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The Mac and Mack show on La Crosse city council’s culture with female majority, EV busses, homelessness, upcoming committee meeting
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Mac Kiel and Mackenzie Mindel in studio discussing the culture of La Crosse’s city council, three years into the first-ever female majority. We also talked about the city’s EV busses in the cold, homelessness and recapping last month’s meeting and next week’s Judiciary and Administration (J&A) Committee.
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Mindel is the chair of the J&A committee and Kiel is also on it. Toward the end of the show we talk about two items on Tuesday’s agenda — essentially rezoning proposals for a UW-La Crosse parking ramp and updates at the REACH Center.
Before that, however, we began the show with the most important thing from the February meeting — (2:45) allowing us to drink and play pickleball — the saga of Blue Zone Pickleball getting their alcohol license at the north side building that used to be Shopko.
After that, (7:20) we talk about how things have changed three years into a female majority on La Crosse’s city council.
Began the second half of the show with a couple of updates from Kiel on how the city’s EV busses handled last month’s very cold spell, along with a bit of a homeless update (25:50), as she goes out with the outreach team weekly.
We then recapped (29:30) a couple of items passed in the February council meeting, including allowing Accessory Dwelling Units and setting aside $7.6 million for Phase 3 of the River Point District (32:50) and how that came to be.
Lastly, a look at the J&A meeting Tuesday and a quick breakdown (34:20) of the UW-La Crosse and REACH Center rezoning requests.
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Kent Porter
March 3, 2024 at 7:48 am
The Mayor shelled out millions of dollars for homeless and still no change , where did 3 million dollars of our tax money go ????????????? THE MAYORS BUDDY’S AND 80 K A YEAR FOR THE HOMELESS CORODINATER????????????? WRITE IN KENT PORTER FOR MAYOR I WILL TAKE CARE OF THE HOMELESS DRUG PROBLEM AND DONATE HALF MY PAY TO SEINOR CENTERS AND VETERANS SERVICES !!!!!