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La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds on reelection and what city council should do on administrator position
Mayor Mitch Reynolds in studio Wednesday for La Crosse Talk PM discussing reelection, potential vote on city administrator, veto on Pump House request for more funding and La Crosse Center accounting change.
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Spent a lot of time going over, in different ways, the upcoming, potential vote Thursday by La Crosse’s city council on hiring a city administrator position. Reynolds talked about the cost of the position versus savings it would do with city, how the 2012 referendum that voted down the proposal was an outlier and what he expects the city council to do at the meeting.
Also talked about Shaundel Washington-Spivey’s announcement to run for mayor and brought up multiple times — and almost got Reynolds to reveal — if he was seeking reelection.
Next month the 2025 budget will be finalized and one thing that may have help with that is some changes in accounting at the La Crosse Center, which Reynolds breaks down.
Lastly, we hit on his veto last month of a request from the Pump House Regional Arts Center, downtown, for more funding, which the council could override Thursday. The Pump House is a city-owned building that just did over $300,000 in renovations, but ended up asking the city for an additional $13,290.03 — which Reynolds vetoed and he explains why.
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October 10, 2024 at 8:28 am
On a project of that size, a plus or minus of 5% is often built into the contract. 5% of 300 thousand dollars is 15 thousand dollars, which the group was within. To resist that fact of business shows ignorance. It comes across as trying to look tough from a man who twice flew to distant parts of the world on junkets that will bring no benefit to La Crosse.