MAYOR ROGER MICHAUD ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PALM BEACH COUNTY LEAGUE OF CITIES

Lake Park’s own Mayor Roger Michaud was elected to the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach County League of Cities. The organization celebrated this honor at its annual Installation Banquet held at the Kravis Center on May 21. The Town of Lake Park is incredibly proud of our Mayor and all he has accomplished!

Checks & Balances: Your Guide to County Finances (PAFR)

 
Checks & Balances: Your Guide to County Finances, also called the Popular Annual Financial Report or PAFR, is a user-friendly tool that helps residents understand how their tax dollars are managed and spent. This easy-to-read guide, produced annually by the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller’s office, highlights important financial information and issues affecting the County’s financial health. It contains condensed and simplified information mostly from the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, which is compiled at the end of each fiscal year.

Click here to view Checks & Balances: Fiscal Year 2023 

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES VISITS LAKE PARK

Lake Park is honored to have been selected for a visit as part of the National League of Cities Centennial Roadshow: 100 Years, 100 Cities. Clarence Anthony, CEO and Executive Director of the National League of Cities, along with key staff members, visited Lake Park on May 21 to learn about our history and plans for our future, and presented us with artwork commemorating the event. We appreciate the support we receive from the NLC today and always.

VICE MAYOR KIM GLAS-CASTRO HONORED WITH 2024 HOME RULE HERO AWARD

 

 

 

The Florida League of Cities has once again recognized Lake Park Vice Mayor Kimberly Glas-Castro as a Home Rule Hero. Home Rule is the ability for a city to address local problems with local solutions with minimal state interference. Home Rule Hero Award recipients are local government officials who consistently responded to the League’s request to reach out to members of the Legislature and help give a local perspective on an issue. Ms. Glas-Castro was honored as a dedicated local official whose tireless advocacy for local decision-making made a difference.

Congratulations to Vice Mayor Glas-Castro on this prestigious award!

A 'biodetention' site at Bert Bostrom Park will contain and clean floodwaters like a man-made marsh. Officials hope it's a model for other towns.

Story By Lianna Norman, Palm Beach Post

LAKE PARK — The town of Lake Park is introducing an innovative, environmentally conscious solution for managing stormwater flooding.

The town updated its stormwater master plan last February. The plan involves placing a biodetention facility in Bert Bostrom Park. Biodetention facilities are essentially man-made wetlands, grounded with vegetation, that are built to mimic natural wetlands by collecting and cleaning stormwater runoff.

The addition of this green infrastructure at Bert Bostrom will relieve the effects of flooding in the park, along Seventh Street at the southern end of town, while preserving and adding to its existing green space.

"We're taking an environmental approach, because we've had issues in the town where there was flooding," Lake Park Town Commissioner Roger Michaud said.

(This rendering suggests how a stormwater biodetention area would look in Bert Bostrom Park, along Seventh Street in Lake Park. Several parts of town flood during heavy rains, and the system will help to lessen the problem.)

He said biodetention is one of three phases to the project, which will improve every part of the system that carries stormwater into Lake Park's southern outfall, which handles nearly half the town's runoff.

Stormwater runoff is a major contributor to pollution in urban areas. Flooding from the kind of rainfall that Palm Beach County sees during hurricane season carries trash, bacteria and heavy metals into storm sewers and local waterways — in this case, the Lake Worth Lagoon.

"We're housing 1.4 acres of underground filtration chambers," Michaud said. "That will hold a total storage capacity of 1.8 million gallons of stormwater runoff. What this will do is help mitigate the rate of discharge coming out."

The biodetention facility coming to Bert Bostrom Park will add an underground retention and exfiltration system designed to filter out and absorb these pollutants, and redirect the clean stormwater into the Lake Worth Lagoon through an underground chamber system.

The plan also recommends the use of federal grants to fund most of the project. The town intends to start work on the project during 2023.

"Fortunately for us," Michaud said. "We were awarded $11.1 million (in Florida Department of Economic Opportunity) funds from the Rebuild Florida Mitigation General Infrastructure Program. And the town's going to match more than $300,000 in kind toward the project as well."

This program provides funding for local governments such as Lake Park to develop large-scale plans like this one to better equip communities to withstand future disasters.

We're looking to be a model and a template for other towns in going in this direction with the environment," Michaud said.