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No sooner does the City of Lake Worth lease out the Shuffleboard Court Building rent free to the CRA for the promotion of culture and arts with the City paying for water, gas, electricity, cable, trash collection removal and any other utilities that perhaps they forgot to mention in the Lease, when the CRA puts out this press release:
CRA seeking tenants for new Arts Centre
The
Lake Worth CRA is seeking a non-profit arts or cultural based
organization to sublease space at the Shuffleboard Courts Building
located at 1121 Lucerne Avenue. Overall management should be provided by
the organization submitting a proposal while administration for the
building will be provided by the CRA. The length of the sublease will be
one year, with an option to lease for an additional year. The CRA is
seeking one responder for varying activities both day and night to
provide the public with multiple options for arts and cultural education
and enhancement. Organizations with multiple programs may submit
singularly or may make accommodations for other groups to use the space
as they deem appropriate.
This is the same concept of what the Living Arts Foundation, Inc. is using at our city owned building at 1105 2nd Avenue South. It's all about government grants. The CRA is great at spending government money and even has its own grant writer. On the other hand, the City excels in handing off city owned buildings to entities for $1 a year. Out of sight, out of mind.
According to the Lease, neither the tenant or the landlord may assign, mortgage, pledge, or encumber the Lease in whole or in part, without the other party's prior written consent. It only took the CRA and the City a few weeks to be somewhat transparent with the public as to their intent.
What ever happened to the CRA's mission of eradicating slum and blight?