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It's easier to give it away, sell it, or sweep it all under the rug or give kudos where they are undeserved. We have a bottomless pit of problems in Lake Worth and it just seems that none of them are being solved. What we are doing though, is allowing more affordable housing and finding grants (free money) for anything or everything we possibly can at the expense of the over-all welfare of our city. Standing up for principles? Oh no, we can't afford one more dime on legal expenses to defend those.
The city slum and blight keeps getting worse. Crime is unbelievable and we are not being told how dangerous our neighborhoods have become. We have to read about a horrible crime in the PB Post. Just the other night I reported two gun shots to the sheriff that came from the Orange Grove Mobile Home Park--a bed of continuous crime. The sheriff knows where the hot spots are...do you ever see a sheriff vehicle in your neighborhood?
The city has to get serious and tough on all the negative elements within our city. It isn't. It hasn't. It's about time that it does. We know what we want from our city and it's not leading from fear--fear of law suits--fear of being transparent, fear of spending money on Studies that will guide us in the right direction, worrying about development before we cleanup the slum and blight, etc. The antidote for fear-based management is not to dismiss risk but to operate with a controlled/sensible vision and following through without bankrupting us. Getting the priorities straight is what it's all about.
