American, 5.6% Native American and 1% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race or 39.6%
English is the most spoken first language at 56.61%, Spanish at 26.57%, French Creole at 9.17%, Mayan (spoken by Guatemalans of Mayan descent) at 1.11% and German at .52% of population.
Looks like the money wrencher has been back at it in the Lake Worth Wikipedia site... Under 'Recreation' someone has inserted fiction about the 'conspiracy on the beach' crap... So sad
I get my numbers off the internet as do you. There are many demographic sites and if you look at them, the numbers are different on all of them.
ReplyDeleteLake Worth extends out into the County and there are 8 zip codes in Lake Worth. Does that site say THE CITY of Lake Worth or jsut lake Worth?
I went up to the site by wikipedia and it is Lake Worth, Florida NOT the city of LW. It's funny, you condemn my numbers and condemn that site for something you don't like on it but you use their demographic numbers as if they are gospel. What's up with that?check the numbers on the lakeworth.org site. they round the numbers up to 37,000. No one seems to know for sure as we have a lot of illegals residing here and they're not Finnish. LOL
ReplyDeleteLooking closer, their 39,910 figure is a typo...if you look at the graph to the right of that, it shows 34,910 people. After reading about the casino, I don't see an error.
ReplyDeleteI never see much police patrol in my neighborhood. Granted, I don't sit out 24 hrs per day watching the street,but I am in and out a lot,around different areas of the city frequently.I see Sheriffs on Lake Worth road and Dixie a lot.
ReplyDeleteHow many PBSO employees take their cars home out of Palm Beach County? Would there be cost savings if only on call personnel had take home cars?
What equipment does PBSO replace every year? Is that state mandated or is that a preference of our local dept?
I agree with the last poster, I can go weeks without seeking a patrol car in my neighborhood or (more importantly) downtown. I do almost always see patrol at the beach.
ReplyDeleteData came from U.S. census 2010
ReplyDeleteThe 34,900 was 2000 census
Of course, it's doubtful the numbers reflect actual head count as those of questionable alien status don't usually fill out census questionnaires or the follow up human census takers... So with the count likely being short o humans, LW gets less Fed dollars... Catch 22 ain't it!