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La Crosse city council member Janssen on closing library, possibly pool and other cuts
La Crosse city council member Barb Janssen joined La Crosse Talk PM on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing budget talks, where the library has already stated its closing the south side branch, police and fire are seeing cuts, and a pool could be on the block in a few years.
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Janssen is in her seventh year on the council and represents District 3. She talks about some of the reasons for why this is happening and what the city might have to do for a few years going forward.
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walden
October 12, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Jansen hit it on the head…become more efficient.
The problem is the dept managers will not become more efficient unless they get their funding squeezed. So yes, they need to have their funding cut. Kudos to the legislature and to the City Council for making this happen. Its unpopular work but its good work.