4 Candidates Run For Mayor Of Lake Worth Beach
Election Spotlight4 Candidates Run For Mayor Of Lake Worth Beach
By Joel Malkin
Feb 8, 2024
With the municipal elections coming in Palm Beach County on March 19, Lake Worth Beach is in our election spotlight.
There are three races in the city and in this entry we'll focus on the one for mayor.
1. Incumbent Betty Resch, whose an attorney by trade, wants a second term and hangs her hat on improvements to the city's electric utility. "I am very proud of the fact that for the first time, the city electric utility has a storm fund and a rate stabilization fund."
She says these two funds mean the city has the money to pay other power companies to be on standby to help restore power in the event a storm looks ready to strike and they can keep electric rates competitive. Lake Worth Beach is the only municipality in Palm Beach County with its own electric utility.
The mayor also takes credit for having the water tower painted like a beach ball as a way to tell the world that Lake Worth Beach is a "fun beach town."
2. One of Resch's three challengers is former City Commissioner Andy Amoroso, who says she has been unable to keep the commission focused.
"Right now I feel the city is broken. That's why I'm jumping back in the race. We have no city manager. We have senior staff and staff that's leaving. Since 2020, we have almost 150 people resign."
The City Council voted in December to fire City Manager Carmen Davis after two years on the job, citing performance issues. Mayor Resch was one of two council members to vote against her firing.
Amoroso, who owns a store in Downtown Lake Worth Beach, says a lot was accomplished during his ten years on the dais and includes among his issues the delay in the reconstruction and reopening of the history Gulfstream Hotel. Resch blames that mostly on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click here... to read about all four candidatrs for Mayor and listen to their audios.
5 comments:
We need Andy!
I wouldn't vote for and if he was the last person in the world he voted to change the city name cost us I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars to do that all he looks out for is number one the city
Well, we could always have a referendum to change the name of the City back to Lake Worth. I never refer to it as Lake Worth Beach, and none of my mail ever comes to LWB.
If Andy did that, it was a crass move on his part, but I will vote for him anyway.
As far as the referendum, I don't understand it. I hope it will be broken down into simple English, because I doubt if anyone else understands it either.
Betty Trash takes credit for paying other utility companies to come help during emergencies? That just means our utility rates have been raised again. Commercial properties are paying such a high rate.
Her only priority is NOT being at city hall every day. The mayor should be a full time position. Watch her assigned parking space at city hall. It is vacant more times than not.
Serving as mayor or commissioner is a part-time job with a full-time commitment.
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