MARSHFIELD, Wis (WSAU) — It was a busy night for Marshfield’s Common Council Tuesday, as they took up a variety of important issues including the renegotiation of a fundraising contract, possible funding for a popular charity, and the possible regulation of e-cigarettes in the city.
Mayor Chris Meyer says the Council OK’d a renegotiated contract, giving the Marshfield Area Community Foundation a .5% increase, amounting to around $15,000, for overseeing the fundraising for the city’s library project. Meyer says that equitable adjustment assures a good relationship with the foundation on future projects. “So, ultimately, we’re talking about somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000 on a roughly $6-million dollar fund raising effort. This is fair, this is right, this is what it should have been.”
Possible city funding for popular non-profit charity Saint Vincent DePaul was also discussed, but that issue was effectively killed when it was tabled indefinitely by a vote of six to one.
Alderman Pete Hendler opposed the idea, and said the taxpayers can’t fund every charity that needs help. “We just can’t do some of these things. It’s the citizens we’re talking about in a community that ultimately pay the cost of doing business. Somebody needs to stand up and say this is what we can and can’t do.”
And in other business, a possible ordinance regulating the indoor use of e-cigarettes in Marshfield was sent to the city’s Judiciary and Licensing Committee for recommendations that would then be brought back to the full council at a future date.
by Terry Pezl, WSAU
