TIMELINE OF GARSKI RELATED COMPLAINTS, RECORDS REQUESTS & ACTIONS

November 9, 2016 Complaint filed against President Garski by Anna Marie Clausen
Claims excess horses, tarp on roof, multiple outbuildings,
commercial vehicles parked, brush pile *

November 9, 2016 Complaint #1 filed against President Garski by Pat Barlament

Tarp on roof *

November 9, 2016 Complaint #2 filed against President Garski by Pat Barlament

Claims horses not zoned, commercial vehicles parked, excess
outbuildings, zoning violations *

November 10, 2016 Complaint filed against President Garski by Todd Kennedy
Claims Garski is operating an illegal business *

January 19, 2017 Open Records request filed by Anna Marie Clausen
Asks for all Garski communications with specific residents, HWY V
residents and trustees regarding HWY V - April 2014 thru present **

January 19, 2017 Open Records request filed by Anna Marie Clausen
Asks for all Garski communications with specific residents, Trustees,
Sam Schultz regarding Campbell Woods - April 2014 thru present **

January 20, 2017 Open Records request filed by Sam Wahlen

Asks for all campaign expenses reported by Garski and
documentation regarding official Village Facebook account **

January 20, 2017 Open Records request filed by Sam Wahlen

Asks for all Garski, trustee and finance director communications with
a village resident - all dates **

February 7, 2017 Open Records request filed by Sam Wahlen

Asks for all Garski campaign expenditures, donations and in-kind
contributions - April 2014 thru present **

February 12, 2017 Village hires Safebuilt LLC to investigate President Garski
complaints *

February 15, 2017 Open Records request filed by Sam Wahlen

Asks for all Garski communications, records and emails with Village
Administrator Kurt Wahlen regarding a specific village employee -
including pay increases - January 2015 thru present **

February 15, 2017 Open Records request filed by Sam Wahlen

 Asks for all Garski, trustee and finance director communications with
a village resident - April 2015 thru present **

March 2, 2017 Harassment complaint filed against President Garski by Village

Clerk Stephanie Kohlhagen
Claims she was denied raise - includes trustees Feest, Hansen &
Otwaska ***

March 10, 2017 DeGroot Vandalism Press Release

Claims his house was vandalized. Says ‘egging” of home was
politically motivated. Publicly asks President Garski to tell supporters
to stop attacking him ****

March 23, 2017 Dave DeGroot tells local media Safebuilt report will be delivered
soon​ - preview copy leaked by clerk’s office to DeGroot donor. *

March 24, 2017 Safebuilt Report Delivered to Village *

March 26, 2017 Sam Wahlen files formal request for investigation of President
Garski with the Racine County District Attorney’s Office
Claims Garski is violating campaign finance law, is using taxpayer
money to reward employees, has mixed his political campaign with
government functions, refused to provide information in open records
requests and disallowed village staff to conduct searches on his
personal devices **

April 3, 2017 President Garski files reply and rebuttal of Safebuilt report with
village
Disputes every violation contained, describing report as flawed and
incorrect *

April 4, 2017 Election Day - ​Garski loses re-election to DeGroot

August 23, 2017 Village demands Garski appear before Village Zoning Board of
Appeals
Without having secured Garski’s willingness to testify on his behalf
and having issued no enforceable citations - Garski refuses to
appear *

September 2017 State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Special Services

Inspection of Garski Properties *

November 20, 2017 Village of Mt. Pleasant issues citation against Garski
Each violation carries a $6,125 fine. Garski suspends all business
activities *

May 21, 2018 State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Special Services
 Dismisses Safebuilt complaint against Garski
States insufficient evidence *

June 2018 Village of Mt. Pleasant offers Garski a dismissal of citation - with
prejudice
Garski must agree to pay the villages legal fees of $1295 and to
plead guilty *

August 2018 Village of Mt. Pleasant offers Garski another dismissal of

citation - with prejudice
Garski must agree to pay HALF the villages legal fees of $650 and to
plead guilty *

September 13, 2018 Village of Mt. Pleasant vs Gerald Garski

Garski found innocent and all charges are dismissed *

* GARSKI MUNICIPAL COMPLAINTS, SAFEBUILT REPORT, MUNICIPAL CITATION

No municipal violations alleged in the complaints filed by Anna Marie Clausen, Pat Barlament,
and Todd Kennedy - all filed within a 24 hour period on November 19, 2016 - were ever
validated.

No violations alleged in the Safebuilt report were ever validated.

The State of Wisconsin Safety and Professional Services Review Board dismissed the Safebuilt
complaint against Garski as well as a supplemental complaint filed by Village of Mt. Pleasant.
The state declared they both presented insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

Garski’s $6,215 citation imposed against him by the Village of Mt. Pleasant in November 2017,
was dismissed by Judge John Knuteson and Garski was found not guilty on September 13,
2018.

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The time and resources of the following village and state staff and departments were engaged
to process and investigate the municipal complaints filed against Garski:

● Village of Mt. Pleasant Interim Administrator and Police Chief Tim Zarzecki
● Village Clerk/Treasurer Stephanie Kohlhagen
● Village of Mt. Pleasant Planning Director Sam Schultz
● South Shore Fire Department Chief Bob Stedman
● Mt. Pleasant Village Building Inspector Leonard Hannula
● Mt. Pleasant Clerk’s Office staff
 ● Mt. Pleasant Police Department staff
● South Shore Fire Department staff
● Mt. Pleasant Building Department staff
● State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Investigator
● State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Paralegal Staff
● State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Review Board
● Wind Point Municipal Judge John Knuteson
● Wind Point Municipal Clerk

Additional resources hired by the Village of Mt. Pleasant to engage in the investigation of
municipal complaints filed against Garski:

● Safebuilt LLC
● Legal Counsel and Prosecuting Attorney (Precise information has been requested)

**​OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS, REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION - RACINE COUNTY DA

Anna Marie Clausen and Sam Wahlen filed four separate requests for public records pertaining
to President Garski with Mt. Pleasant Interim Village Administrator Tim Zarzecki within a 24 hour
time period on January 19, 2017. Wahlen followed with three additional requests pertaining to
Garski over the next two weeks. Seven requests in total.

The records requested by Clausen and Wahlen represented potentially hundreds of

communications, emails and documents dating back nearly two and a half years to be located
and processed by the Village Clerk/Treasurer, Finance Director, Village staff and Village
trustees.

Wahlen’s request for President Garski’s campaign finance records were fulfilled through the
2015 election against Mark Gleason. In 2017, Garski filed as an “exempt” candidate by not
raising or spending more than $2000. As an exempt candidate, Garski was not required to file
campaign finance reports - making Wahlen’s request for campaign donations and expenditures
for 2017 improper.

In Wahlen’s request for investigation against President Garski filed with the Racine County
District Attorney’s office and District Attorney Tricia Hanson, he accused Garski of a host of
allegations stemming from his open records requests - including campaign finance violations.

Hansen forwarded the complaint to the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice.

None of Wahlen’s allegations were upheld or validated by the Racine County District Attorney or
the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice.
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The time and resources of the following village and state staff and departments were engaged
to process Clausen and Wahlen’s seven open records requests and request for investigation
filed against President Garski:

● Village of Mt. Pleasant Interim Administrator and Police Chief Tim Zarzecki
● Village of Mt. Pleasant Clerk/Treasurer Stephanie Kohlhagen
● Village of Mt. Pleasant Finance Director Kay Magyar
● Racine County District Attorney Tricia Hansen
● Racine County District Attorney’s Office staff
● State of Wisconsin Department of Justice attorneys and staff
● Mt. Pleasant Clerk’s Office Staff
● Mt. Pleasant Finance Department Staff
● Mt. Pleasant Legal Counsel Elaine Ekes

***HARASSMENT COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST PRESIDENT GARSKI BY STEPHANIE

KOHLHAGEN

In the complaint filed by Mt. Pleasant Village Clerk Stephanie Kohlhagen against President
Garski and Village Trustees Jon Hansen, Gary Feest and Ken Otwaska with the Village of Mt.
Pleasant and the EEOC - no record of reparative compensation or wrongdoing exists.

According to Mt. Pleasant Village records, Kohlhagen received the same raise increase as other
village staff for the period stipulated in her complaint.

Time and resources engaged to process and investigate Kohlhagen’s complaint against
President Garski:

● Village of Mt. Pleasant Interim Administrator and Police Chief Tim Zarzecki
● Village of Mt. Pleasant Legal Counsel

****DEGROOT HOME VANDALISM POLICE REPORT

The Village of Mt. Pleasant Police Report states that several young adults or adolescents could
be seen running in the street past DeGroot’s home in the video footage provided by DeGroot.
Their investigation says that upon returning back from the direction they came, a single egg was
tossed on to DeGroot’s driveway.

MPPD found no evidence of a “politically motivated” attack.