“As I wrote Tuesday, Long serves on the city’s planning and zoning board and also is board chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. Long used his district email account to send a recent finding by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility that the level of some carcinogens in Delray Beach’s water meets state standards but is high enough to be “cause for concern.”
Mayor Shelly Petrolia and Commissioner Julie Casale were aghast. Petrolia demanded that the commission remove Long from the planning and zoning board unless he apologized, even though the email didn’t concern the board.”