Letters to the Editor
Palm Beach Post
8-23-2020
Re: Lake Worth Beach suffers from lack of revenue
I’ve called Palm Beach County home since 1973. I can’t remember once in the last 25 years where Lake Worth Beach wasn’t in some type of financial crisis or another.
Again, some are blaming public safety costs that consume 35% of the budget. The fact is, Lake Worth Beach takes in less revenue than other like cities because they lack taxable property. So, the 35% is a number some politicians like Commissioner Omari Hardy use for self-serving agendas. Defunding, or reallocating funds as some say, is not an option in Lake Worth Beach. My family that lives in Lake Worth Beach deserves public safety that is not compromised for the sake of politics.
Decades of poor decision making that lacked the long view, where viability/sustainability are balanced with social needs/wants has seldom been in Lake Worth Beach’s calculus. Until a long-view strategic plan is put in play, Lake Worth Beach will lessen as a municipality as time progresses
Pam Traxler, Royal Palm Beach
We just need to make sure that people like Omary Hardy never gets elected again. Slow and steady moving forward is perfect. People like him just bring things back to square 1.
ReplyDeleteGetting rid of the CRA would be a great start to bringing the tax base back. However,don't hold your breath. The CRA is a river of unaccounted for cash to city staff and Commissioners that favor the continuing parasitic existence of this scam.It pushes the developers agenda. Gulfstream? Gulfstream?
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