June 5, 2024
The Century Town Council voted Tuesday night to extend and expand a contract with a South Florida company to manage many of the town’s operations.
In December 2023, the town accepted the city manager proposal after newly appointed Century interim Mayor Luis Gomez, Jr. told the council that he would need help to properly run the town.
“I know that I am in over my head, but I don’t want the town of Century to suffer due to my lack of experience in this position,” Gomez told his town council a few minutes after hewas sworn in in late August.
In December, the town contracted with contract with Local Government Consulting Group (LGCG)of West Palm Beach for up to six months for $7,500 per month.
Under a contract amendment approved Tuesday night, the rate for LGCG will increase to $8,000 per month for town manager services for six months. The town will pay an additional $3,000 per month for grant writing services and $175 per hour for Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Consulting Services.
LGCG will also service as “Coordinator of Ongoing Projects Services” for $40 per hour.
LGCG representatives Howard W. Brown Jr., Erin Connelly, and Cheryl Harrison-Lee will provide the various services.
The contract amendment will extend the original agreement for an additional six months from the expiration of the original contract term on June 13, 2024. The town plans to pay for the services from America Rescue Plan funding and their CRA fund.
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18 Responses to “Century Extends, Expands Contract For Town Management Services With South Florida Company”
- dave lamb onJune 6th, 2024 8:02 pm
If I hire someone to rake my leaves and he then hires someone else to rake my leaves, then why do I need the first guy?
- IMHO onJune 6th, 2024 4:40 pm
If the Mayor could put as much effort into repairing the town’s failing infrastructure as much as he does, say basketball hoops at the community center…that’d be great! js
- FE onJune 6th, 2024 2:19 pm
@Reader: if there IS a local citizen that knows and loves Century, and is qualified to be Mayor; PLEASE run for Mayor. I’m not sure there are any that meet that criteria, or this clown would have been out on his bahooky a long time ago…
- R D onJune 6th, 2024 12:49 pm
Can a mayor be impeached?
- Bruce onJune 5th, 2024 10:40 pm
The mayor is a conman. He needs to be taken behind the woodshed and taught a lesson. He can’t put more than four words together sounds like he needs a hooked on phonics from south florida. Can we trade him to south florida for a port a potty it will be a harder worker and better worker then him.
- John Bates onJune 5th, 2024 4:06 pm
How is Navarre not incorporated, but this clown show is?
- Seriously onJune 5th, 2024 2:24 pm
@whynot Do you seriously expect the Council to put a referendum on the ballot to fire themselves?! They are all collecting a paycheck for doing absolutely nothing!
- Why not a referendum? onJune 5th, 2024 1:41 pm
It baffles me why the Town Council will not pass a motion to put a referendum on the November ballot about continuing to be an incorporated local government.
If Town voters say unincorporate or remain incorporated, then the residents at least had their say.
If remaining incorporated was chosen, it would be a vote for self determination. If unincorporation were chosen, it’s a vote saying that there are better ways than to continue dow the present path.
But with no referendum, it’s status quo and stagnation.
- Kane onJune 5th, 2024 12:14 pm
Hmmm seems like someone in south Florida has figured out how to milk the A.R.P and they are using Century as the cow and guess who the scapegoat will be his name starts with a G and rhymes with omez XD
- Unbelievable onJune 5th, 2024 11:50 am
I assume this means the Mayor hasn’t learned anything in the past 5 months overseeing others do his job nor has plan to learn any of it in the next 7 months.
If you have to outsource everything the town is supposed to take care of, what is the purpose of having a town. Just revoke the charter, go back to the county, and become the Community of Century. I doubt a single resident not involved in city governance will notice the difference, except things might get better.
- Judith onJune 5th, 2024 11:15 am
If they have to pay$8,000 per month for “help” why not get rid of Gomez? he is pretty worthless, seems to me…
- Vicky onJune 5th, 2024 10:18 am
Just go ahead and do away with city hall convert to county save a lot of money and get the crooks out of office
- Logic onJune 5th, 2024 9:28 am
I would like to see an itemized job description for the mayor’s job. Which duties does he actually do? Which parts does he perform satisfactorily or well enough that any of us wouldn’t get fired for if we were being reviewed by a superior who expects us to do our job and do it well? Which duties are being delegated to outside sources, and he is simply receiving the credit and pay?
There is no accountability. I wish I could take a job and ollect a paycheck for it, while only being a figurehead while a shadow organization performs the actual work at no cost to me.
- Mike onJune 5th, 2024 8:47 am
Surely the mayor position is voluntary and receives no pay of any kind.
It can’t possibly be true that the mayor is paid a salary, admits he has no idea how to do the job, and then has the city hire companies to do his job while he still gets paid? - Bewildered onJune 5th, 2024 8:40 am
What’s next? Hire all functions necessary to run the town out to companies in China? They most likely pay big kick-backs. The State is doing zero to intervene and the majority of Century citizens don’t care one way or the other. Just like Federal Government – we get what we deserve
- Redfish onJune 5th, 2024 7:31 am
Look up the American Rescue Plan! A Biden trillion dollar US taxpayer giveaway scheme that smart operators know how to plug into! Just the beginning. You will see a lot more ARP money flowing into Mr. Brown’s pocket.
- SW onJune 5th, 2024 7:25 am
I’m not qualified for the job.
I’m not competent to do the job.
But, I want the job.
Please give me the job and then spend money to hire out of town people to do my job for me.Pathetic malfeasance.
The town charter should be revoked and the assets sold to private sector companies who are qualified and competent.
Where’s that state inspector?
- Reader onJune 5th, 2024 1:35 am
So $96,000 a year, plus $36,000 a year, because the mayor can’t do the job himself? All to a South Florida company, not hiring a local citizen that knows and loves Century?
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