Indian Trail Improvement District will be participating in the Palm Beach County community clean up on Earth Day, Saturday April 14, 2018. This is a great event for our community to come together and clean up the trash in our community. If you or your organization would like to participate, please contact me at bargue@indiantrail.com.Continue reading “Earth Day – Community Clean-up April 14th, 2018”
Monthly Archives: January 2018
ALA business and community meet up
Saturday the Acreage Landowners Association hosted their first business and community meet up at the Acreage Community North Park which was a great success. Indian Trail had a tent staffed by Miriam Heisser, Rob Robinson, Javier from parks department and myself. We had a map of the ITID boundaries and active units as well asContinue reading “ALA business and community meet up”
City of Westlake – Response from Department of Economic Opportunity
Below is the link to the response from the State of Florida Department of Economic Opportunity regarding the City of Westlake’s proposed comprehensive plan. It appears, as I suspected, ITID has not had an opportunity to have input into the impact on our District resources other than speaking at the TCRPC. CTY. WESTLAKE 17-PLAN (P)
State Review of Incorporation of the Acreage
Many have wondered what is happening with incorporation of the Acreage. I have noticed the incorporation group, PLAN has been silent on the issue other than to state that it is not going to be considered by the legislature for this legislative session. In the interest of transparency, attached is the letter sent to PLANContinue reading “State Review of Incorporation of the Acreage”
60th Street – FLU Amendment
The County’s engineering department has requested the BCC initiate an amendment to the Transportation Map, Thoroughfare Right-of-Way Map regarding 60th Street N from 140th Avenue to 120th Avenue. Currently it allows for an 80 ft ROW and they would like to change it to 100ft ROW to allow for a future 5 lane road. ThisContinue reading “60th Street – FLU Amendment”
City of Westlake Proposed Comprehensive Plan
For those of you interested in reading the proposed Comprehensive Plan for the City of Westlake, here it is WL_comprehensive_plan_policy_doc_draft This is the draft of the response from the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, TCRPC staff created prior to the council meeting. There will be modifications based on the recommendations of the council 3J_Westlake_171ER
Last week’s events
Last week Carol Jacobs and I attended the Florida Association of Special Districts Legislative update in Tallahassee. This was a great event to review what is before the legislature this year that impacts special districts, the climate and politics. It appears as though local home rule is still under attack by the legislature, this includesContinue reading “Last week’s events”
Hopes, plans and challenges for 2018, according to municipal leaders
Betty Argue, president of the Board of Supervisors of the Indian Trail Improvement District, is looking forward to working with a new management team and continuing to address residents’ needs in a cost-effective way. “Strategic planning is a necessity,” she said. “Without proper planning, it is difficult to provide consistent direction to staff. As aContinue reading “Hopes, plans and challenges for 2018, according to municipal leaders”
Palm Beach County Days in Tallahassee, Day 2
I am sorry for the delay in writing this. Day 2 of Palm Beach County days was January 10th. It was a packed day of meetings (10 to be exact). One of the meetings was with the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to discuss the balance of funding needed for the Corbett Levy.Continue reading “Palm Beach County Days in Tallahassee, Day 2”
Palm Beach County days in Tallahassee- Day 1
Yesterday was the beginning of Palm Beach County Days 2018. Carol Jacobs, Rob Robinson and I met with Senator Powell’s aide Delano, Rick Roth, and many informal meetings with Palm Beach County officials regarding lobbying efforts. Our focus is to obtain the remaining needed funding for the Corbett levee project, promoting support for the MossContinue reading “Palm Beach County days in Tallahassee- Day 1”
