The city of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin balanced their 2009 budget with the last of it’s 2006 bond issue proceeds. Residents will be paying off one bond issue till 2010, and making payments on the other till 2016. In 2006 Lake Geneva floated one bond issue of $4.39M with level payments amortized over 10 years and [...]

On 11.25.2009 Walworth County Judge Gibbs in a pretrial conference of a lawsuit filed against Mayor Chesen came to an agreement that all the elected alderpersons that the Mayor “suspended” from office in September 2009 would be returned so the “ city could present united front in the event or the face of litigation in [...]

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Mayor William Chesen, unable to get the funding for a special prosecutor, may remove two alderpersons and appoint two new alderpersons so he can get the votes he needs on the city council. Mayor Chesen at the city council meeting on 11.09.2009: “I want this over with; I will do everything I [...]

Lake Geneva area citizens strongly criticized Mayor Chesen’s actions as a“vendetta” at the finance and council meeting on 9.28.2009. Surprisingly,none of the citizens who spoke in favor of a special election and spoke-up in defense of democracy when Spiro Condos was appointed on 8.24.2009 have spoken either in defense of Mayor Chesen’s actions or against [...]

The city council on 9.28.2009 voted to hire two separate the law firms at $200/ hour plus expenses to adjudicate and prosecute at the coming hearing brought by Mayor Chesen as a private citizen against the four alderpersons he tried to suspend on 9.10.2009. Mayor William Chesen made it quite clear that he would bring [...]

Mayor William Chesen on 9.23.2009 appointed his cronies Larry Magee and Sturg Taggart to fill the seats of the elected Alderpersons he has “suspended.” The Mayor claims he has an agreement that these persons will serve in this capacity for a maximum of 90 days and they will not run for those positions if a [...]

Mayor Chesen  will make another try at turning the losers into winners on 9.23.2009 at another special council meeting at 2:00pm in the afternoon. The agenda is similar as Monday’s aborted meeting except on this agenda the Mayor lists who he wants to “temporary” appoint. He wants to appoint Larry Magee  who lost to Penny [...]