February Flotsam

I'm pleased to write there's now a four-way race for Village Trustee via write-in. Hugo Rojas has filed papers to run for the Village Board.

You'll need to remember their names, as none of these people will show up on the ballot in April because they will all be write-ins. Andy Martin - UWM professor, Will Demet - student, Lauri Rollings - lawyer, and now Hugo Rojas - lawyer.

I remember a few years ago, listening to villagers gripe about the make-up of the Village Board being all lawyers. That's not true today. The current board has one (retired) lawyer, Trustee Jay Miller.

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This week, the Village Board approved a use permit for the PNC Bank lot on the corner of Lydell and Silver Spring.  

As I've written before, I can't say I'm enthused to have yet another bank on Silver Spring, as we are already have more than our share. However, they are also building a 4-slot retail building, so villagers can look forward to some new merchants for Silver Spring this year.

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I've been asked to plug the Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation's $1,000 Scholarship given to a Whitefish Bay High School senior. The application is due April 1, 2011.

The goal of the scholarship is to reward a high school student who has exhibited exemplary service to their community. Details can be found here.

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The Whitefish Bay Police Department released their annual crime report for 2010.   You can read it here.

We were heading for a really good year, except for the mini-crime wave at the end.

I like seeing that traffic and municipal citations have dropped from 2,900 to 2,150 in the last five years.  Parking citations have dropped from a high in 2006 of 11,700 down to 8,200 last year.    Night parking citations dropped significantly as well, although some of that was due to road construction issues.  

Even with the mini-crime wave, which appears to have stopped, Whitefish Bay remains a very safe community. 

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