Let’s Talk Trash
Shorewood leadership considered city organized trash collection in 2019. “Organized hauling” is when the city contracts with one hauler based on bids and the best service value.
Results from a resident survey in 2019 were all that was needed to shelve the discussion. A survey is a piece of a much larger pie. Other relevant data is available that should be factored into a sound decision by the council.
2024 Shorewood City Council Election Results
The 2024 election results for Shorewood City Council have been published by the Secretary of State.
View the results here.
E-Bikes: Shorewood’s Proposed Band-Aid Fix
The October 15 Shorewood council meeting will introduce an ordinance regulating e-bikes. Until now, the council has not publicly discussed the e-bike chaos in our city.
There was no public comment before the creation of this ordinance. How this version came to be, with so few specifics, is unknown.
Here are 5 suggestions for creating e-bike regulations:
Shorewood’s Spending Spree – $38.2 Million and Growing!
In a little more than 3-1/2 years, the Shorewood City Council and city staff have spent $38.2MM which additionally burdened residents with $23MM in bonding debt.
Another $20.5MM in bonding debt is planned in the upcoming years.
That’s more than $14,000 per household in debt repayments alone.
$7Million: Shorewood Spends BIG on Engineering Firm Bolton & Menk
Between January 2020 and July 2024 Bolton & Menk billed the City of Shorewood $6,968,361. That’s an average $126,697/mo. or $1,520,364 per year!
The amount of money billed by Bolton & Menk for engineering services in one single year is so staggering that the city could double the number of Public Works employees and still have money to hire 3-4 full time engineers.
Why did the City Council allow this to happen? You decide!
Shorewood City Water Report: “Forever Chemicals”
Note: Water quality, testing and standards are complicated. SCA recommends you contact any of the sources in this article for more clarity. Private wells are not tested by the City. Learn more about how to test your private well. The EPA just announced a first-ever National Drinking Water Standard to protect 100M people from PFAS pollution. This comes with $1B in funding for mitigation. Overview: Shorewood was notified by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) in Oct. 2022 that the Amesbury well (eastern Shorewood) was tested for PFAS as part of the Statewide Monitoring Project. The results were not posted to the city website until Dec. 2023, fourteen months after the testing. Shorewood received notice of two nationwide, class action settlements of various claims against DuPont and 3M for the proliferation of PFAS in public water systems. The City is an eligible claimant to join those suits, based on sampling results
