The Eagle River Common Council has taken action to refer calls and/or correspondence from residents on Aquila Court regarding their concerns about maintenance of the city’s golf course to city attorney Steve Garbowicz.
The City of Eagle River common council during a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10, approved its budget for fiscal year 2025. “So just in a nutshell, our full budget is 2.98-ish million dollars,” city administrator Robin Ginner said to the council.
The town of St. Germain will undergo a significant turnover in leadership following the April elections of 2025, as a majority (five of seven) of the town’s elected officeholders will not be running for additional terms.
During a meeting of the St. Germain town board on Thursday, Nov. 22, supervisors voted unanimously to re-route a spur of the Bo-Boen Snowmobile Club’s trail in the downtown area.
The town board of St. Germain has set a time and date for a public hearing regarding proposed amendments to the town’s chapter one zoning ordinance. The hearing will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 17 in room four of the St. Germain Community Center, which is to be followed by a regularly-scheduled town board meeting at 6:30 p.m.
The Eagle River Common Council reached a consensus during its Nov. 12 meeting to initiate conversations with the neighboring towns of Lincoln and Washington regarding raising the room-tax rate.
The town of St. Germain will see an increase in its room tax as of Jan. 1, 2026. Following months of public discussion and a public hearing, the town board voted during a Nov. 11 meeting to nearly double the town’s room-tax rate from 4.5 percent to 8 percent.
During a meeting of the St. Germain town board on Thursday, Oct. 24, supervisors voted — by a margin of three-to-two — for work to proceed in turning a town-owned parcel of land into a public disc-golf course.
During the Oct. 28 meeting of the Eagle River common council, the group spent hours tweaking the city’s budget. When the allocation of room-tax revenues was discussed, council member Jerry Burkett expressed his extreme dissatisfaction with the situation and went so far as to declare a state of “war” between the city and the Eagle River Area Chamber of Commerce.