You're not going to believe this!

LWB cancels controversial sand agreement with Palm Beach because it violates city charter

"LAKE WORTH BEACH city officials are canceling an agreement, approved eight days ago, that would have let the town of Palm Beach use the city’s public beach as a staging area for a town beach re-nourishment project.

When the City Commission voted 4-1 on Dec. 3 to grant the town access to the city beach, they did so illegally because they violated — unknowingly apparently — a city charter provision, approved by voters in 2009, prohibiting the pumping of sand onto Lake Worth Beach from off-shore borrow sites. The provision also prohibits the beach from being used as a staging area for dredge and fill projects.

Town dump trucks were supposed to start dumping sand on the south end of the city beach on Jan. 1, a project that would have lasted up to 45 days. But that’s not going to happen, Lake Worth Beach’s city attorneys said Dec. 11."

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Now don't you think the Commission would have had the city lawyer check this all out BEFORE they agreed to allowing this beach sand re-nourishment project?

"What happened? The 2009 charter change was never codified into the city charter, an apparent error by the city clerk at the time.

And when commissioners considered the agreement with Palm Beach on Dec. 3, no one at City Hall remembered the 2009 referendum, which was approved by 70 percent of the voters.

Commissioner Chris McVoy, who cast the lone “no” vote on Dec. 3, forwarded Jennings’ letter to the city attorneys, who confirmed the interlocal agreement violates the city charter and has to be canceled." So all of you who like to call McVoy a disrupter, get off his back...and the Lake Worth Herald should give him some credit.

And Cara Jennings is still on top of it!