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THE NEW GENEVA TEAM IS WINNING
Todd Krause and the newly elected Lake Geneva City Council officials are doing a splendid job. There are no more catcalls from the mayor insulting people trying to speak to them at Meetings of the Whole, or any of that, and there exists no seeming ‘curtain of doom’ that had developed for anyone walking into the Lake Geneva Municipal Building. On top of this, city positions, like those of the city administrator and harbormaster, have opened up and attracted new, younger, and very enthusiastic employees.
The meetings being held by the city council and the committees with Todd’s appointees have been efficient and great, unlike what had become the rather befuddled meetings of the time before. This new team has quieted and tamped down those members of the team who stayed on from the old administration, not that there aren’t disagreements. There are still some controversies ahead as the budget process for 2025 begins and the current city comptroller, being hypersensitive to public criticism is going to have to stand and take it, unlike before when a council chamber room she told the attending public that it was stupid.
Some of these people Todd has kept, with the approval of the current council, simply because they are that good at doing their jobs, and also are working much better under the new enlightened leadership than they were doing before. Todd and the other new leaders, council, and committees, are not much interested in personal invective or nonsense. There’s plenty of business being done and to be done and it’s a pleasure, as members of the GSR staff attend most committee or council sessions or watch them on television. The GSR also publishes quite a volume of video presentations all on its own, so that the public, tuning in, can not only view that perspective live but it can go back in time on the Facebook site for no charge and access them for historical interest or review.
Recently, a non-profit came to town to use the Riviera for entertainment, and for the betterment of the community. At Monday night’s council meeting the council decided in a four to four split, the tie being decided by the mayor, that they could only have him if they paid the minimum cost to open and operate it. The non-profit agreed but was not happy. What was the council doing, since the Riviera under the previous administration was given away to outfits like Miss America? A new policy is in creation and it is in the middle of this that this non-profit group applied to use the Riviera for free. The council put its foot down and demonstrated some fiscal responsibility. Finally, there will be a policy that is fair to one and all and not favoring some (the city pays the expenses when the Riviera is let out for supposedly free).
