Shorewood Citizen Advocates is pleased to present the following profiles of the candidates for Shorewood City Council.   With no one else filing for election, Guy and Eric will be sworn in and begin their four year terms in January 2027.

 

 

After 12 years and $323,000 in taxpayer funded engineering expenses, Shorewood’s staff still needs to demonstrate why the Shorewood Ravine project is necessary, how urgently it must be done, and whether the proposed solution justifies the cost.   Is this a genuine problem demanding a solution?

Shorewood has a money problem. They have too much!   At what point does prudent saving become hoarding at your expense?

Early in the morning on Thursday 10/15/2026, our website, ShorewoodCitizenAdvocates.com, was the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) that continues today.   The good news is that once we identified the issue affecting our website, we were able to counteract the attack.

Some items of interest from the very long Shorewood council meeting: • 15 individuals spoke at matters from the floor   • Cannabis Retail Interim Use Permit Approval   • Park Dedication Fee Reduction Discussion   • Garage Variance Request Denial

A very light agenda for this meeting.   There were several speakers during Matters From the Floor that are recapped here.

Shorewood will take over senior programming at the SCEC Jan. 1, 2027.   On Oct. 12 the Council debated the center’s mission, membership fees, staffing and marketing. A spirited discussion ended without measurable goals, accountability and projected costs to taxpayers.

The mayors who govern the South Lake Minnetonka Police Department say their dispute with Greenwood Mayor Tom Fletcher is about transparency and good governance.   If good governance is really the concern, the public record suggests the committee should start with itself.