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Reporter’s Notebook – Odds
and ends
Who will hire the new
Police Chief?
By DAVIDA
AMENTA
ShorewoodNewsroom staff writer
SHOREWOOD, Wis. (September 16, 2021) – The Village is hiring a new Police Chief, in an atmosphere of
heightened scrutiny regarding social justice and racial disparities in
policing. Also, in light of the Weiss study which laid the
groundwork for police reform in Shorewood. These five people have a
significant role. MORE
Why
couldn’t they block reform before hiring the $50,000 consultant?
2 Commissioners
resign, chief quits, clerk skips out and trustees falter amid demands for
police reform
By DAVIDA AMENTA and
GEOFF DAVIDIAN
ShorewoodNewsroom
Staff
SHOREWOOD, WIS. (Sept.
11, 2021) – Consultant
Alexander Weiss presented the findings of his $50,000 Shorewood police organization study last November. Ten months later, many of his
most important recommendations are getting short shrift. After the League of
Wisconsin Municipalities chimed in, people started jumping ship. More
Ignoring
police reform, open records, theft of village assets, and incompetent legal advice,
Village manager begins looking for replacement
for Clerk Sara Bruckman
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Why are
parents pulling their kids out of Shorewood schools? And what will it mean to
our tax bills?
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July 10,
2021
School
Board Meets (and Meets and Meets) Where the Sun Don’t Shine
By DAVIDA
AMENTA and
GEOFF
DAVIDIAN
ShorewoodNewsroom
staff writers
SHOREWOOD,
Wis. (July 10, 2021) – What consenting
adults do behind closed doors is their own business. But now, we're talking about the School
Board and civics, not prurient interests. Story
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June 1,
2021
Trinity of Politics:
Ethics,
money, power take the field at the Plan Commission on June 1 to decide the
fate of Sunseekers-site development proposal
By DAVIDA AMENTA
Shorewoodnewsroom.com
SHOREWOOD,
Wis. (June 1, 2021) – The brawl over a proposed development at the Sunseekers
site, at Capitol and Stowell, will reconvene June 1st back at the Plan
Commission, after the Board of Appeals bounced the matter back to the Plan
Commission on May 4th. Story
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Plummeting Enrollment
Can the school district balance its
budget without out-of-district kids?
By DAVIDA AMENTA
ShorewoodNewsroom.com
The Shorewood
School District is counting on families to re-enroll students who left
local schools last year, purportedly due to the district’s decision to
offer only virtual instruction throughout most of the school year. But
what else is at play? Story
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Sunseekers
site proposed development:
Residents Pushed Back: what will Plan
Commission do?
After remand, Plan
Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 6/1/2021, to decide whether a
four-story apartment proposed for northwest corner of E. Capitol and N.
Stowell gets an exemption from zoning requirements that apply to everyone
else.
Who has more influence?
Residents, or developers who make
campaign donations to trustees who will vote on the issue?
Dueling lawyer letters:
Village
Atty. Bayer | Atty.
Joseph
R. Cincotta
Did village attorney violate ethics
rules?
Download the agenda
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May 27, 2021
Superintendent
Davis Gets New Oshkosh Gig
By DAVIDA AMENTA and
GEOFF DAVIDIAN
ShorewoodNewsroom.com
SHOREWOOD, WIS. (May 27, 2021) – After six years on the job,
School Superintendent Bryan Davis has quit to assume that position with
Oshkosh Area School District. Davis, who holds a doctorate in urban
education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will stay on the job
through June. Full
story here
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Board of Appeals remands Sunseekers’
exemption to Plan Commission for more parking hearings.
By
GEOFF DAVIDIAN
ShorewoodNewsroom.com
SHOREWOOD,
Wis. (May 4, 2021) – The
Board of Appeals today voted 3-1 to remand to the Plan Commission for
further action its decision to exempt a proposed four-story apartment at
the northwest corner of East Capitol Drive and North Stowell Avenue from
minimum parking requirements.
The
board instructed the Plan Commission to re-open the record, to allow
additional evidence, and to hold a public hearing, if necessary, to
determine whether the exemption is warranted.
The
makeup of the Plan Commission has changed since the body found the parking
exemption was warranted.
Former
Village President Allison Rozek and Trustee Kathy Stokebrand sat on the
previous Plan Commission. When Ann McKaig was elected president in April,
she gave herself a seat on the commission, and replaced Stokebrand with
Trustee Tammy Bockhorst. Bockhorst in the past lobbied the Plan Commission
to approve the exemption. See
April 11, 2021, story by Davida Amenta
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