AIS - #1 Priority for Shorewood?

4/2/12

Seems AIS must be Shorewood's #1 priority.

The Mayor and council member Zerby have appointed themselves as an AIS committee to meet with the Watershed and others about AIS and specifically, the Christmas Lake boat ramp inspection program. So far, no authorization for this from Shorewood's council and no authorization to spend even more $ despite now paying Tim Keane, the Attorney, for attending and supporting these meetings. Yet another example of "openness" and "transparency" being delivered by Mayor Lizee and her buddies.

The LMA (Dick Osgood) released a summary of the financials for 2011 milfoil treatments. Phelps Bay cost $52K with $5K being "LMA Manangement" while Gideons cost $68K with another $5K for management. Most interesting is that after collecting the donations and monies from the city, etc., Phelps was left with over $12K of extra money and Gideons with over $17K of extra funds. So, the naive Shorewood Council just approved providing to the LMA $6K for Phelps and $1K for Gideons without even asking how much the LMA had leftover. Great financial management! More like, just take this blank check LMA and you fill in the amount as we don't really care about taxpayer's money.

LMA "management" costs? It's more than 10% of milfoil treatment costs.  One can only surmise that this is the pay for Dick Osgood. What, you thought he did his newspaper columns and attended meetings gratis? Think again. He beats the LMA AIS drum for profit and don't you forget it.

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