Atlantic Community receives $20,000 for band uniforms

By John Johnston
Managing Editor

Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach has asked Palm Beach County commissioners for $20,000 to purchase band uniforms. 

The nationally known band is seeking to replace its 10-year old uniforms, and has requested and received the funding from the county Recreation Assistance Program (RAP) budget in Commissioner Mary McCarty’s Commission District 4.

Atlantic Community High School is located in a residential, middle class neighborhood, and has an extensive curriculum, which includes the International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Exceptional Student Education (ESE), and Army Junior ROTC.  Because of these opportunities, Atlantic was named the 54th best high school in America by Newsweek magazine in 2007. 

Other Business

In other recent business commissioners

• Approved agreements with Florida Power & Light, the East Central Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility and the City of West Palm Beach for construction of a 27-million-gallon-per-day reclaimed water facility and a pipeline to supply reclaimed water for cooling purposes to FPL’s West County Energy Center. FPL will pay the full cost of design, construction and operation, estimated at $62 million.

Approved on first reading and advertised for a June 17 public hearing an ordinance revoking the four-year ad valorum tax exemption for Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. The company was unable to meet job creation/retention requirements and has paid back the $23,104 credit it received for the 2007 tax year.

Agreed to terminate a grove management agreement with Lantana Farm Associates, Inc., effective August 1. Since 2005, the company has been leasing 530 acres of the county-owned Mecca Farms tract, but is no longer actively cultivating citrus on the property. The county plans to lease the land to a row-crop grower.

dopted a resolution to abandon portions of unimproved rights of way of Wakula and Asima streets located within the Pine Jog Environmental Center at Jog Road and Summit Boulevard for use by the Pine Jog Elementary School.