SMALL GEMS
Who is this Lake Geneva Parking Manager and why is a Navy Reserve lower enlisted person acting like a four-star Admiral?
Nobody knows. The parking team is pulling in the money for the city but meanwhile, a message of mean-spiritedness is floating down from Admiral Beth, that is becoming unpalpable to the general public that has to deal with the parking crew out in the streets and alleys.
The mayor, the most excellent Todd Krause, has been told several times how this department of the city, once so vibrant and actively good-natured, has descended into whatever it’s become. Lake Geneva is not Chicago. The public does not drive hell-bent-for-leather like Chicago drivers and the people who enforce the ordinances don’t need to, nor seldom do they, act like they are working for one of the infamous Chicago machines.
This new parking flavor, definitively not desert quality, is another problem that demonstrates to all readers just why one may not seek to become the mayor of any community, much less a tourist-driven one.
Channel 25 is still not functional.
Mayor Todd Krause is all over this one and promising that the ‘cable’ needed (costing, astoundingly just under fifty thousand dollars) should arrive by the end of February. Well, the Geneva Shore Report is all over this one too, and will be standing by at the end of the month to ensure that the public, the real viewing public, gets to see and hear meetings at home while not being a teenage A.I. or programming pro.
At that time, March 1st, if the part has not arrived then the GSR will demand a copy of the purchase order which will have the name of the company providing the electronics necessary. The GSR investigative staff will then go into direct contact with the supplier and report blow-by-blow facts to the public as they become known. The GSR staff loves the mayor, but he is still the mayor and therefore fully accountable to the public which the GSR also serves.
Don’t get scammed.
Scams happen every day and can have a devastating impact on the victim. Walworth County Government sent out a news release to make Walworth County residents aware of a scam that took one woman for $2,000.
The woman reported receiving a phone call from an individual claiming to be a Walworth County Sheriff. The fraudster claimed she had failed to report for jury duty and needed to pay a fine of $2,000 or she would be arrested. The women wired the money immediately. After the money was received the fraudster claimed the fine had in- creased and requested the women send additional money.
These kinds of calls are never legit and should be ignored. Court officials and officers will never make phone calls to threaten arrest and demand money.
If you receive a call like this or one similar you should hang up and contact the clerk of court office at 262-741-7012.
This and other scams happen every day and can have a devastating impact on the victim.
