Commissioner
Scott Maxwell
City of Lake Worth, Florida
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Lake Worth to ask county for help with fire-rescue costs
By Willie Howard
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 5:03p.m.Monday,Feb.28,2011
Posted: 4:24p.m.Monday,Feb.28,2011
LAKE WORTH - LAKE WORTH --- Vice Mayor Suzanne Mulvehill will ask Palm Beach County Commissioners Tuesday for help in balancing the city's budget through reductions in payments to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and possible changes in firefighter pensions.
Mulvehill will ask county commissioners to consider renegotiating the city's 2009 contract with Palm Beach County Fire Rescue in hopes of eliminating supplements the city pays to the county.
In addition to property tax paid directly to the county for fire and rescue service by property owners, the city must pay a $700,000 fire/rescue supplement to the county this year. Under the 10-year agreement, the annual supplement increases to $900,000 during the next two budget years and to $1.3 million beginning in 2014.
"The city simply cannot afford to pay the supplement fee with our financial situation," Mulvehill said in an e-mail. "No other municipality that contracts for fire/rescue services with the county pays a supplement like Lake Worth does, which is one of the reasons I voted against this contract."Lake Worth going ons
Posted on January 23, 2012 by AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt
Have you noticed a group of young men scurrying from house to house looking at your trash cans. They are tagging them so that when and if you use your recycle bin you get credit for it.
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