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The rest of Victors comments: Would not fit under one heading:.. if it is all uncovered. Is there any question of Coulombe-Fiore's hot seat?
The truth might truly be that Ms Coulombe-Fiore's did a rather good job, was the victim of infighting on the staff and the Council, all layered with no obvious easy choices toward successful economic development.. but with the highest of hopes while having the slimmest of resources and little help in or out of City Hall.
If you want an experienced and hardworking representative for your community ... one with decades of success and less than one year in the Dread Zone, I sincerely suggest you look long and hard at Ms Coulombe-Fiore for all the assets she does bring to the table. In spite of all the rumblings going in in Northfield, Coulombe-Fiore's stayed the course. Her efforts here fell on short impatient and unrealistic ears, filtered by goals of city leaders spinning aimlessly, looking for control, hoping for a Messiah.
Look at what she did ... not what Northfield did to her.

From
victor summa-EDA Board member in Northfield
LETTER TO GAZETTE
Regarding Ms Coulombe-Fiore. I read this article on candidates being reviewed for the ED position in Janesville, with great interest.My remarks will likely stay only with those who view this comment blog. I'd hope that someone in Janesville will take the time to forward it to the review committee.
First, I'd say I'm confident the committee looked more deeply in to Coulombe-Fiore's background than the Gazette article seems to have.
It is difficult to erase an initial impression and the Gazette's limited report may linger in the reader's minds? Evidently the review committee did look farther and I compliment them on that. Still a lot of conventional thinking might make a no vote on Coulombe-Fiore the easiest but not the wisest.
I'd like to tell you a bit about her involvement in Northfield MN. I have not been contacted. And I wonder if you talked to any of the businesspersons looking to locate in Northfield ... Coulombe-Fiore's contacts.
But then there's that biggie ... Fiore is currently involved in some litigation over her departure from Northfield.
She has good reason to take this action. It is not frivolous.
I became a member of the Northfield EDA in October of 2007, about five months after Coulombe-Fiore was hired. Our relationship was only for those few months and was limited to a few meetings per month .. and a few other conversations. Her hiring followed a number of months and vacancies in that position. Reasons for that long opening are not clear. What is clear is at that time, Northfield was undergoing tremendous turmoil. The city Administrator was coming under heavy fire from citizen dissatisfaction as was the City Council. The City Council was openly alining themselves with the Administrator against the Mayor and the tension at city hall was quite tight. Northfield was reeling from a few years of disgruntlement in its ranks and the EDA's inability to move forward even with expensive consultant fees for services that hadn't then and still have not paid off. That's what I call the "we need a savior, syndrome" ... and as often occurs, the money goes out but the plan doesn't do much but band-aid the wound.
This was the climate at city Hall that greeted Coulombe-Fiore
In short Charlene entered the hot zone .. and according to the Complaint accepted by the Federal Court, her position evidently became even hotter, fueled by fires burning all around her
Many feel the pathway to that success is through the Economic Development pass, not necessarily knowing how to open that magic bottle ... and, Northfield wants to temper the convention of that thinking with appropriate moves that will bring the economy to a workable level while allowing it to retain its rich small town character and the traditions that make it unique.

I worked with Charlene in Chippewa Falls and must say this article is extremely derrogatory towards her. She is very experienced and I am quite disappointed that you fail to acknowledge her previous employment. When going through a hiring process do we not look at the candidate's lifetime career rather than just one employer? She is very enthusiastic and truly loves what she does, and I was happy to work with her. I hope you don't decide to not hire her over just one thing, because she is the best candidate for your town.

Article should provide entire background on all candidates.

www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStor...

Reporter neglected to indicate plenty of negative articles on "Skurla" just do your research.

as for the woman candidate, she has a pretty good track record building communities over the last two decades, in towns larger than Janesville.

So do some more research on the "Crazy Town in Chaos" long before this candidate came there.

Two articles about the woman from Northfield:
http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewS...
http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?v...
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Based on these thumbnails I like the Denver and Rockford candidates best, but that's thin information.