Malcolm Balfour on View Street
A few View Streeters had the
opportunity recently to chat with one of the three candidates in the Lantana
municipal election to be held on March 12.
Malcolm Balfour is a council
candidate in the town’s Group 2 competition.
The other two contenders for the office
are Joseph Farrell and Rosemary Mourning.
Balfour was on View Street to meet
the residents and ask for their votes.
Visits by the two other candidates
for the council slot are anticipated.
Balfour said he is concerned about
tax revenues for the town after property tax rates began to drop throughout the
county following the international fiscal crisis more than three years ago. The
town not raised taxes for the past 10-years, Balfour said.
He said the sale of the old hospital
that dominates the Lantana landscape might be the right response to the town’s
economic woes.
“A major part of the solution
to our financial difficulties could come from the privatization of the state
owned A.G. Holley Hospital property. For 60-plus years the state-owned
building, in our Town's prime location, but has paid no taxes. With two
airports close by, it is an ideal location for commercial development,” Balfour
said.
Florida Governor Rick Scott has said that
he plans to sell state-owned properties.
Balfour came to Lantana in 1972
as an editor of the National Enquirer.
He has stayed on as an independent
reporter and television producer. He served as chairman of the Lantana’s Nature
Preserve commission. Balfour and his wife, Ilona, I have two grown
children.
Balfour’s campaign is planning a “meet
and greet” event at the Grumpy Grouper
Grill, 224 No. 3rd St., on Wednesday, March 6 from 5:30 p.m. to
8 p.m. View Streeters are invited to attend.
Campaign graphic supplied by
the candidate:
