Category: Kronenwetter
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Kronenwetter Ambulance Subcommittee Meeting & Email from James Small
James Small: “That being said, I am pretty surprised that this continues to be a discussion as it seems to be fairly obvious that this isn’t economically viable as a stand alone system without significantly increasing the village’s contribution. This would only make sense if there were no other options.” The following email from James…
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Breaking News: Kronenwetter Village Trustee Cindy Lee Resigned
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Kronenwetter 2023 Audit Report: Financial Challenges Explained for Taxpayers
A good friend of mine wrote this post to help explain the data in my last 2 posts.
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Kronenwetter 2023 Audit Review: “Shell Game” Accounting?
Series: Kronenwetter Faces Difficult Decisions in 2025 Budget – Part 2. At least $2,503,721 of the listed $3,426,215 Total General Fund Balance doesn’t actually currently exist. NOTE: Numbers in parenthesis are negative numbers: i.e. (2,503,721) is a negative 2,503,721. Of the $3,426,215 stated total General Fund Balance, $2,663,339 is “Nonspendable”, because most of the funds…
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Kronenwetter 2023 Audit Review: Unassigned General Fund Balance Plummets to 13 days
Series: Kronenwetter Faces Difficult Decisions in 2025 Budget – Part 1. The unassigned Fund Balance amount is the funds that are available for cash flow and working capital purposes. Budgeted Expenditures and Unassigned Fund Balance – 2019 to 2023 Next up in Series: Kronenwetter Faces Difficult Decisions in 2025 Budget – Part 2: A look…
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Video Available – Kronenwetter Ambulance Subcommittee 10/2/2024
Subcommittee Members Call for Referendum on Ambulance proposal and Seek to ensure that Referendum is worded in a manner that it will pass. Mr. Chairman I guess I’d like to emphasize that I think the the wording of the question itself on the for the referendum should remain the purview of this committee. I think…
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Village Anonymous?
During a discussion regarding locating a new Village Administrator, Kronenwetter APC Committee members joked about changing the name of the Village to aid in finding a new Administrator. I expect that Kronenwetter Village Residents may not find the situation as humorous as did the APC members. Perhaps if the Village Board focused on following WI…
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Third Election Complaint Filed Against Kronenwetter Clerk Birk-LaBarge
The new complaint alleges that Clerk Birk-LaBarge excluded one of the individuals on the Democratic Party Supplemental List from working in the August 2024 primary. Election complaints have now been filed in 2024 against the Clerk by a Village Trustee, a member of the Marathon County Republican Party, and an individual on the Democratic Party…
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KVB Meeting Video – 9/23/24
TID No. 2 Project Plan Discussion of Ambulance Purchase Contract Vote on Ambulance Purchase Contract Trustee Vedvik violates Roberts Rules TID No. 2 Project Plan Discussion of Ambulance Purchase Contract Vote on Ambulance Purchase Contract Trustee Vedvik violated Roberts Rules Listening to your constituents’ concerns and seeking an Independent Ambulance Service Feasibility Study is not…
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Kronenwetter Ambulance: “This proposal has a lot of potential to lead to workforce development complaint down the line.”
Excerpts from James Small’s Emails: The other question to ask with this proposal is whether it is going to provide a reliable and sustainable workforce to staff the ambulance. Paying a nominal wage is probably not sustainable and risks having rapidly escalating costs to make it sustainable. Consider if the wage needs to go from…