"Embrace changes" is another bit of overused lingo found in that Vrakas/Finley press release. While county officials are saying it, folks in the City of Pewaukee are doing it.
In his first meeting last week as the new mayor after Jeff Nowak's ouster in a recall, Scott Klein started off with a bang.
Barb Whitcomb, president of the group that led the recall effort, sounded like a kid at Christmas the day after the meeting.
Citizens - who were feeling stifled under Nowak's controls - were able to comment at the start of the Common Council meeting, at the end of the meeting, and, Whitcomb said, "we were also allowed to ask questions during the meeting."
"It was wonderful," she said. "It was just incredible. The Common Council was pleasant, outgoing, more than willing to help people. They did a complete turnaround."
Klein is also moving ahead with his promise to change how new rules are adopted by seeking consideration at two separate meetings so citizens have time to comment in between.
Appropriately, the ordinance that would make that change was tabled so citizens could comment on it before it's acted upon.
"I'm so thrilled," Whitcomb said. "It's just like night and day. What a difference one person makes."
