{"id":980365,"date":"2026-08-04T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:53:16","slug":"la-crosse-committee-to-consider-90000-for-french-island-incorporation-appeal-la-crosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980365\/","title":{"rendered":"La Crosse committee to consider $90,000 for French Island incorporation appeal | La Crosse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) \u2014 The City of La Crosse&#8217;s Finance and Personnel Committee will consider setting aside $90,000 to appeal the Village of French Island&#8217;s incorporation.<\/p>\n<p>The Common Council voted in April to appeal the incorporation decision, according to legislative documents. The proposal, sponsored by council member Gary Padesky, requests funding from the city&#8217;s Contingency Fund to support the legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the Village of French Island elected their first village government in July after voters approved the incorporation through a referendum vote in May.<\/p>\n<p>Village officials say the incorporation prevents future annexation from the City of La Crosse and preserves the community&#8217;s identity. The incorporation push gained momentum after a 21-year boundary agreement with La Crosse expired in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>La Crosse officials have opposed the incorporation, arguing Campbell is too small and financially unstable to operate as a village. The city previously allocated $45,000 for legal expenses to challenge the decision in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance and Personnel Committee will consider the resolution at their Thursday meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY NEWS 8 NOW\/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) \u2014 The City of La Crosse&#8217;s Finance and Personnel Committee will consider setting aside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,393398,2961,29864,224,5337,1398],"class_list":["post-980365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-french-island","tag-la","tag-la-crosse","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117038049474093944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}