Secure Lake Worth's PUBLIC SAFETY

This is about our PUBLIC SAFETY. The law enforcement issue is far from over; the contract is not signed and we have until June 30th to notify the Sheriff that we will not be continuing with their services.


The PBSO is under no illusion that this is the end of it. They KNOW this will be coming back again next year, despite the two year contract. After all, the City of Lake Worth breaks contracts all the time.


The dais is now turning their focus on the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. Once again, we are throwing good money after bad, paying the Willdan group $35,000 for a study we don’t need. Just like the PBSO, the PBC Fire Rescue has cost us less than the LW Fire Dept. Similarly as with the PBSO, the contract for the study was done without an RFP and the consultants have a financial interest in recommending the termination of the PBC Fire Rescue contract.

The pension issues are a tool the City Manager and 3 of the commissioners are using to fool the public. Both pensions are now closed plans. No one can enter them. Reconstituting the LWFD or the LWPD, will not change this. The money owed to those in the pension will still have to be paid. If either the LW Fire or Police Departments were to be reformed, NEW pension plans would be started. The existing ones would not be affected.

No Contract finalized yet by PBSO

As of today, no word on the contract being finalized. The Commission will still have to vote to accept the contract and then ABIDE by their decision. Nothing is set in concrete until after June 30th, the final day to give the Sheriff notice the City of Lake Worth will not be retaining PBSO.

Will they OR Won't they?

The Agenda for the June 7th City Commission Meeting is posted on the cities' web site.  This is the meeting that the moderators of the "Voice in the Choice Meeting" requested to be put on at the Tuesday, May 17th regular commission meeting.

At that meeting, Scott Maxwell asked the City Clerk Pam Lopez to put us on.  Karri followed the procedure outlined on the web site for agenda requests and sent a formal request to the City Manager as directed on May 20th.

Initially, Karri was informed by Susan Stanton that the request had to be send to Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill.. After a weekend of e-mails between Stanton and Karri with a litany of discouragement from Stanton and Karri reiterating over and over WHY the moderators should be allowed to give the presentation; Mulvehill chimed in on Monday, May 23rd and informed us she would get back to us in a day or two.  I guess she had to check with her advisors.

Now keep in mind, Scott Maxwell had already put in a request for us to be on the June 7th agenda on May 17th.  He did this in front of the entire commission and a room full of people.  On Tuesday, May 24th, we received an e-mail denying the request from Mulvehill.

Both Stanton and Mulvehill kept on saying they had heard enough about the Willdan Study.  Karri kept responding back that the presentation was about more than the Willdan Study; it was about increasing revunes and cutting costs.  The couple hundred people that attended the public meeting broke into 8 groups and only 1 of them discussed the Willdan Study.

This attempt to explain to Stanton and Mulvehill was like beating one's head against a wall and trying to get blood from a turnip.  Here is the link to the e-mails are exchanged:


 Request for Presentation on June 7th, 2011 Agenda from Moderators of Public Meeting


On Wednesday, May 24th, Bob and Karri (two of the three moderators) attended the joint CRA and Commission meeting at Compass.  At this point things got really interesting.  As one blogger put it, you just had to be there.  It was like a tennis match; one minute the presentation was on, one minute it was off and the volley continued.

The final decision on the possibllity of the presentation being permitted on Tuesday the 7th of June - is that the commissioners will VOTE on whether this will happen or not ON the DAY of the PRESENTATION.  Yes, you read correctly.

Before this could be posted, City Mangager Susan Stanon put in her Weekly Report that the negotiations were nearing completion with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.  The negotiations are expected to be complete on Wednesday, June 8th.  This is the day AFTER the day of the presentation  we requested to make.

In this CM report, Stanton requests us NOT to contact City Hall or the PBSO in order that negotiations can close smoothly.  Apparently the new caveat for NOT going with the PBSO will fall on our shoulders now.

It's hours to countdown now.......... Will they or Won't they?  Only the "3" know for sure.

Important City Commission Meeting TONIGHT!

“VOICE in the CHOICE” Presentation tonight at City Hall

Tuesday, June 7th City Commission Meeting  at 6 p.m.

Keep the PBSO Meeting this Saturday, June 4th

This Saturday, June 4^th, there is a meeting at Brogues regarding Keeping the PBSO.  The meeting starts at 4 p.m. and will be 1 hour.  Please join us and participate, as we put into action the plan to spread the word to the entire community about the attempt by the city manager and the majority of the commission, to get rid of the PBSO.

Another attempt to JEOPARDIZE our Public Safety

The City of Lake Worth has hired the Willdan Group, the same group that did the study in which it states "the City of Lake Worth has made a conscious decision to move forward with establishing the Lake worth Police Department" on page 47.

From the Palm Beach Post:

"Lake Worth to study reestablishing its own fire department "


Click on Link below for article 

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/lake-worth-to-study-reestablishing-its-own-fire-1500989.html

2011 MAYORAL SPECIAL ELECTION Candidates Debate

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