What a way to finish up 2017

Have you noticed?  Ever since the commission voted to nearly double their salaries, their meetings are shorter and shorter. Actually, they became shorter after they hired Michael Bornstein who meets with them one on one to give the commissioners "the skinny" on what's going on and what he is doing in Lake Worth. They know exactly how to vote.

• They conveniently (for themselves) put tons of items (sometimes the entire alphabet) on the Consent Agenda, passing them with zero discussion with some nights totaling more than $1 mil.

• They recognize some importance in a middle east religion that has been in Lake Worth for twenty years and give a resolution but go nuts when an atheist wants to give an invocation.

• They voted to give $25,000 of taxpayer money to Puerto Rico and gave the city manager a raise to $169,000 plus perks.

• Morganti is given their 5th Tolling Agreement to fix our Casino problems

• Seldom is crime ever mentioned but we hear a lot about this or that event or parade.

• We never hear about how they are spending taxpayer money on the trips they take--no reports. They made sure that they didn't have to be transparent on that count.

And now, they are meeting less. In fact, they have had only one meeting in November, one in December and now only one scheduled in January 2018. The three months is Party Time. Check the parking lot on Fridays alone--half empty.

They are lucky they got the $40 million bond passed. Has anyone seen any work on the roads since they withdrew $23 million of the bond money in May? No reports by anyone. The Citizens Advisory Committee on the Bond Referendum have not met.