Announcement Press Release (05/04/10)
Press Release
Lisa Maxwell for Lake Worth City Commission District 4- 2010
Release Date: May, 4th, 2010
Campaign on web at: www.lisamaxwell.org
Contact Campaign at: lisa.maxwell@lisamaxwell.org
Note: .PDF file attached
Lake Worth resident and community volunteer Lisa Maxwell will announce her campaign for Lake Worth City Commission at the Tropical Ridge Neighborhood Association Community Walk on May 16th at 4:00 P.M.
She is encouraging supporters to gather on bikes or on foot at Compass on Dixie Highway and 2nd Avenue where she will declare her candidacy. Ms. Maxwell is dedicated to providing great municipal services to all of our neighborhoods, ensuring that the needs and resources of the City are provided to each and every community in an equitable fashion.
At the event, Maxwell will announce her campaign’s web site www.Lisamaxwell.org, and its use of Twitter (as “Lisa Maxwell”) and presence on Face book. She will be accompanied by her dog Libby (7 years old).
Maxwell’s announcement will be a declaration for the 2010 race for the District 4 seat on the Lake Worth City Commission. The election is November 2nd.
“I love this community and feel the time is right for me to give back,” she says. “Civic involvement has been in my blood since my early memories of helping my parents volunteer for food and clothing drives in my home town.” “I hope some younger people will help my campaign; there ought to be a cycle to all of this.”
“I have benefitted in a million ways from this city. I purchased my home in 2002, one of the City’s original homes which is an historic rum-runner cottage. I have lovingly restored this home and am committed to maintaining our community’s charm and human scale.” “Lake Worth’s great institutions such as the Downtown, Library and Museum, the Municipal Beach, protected open space, and countless recreational opportunities for all ages make this a great place to live and work.” “Lake Worth may well be the most livable and green oriented community in South Florida, and I know I can play a role in ensuring that we preserve what is best about Lake Worth by making careful and informed decisions about our future.”
Maxwell, 48, is currently a consultant for the West Palm Beach Housing Authority, the Collins Center, and the Broward Principals and Assistants Association. After moving to Lake Worth, She soon began volunteering for the Lake Worth Historic Preservation and Planning and Zoning Board, to put her knowledge of land use, environmental, and planning laws into practice. As a member of the Board for three and ½ years, she helped lead the efforts to preserve our historic structures, improve our Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinances, and proved to be tough on Slum Landlords through the Nuisance Abatement Board.
Maxwell’s other community activities include the Urban Land Institute, United Way – Broward County, Palm Beach County Housing Leadership Council, Governors Commission on Growth Management, Broward County Charter Review Commission – Subcommittee on Affordable Housing, Regional Sustainability Committee, South Florida Regional Planning Council committees on housing, Women in Network, Pride Business Coalition, GLAD, Women’s Executive Leadership (WEL), Floridians for Better Growth, Smart Growth Coalition, Congress on New Urbanism, Board of Building Construction Trades, Senior Services Volunteer, Green Schools Coalition, Sustainability Council, Gold Coast Builders Association. Everglades and Wetlands Preservation Committee, Broward County Department of Environmental Protection Committee on wetlands preservation, Broward County Tree Preservation Board, South Florida Transportation initiative, Neighborhood Revitalization Network, Rio Vista Civic Association, South Palm Park Neighborhood Association, Lake Worth Kiwanis.
Raised in a suburb of Boston Mass, she attended the University of Mass/Amherst, earning a B.A. in Legal Studies and Political Science. In college, Maxwell was an active student leader, including service on the Judiciary Committee, member of the Radical Student Union, participated in the Nuclear Freeze Referendum, and volunteered at the Legal Aid office in Amherst.
Lisa enjoys traveling with, running, kayaking, and her far-too-infrequent ski trips with friends.
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