NEAT STUFF
They are not satisfied with the distinction of turning Flat Iron Park into a Sanford and Son’s Junk Yard. “Resident master of art” Dan Winkler wants to add just one more item to this poor be-leagured park to make it sufficiently déclassé to compete with Dennis Dahl’s front yard on Williams Street for the distinct honor of being “most dubious objet d’ art debris.”
Dapper Dan Winkler, together with his friends from the Bureau of Image Disasters 
(BID), made a valiant effort to achieve this honor by recommending an ice skating rink be added to the already mightily abused Flat Iron Park. Like someone said, “the image of skating in the park is a Norman Rockwell painting in the making.” But the impact on what is left of the park would be devastating. Winkler tried to convince everyone that the grass would totally survive the experience of being covered over for 4 months by a thick sheet of ice, but even the great manipulator couldn’t sell that line of claptrap. Winkler was sent back to the drawing board on that issue, for the time being at least.
Double dealing with both hands under the table. Are the voters of Lake Geneva aware of how these special crony relationships come to change everyone’s life in and around a small community? Take Mr. Michael Slaveny, Lake Geneva’s City Planner and Director of Planning Services for Vandewalle and Associates, and how he gets paid. He charges the city for work he does educating and consulting with firms trying to develop property in the local area. Mr. Slaveny charges the city for his application and planning work on behalf of the applicant. Then the city pays Mr. Slaveny and charges the client. Is there any wonder that almost all development projects in Lake Geneva are not only eventually approved, but also pay a handsome sum to the same people who are supposed to be exercising objectivity on behalf of the public? This system, set up some time in the dark ages, needs to be changed.
Your thoughts are appreciated below
Before you do,
here is some Really Neat Stuff
The grandest place? The empty space where a head shop disguised as a “flavored aroma breathing center” bit the dust. Mike Kocourek made sure this place went back on the rental market and everyone around the city should thank him. There were two of those stores in Lake Geneva. Now there’s only one. And the GSR is on it.
Do I understand the Building Inspector for Lake Geneva, WI is a planner for the Firm that helps plan most proposed developments?
In our neck of the woods that would be highly suspect.
Mr. Slaveny is really the City Planner and the sweetest man you could ever meet. He’s sweet as a lamb, you might say, but in reality, he’s the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing. He shows developers how to maneuver through Lake Geneva’s Zoning process as a Developer’s Consultant for a fee and then acts as the City’s guru on Planning for another fee to advise the Plan Committee on things he’s recommended. Nice gig, if you can suspend your code of ethics. Dick Malmin
Thanks for your input, Dick
It does seem a bit of a stretch to keep conflict of interest out of the Mix.
According to Matthhew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Of course the new age executives might be trained by a different set of principles?