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The process does indeed work! In tonight's common council meeting, the same agenda items that died at the last meeting, were motioned, seconded and discussed!
Ordinance 06-02 establishing a citizen board for review was discussed and approved... Unanimously. Alderman Mokros is concerned that we could not get 7 qualified individuals to serve. It was decided that it would be better to try to get the 7 citizens and worry about having insufficient members if that situation actually occurred. State Statute requires at least 3 members on a Board of Review.
Resolution 06-2-1 to revise existing resolution 05-12-05 establishing a committee for creating a code of ethics was discussed and no action was taken. This revision was the addition of a city employee position to the committee. It was decided that the existing committee of 4 citizens and 2 aldermen would be maintained. The revision was requested because one of the City's fire fighters would like to serve on that committee.
Resolution 06-2-2 to appoint a study committee to explore a revision to the city's "$10Million blank check" ordinance was discussed and approved... Unanimously. This is known as the Spending Limit committee.
The Mayor's appointees to the Spending Spending Limit committee (Mike Humcke and Norm Peterson) and the Code of Ethics subcommittee (Dennis Blasius) were discussed and approved... Unanimously.
There was considerable discussion regarding the four public works projects. Jeff Weigel provided an excelant description of the issues involved in public works projects. He further explained the issues with municipal water and even provided the best explanation of the Waukesha County water issue and the proposal to obtain Lake Michigan water. Thank you Jeff, it was extremely informational.
There were indeed 2 closed sessions at the end of the open meeting. Considering what the sessions were about, I have not problem with them being closed, the reasoning was sound.
I really do not want to neglect the Taser issue. It was a short, but nice presentation to the Robinsons. Officer Kraemer introduced Reece as citizen who is very involved in the Police community programs Cops and Bobbers, Gutter Busters and others. He also explained the the Robinson's did there own research into the use of Tasers and found that incidents of Officer injury was reduced dramatically for Officers that were equipped with Tasers. The donation of almost $6,300 came from their own pocketbook. The Pewaukee Police Department has already purchased the Tasers and had three Officers trained. I believe the three Officers were trained in a 'Train the Trainer' fashion which will allow them to train the rest of the Officers.
As a person who has friends and family in Law Enforcement, I appreciate every chance to help keep our Police Officers from getting injured. Thank you Reece and Gwenn Robinson for your generosity and community participation.
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Yes, everything was approved unanimously, which was wonderful, but you forgot to mention that one of the three aldermen who blocked discusssion at the last meeting, was not in attendance at this meeting. Mr. Pazdernik was missing in action. I did not hear an explanation as to why he was not at tonight's meeting. Was one given?
I wonder how he would have voted? Maybe his absence can be construed as a "see no evil....do no evil" attitude?
The other two alderpersons, Mokros and Byers, at least had the dignity to show up and vote for what 88% of their constituents asked for on November 15, 2005.
Pazdernik also missed the lake management Public Hearing, on January 23. What a shame, since he represents a majority of voters on the South side of the lake. If, as he said about the Ethics Committee and all citizen Board of Review; he is looking for more information before he votes, how can he vote at the Feb. 20 CC meeting about continuing to harvest the weeds, without knowing how the majority of his constituents feel about it?
For those of us keeping track, he is not scoring too many points in his race for re-election in 2007.
Keep up the good work
LB