Friday, March 29, 2013
There is a contested races for Mount Pleasant village president and for three Village Board seats. We want to know who is going to get your vote on Tuesday — and why.
Mount Pleasant voters head to the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots in several key local races — village president and three seats on the Village Board. Here's who is running: Mount Pleasant Village President Mount Pleasant Village Board We're giving Mount Pleasant voters an opportunity to tell us whom they support in all or any of these races — and why. Take our unscientific poll to let us know whom you plan to vote for, and also post a comment at the bottom of this article to weigh in on either race. Here's you chance to tell the rest of Mount Pleasant whom you're backing on Tuesday, and why you think that person will do the best job for the village. And before you vote, check out Mount Pleasant Patch's 2013 Spring Election Guide for …
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Not everyone on the board thinks the Village needs a full time Administrator.
Views on having a full time Administrator in Mount Pleasant are split along the same lines as the narrow 4-3 vote that approved a search to fill the position. Trustees Sonny Havn, John Hewitt and Harry Manning with Village President Carolyn Milkie believe having a full time Administrator is the way to go. Trustees Karen Albeck and Gary Feest believe otherwise, and while he didn't voice an opinion at the Oct. 10 board meeting, Jerry Garski voted against a full time position. "I think the job description has been embellished to make residents think we need a full time person," Albeck said. "I think we need to determine whether or not some of these duties are even the responsibility of the Administrator." Specifically, she was referring to …
Monday, October 10, 2011
The board voted that the Personnel Committee should look to fill a full time position after an ad was already placed to find interested candidates.
The search for a full-time Administrator in Mount Pleasant is a go, the vote taken after an ad was placed for the position. Trustees voted 4-3 at the Oct. 10 Village Board meeting to direct the Personnel Committee to continue trying to fill the position with a full time employee. The job has been vacant since May 9 when the board voted unanimously to fire former Administrator Mike Andreasen, who died of a heart attack on June 1. "Who authorized this?" asked Trustee Karen Albeck. "The board did not confirm this was the direction we were going to go. What were you thinking?" Albeck believes so strongly that the village Personnel Committee may have acted illegally by directing the clerk/treasurer to place an ad for a new Administrator that …
Monday, September 19, 2011
The park's old lawnmower is falling apart, and the tractor used to pull it is over 30 years old.
The Mount Pleasant-Caledonia Memorial Park needs to replace its lawn mower before next spring, the park’s director told officials from both villages on Monday. Jim Svoboda, who oversees the park off of Highway K for Mount Pleasant and Caledonia, said without replacement equipment he’ll have no way to mow in the spring. The park’s existing lawnmower is broken down after 15,000 hours of use, and the tractor needed to pull it is over 30 years old, Svoboda said. “Right now, come spring, I’m not going to have anything to mow with,” he told members of the Mount Pleasant and Caledonia village boards and park board. The cost of replacement equipment ranges from $22,000 to buy a CNH tractor and lawnmower the park is borrowing from the Racine Area …
Friday, August 26, 2011
Mount Pleasant-Sturtevant Patch readers asked so we found the answer to the with cause vs. without cause question and how it applies to the Mike Andreasen situation.
When Mount Pleasant trustees voted 6-0 on May 9 to terminate Mike Andreasen without cause, they did so, in part, because it was the most expedient way to address the allegations contained in Juliet Edmands' May 6 letter. In that correspondence, Edmands accused Andreasen of sexual harrassment, violating the personnel manual and of initiating financial irregularities. She hand-delivered her letter to nearly every member of the board on Friday, May 6. Within days, employees named in Edmands' letter had been interviewed by Mount Pleasant Police, Andreasen's computer had been seized and his office sealed. "Without cause means no reference to anything," said Village President Carolyn Milkie. "It really just means that we're parting ways and …
Robin Kruk
9:41 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Doesn't sound like a very good choice either way for Village president. Havn & Hewitt look like obvious roadblocks to progress. Why can't I vote for 3 trustees like in the election? DeGroot, Molnar & Herek offer hope amid disaster. Meilke, the previous president, should go to jail & have to refund taxpayer money. more ›