Please see the text of a press release from the City of Whitewater, with the names of, and information about, the five finalists to be her next city manager. I have also embedded a copy of the press release that includes the résumés of each candidate, and a schedule of upcoming steps in the selection…
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City, Development, Government Spending, Green Energy Holdings, Local Government, Open Government, Press
Questions for the Press about a Proposal with Green Energy Holdings
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
This week, I’ve posted a series of general questions about a proposed deal with Green Energy Holdings for a waste digester. See, Preliminary & General Questions about a Proposal with Green Energy Holdings and Questions for the CDA about a Proposal with Green Energy Holdings. (For a comprehensive list of all posts about this proposal,…
CDA, City, Green Energy Holdings, Open Government
The CDA and GEH
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s a meeting of the Community Development Authority today, and of the topics on the agenda, there’s an item (number 7) to “Discuss Development Agreement with Green Energy Holdings LLC.” (The agenda and packet appear below.) This item is a reference to approval, from last Thursday’s Common Council meeting, of an agreement with Green Energy…
City
The Common Council Session for June 19th as End and Beginning
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Whitewater’s Common Council meeting of June 19th had more than one agenda item, but which item one emphasizes says something about one’s seriousness. For those most interested in awards and honors, the end of the current municipal administration did not disappoint. Whitewater’s outgoing city manager announced an award from a municipal bureaucrats’ association for the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 5.16.12
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Yesterday, I initially typed, but later corrected, the daily temperature forecast as forty-six (rather than eighty-six). An example of wishful thinking: I like colder weather. Today, a bit colder, but still warm: a forecast of seventy with sunny skies. There’s a date change for a Community Development Authority meeting originally scheduled for today,…
City
A Generac bus by any other name
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Let’s assume that a city decides to give thousands (and that the state and federal government give tens of thousands more) in taxpayer funds to subsidize a multi-billion-dollar corporation’s bus line. It’s a strong drink of crony capitalism, of course, and someone might even say as much. (See, for example, A Local Flavor of Crony…
City
Whitewater’s 3.20.12 Common Council Meeting
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Sometimes the most telling discussion within a meeting occurs early, in remarks offered nearly offhand. That was true with last night’s Common Council meeting, in remarks from her city manager, Kevin Brunner. Two of his topics deserve mention. On the Innovation Center, the city manager distributed a glossy one-year anniversary book, and a glossy tri-fold…
Recent Tweets, 3.11 to 3.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
15 Mar Innovation Center Exec Director Admits Building’s ‘Major Accomplishment’ Was Taking $11.5 Million in Public Money http://bit.ly/yTkws8 13 Mar After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses – http://NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/xDUjXI 12 Mar Where are all the libertarians coming from? | Daily Adams http://bit.ly/yxcAgH 12 Mar Second Pre-Election Video Shows Walker Saying He Will Negotiate…
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Whitewater’s 2.7.12 Common Council Meeting
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Update: links fixed. Whitewater’s Common Council met last night, and here are assorted observations on the meeting. Scads of Objectives. Whitewater’s city manager lists 133 major city objectives, of which 85.7% were ‘completed or achieved.’ What should one say? It would have been better to achieve a few meaningful goals, than to list over a…
Government Spending, Innovation Center/Tech Park, State Government
The Spectrum Brands State-backed Deal: Either Shameful Negligence or Shameful Dishonesty
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Consider how profligate the State of Wisconsin is with public money. Millions spent on a business relocation for a corporation that (1) withheld its identity, (2) was already in Wisconsin, (3) used flimsy worries about protests at the Capitol as way to curry favor with the Walker Administration, (4) where the head of the Wisconsin…
City
Review: Predictions for Whitewater, Wisconsin for 2011
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City, Development
On the Search for a Community Development Authority Director
by JOHN ADAMS •
Small-town Whitewater, like so many small towns, has a community development authority. For several years, Whitewater’s city manager has overseen and directed that authority in the absence of a director responsible to the CDA alone. One can leave aside a detailed critique of the CDA’s past performance (performance that I consider often misguided), and still…
City, Government Spending, Taxes/Taxation
The Cost and Camouflage of Grants
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s an item in the Whitewater city manager’s July 15th Weekly Report that shows how deceptive grants — supposedly free money — can be. First, the cost. Grants for bridges, etc., aren’t free — someone had to earn that grant money, money that found its way to one public or quasi-public organization or another. When…
City, Economy, Innovation Center/Tech Park, University
The Starin Road Extension
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a story, from yesterday’s Daily Union, about the Starin Road extension. See, Whitewater dedicates Starin Road extension. In the story, Whitewater’s city manager advances a few justifications for the multi-million-dollar, taxpayer-financed extension: first for emergencies, then for connecting the Innovation Center to the campus, then as part of a package including bike trails. There’s…