“The Splainer” consists of summaries and implications of what happened at Boca Raton city meetings. These posts are written by various BocaFirst volunteers who try to boil down many hours of meetings to a “net-net” of what happened and what it means to our readers.
Reading time: 2 minsIt appears from the cash flow forecasts that opening the west side of the rebuilt Ocean Breeze course first is the best path forward.
Reading time: 2 minsOn March 3 2020, the Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations had a Meet The…
Reading time: 3 minsOn Jan 27, 2020 the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District (The District) met to finalize their joint plan with the City of Boca Raton (City) to rebuild the defunct Ocean Breeze golf course into a municipal golf course. This did not happen.
Reading time: 2 minsOn January 21,2020 The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District met to discuss negotiations with City to jointly build the defunct Ocean Breeze golf course into a municipal facility.
Reading time: 3 mins13th. The consensus by The District was that the amended ILA materially changed the original Feb 2, 2018 ILA. Comments made in the meeting indicated they thought it was onerous and would put The District “in financial ruin”.
Reading time: 2 minsEarly in the discussion the District pointed out that they had over $38 million on their plate with projects such as Gumbo Limbo
Reading time: 3 minsSeveral of the current city council members made a pledge to “keep golf in Boca” when the existing muni course was being negotiated for sale. After this struggle to find common ground one wonders if they would make that same pledge today.
Reading time: 2 minsOn Sept 11 The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District (District) met to discuss its budget for next year.
Reading time: 2 minsEarlier this month Virgin Trains indicated their desire to provide additional stops between Fort Lauderdale and Jupiter, Florida. The City of Boca Raton is high on their list of potential targets and discussions appear to be underway.
Reading time: 5 minsPalm Beach County is building a 400′ tower. The value to Boca’s public safety is that by owning the tower, it can prevent consumer cellular communications by other “tenants” on the tower.