Challenges

Spruce Up Day

Last week, about eight staff members participated in our first volunteer Spruce Up Day. We left our offices for an afternoon to work on the clean-up/beautification of a few spaces near City Hall. Our projects included:

I’ll fallen behind on my blog due to the tremendous amount of work that went into the 2017 budget.  I think both Administration Director Valerie Martin and I would say that we went through all the stages of the grieving process during the budget process…disbelief, denial, anger, self-pity ... and finally…. acceptance.

A Tale of Parking in Two Cities

Sometimes it amazes me in how similar conversations can be in two very different places. Today I’m thinking of downtown parking. When I arrived in Platteville, I started to hear about a downtown parking problem and I felt a strange sense of deja vu.