Showing posts with label Wes Blackman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wes Blackman. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

"Great Little Drinking town," Greg Rice called Lake Worth at one time

Party on the patio coming to an end?

Rudy's Pub hoping Lake Worth Beach won't pull plug on back lot

"Rudy's Pub, located on S. J Street in the Paradise building directly below the Bamboo Room, wants the back parking lot to use for their live performances. The city allowed them to utilize the lot during Covid on a temporary basis.

Now the City says, it's a parking lot and Rudy's Pub is violating city codes as well as the fact that state and county emergency orders that allowed that temporary use have expired.

The owner has hired Wes Blackman, an urban planner who has served on the city’s Planning and Zoning and historic preservation boards, to help negotiate a resolution that would allow the patio."

Read the article by Joe Capozzi

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Mayoral Candidate Dropped out

Wes Blackman will not be running in the City of Lake Worth March election.

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Public Input for developments in Lake Worth is in order

Lake Worth Beach majority commission against requiring developers to meet with public

I listened to the commission meeting and I agree with Herman Robinson.

There is no earthly reason why developers can't meet with the public when they want to build a large project. It is our city after all. It is apparent through the years that the commission wants development for the tax base. They want to build high, a Wes Blackman belief. Wes is an urban planner running for mayor. They could care less about what the residents think or what the city looks like or even how much tax money we are giving to them to attract that development.

Remember that "small town charm?" As you recall, they went against the vote back in 2012. Respectful Planning Lake Worth PAC was formed to gather petitions to get an item on the November 6 ballot to limit building heights in downtown Lake Worth. We won the vote but clever commissioners found a way to get around the will of the people. Retaining the small town charm was not their desire or intent.

And to be completely fair here, Betty Resch's statement was spot on as were all those who submitted comment cards. It didn't matter in the end, as the commission decided to wait for a staff report. We know how it will all end.

Read about it...

Monday, November 16, 2020

Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo has three challengers

Lake Worth Beach mayor, Pam Triolo, will face at least three challengers in March election

Wes Blackman:
Urban Planner. He says he runs calm, cool and collected meetings. Has years of experience as former Chair of the Planning & Zoning as well as the Historical Preservation boards

Betty Resch:
Practicing attorney and past city attorney for Lake Worth. If elected she says she will push for term limits and look into the role of city manager Michael Bornstein. "Who's running the show?" asks Betty.

William Joseph
Investigator. Says more investment is needed to create jobs. Says he can unite people.

Challengers believe Mayor Pam Triolo is vulnerable after former commissioner, Omari Hardy, pulled his Academy Award racist performance that went viral. In 2020, when he decided to run for higher office, he continued to agitate and dominate conversation at the dais. It's surprising to me that they all, for the most part, maintained their cool. Of course, the meetings were Zoom so you couldn't punch his lights out. It is rumored that Omari is behind the over-throw of everyone presently on the commission.

Read the PBPost article

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Wes Blackman files Intent to Run for Mayor of Lake Worth (Beach)

Those who have declared their intent to run for Mayor are Betty Resch, Wes Blackman and incumbent, Mayor Pam Triolo.

The official time to get your name on the ballot is from November 24 through noon on December 8.

Rumer has it that Omari Hardy has been working behind the scenes to replace our dais.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

RICO charges filed against Hudson Holdings

Remember these bums?

Well, former Lake Worth commissioner John Szerdi should remember them...he worked for them. Then we have Wes Blackman, former chair of the Historic Resource Preservation Board--he worked for Hudson Holdings too. We can't forget Greg Rice, Chair of our Planning & Zoning board, campaigning for it all, as well as the PAC for which he was affiliated, Friends of the Gulfstream, which had an ethics complaint filed against it in July 2013. It pulled a lot of dirty tricks back then.

On top of the above three, we have three city commissioners still in office: Scott Maxwell, Mayor Pam Triolo and Andy Amoroso who gave Hudson Holdings every little thing their heart desired like upzoning at the Gulfstream Hotel area as well as declaring an entire election null and void, won by the people on heights.

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Respectful Planning PAC won at the ballot just a few years ago getting 56% of the vote to keep the heights to 45 feet. Thanks to everyone who worked on this with special gratitude to Laurel Decker. Then the city attorney pulled a fast one on the people--so did the commission. They did not care about democracy, only giving developers what they wanted.

Changing Florida's Future, a PAC out of Tallahassee, sent out mailers supporting the election of Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso that were funded by Hudson Holdings in the amount of $9,000. Hudson Holdings knew who their friends were.

The Gulfstream Hotel sits there and rots to this day. But wait a minute--we had a husband and wife team that blitzed into the city...supposed developers, Amy and Amrit Gill from St. Louis who told us that they were ready to embark on a $100 million project to renovate the historic building. The city fell for it and so did the residents. I wonder if any investors fell for it too? Where are these people?

Hudson Holdings had a lot of connections in St. Louis as well as failed projects. Was there not a red flag for the City of Lake Worth with this husband and wife team when it appeared out of nowhere from St. Louis? It really makes one wonder what really is going on. No one can continue to have two left feet.

The caveat for these "supposed" new developers to go forward with the hotel? They insisted that the residents approve a ballot measure in March 2020 that would allow property built adjacent to the hotel to match the Gulfstream’s 87-foot height. City guidelines limit building height east of Dixie Highway to 65 feet. Mailer after mailer was sent out to voters promoting this measure. Who was behind this mailer? It sounds like a Steven Michael tactic. The City knows nothing about this husband and wife team any more than they did about Hudson Holdings. Have they done one bit of due diligence?

Two years ago, south county developer Bill Milmoe and vitamin kingpin Carl DeSantis filed a RICO lawsuit against Hudson Holdings. It was settled and it was reported that CDS (the DeSantis group) now owns the property. Details of the settlement were kept secret and sealed.  But the owners are still HH GULFSTREAM LAND HOLDINGS LLC according to the Property appraiser's office.

**Now one of the original investors in the Hudson Holdings "enterprise" regarding the Gulfstream Hotel just filed suit under RICO statutes because of Steven Michael's and Avi Greenbaum's continuing individual and enterprise misconduct." The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties.

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Monday, May 6, 2019

Adam Schlesinger's history with Lake Worth and the Gulfstream Hotel


What caught my eye in the Palm Beach Post Sunday's edition was that Adam Schlesinger was back in the news. He and his companies are involved in the Ambassador Hotel Cooperative Apartments on S. Ocean Boulevard and have just been sued by them. It is stated that he is using a lot of scare tactics pressuring people to sell their units to him.

If you recall, the Schlesinger family was highly entrenched in our city at one time regarding The Gulfstream Hotel.


Back in July 2005, Schlesinger bought the historic hotel for $12,910,000 paying over double what it sold for only two years before. The hotel is 13,500 sq. ft. situated on 0.399 acres directly across from the Intracoastal Waterway and Bryant Park. It has 106 rooms in 65,456 square-feet and most rooms have a water view.

Adam Schlesinger came before a former Planning & Zoning Board on numerous occasions as well as the City Commission while Jeff Clemens was mayor. He was crying the blues that he couldn't get financing but NO one on the P&Z Board back then, (Lisa Maxwell, former candidate for District 4, Wes Blackman, former candidate for District 3 and Phil Spinelli to name a few), asked him to prove what he said--none of them even asked. They took him at his "word." They continued to give him extension after extension and allowed the Gulfstream to languish.

This is a hotel that survived the Great Depression but did not survive the financial depression we had. Asset Holding Company 5 LLC filed a foreclosure lawsuit against CSC Lake Worth Limited Partnership (Schlesinger) on August 11, 2010 in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The lawsuit sought repayment of a $12 million loan, plus the foreclosure of the hotel property." In May 2010, it sold for $7,225,000 to HH GULFSTREAM LAND HOLDINGS LLC (Hudson Holdings). Another suit ensued and Carl DeSantis now owns the Gulfstream Hotel. Where is Steven Michael these days?

Read about Schlesinger... in Sunday's Palm Beach Post. In the meantime, the hotel, once an icon of our city, is still in limbo all these years later.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

825 Sunset Drive - 12 years later

The Sunset property at 825 Sunset Drive has been in limbo since 2005. That's when I joined the Political Action Committee, Save Our Neighborhood, my first involvement in Lake Worth politics.

The Pac collected over 3,000 signatures city wide wanting the single family zoning kept in place. Former Lake Worth city attorney Larry Karns refused to forward the petitions to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections for verification citing a State Statute that you could not petition on less than 5 acres even though it was he who approved our petition. A battle in the circuit court then ensued between Save Our Neighborhood, Inc. and the City. Save Our Neighborhood won its case in the circuit court, but the decision was challenged by the City of Lake Worth. Even then the city was going against its citizens, favoring a developer just like it did on the Heights Amendment in recent years. The Sunset case moved up the judicial ladder into the Appellate court which then overturned the Circuit Court's decision.

In a special meeting held on August 25, 2009, the Lake Worth City Commission voted to repeal two city ordinances that would have allowed MF 20 zoning (20 units per acre) into the single family Lake Osborne Heights neighborhood. The commission consisted of Commissioners Cara Jennings, Commissioner Retha Lowe, Mayor Jeff Clemens, Commissioner Joanne Golden and Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill. The undeveloped 4.02 acre property that was the subject of the commission's action reverted to its previous zoning of “County Agricultural” (five units per acre). Zoning is all political.

 Read about it... and about who we had to fight to keep our neighborhood. Wes Blackman even called us "whackos."

So, 12 years later, we still are in limbo with the property. The owner threatened a Bert J. Harris lawsuit. We all were in mediation for a few years and nothing ever was resolved.  The property lanquishes and Code never does a thing about the condition of this property. Only the raccoons, snakes and possums enjoy it. So, 12 years later, it looks like this:

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Why the General Obligation Bond Failed in Lake Worth

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The blog below by Katie Mcgiveron, Chair of the C.A.U.T Pac that helped defeat the General Obligation bond in 2014, is in response to the Wes Blackman opinion as stated on his blog: Unfortunately for the public, what's missing in the article [PBPost] is the reason why we're in this predicament in the first place. And that's all thanks to a bond vote that failed in 2014. The reporter briefly mentions the failed bond vote but not the reason it failed by just 25 votes. He goes on to say it was the PAC and hypocrites and offers that as the reason why we have potholes.


Guest Blogger
Katie Mcgiveron

Why was the 20/20 bond of 2014 such a bad idea for Lake Worth? Let me count the ways. Setting the Record Straight

This was an initial $63.5 million dollar cash grab that by the end of thirty years would have cost taxpayers in Lake Worth over $131 million dollars. Even the best made road has a life span of about fifteen years--So thirty years of debt to pay off roads that might, on a good day, last half of that time.

This bond was pushed as a “Don’t you want your potholes fixed?” necessity. When, in fact, only 30% of the existing roads in Lake Worth would have been resurfaced. Maybe. There were absolutely NO guarantees on how ANY of this bond money would REALLY have been spent.(FEMA,anyone)?

$9,600,000 was earmarked for the Park of Commerce, privately owned land that the city does not even own. Citizens asked for a 'smaller roads only bond' but they were ignored.

$2,075,000 would have gone to pay for a project manager. And, shockingly, each Commissioner would have been given $800,000 to hand out at their own discretion on “neighborhood enhancements”. Hmmmm, really?

$18,510,000 would have been taken from the city reserves, and another 2 million would have been grabbed from the Electric Utility Bond.

These figures came from the CITY’S OWN LITERATURE. Somebody in charge was very unhappy that the public was being told of the REAL cost of this bond. (As opposed to the ridiculous cup of coffee and a burger comparison that Commissioner Maxwell was pushing). For telling the truth, the finance director at the time was fired.

The bond was a thirty year UNCAPPED tax lien on every residence and business in the city. The Commission had already voted to increase both the water and sewer rates. The UNCAPPED bond lien would have been added on top of these increased rates. Lake Worth could have become the highest taxed city, by far, in all of Palm Beach County. As fed up residents and businesses moved out of Lake Worth, the 20/20 bond noose would have gotten tighter and tighter around the necks of the remaining residents and businesses.

With this kind of a pay day at stake, it was no surprise that the City Commission would go to almost any lengths to get the 20/20 bond passed. There were supposed to be two city wide workshops on this issue. The city only held one. From July 1st 2014 until August 19th 2014, OVER A MONTH right before the election, there were NO CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS. This was so that the residents had no chance to speak publicly on the issue and the press had no chance to publish those comments.

A one sided propaganda fest was held at the Lake Worth Playhouse. Citizens against the bond were not invited or allowed to speak. The election was to be held August 26th during the summer to ensure a low voter turnout. The city stole $50,000 of tax payer money to pay for campaign propaganda pushing this cash grab. The Lake Worth Yes Pac was formed to help the city in their efforts. It raised $20,000. My Citizens Against Unfair Taxation PAC was formed to get the real truth about this bond fiasco out to the residents of Lake Worth. We had a total of about $6,000 to fight with. Not much when you’re fighting $70,000 worth of misinformation. And by the way, on the behalf of the people of Lake Worth, give us our $50,000 back!

Even the Palm Beach Post knew what a disaster this would have been for Lake Worth. From an article on 8/12/14- “Under the plan, property tax rates could rise by 35%, making Lake Worth’s rate by far the county’s highest. The resulting jolt to the city’s economy will likely drive up rents for businesses and renters, which could lead to some businesses closing or looking elsewhere to open up.”

Also from the Post 8/12/14-“The $63 million loan would be more than twice the city’s annual operating budget, and repaying it would require huge property tax increases on its residents.”

The city stuck their hands down our pants and stole $50,000 from us to convince us that they were broke and needed $63,000,000 [MILLION], because they were broke. There was no plan “B” in place to fix our roads in case the bond did fail. Why not? Because this was about fixing things, MANY things in Lake Worth, but our roads were not one of them.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Church of The Latter Day Dude

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You will learn about love, not hate and...the truth will set you free

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Hands Off our Beach & Pool

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The new sign now includes the word "pool" as Hudson Holdings wants to get rid of our Olympic Pool and build three smaller ones. But who knows what they really want to do.


Hudson blew into town thanks to John Szerdi, former commissioner of Lake Worth, who works for them. The former chair of the Lake Worth Historic Resources Preservation Board, Wes Blackman, also works for them. The hotel property is situated in the historic district.

Hudson gave us all sorts of promises for their Gulfstream hotel, none of which have been fulfilled. Then they told us that in order for them to renovate the hotel they wanted our casino complex including the pool. This commission "visionary" wanted to give it to them on a long-term lease and secret meetings were held. Now they say they must have more height on their Gulfstream property and are requesting an up-zoning to allow it. They can get it on a 3 to 2 vote because this commission ignored the will of all those who voted and won to have heights at 45 feet in that area.

Other than just wanting some contract zoning on their Gulfstream parcels and wanting our casino  asset, can we believe anything they promise?  Can we even consider that this commission might do the right thing?

Once again, the The Palm Beach Post ignores the Charter Amendment even though they are aware. I would like to see any local newspaper incorporate all of the facts into their articles.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Illegals land in Palm Beach

Well, they just keep coming.  Before long, we will have the entire world here full of poor people, some of whom want to kill us and we can't even take care of American citizens.

The Palm Beach Police just caught 15 who landed in Palm Beach. Read about it...

And what's the federal government doing about it? Well, Obama plans to bring in 10,000 Syrians and has told the 30 states that do NOT want them to stuff it. At least they're invited although not really welcomed. The bully blogger continues to call me a racist for reporting facts. Oh, and he likes to throw in the age factor--petty and silly discrimination.

This is the way of our country right now. How do we solve it all?

Nationally, we make a big change in November. On a local level, we push for candidates who think of the people first, not developers and not their own self-serving interests. This election comes up in March.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Quote of the Day - Wes Blackman

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"My logic is, if it's good for the Post, then it's good for me."

~ Wes Blackman

Although Mr. Blackman (a real estate sales associate with PALM BEACH EAST REAL ESTATE OFFICE LLC in West Palm Beach and an employee of Hudson Holdings, the guys who wanted to grab our beach), is talking about the real estate market in South Florida, we take him at his word with his quote on his blog and remind him of the Palm Beach Post endorsement in 2007 when he was running against Jo-Ann Golden, one of his favorite targets for hit pieces and character assassinations.

Obviously from his statement above, he agrees that the Post made the better choice. Golden won that election with 52.56% of the vote.

Enterprise and Special Revenue Funds - The Difference

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Wrong information is being championed once again on another blog.  So, to set that blogger straight as well as the public, below are the Enterprise Funds, starting on page 65 of our 2015 Budget, that we have within the City of Lake Worth. I already answered his charges earlier this month, Click here but it's a constant challenge with some people where facts just are not digested or get in the way.

The Beach Fund is a Special Revenue fund. These type of funds start on page 49 of our 2015 Budget. The Beach Fund is NOT an Enterprise Fund nor is the Golf Course Fund.

Special Revenue funds are described as follows: Special Revenue Funds are established to account for revenues and expenditures that are restricted by law or contract. The City operates  twelve Special revenue funds, two of which are the Beach Fund and the Golf Fund, the two that this blogger  seems to have the most "problem" with that began when the Vice Mayor got confused.

Enterprise Funds are used to account for operations that are financed and operated in a manner similar to a commercial enterprise, where the intent of the Commission is that the costs of providing goods or services to the general public on a continuing basis be financed or recovered primarily through user charges. The City operates the following enterprise funds:

Electric Fund (Fund 401) – To account for the provision of electric service to residents of the service area. All activities to provide such service are accounted for in this fund, including administration, generation, transmission, distribution, and customer service.

Water Fund (Fund 402) – To account for the provision of water service to residents of the service area. All activities to provide such service are accounted for in this fund, including administration, generation, transmission, distribution, and customer service.  City Code Section 18

Local Sewer Fund (Fund 403) – To account for the provision of sewer service to customers of the local service area. All activities to provide such service are accounted for in this fund, including administration, collection, pumping, treatment, disposal and customer service. City Code Section 18

Regional Sewer Fund (Fund 405) – To account for the provision of sewer service to customers of the regional service area. All activities to provide such service are accounted for in this fund, including administration, collection, pumping, treatment, disposal and customer service. Chapter 85.439 Laws of Florida

Stormwater Fund (Fund 408) – To account for the operation and maintenance of the stormwater utility systems. Revenues in this fund are obtained via non ad-valorem tax receipts. City Code Section 18.4 and Section 2.151

Refuse Fund (Fund 410) – To account for the provision of solid waste removal for the residents and businesses of the service area. All activities to provide for such service are accounted for in this fund, including collection and disposal. Revenues in this fund are obtained via non ad-valorem tax receipts for residential collection and billed service fees for commercial collections. City Code Section 12.15 and Section 2.151

I wish all this information would sink in for some writers so that I don't have to continually do all of this work, over and over again.  And the solution is simple--read the budget.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Peace Initiative Day - Some would rather stir the pot

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Pastor Mike Olive of the Common Ground Church reached out to Wes and Mark in a gesture of friendship and love as well as to be a compassionate listener. They were invited to come over to his coffee shop yesterday which was Peace Day. But they were both "no shows."

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. (Proverbs 29:11, NIV)

James 1:19-20: "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires." (NIV)

I guess Pastor Mike's invited guests did not want to hear those messages.

Monday, September 7, 2015

"Peace" cup offered to Blackman and Parrilla

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You all have heard of a Peace Pipe but this is a Peace Cup offered to two individuals who continually attack pastor Mike Olive and his church as well as those who attend. Hope that they both take him up on the coffee clutch at the Common Grounds Coffee Bar. Everyone needs a little spiritual help in their lives not to mention a good cup of java.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Enterprise Funds in Lake Worth

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For some reason, there is a blogger in town who likes to dispute what I write (he's always scrutinizing everything it seems) along with his four invisible and sometimes hateful friends.  This time it has to do with Enterprise Funds.  He made a big to do on his blog using arrows and pointers, etc. and declaring how stupid I am when I wrote that the Beach Fund was NOT an Enterprise Fund after I pointed out his Hudson Holdings friend, John Szerdi's mistake calling it as such at the Hudson Holdings presentation at the Lake Worth Casino Ballroom. He too works for Hudson.

If he were to go to the 2015 Budget, the one in which we are still operating, and go to page 65, it explains our Enterprise funds and what exactly are included there.

According to our financial director, the following explains what is included in our Enterprise funds that are used to account for operations that are financed and operated in a manner similar to a commercial enterprise, where the intent of the Commission is that the costs of providing goods or services to the general public on a continuing basis be financed or recovered primarily through user charges. The City operates the following enterprise funds:

401--Electric Fund
402--Water Fund
403--Local Sewer Fund
405--Regional Sewer
406--Regional Sewer R & R
408--Stormwater Utility Fund
410--Refuse, Collection & Disp
480--Storm Water Utility Fund
Please note--there is NO Beach Fund listed.

On page 50 of the 2015 Budget, it shows that the Beach Fund is a Special Revenue Fund.  So, if the bully would like to learn anything, I invite him to read my blog.  I do the research. He does the bullying.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Throwing out the carrot - Hudson Holdings

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Actually Hudson Holdings plays the game better than Peter Willard of Greater Bay. We have always known that Hudson Holdings is heavily into acquisitions--that they saw an historic building right across from the Intracoastal Waterway with a view of the ocean from the top floors and got what they thought was a steal from the bank. John Szerdi is the one who directed them to the property.

Steven Michael [Hudson Holdings principal] said that the company is in negotiations with Curio, a collection of high-end hotels run by Hilton. Curio has the Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, FL. Who knows what Hudson is really up to. It could have been one "feeler" letter. Even a resident on Facebook said "don't screw this up." People tend to believe anything and that is why they all come to Lake Worth and it all ends up costing us millions.

They haven't started doing anything to the Gulfstream Hotel "because it takes time." A year ago they told us work would begin in 9 months.  Now they are saying it will be a year to 18 months. They did finally cut down some shrubs and pruned some trees and picked up trash because of code violations.

Now they want a major zoning change to downtown mixed-use for the parcels as half of the site is now zoned multi-family residential. And as everyone knows, zoning changes are always political. Plus, they want to build to five stories, originally it was six, against the referendum that was won at the polls. It's no skin off their back if the city gets into a lawsuit. And they want control of our casino complex on a long-term lease with development rights. They want all of this to make their package more valuable to them as well as to a possible buyer.

This zoning change request for the Gulfstream Hotel will come before the Historic Resources Planning Board next month. As Wes Blackman recently resigned as chair of this board (now we know why), don't think for a second he has no influence on how this Board will vote for his employer.

PBPost article

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Hudson Holdings has a crude fan

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Now and then I get a lot of BS from some people in this city...usually it is the self-serving ones or those trying to grab an asset or two and who are aligned with developers. This is the latest comment:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Hudson Holdings just won't Quit":

As usual you are making your assumptions, and leading everyone towards the LIES. Until you hear what is said IN YOUR MIND it must be bad for EVERYONE. Do EVERYONE a favor and just GO AWAY. I do not know anyone that as is HEARTLESS< MEAN< OR ANGRY as you. My question is did you not get enough when you where younger?????????????????????????

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Of course, they accuse me of lying but never identify the lie. They are always anonymous cowards. Then they get into personal, ugly attacks. If you don't agree with them, you are vile, old, fat or whatever other insulting comment they can dream up. You can't have a different opinion--oh no. It all shows how desperate they are.

The truth of the matter is, we just redeveloped our beach and spent $13 million dollars. Why should we hand it over to Hudson Holdings on a long-term lease that could be up to 99 years? Didn't we just get rid of Greater Bay a few years back that wanted to do the same thing? Don't new city managers ever understand history, the charettes we had back then and what the people wanted? Do you honestly feel that the tide has changed in just a few short years because no one knows how to manage anything?

So, is the poster above on Hudson Holding's payroll like John Szerdi who lost his election on this issue and Wes Blackman who now admits working for Hudson or will he/she benefit from Hudson in some way?

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Historic Resources Preservation Board Lake Worth has new Chair

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Last night, Mr. Robinson was nominated by Loretta Sharpe and seconded by Jimmy Zoellner to be the new Chair of the Historical Board after Wes Blackman resigned due to professional conflicts. The vote was unanimous. Darrin Engel is the new Vice Chair. Following is the Board's composition:

Vacant- 31-Jul-2017 Planning District 3 Appointment
Darrin Engel - 31-Jul-2017- Professional/Architecture- District 4 Appointment
Judith Just - 31-Jul-2016- Law - Vice Mayor District 1 Appointment
Thomas Norris - 31-Jul-2016- Architecture - District 2 Appointment
Herman Robinson - Chair- 31-Jul-2018- Related Field (no mention of what commissioner appointed him)
Loretta Sharpe - 31-Jul-2017- Real Estate Sales- Mayor's Appointment
Jimmy Zoellner - 31-Jul-2017- Citizen at Large- Vice Mayor District 1 appointment