Recommended City Hall Fixes May Not Come Easily

Can one of the biggest La Crosse city hall weaknesses identified by a consultant be fixed?  A new report says city department heads are without real leadership because they don’t answer to anybody in city hall.  And that’s a problem, says city council president Dick Swantz, that needs fixing

 

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The consultant has recommended adding a city adminstrator.  Even though that very idea was turned down in a referendum two years ago

 

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Swantz says other cities have an administrator that runs day to day operations but also answers to the mayor.  He says that could be the model that La Crosse follows.