Letter: Our Day Of Independence

Praise God and celebrate our Independence Day. Take a moment to reflect on those beginnings. It started with a revolution. A people governing themselves but for a king. A people desiring just one government.

The time has come for a change. The citizens of the Town of Loxahatchee Groves deserve just one government. The independent Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District must come dependent to the Town of Loxahatchee Groves.

A Few Reasons:

The LGWCD already operates as the town’s road repair contractor competing against private industry for the privilege. Most of the gas tax revenue collected by the town is paid to the LGWCD, leaving little left for other needs, such as council-approved equestrian crossings to be installed on Okeechobee Blvd. Gaps and loopholes exist where the town and the LGWCD each point fingers at each other. The development of equestrian trails, roadway canal crossing replacements, mowing and hedging are left idle. Council meetings experience excessive political infighting with LGWCD supervisors, who are always speaking up on town business, often speaking for LGWCD interests and against town interests. Pro-LGWCD members of the council always badger town management by attempting to micro-manage the town manager.

Other reasons exist, but for now, the more objectionable reasons will go untold.

There is a lack of transparency between the Town of Loxahatchee Groves and the LGWCD.

The citizens of the Groves have a certain, nontransferable, non-forfeitable right to reform, refashion or repeal government, in such activity that will be viewed as promoting a form of government, of which, all the citizens, have governmental influence, where every idea has an equal chance to succeed, and our community is run by just one elected policy making body.

Keith Harris, Loxahatchee Groves