Benny’s on the Beach seeking $50,000 rent waiver from LWB during Oceanwalk renovation closure
BENNY’S ON THE BEACH is planning about $400,000 in renovations to its Oceanwalk restaurant at the Lake Worth Beach Casino complex, work that will close the restaurant from Labor Day until mid to late October, interim City Manager Jamie Brown said.The restaurant is asking city officials to waive two months of Oceanwalk’s lease payments, roughly $50,000, “since they will be closed and have no revenue coming in,’’ he said.
When Brown mentioned the rent-waiver request at a pre-agenda work session June 27, a majority of city commissioners voiced support for approving it:
Read Joe Capozzi's articleAlthough there was no quote from Commissioner Anthony Segrich, Commissioner McVoy confirmed that he was the only one who voted "no."
- “Benny’s brings so much. They're like our big attraction. I would allow that to happen as a courtesy,’’ Mayor Betty Resch said.
- “This business is a good city partner,’’ said Vice Mayor Sarah Malega. “They have a good track record. I think that’s a good return on investment.’’
- Commissioner Chris McVoy indicated he would vote against the request when it’s formally presented to the commission later this summer.
- Commissioner Mimi May said she would support the request if it’s limited to a specific timeframe.
4 comments:
Benny's is doing renovations, and we should pay him? I don't get it!
The problem with mcvoy is he's been in for so many years I think they need term limits for all elected officials in the City of lake Worth in Florida in the United States of America once people have served two to three maybe five or six years that's it get them out in the other people run I'm so tired of the same people always staying in office forever like at the national level it's so abusive and it's abusive of power and power corrupts and there's so much greed and corruption fraud it's just horrible to see I think it's wrong to let people stay in office for so long!
@3:53...First of all, we do have term limits. We voted them in here.
If you don't like someone in elected office, vote them out.
Corruption abounds in our country. But don't think for a second that locally McVoy is corrupt...far from it.
Contrary to 3:53's opinion, I think we are fortunate to have McVoy in Office for years and be grateful that he's willing to serve. I guess I'm just a Royalist at heart, but I can't see where just New People necessarily solve anything. The New People might be worse than the people already in office, and then there the learning curve.
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