Lake Worth Beach losing money on cemeteries
Well, they're dead people and they really can't vote!
The question for me is, can Lake Worth take care of anything? Can anyone do their job?We pour money into other areas of the city like our parks and the Osborne Center that don't generate money either but the City can't take care of our cemetery or our pool at the Casino?
When they don't do the job, the first thing they want to do is outsource it or give it away on a public private partnership, sell it or some damn thing. And they all got raises to boot!
Commissioner Sarah Malega says it all has to make cents, oops, sense.
Read about it
The only cemetery that I am familiar with is Pinecrest.
"In 1915, the Lake Worth governing body appointed a committee to scout around and find a suitable location for a cemetery. The committee members reported that there was a 9.2 acres parcel adjoining the southwest corner of the town, immediately west of A Street between 9th Avenue South and 12th Avenue South. The city commission was urged to buy the land before the price went up, which they did, paying $10 per acre for a total of $920.00. [Geneological Society of the Palm Beaches]
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Who would they sell the cemetery to? What would happen to the graves?
In Philadelphia, I remember, they moved two old cemeteries to the Main Line. One was a Jewish Cemetery, and one was a German cemetery.
I wasn't terribly interested in cemeteries, even though my great grandparents were buried there.
this sounds like our utility dept.nobody wants to buy that either.unles its for condos.why do we need a set of looser comissioners.they have gotten rid of most of our history so what do they do
Is there anything wrong with Malega?
Sarah WTH?
beach next
This would have the makings for a great horror movie...Happy Haunting Grounds...
...A town sells its historic graveyard to greedy developers...Ten years later the new Luxury Assisted Living Condos on Happy Acres (on the previously sacred land)--- begin to show up on the news constantly for unexplained accidents, deaths, and sounds where there should be none.
Dan...I'm still laughing!
Actually, I think I'd prefer that to living in a new house on top of the old TB Hospital ground.
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