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How Did Shorewood Spend $883k in COVID Relief Funds?
Are you sick of talking about COVID? Pun intended. Well this isn’t really about COVID, it’s about $883k given to the city of Shorewood to protect the citizens of Shorewood and it mostly all went down the drain.
Literally!
Watten Ponds 2 Development: Delayed
An organized group of residents has succeeded in delaying the Watten Ponds 2 proposed development by petitioning for an Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW).
Once completed, the document will guide future decisions on the project. For now, the petition puts the project on hold.
An Embarrassing Failure
Is your privilege to speak at council meetings about to be stifled?
The failure of Shorewood mayor Labadie and City Administrator Nevinski to follow city protocol, may affect ALL residents of Shorewood who want or need to participate in city council meetings via Zoom.
How Inflating Project Costs and Budgets Impacts Your Taxes
Millions!
Higher than necessary city taxes, unspent budget dollars, egregious reserves and overestimating projects are all contributors to higher compounding taxes each year.
How?
$540k City Tax You Likely Don’t Know About
If you receive a gas bill from CenterPoint Energy, or electric bill from Xcel Energy you may not know the City of Shorewood has covertly been taking money from you each month for years to increase their revenue.
Shorewood’s Consulting Extravagances
Are consulting services worth the time and money when 80%-90% of the recommendations are never implemented and administration, council members and even mayors rotate out every few years?
Cities waste so much money on elaborate consulting ideas that are never implemented.
This needs to stop.
3 New Things
– A Mouse in Your House?
– Freeman Park Transition
– A Stunning Natural DIsplay
Shorewood’s Top-Heavy City Operations
Have you ever wondered how Shorewood’s expenses and revenue compares to other equivalent sized cities?
So did we.
We researched 5 other comparable sized Minnesota cities by households and population and summarized the findings.
