Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
FEBRUARY
1 DRC Meeting 2 pm
1 COP Meeting 7 pm
2 Bookmobile 10:30—11:30 am
4 Commission Workshop 9 am
5 POA Super Bowl Sunday 6 pm @ CC
6 Seasiders Board Meeting 9:30 am
7 VFD Meeting 7:30 pm
9 Bookmobile 10:30—11:30 am
10 & 11 Seasiders Bazaar 8—1
13 POA Meeting 7 pm @ CC
14 Ladies Auxiliary Meeting 7:30 pm
16 Bookmobile 10:30—11:30 am
17 Environmental Committee Meeting 9 am
17 Rotary Sweetheart Ball @ Bucc
19 ABC Safe Boating Class 8—6
20 President’s Day—Town Hall Closed
20 POA Board Meeting @ TH 7 pm
21 SICA Meeting 7 pm
23 Bookmobile 10:30—11:30 am
27 Ladies Aux Card Party NOON
27 Regular Commission Meeting 7 pm
28 Planning and Zoning Meeting 7 pm
MARCH
1 Bookmobile 10:30—11:30 am
2 Safety Council Mature Driving Class 9 am
5 Seasiders Board Meeting 9:30 am
6 VFD Meeting 7:30 pm
7 DRC Meeting 2 pm
Mayor John Workman
and the Town Commission
request the pleasure of your attendance
at a very important
Town Commission
Budget Workshop Meeting
being held on
Saturday, February 4th
9:00 a.m.
at
Town Hall 247 Edwards Lane
The Town Commission of Palm Beach Shores will be seeking your input regarding the elimination
or restructuring of certain town services currently offered to our residents.
Discussion will also be had regarding the timeline for the start of a possible
road resurfacing/repair project and a few other capital considerations.
Please make every effort to attend. Your input as a taxpayer is very important to us
as we look forward to the next budget year.
Town of Palm Beach Shores
247 Edwards Lane
Palm Beach Shores, FL 33404-5792
(561) 844-3457
(561) 863-1350 FAX
e-mail: [email protected]
Volume 25, Issue 2 FEBRUARY 2012
Over the last few weeks I have fielded a lot of
questions about outdoor fireplaces. The Fire De-
partment discourages the use of outdoor fire-
places, however use is not prohibited as long as
the unit does not produce smoke or noxious odors.
An outdoor fireplace must be a minimum of 15
feet from any structure and only used with sea-
soned firewood. The houses in our town are close
together and many residents open their windows
during the cool winter nights. It is impossible to
keep the smoke from spreading throughout the
neighborhood and if the police or fire departments
receive complaints, you will be required to extin-
guish your fire.
There have been a lot of complaints about the use
of fireworks in the town and the police depart-
ment has responded to calls throughout the
year. Fireworks may be entertaining, but can be
extremely dangerous to the amateur user and peo-
ple in the surrounding area. Each year across our
country people have been injured and killed by
the use of these devices. Please use good judg-
ment in your decisions with regards to these types
of pyrotechnics.
Submitted by Fire Chief Marty Deloach
Parking in our town has always been and always will
be at a premium, but with few exceptions if you call
us ahead of time we can work it out. If you know you
are having a get together and the amount of cars com-
ing exceeds your driveway space, give myself, Sgt.
Kelley or Chief Kniffin a call prior to the event. This
also helps with notification if your neighbors (whom
you didn’t invite) call us; we can give them an idea of
what is going on and when it may be over.
And along these lines if you ever have a question
about potential problems please give us a call; if we
can we will be more than happy to find out the answer
to the question if we do not know it. The more inter-
action between the police department and the people
we serve lets us do our job better and easier.
The busiest day for the Mayors Youth Council has
always been the Easter Egg hunt, if memory serves we
went through 3000 thousand eggs last year and a ton
of food, the food is donated by the Sailfish and every-
one who makes it a success is a volunteer. As in all
years past the hunt will be on the day before Easter,
April 8th 2012. See you there.
Police
Department
...Lt. Steve Langevin
Calling all volunteers!
The turtle patrol needs your help…
could you commit to at least one
morning a week through the turtle
season (March—September)? After
training, you’ll identify & mark nests along our
beach, watch for hatchlings, etc. For more infor-
mation, please call Sue Fleming 267-7325
Public Works has been busy keep-ing our sanitary sewer system operational or as we like to say, keeping it flowing. This year’s capital improvement project in-cluded the removal of an existing pump from our Lake Dr. lift station and the installation of a new 20 horsepower pump. The old pump was from 1997 and retired from the Town after 14 years of dedi-cated service.
Public Works Director Walt Fleming
A new 911 system was recently installed in our Police Dispatch center. To install a new fiber optic line to the building a horizontal bore took place under the town hall parking lot to the AT&T equipment on the south side of the park-ing lot to the dispatch building. As you can see from the picture (left), our sewer pipe got in the way. The pavers on Edwards Lane in front of the Fire Department had to be excavated and the pipe repaired. So Public Works has been busy keeping the flow going!
MATURE DRIVER CLASS
Has been moved to:
Friday, March 2nd
$10 for 6 hours
Save $$$ on your insurance!
Call 844-3457 for more info
NOTES FROM THE CLERK
Bored? Looking for something interesting and worth-while to do? Become a Poll Worker!! Seriously, there is always a need for conscientious folks to serve their community in the election process. In order to become a poll worker in Palm Beach County, you need to be a registered voter in this county. There will be a poll worker orientation class and poll worker training is required for each election. And, you’ll be paid to attend the training classes and to work on election day!!
If you are interested, please contact the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections office at 561-656-6200 and check out the Supervisor’s web site at pbcelections.org.
At their annual reorganization meeting at the end of March, the Town Commission appoints members to the town’s Planning and Zoning Board. This board has always been a vital part of the Town, and is di-rected by the Town’s Charter:
. . to periodically review the general overall wel-fare, design and appearance of the municipality with regard to buidings, roads, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, improvements and all new pro-jects of any nature. They shall periodically review the town ordinances and codes and shall further revise, amend or rewrite such ordinances and codes to properly meet the requirements of ne-cessity, future planning or growth of the munici-pality. Such suggested revisions, amendments or new ordinances and codes shall be submitted in writing to the commissioners. . .
The Planning and Zoning Board meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., with occasional spe-cial meetings scheduled from time to time. Interested residents please send your letters and resumes to Carolyn Gangwer, Town Clerk, 247 Edwards Lane, Palm Beach Shores, Florida 33404 or submit them via email to [email protected].
ZIP Code update: the requested address list and town boundary map have been sent to the United States Post office. We hope to get some good news soon, sent to us in “Palm Beach Shores”. Stay tuned!!!
TOWN MANAGER UPDATE
On numerous occasions I have reported about the inlet
dredging and believe it will be helpful to provide a visual
(below) of the areas being referenced.
A small dredging operation is planned to begin the middle
of March and should take approximately 4-6 weeks. The
dredging will only be in the settling basin and the entrance
of the channel, and will not enter the inlet. The material
will be placed in the near shore which is much less intru-
sive since there will be no need to tie up to the jetty or off-
load or pump out the material.
The next major dredge is being scheduled for November
(as we had requested) and is expected to last two months
with plans to be completed by full season. This operation
will extend to the expanded settling basin and will include
dredging the entire inlet. We will be invited to attend the
planning meetings over the next few months and will have
an opportunity to voice our concerns about how the opera-
tions will affect our residents and visitors.
I will keep you updated as additional information is avail-
able. As always I encourage you to contact me with any
questions or concerns you have about this and any other
matter.
Town Manager Cindy Lindskoog
Relax, Rejuvenate, Revive!
Yoga class at the beach on Mondays at 8 am and Wednesdays at 4:30 pm at the Town Hall meeting room. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat or thick towel. Both men and women included — all ages welcome!
NOTE: FEB. 8TH WILL BE @ COMMUNITY CENTER
PBS Property Owners Association
Feb 5th Super Bowl Sunday 6 pm @ CC FREE! (Alcohol available on-site, please don’t bring any)
Feb 13th Community Meeting @ CC
Spring Fling coming March 24th!
For more info: www.palmbeachshorespoa.com
{Note: Due to other charitable activities (Rotary’s Sweet-heart Ball on the 17th, & Seasiders Bazaar on the 10th/11th)
the POA scheduled fewer events this month.}
LADIES EXERCISE
The exercise ladies are still going strong on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays from 8:30—9:30 in the
Town Hall meeting room. This is free, so come on
down! For more info, please call Rose Crothers at
799-6599.
Extended settling
basin
Settling basin
Sand transfer
plant
WRITE: If you have any concerns you can write your Commission at the following email addresses:
Mayor John M. Workman [email protected] Vice Mayor Lisa A. Tropepe [email protected] Commissioner Alan D. Fiers [email protected] Commissioner Roby DeReuil [email protected] Commissioner Scott McCranels [email protected]
You can also write or call: 247 Edwards Lane, 844-3457 or
e-mail to: [email protected] or visit our website at: palmbeachshoresfl.us
Town of Palm Beach Shores
247 Edwards Lane
Palm Beach Shores, FL 33404
SEASIDERS NEWS
Our month started with great luncheon pro-
gram. Laurel Sauer was our guest speaker
and entertained us with interesting tales of the televi-
sion world. There was a good turnout for bridge and
games day at the Community Center. The book club
took on some heavy reading for discussion - "The
Big Short" - and came away more knowledgeable
about the real estate crash. A group enjoyed lunch-
eon or High Tea at the Serenity Tea House. The Four
Arts group had a fun time touring the Old North-
wood Art and Antique area. Don't forget our BIG
BAZAAR on February 10th and 11th from 8am to
1pm. There will be electronics, furniture, antiques,
kitchen items, a working freezer, bikes, crafts, jew-
elry, greeting cards, chair massage, a bake sale,
clothing boutique, fresh flower arrange-
ments, a food court, books and games, etc.
Tell your friends. All proceeds go to charity.
FUNDRAISER FOR THE
PALM BEACH SHORES ST. PATRICKS’ DAY PARADE
Saturday, March 3rd
Seatings at 6 and 7:45 Lake Park VFW, 354 10th St., Lake Park
$12.00 Donation
Call Claire 881-9266 or Nancy 842-0635
Please buy your tickets by Thursday, Feb. 23rd!
TOM RODRIGUEZ, our former mail carrier, sent a card to thank everyone for their kind wishes & prayers. His
medications are affecting his hands, so it’s difficult for him to write. He asked us to spread the word to everyone that he’s home, doing well, and he really appreciates all the cards.
