Town Council Candidate Visits

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. 3^rd St., on Wednesday, March 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. View Streeters are invited to attend.

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