Town Hall meeting on Charter Changes
A prominent West Palm Beach political consulting firm has been tapped to help educate Lake Worth Beach voters about five referendums on the March 10 ballot.Cornerstone Solutions, hired by Lake Worth Beach in December for $48,500, is a fixture in Palm Beach County politics. Among the firm’s clients: the West Palm Beach mayor and city commissioners and Lake Worth Beach City Commissioner Anthony Segrich.
A dozen people attended the first town hall, Thursday Jan. 8 at the Peniel Haitian Baptist Church of Lake Worth at 2000 N. D St. And some, including City Commissioner Chris McVoy and former Commissioner Kim Stokes, criticized the presentation.
McVoy, who cast the lone no vote last year to put the charter changes to voters, said he was concerned about a four-page brochure, created by Cornerstone for town hall attendees, listing several “reasons” for each of the five questions.
“The presentation has to be neutral and cannot advocate one way or another,’’ he said, referring to limits in state law. “I am alarmed to see in every case what is listed as the benefits of voting for it and there is zero about what the negatives might be. That may be a legal problem.
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