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LAKE GENEVA IS RISING!
The city went down for a while, and the public and just about every community around the lake took notice, but it’s back. Todd Krause is proving to be the most adroit of politicians and a statesman, although he will deny being either of those, as he is also quite shy about his capabilities and talent. Amazingly, and wisely he has kept Alderperson Howell aboard as the continuing head of the finance committee, possibly the city’s most powerful and influential committee. Howell was doing the job under the former leadership but was struggling to accomplish those things that needed to be accomplished when it came to the transparency of finance, the auditing necessary, and the general management of all the city’s many monetary sources and accounts.
Todd also assured that Mary Jo Fesenmaier would remain as president of the council. Mary Jo was a voice of intellect, concern, and objection to much of what the former leadership was all about, and she deservedly remains in her very important post. There won’t be a raft of canceled Meetings of the Whole on her watch. Sheri Ames goes to the BID (Business Improvement District) so that a city council person will show up at meetings and be able to influence and report back to the council and the mayor. The former member of the council never showed up at meetings. Chief Peters, the most excellent fire chief around the lake, takes the post of emergency government director, while Linda Frame runs the cemetery committee.
Things are looking up with Hillmoor, as well. Even the city website, disaster that it is, is reporting that the Hillmoor property may well open by the 22nd of April. The ad hoc committee of Short-Term Rentals is gone. Todd will recreate that committee and appoint those he feels will be more sensitive to the local community members rather than favoring short-term rental owners. Yes! The ad hoc committee for Hillmoor is likely to go the same way, which is another decision that much needs to be made. The podiums in city hall where the city council meetings are held are being moved back to their former positions on each side of the council dais. Those were taken down by the former leadership leaving the public appearing to talk to the council having only the backs of their heads viewable by the television cameras set up to gauge and reveal public commentary.
Everything is being downright out in public by this new administration and the Geneva Shore Report is so proud that the new leadership was supported by this paper and by so many in the local community. It’s such a pleasure to be able to report good news, and this article is all about the good news. The new team is changing everything for the better. Will the city administrator, the city comptroller, and the building inspector survive this tsunami of great changes and good news? That is yet to be determined but it’s going to be most interesting to be able to report about as the summer bears down upon us all.
