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Davel's Complaining "Complaint"

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  In January I was called in for a little meeting at Village Hall with a developer, for my input on his proposal. Before others arrived Mr. Davel told me that he wanted to talk to me later about a complaint someone had filed.      So before I left, I went with him to his office to see what it was all about. His demeanor became confrontational and it turns out that Davel himself made the "complaint". He showed me an email I had sent to the community development director (below) , and demanded an apology for the "waterboy" reference.    Surprisingly he had nothing to say about my allegations of a corrupted appeal process; he did not dispute any of that.  Davel's big beef was with the metaphorical use I made of a "waterboy".     In my opinion, this spoke volumes about his ego and pettiness, which in turn helps explain what led to this investigation disaster.    He said the meeting with Joling and VanderWaal referred to in the...
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Davel again brags about Village Failure

  Once again Kronenwetter is in the news with Administrator James Davel acting as if the Village is Marathon County's pet poodle. See the WAOW news piece here: https://www.waow.com/news/village-of-kronenwetter-prepares-to-develop-new-campus-for-marathon-county-highway-department/article_bf1e3cde-2633-4df3-812f-7a2e35805aae.html It is billed as "one of the biggest projects in Kronenwetter in recent memory." Yes, it's "big", but it represents a LOSS to the Village with zero gain. Davel is quoted as saying: “They’re going to have a brine plant there. They are going to have a wash bay there for their trucks. This is not a little shop, this is pretty significant,” said James Davel, Kronenwetter Village Administrator. “We just need to make sure that we’re good teammates with the county, we follow our zoning and rules. That shop is also going to be supporting Kronenwetter, and we’re county residents, so we should be good teammates....
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Village Clerk Resigns - Davel and Joling's latest "Achievement"

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   James Davel has said repeatedly that he wants to "change the culture of Kronenwetter government". It appears that he is doing that by eliminating diligent, knowledgeable workers who favor open, honest government. First Rutherford, then Wegner, now Poyer.    In my opinion, this Davel/Joling partnership has brought nothing but betrayal to taxpayers and destruction to Kronenwetter, and this is the latest.  I'll post more on this issue later today, along with the complaint against Davel and Joling that Poyer refers to in her resignation.     
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Joling Forbids Truthful Public input

   In yet another step down the Village's Road to Perdition, corruption, and unAmerican activity, Village President, Mr Dan Joling has denied former trustee Sandi Sorensen her right to provide written public input at the August 10 Village Board meeting.     He said it's "too long", even though "too long" public input has often been accepted, or at a minimum the reading was cut short after the first three minutes.    I think length is not the issue here, as much as concealing information is.    Joling's $40,000+  Kronenwetter "investigation" has shown itself to be an epic debacle of what I'll call unwarranted, unethical, and in my opinion even illegal personal efforts by Joling and Davel to punish and drive out some of the few honest people left in the Kronenwetter Village  organization.    Aside from the costly "investigation" which was in turn apparently used as an excuse to fire Pete Wegner "with just cause",  the s...
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Facts Regarding the Proposed County Highway Facility

   This is yet another case of very weak, shortsighted, and unintelligent "leadership" in the Village.    The County purchased property from WPS and located in Kronenwetter. They then, in my opinion basically strong-armed local residents out of their homes abutting this property to enlarge the County property.  There was a strip of land owned by the Village that cut through this property and which the County wished to buy, but the Village Board under Admin Davel's recommendation instead bypassed APC committee review, and voted to give the property to the County at no cost. I estimate the value of this giveaway at about $20-25,000.    Now, the County has applied for a rezone of the property which would allow them to apply for a conditional use permit for the highway department complex to be built on that site. This would involve heavy truck traffic on Kronenwetter roads, for one thing.    If this plan goes through, the Village wil...
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July 13 Village Board Meeting

    The Kronenwetter Village Board is ONCE AGAIN going into closed session on July 13 for the purpose, Joling claims, of "final further redactions" related to an open records request for a report on a special investigation initially into Administrator James Davel's alleged questionable conduct. They just did "final redactions" on June 22. Now it's "final further redactions"? What next - "final further redactions Part 3, the Sequel?"     Joling, Coyle, Stowell, and I believe Davel, have made public statements starting in March, about how this report is going to justify their accusations about how Trustee Sorensen "caused this whole investigation", and then "interfered" with it, and anything else they came up with. It all looked like dirty politics and false accusations to me, but now, when it comes to "put up or shut up" with an actual report that says what they said it says, they create delay after delay.    ...
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