About two months ago, Janesville’s City Manager, Eric Levitt, came to Whitewater asking for money to support a public transit bus to benefit Generac (and anyone else Janesville’s transportation director will undoubtedly throw into the mix to justify ten thousand from Whitewater and hundreds of thousands from taxpayers in total).
During his appearance before Whitewater’s Common Council, Janesville’s leading bureaucrat touted the benefits of ‘regionalization,’ declaring that he was a big believer in that concept. One might suspect that regionalization is nothing more than Janesville looking to take some public money from Whitewater to get more for itself, but perhaps there’s more to the idea of regional, joint exchange.
One hears that only recently, a twenty-five-year-old Janesville woman was arrested at a Whitewater hotel on a charge of solicitation. A Whitewater police officer posing as the intended recipient of her commercial offering made an arrest after she allegedly requested a $180-per-hour fee (a customer service fee, so to speak).
So one wonders: this couldn’t have been the Janesville and Whitewater regional partnership that Janesville’s officials had in mind, could it?
It seems improbable, but then I don’t recall anyone explaining that term in detail during Whitewater’s 11.20.12 council session.
Let’s assume that Janesville City Manager Levitt was thinking of something else when he spoke to our common council. Fair enough.
Nonetheless, the recent trip of a Janesville woman to a Whitewater hotel only emphasizes Janesville’s unfortunate economic condition.
If Janesville’s bureaucrats had done a better job advancing private over public acquisition, perhaps Janesville’s women of questionable pursuits would not feel the need to leave that city simply to earn a $180-per-hour fee.
With a more robust economy, these fancy women would be able to profit locally, from cash-rich Janesville men. They wouldn’t need to travel so far in an attempt to turn a buck with a Whitewater clientele.
Quick and helpful tip for Janesville Transportation Director Dave Mumma: When he finally figures out an expanded route for a bus line for which he’s now received hundreds of thousands in public money, he’ll want to be careful about the times and places for bus stops.
I’d suggest avoiding late night routes with stops at Whitewater hotels.
No point in exacerbating the apparent outflow of those commercial possibilities from Janesville to Whitewater.