Shorewood Citizen Advocates

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Shorewood budget open house

5 Things You May Not Know About Shorewood Budgets

At some point, you may have found yourself in a conversation that you had no idea what the other person was talking about because of acronyms and spurious code words. This could likely be said about technology companies, the stock market, manufacturing, the list goes on.
 
City finances and budgets are no exception.

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road work ahead

Big Changes Coming for Highway 5

Carver County, along with project planners, and MnDOT, are planning improvements to Highway 5, between downtown Victoria and Highway 41.
 
This section of Highway 5 is currently functioning 50% over capacity for an existing two-lane road; carrying 27,000 vehicles per day. 

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Fiber optic cable

New Cable Provider Coming to Shorewood

Residents of Shorewood have been asking for alternatives to Mediacom for quite some time now.
 
At the August 12th city council meeting City Administrator Mark Nevinski said he has been in talks with Metronet.
 
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution that fiber optics cables will be buried in neighborhoods that already have underground cable and will be hung on utility poles in neighborhoods that have poles.

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Shorewood taxpayer alert!

Shorewood Taxpayer ALERT!

Compare a few neighboring cities budgets and demographic information and you will learn that Shorewood taxpayers are paying more and perhaps getting less.
 
For those who like charts and graphs keep reading.

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