Falls Village Attorney Bars Woodman's from Speaking with Board Trustees on Project

Disclosure

I am a guest blogger for this posting with The Vanguard.  

If this information that I received this morning from the Davis for President people is true, then Menomonee Falls has more serious problems than has ever been imagined.

The newpapers don't cover this stuff and Cable Access certainly won't broadcast any of this on the public channel.



I hope as many voters as possible will read this stuff before tomorrow's election for Village President.



Randy Newman is on the Village Board and appears to be part of the stuff in the attached communication.



Please contact the Village Board (http://www.menomonee-falls.org/index.asp?nid=292) if you want this stuff to stop and that you want Woodman's to come to Menomonee Falls.  Randy Newman does not list a phone number on the Village Website and can only be contacted by email.  

Falls Village Attorney Bars Woodman's from Speaking with Board Trustees on Project

Menomonee Falls - In a bizarre and last minute twist in the April 7th Menomonee Falls Village President Race, it has been learned that the Village Attorney has ordered or strongly suggested that Woodman's Corporation can not have contact with Village Trustees because, in the attorney's opinion, that would constitute a "rolling quorum".

When learning of this development, Jefferson E. Davis said today,

"This is one more example of the Menomonee Falls Village Board chasing away good business because that business may not "play by the rules".

Woodman's wants to build a 250,000 square foot facility that will expand our tax base, increase revenues, create jobs and not require any Village Services to speak of.

Woodman's has been trying to locate a store in the Falls for 3 years.

Woodman's has picked a perfect spot based on their business acumen to locate their store at Bradley Road and 124th Street for maximum exposure and return on their capital investment.

This area borders TIF District 5 that is more than half empty and has a remaining debt service of $12 million between now and 2018.

TIF District 5 also has a bond payment due of $2.5 million in 2009 with only $595,000 coming in from existing tenants to make that payment.  The taxpayers will be asked to make up the difference.

Woodman's has been incredibly successful with their business model because of their background and experience in the marketplace not because government has told them how to run their business.

Wherever Woodman's has gone, more businesses follow because of their magnetic effect for ancillary economic growth.

Woodman's does not want a handout from the taxpayers.

Woodman's is not building their store in a TID (Tax Incremental District) District.

Why would the Village Board look a gift horse in the mouth by having the Village Attorney purposely shield them from Woodman's unless there is something else going on which we have learned is often the case in Menomonee Falls unless you play the game of giving Board Members cash, bartering agreements, referrals, campaign contributions or real estate deals in exchange for votes. 

The taxpayers have graciously funded nearly $1 million for studies, surveys, consultants and legal fees for Main Street redevelopment since 2004.

The taxpayers have also funded a bond for $1.25 million for the hotel on Main Street for redevelopment in 2008 that has an interest payment of $50,000 due in 2009 with very little money coming in to make that payment.  The taxpayers will undoubtedly be asked to make up for this shortfall as well. 

The hotel on Main Street was supposed to be completed and opened on January 1, 2009.

The Village Manager budgeted nearly $50,000 in 2009 for hotel tax revenue that is now lost.

The Planning Commission and Village Board want Woodman's to put their store on Main Street or at the Stolper Foundry Site on Pilgrim Road and the freeway.

That would be the equivalent of putting the USS Ronald Reagan on Main Street and Pilgrim Road and having it stretch nearly to the freeway in heavy residential areas.

I believe the Village Board's actions toward Woodman's are inappropriate because Woodman's should not have to be held hostage because of the failures of the Village Board for their poor planning and waste of nearly $2.25 million of the taxpayer's money for Main Street.

I also believe that Woodman's should not have to pay for the millions of dollars in environmental hazard waste clean up for the Stolper Foundry or be forced to buy the failed theater acquisition by Falls Fest from Marcus Theaters in exchange for votes that has nearly bankrupted Falls Fest, which is made up of some of the Village Board Members.

I believe Woodman's should be allowed to talk to or meet with any Village Officials they want in order to explain their project in hopes of getting it approved.

I have submitted an Open Records Request of the Village Attorney's Office to see what it is he has specifically done to thwart the efforts of Woodman's to explain their project to the Village Board in hopes of bringing their store to the Falls.

The taxpayers deserve better than this from their elected officials."

Jefferson E. Davis is opposed by Randy Newman who is currently part of the Menomonee Falls Village Board.

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