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Votes at a glance: Committee approves lease, trust allocation, DriftShare storage and several settlements
Summary
The Finance and Personnel Committee approved multiple routine resolutions including a 20‑year lease extension for the La Crosse Queen at Riverside Park, a $2 million allocation to the employee trust fund, allowing DriftShare to store bikes at a vacant station, and several settlement and development-agreement items; most passed unanimously.
During its Dec. 1 meeting the Finance and Personnel Committee approved a series of largely uncontested resolutions.
Key approvals included: - Resolution 20-5-1319: 20‑year lease extension with the La Crosse Queen at Riverside Park (401 Front Street South) — approved unanimously. - Resolution 20-5-1357: Allocation of $2,000,000 to the employee benefit trust fund — approved unanimously. - Resolution 20-5-1392: Allowing DriftShare Inc. to store bicycles at the vacant former Fire Station No. 2 (626 Monitor Street); the item had been short-circuited by Mayor Washington Spivey on 12/01/2025 and was approved unanimously. - Settlement and development items returned from closed session and approved on reopening included the Valley View Realty Holdings LLC settlement (Resolution 20-5-1118), the revised JP Morgan Chase settlement (Item 25-1354), the Caesars/Charmont Hotel resolution (20-5-1376), and the second amendment to the 333 Front Street development agreement (25-1406); each was moved and adopted unanimously.
Other routine items on the agenda (employee handbook review, transit funding applications, encumbering funds for streetscape projects) were also approved without substantive debate.
