The Common Council meeting held on December 5th was one of the last meetings of the year. This means you have one more year to reach your goal. The city administrator, the Office of the City Clerk, said: Adjust spending with available resources. ”
This goal is at the heart of the 2023-25 plan, and as a measure of transparency, agendas and minutes are made available to the public after each meeting. The main purpose of this meeting was to discuss projects related to Gama Lake Park and Rec. The next steps concern salary compensation surveys (city managers) and job fair metrics.
The first topic was how the Gama Lake project was being handled. Presentations were made by several UW-Whitewater students, including Paige Robinson, an environmental resource management major, and Addison Debo, an environmental science major. and Abigail Capper, an environmental science major. These students conducted their final project at Lake Cravath, determining how much of the lake is covered by cattail biomass. As a final project, they collected his two square meters of cattails.
“I first washed them using tap water, then rinsed them with deionized water. Then I washed them and put them in a drying oven and left them until completely dry. Then I weighed them. “We averaged them to get the biomass count,” Robinson said of what their experiment was about.
The goal of the project was to understand how cattail removal affects suspended soil within Lake Cravath. This also affects Whitewater Creek. They began creating maps of the soil from the cattails they collected as a way to see which parts were dealing with more serious problems. The conclusion of the presentation was to share plans to minimize cattail regrowth so that mass cattail reproduction can be stopped by evacuating the cattails. This is an ongoing project that will take several years or more to complete, but soil problems will decrease over time.
The next topic on the agenda was City Manager John Weidl’s “initiatives to improve compensation evaluation.” Weidl said the report on employee pay included a survey as a way to keep employees “engaged and motivated on the job,” taking into account the pay of the average person working for the city manager. It is said that it was done.
Municipalities identified as being surveyed included Jefferson, Platteville, Fort Atkinson, and many surrounding areas. The results of this investigation will not be made public until mid-2024, due to the timeframe for communicating with the investigators and communicating with local authorities, officials and other stakeholders.
“…includes equalized value, property tax levy, per capita expenditures, property tax rate, per capita income, operating expenditures, general obligation, shared income, and population,” Human Resources Manager Sarah Marquardt said.
The last part of the conference was presented by Maquardt, who is supporting the Latino Workforce Development Academy’s Career Fair, which was held on October 26th. The fair included his 47 participants and the following companies participated: , LLC, Associated Bank, City of Whitewater, Daybreak Foods INC, First Citizens State Bank, Fisher Barton Specialty, Fort HealthCare, HEXPOL, Jones Dairy Farm, JP Cullen, Premier Bank, Stoughton Trailer, and Sutton Transport.
“The goal of this far-off was to connect the gap between the needs of employers and the Latino community in Whitewater,” Marquardt said, adding that it would create a place to translate flyers into Spanish for job seekers. Because it was a method.
For more information about applying for a job or to contact the City Manager about a job fair, please contact the City Manager’s Office staff.
The next Common Council meeting will be held Dec. 19 at 6:30 p.m. and will be open to the public. For more information about Common Council meetings and other resources, please see below. whitewater city. Please see below for information regarding this Common Council meeting. Common Council Video 12/5.