City Hall  
City of La Crosse, Wisconsin  
400 La Crosse Street  
La Crosse, WI 54601  
Meeting Agenda - Final-revised  
Finance & Personnel Committee  
Thursday, December 5, 2024  
6:00 PM  
Council Chambers  
City Hall, First Floor  
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La Crosse WI 54601.  
Call To Order  
Roll Call  
Agenda Items:  
NEW BUSINESS  
Resolution authorizing an application to the Wisconsin Economic Development  
Corporation (WEDC) for the Community Development Investment (CDI) Grant  
Program for the Haven on Main development.  
24-1389  
Happel  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving the sale of City owned property at 626 Monitor Street to  
Property Logic III.  
24-1437  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution declaring certain property at 713 St. James St. (parcel  
#17-10010-90) as surplus property.  
24-1453  
24-1498  
24-1506  
24-1520  
24-1521  
24-1522  
24-1523  
24-1524  
24-1526  
24-1527  
Goggin  
Sponsors:  
Resolution reallocating American Rescue Plan Funds (ARPA) to the ARPA  
interest revenue account.  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution authorizing the creation and uses of special revenue funds for the  
Street Department.  
Sleznikow  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving subordination request by Ocean Fin, LLC on Upper Floor  
Renovation Loan.  
Kahlow  
Sponsors:  
Resolution to re-allocate unused funds from closed projects and re-appropriate  
additional funds to open projects for the Water Utility.  
Schwarz  
Sponsors:  
Resolution to re-allocate unused funds from closed projects and re-appropriate  
additional funds to open projects for the Stormwater Utility.  
Schwarz  
Sponsors:  
Resolution to re-allocate unused funds from closed projects and re-appropriate  
additional funds to open projects for the Sewer Utility.  
Schwarz  
Sponsors:  
Resolution to authorize Sanitary Sewer Utility to purchase used dump truck  
from the Street Department.  
Schwarz  
Sponsors:  
Resolution re-appropriating Operating Budget funds for purchase of Street  
Department and Refuse & Recycling vehicles from the fleet lease program.  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving Federal transit operations and capital assistance  
application.  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving State transit operating and capital assistance application.  
24-1528  
24-1530  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution appropriating additional Utility funds for design and environmental  
documentation as part of the STP-Urban project on 6th Street, from State  
Street to Cass Street.  
Schwarz  
Sponsors:  
Resolution to approve adjusted wage rates for part time, seasonal and casual  
city employees effective January 1, 2025.  
24-1537  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution re-allocating and appropriating unused roadway funds for additional  
funding on HSIP and Signal Replacement projects.  
24-1542  
24-1557  
Trost and Neumann  
Sponsors:  
Resolution authorizing application for and participation in the 2024 pre-disaster  
flood resilience grant program with Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM)  
and designation of funding for same.  
Dickinson  
Sponsors:  
Short-circuited by Mayor Reynolds on 12/2/2024.  
Resolution approving a collective bargaining agreement between the City of La  
Crosse and the International Association of Firefighters, Local #127 (IAFF) for  
January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027.  
24-1563  
Happel  
Sponsors:  
Short-circuited by Mayor Reynolds on 12/4/2024.  
Collective Bargaining Update.  
24-0001  
(Note: The Committee and/or Council may convene in closed session pursuant to Wis.  
Stat. 19.85(1)(e) to formulate & update negotiation strategies and parameters. Following  
such closed session, the Committees and/or Council may reconvene in open session.)  
F&P Item Only, unless otherwise directed.  
Adjournment  
Notice is further given that members of other governmental bodies may be present at the above  
scheduled meeting to gather information about a subject over which they have decision-making  
responsibility.  
NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY  
Requests from persons with a disability who need assistance to participate in this meeting should call  
the City Clerk's office at (608) 789-7510 or send an email to ADAcityclerk@cityoflacrosse.org, with as  
much advance notice as possible.  
Finance & Personnel Members:  
Doug Happel, Larry Sleznikow, Erin Goggin, Barb Janssen, Rebecca Schwarz, Mark Neumann