Showing posts with label Wellington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wellington. Show all posts
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Two shot at High School football game
PBSO: Two shot at high school football game in Wellington; no shooter in custody
Well, now we have a shooting at an off-season football game. Can you imagine if this game was regular season where someone might have had some emotional trumped up reason to get heated? As your bags are checked before entering a football stadium, authorities think this might have happened outside the stadium.Read about it...
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Wellington and the Garbage Company
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The headline in today's local section of the Palm Beach Post said that rules change for less experienced hauler. Southern Waste Systems has plenty of experience hauling garbage and dishing it out.
We are always talking about corruption county, the free lunch and Southern Waste systems...you know, the guys who always have their hands in the crap pot who love to give campaign contributions to certain people even in the City of Lake Worth. John Szerdi got contributions and even Serge Jerome got one. Southern Waste systems or one of its companies always seems to know who to approach.
Wellington has a policy regarding waste removal: five years of experience with five contracts servicing an area no smaller than Wellington, at least 20,000 pickups. But it seems that Southern Waste met Wellington commissioner Matt Willhite, a former resident of Lake Worth, who marches to his own drummer. Solid Waste did not meet those requirements but after Willhite met with someone from Southern Waste Systems for lunch, it was all over but the shouting and Wellington's rules got relaxed.
Palm Beach County, corruption county of the country, did the exact same thing in 2012--waived its rules allowing Southern Waste Systems to get its business in a $46 million dollar five year contract that began in 2013. At the beginning of the year, the County waived its rules again and allowed them to haul in 78,000 tons of waste a year from Broward County.
Now, I want to know who picked up the lunch tab.
The headline in today's local section of the Palm Beach Post said that rules change for less experienced hauler. Southern Waste Systems has plenty of experience hauling garbage and dishing it out.
We are always talking about corruption county, the free lunch and Southern Waste systems...you know, the guys who always have their hands in the crap pot who love to give campaign contributions to certain people even in the City of Lake Worth. John Szerdi got contributions and even Serge Jerome got one. Southern Waste systems or one of its companies always seems to know who to approach.
Wellington has a policy regarding waste removal: five years of experience with five contracts servicing an area no smaller than Wellington, at least 20,000 pickups. But it seems that Southern Waste met Wellington commissioner Matt Willhite, a former resident of Lake Worth, who marches to his own drummer. Solid Waste did not meet those requirements but after Willhite met with someone from Southern Waste Systems for lunch, it was all over but the shouting and Wellington's rules got relaxed.
Palm Beach County, corruption county of the country, did the exact same thing in 2012--waived its rules allowing Southern Waste Systems to get its business in a $46 million dollar five year contract that began in 2013. At the beginning of the year, the County waived its rules again and allowed them to haul in 78,000 tons of waste a year from Broward County.
Now, I want to know who picked up the lunch tab.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wellington's Paul Schofield
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Tonight, Wellington has its city commission meeting. They will be discussing the firing of their city manager, Paul Schofield, who has run the city for the past 5 years. Apparently the item was too late to put on the Agenda and some commissioners are in a tissy about that. They are afraid that it will put the city in a bad light. NO BIGGY. They could follow Lake Worth's example--NO notice at all. In fact, Lake Worth commissioners can lie to a city manager's face and then fire on the spot. At least Wellington has some class.
Read more... at the Palm Beach Post.
Read a previous blog of mine on Schofield, Mr. Sunshine and Connecting the Dots
Tonight, Wellington has its city commission meeting. They will be discussing the firing of their city manager, Paul Schofield, who has run the city for the past 5 years. Apparently the item was too late to put on the Agenda and some commissioners are in a tissy about that. They are afraid that it will put the city in a bad light. NO BIGGY. They could follow Lake Worth's example--NO notice at all. In fact, Lake Worth commissioners can lie to a city manager's face and then fire on the spot. At least Wellington has some class.
Read more... at the Palm Beach Post.
Read a previous blog of mine on Schofield, Mr. Sunshine and Connecting the Dots
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