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The coming recall of Alderperson Bob Kordus. This man is going to be recalled for the very best of republican reasons. Because he’s needlessly trying to sock it to Lake Geneva residents financially without good cause. Using the age old salesman’s ploy of always assume the sale has been made, Alderman Bob (Cordite) Kordus, the apparent new dictator over Lake Geneva affairs, bamboozled the Lake Geneva City Council Monday night into approving a referendum on the Premier Sales Tax because he claims Jim Weiss of Linn Township and other municipalities were requiring it. “Cordite” evidently took it upon himself to usurp the city administrator’s job in contacting Town of Linn, Williams Bay, Walworth and Fontana to get them to buy into this horrid new Premier Sales Tax. The only Alderman clever enough to bring up the fact that the Council has not made the decision to approve the Premier Sales Tax was Cindy Flower, but that didn’t stop Kordus from getting his way. Also, Kordus knows that the state representatives oppose the tax because Lake Geneva does not qualify to apply it, so tricky Bob Kordus plans, once he has referendum approval, to attach the Premier Sales Tax to the Wisconsin’s budget bill, thus likely guaranteeing its passage. The recall movement just getting started to remove this man from office appears to be well grounded. Residents just got hit with a 36% increase in utility rates. It needs another punishing tax like it needs, well, another brain-damaged alderperson.

 

Once again, Lake Geneva’s “Cordite” Kordus went at it. At the August 22nd city council meeting he made the motion to table ordinance 16-15 quashed free speech. Ordinance 16-15 would change the control of the city’s sewer and water from the Utility Commission back to the City Council. Kordus’s motions prevented the City Council from exposing and discussing the issues involved and it did a disservice to the other City Council members and to the residents of Lake Geneva. It was followed by a vote that tabled the issue with 5 aldermen Kordus, Skates, Hedlund, Howell and Chappell voting to table the Ordinance 16-15 and 3 aldermen Flower, Gelting and Horne voted against tabling the issue. The chairman of the utility commission, Mike Kocourek, a very decent citizen and very large property owner of Lake Geneva business property, immediately resigned over this issue.

By law, city council members cannot discuss the pros and cons of a city issue with each other accept at a posted public meeting. By tabling this issue it silenced city council members from discussing the issue and publicly explaining the misuse of the utility commission’s authority and funds that prompted the ordinance to abolish the utility commission. Was the tabling of the ordinance done to hide the corruption and misuse of public funds or to protect those responsible? There was, and is, no justifiable reason to seal up this issue with a tabling motion and silence fellow alderman before a discussion except to hide what it would reveal. Whether done for yourself or others, your tabling the utility commission issue before a discussion smells of a defensive action if not for yourself then for someone else. The fact that the commission has agreed to make so many changes (except financial) to avoid losing control is indicative of the problem, and why the commission should be abolished. When the threat of termination is the only way to control the conduct of a commission or an employee, then it is time that the city council abolishes the commission or terminates that employment.

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