The K Report

   This is yet another case of very weak, shortsighted, and unintelligent "leadership" in the Village.    The County purchased property from WPS and located in Kronenwetter. They then, in my opinion basically strong-armed local residents out of their homes abutting this property to enlarge the County property.  There was a strip of land owned by the Village that cut through this property and which the County wished to buy, but the Village Board under Admin Davel's recommendation instead bypassed APC committee review, and voted to give the property to the County at no cost. I estimate the value of this giveaway at about $20-25,000.    Now, the County has applied for a rezone of the property which would allow them to apply for a conditional use permit for the highway department complex to be built on that site. This would involve heavy truck traffic on Kronenwetter roads, for one thing.    If this plan goes through, the Village wil...

  The Kronenwetter Village Board is ONCE AGAIN going into closed session on July 13 for the purpose, Joling claims, of "final further redactions" related to an open records request for a report on a special investigation initially into Administrator James Davel's alleged questionable conduct. They just did "final redactions" on June 22. Now it's "final further redactions"? What next - "final further redactions Part 3, the Sequel?"     Joling, Coyle, Stowell, and I believe Davel, have made public statements starting in March, about how this report is going to justify their accusations about how Trustee Sorensen "caused this whole investigation", and then "interfered" with it, and anything else they came up with. It all looked like dirty politics and false accusations to me, but now, when it comes to "put up or shut up" with an actual report that says what they said it says, they create delay after del...