Regulating e-bikes and why the city admin conversation isn’t like the indoor pool talk

About this episode

Mac Kiel discusses La Crosse city government topics including e-bike regulation and budget meetings.

Mac Kiel in studio helping break down what’s happening in La Crosse city government, including a look at e-bike regulation and why the seems to be no city administrator conversation, while we’re conducing pool and Pearl Street meetings. First, though, Kiel talks a bit about the Finance and Personnel Committee meeting’s discussing Thursday about the budget. Kiel talks about how the council had some good questions for the finance director on why the city puts its budget together the way it does. This was a topic last year, as the city scrambled to balance the budget and talked about the same dilemma with the order it’s constructed. After that, we weaved a city administrator conversation into the public meetings the city is having surrounding the potential building of a $30 million indoor aquatics facility and the other public meeting about a new vision for Pearl Street downtown. Lastly, we talked about the Judiciary and Administrative Committee’s look at what could be considered regulation or deregulation when it comes to e-bikes and e-scooters. It’s illegal to bike in Riverside Park? That was one part of the conversation. See…

People in this episode

Host: Rick Solem

Guest: Mac Kiel

Topics covered

• e-bike regulation
• city administration
• budget discussion
• public meetings
• indoor pool facility
• Pearl Street vision

Keywords

• e-bikes
• city budget
• public meetings
• indoor pool
• Pearl Street
• regulation
• La Crosse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: La Crosse city government

Books & works: indoor aquatics facility

Places: Riverside Park, Pearl Street

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