Page 7 - Boca Exposure - July '19

Boca Exposure, Page 7
From The Desk Of Commissioner Robert S. Weinroth

Robert Weinroth, a former new flooring, lighting and ceilings. The ticketing level In 2017, consumers reported losses in excess of $240
member of the Boca Raton is currently under construction and is being updated. million as a result of frauds perpetuated by telemarketers.
City Council, was elected Additionally, new seating with integrated charging In 2018, the estimated number of illegal robocalls
as a Palm Beach County stations on Concourse B were recently installed, and increased by 40 percent and reached over 48 billion
Commissioner to replace Concourse C will be undergoing the same improvements people.
Steven Abrams, who this summer. The bill passed in the Senate in May and will go to
retired due to term limits Over the years, the airport has purchased surrounding the House of Representatives for consideration. Please
requirements. properties, providing opportunities for increased revenue feel free to contact your local member of Congress urging
My staff and I recently from leases with new businesses such as the travel plaza/ support of the TRACED Act.
visited with the executive cell phone waiting lot which includes a convenience store, Camino Real Bridge Due to Open. The $9 million
team at Palm Beach County gas station and car wash, Drive Shack (due to open late structural restoration work on the Camino Real Bridge
International Airport 2019), a Toyota dealership, and Home2 Suites by Hilton. in Boca Raton is scheduled to be completed by mid-
(PBIA) that includes Homeland Security and Palm Revenues from non-airline development help to ensure July. Work began in April 2018, after the historic bridge
Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) deputies. It was an low airline costs and contribute to the ongoing revenue was one of 14 in South Florida identified as structurally
educational behind-the-scenes tour of our award-winning stream for the operation and maintenance of the county’s deficient by the state.
airport. airports, including Lantana, North County and Glades. Due to its historic designation, there was a limit on the
PBIA operates as an enterprise fund (no taxpayer One of the highlights of our tour included a type of aesthetic changes permitted. The most noticeable
dollars) and has a $7 billion impact on our local economy. demonstration with PBSO K-9 Baro, who is trained to change was the relocation of the bridge tender’s house on
Operations are funded by user fees generated by the detect drugs and explosives in luggage, cargo and mail the north side. Also, the sidewalks have been widened,
airlines, businesses and passengers. Major improvement travelling through the airport. providing extra room for cyclists and pedestrians.
and construction projects are funded by a combination PBIA Cell Phone Waiting Lot. Just a reminder that Changes Expected in Nonpartisan Elections. A
of grants, passenger facility charges, revenue bonds and we have a cell phone waiting lot in the plaza at the corner recent Florida Supreme Court opinion found that county
airport revenue. In 2018, over six million passengers of Florida Mango and Belvedere Road. The plaza features constitutional officers’ elections cannot be nonpartisan.
travelled through the airport, a 4 percent increase from 85 parking spaces, free wireless Internet service, free Even though the ruling stemmed from an Orange County
the previous year. electric charge stations, and a flight information display case, Palm Beach County is impacted as its charter calls
PBIA has nonstop service to 30 markets, and at peak screen inside the 7-Eleven. There is also a Dunkin’ for nonpartisan elections for the office of sheriff, property
season operates over 100 daily nonstop departures. It’s Donuts, car wash and a Mobil gas station. appraiser and supervisor of elections.
no surprise that the New York metropolitan area offers Combating Criminal Robo and Spoof Calls. In light of the Supreme Court’s action, the county
the greatest number of flights to and from PBIA, with In response to the growing number of complaints attorney issued an opinion stating that the Palm Beach
42 flights daily during the winter and 25 flights daily in from residents, I recently initiated a resolution which County charter’s provisions providing for such elections
the summer. was unanimously passed by the Board of County are unenforceable as a matter of law. In other words,
The airport has earned many awards over the past 30 Commissioners urging the United States Congress to enact starting with the 2020 elections, the offices identified
years, including being named among the top ten Best the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement above will be partisan. All other offices continue to
Domestic Airports in 2017 by Travel + Leisure Magazine! and Deterrence Act (TRACED). Our residents are being be held as set forth in the Florida Election Code. The
The 2017 awards included ranking fifth Best Medium inundated by these illegal calls, which are not only a practical result of this change is the likely need for
Airport in the 2017 J.D. Power North American Airport nuisance but are often dangerous scams by telemarketers primary elections for these offices in August 2020.
Satisfaction Study and best U.S. airport for overall wait using tactics designed to defraud and deceive.
times at TSA checkpoints. The TRACED Act will enable the telecom industry,
If you have traveled through PBIA lately, you federal regulators and the Attorney General’s office to
probably have noticed the terminals are in the process abate illegal and unwanted robocalls. The legislation will CCCC
of being modernized to make them more user-friendly reduce the number of illegal robocalls and fight spoofing
and convenient. The majority of the public restrooms (the practice of using technology to disguise the caller’s
were recently renovated. The baggage claim level has phone number).

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