Published: July 21, 2010
Tags: budget, capital budget, Chris Larson, county board, Department of Audit, Milwaukee County, O'Donnell Park, Scott Walker, Weishan
Comments: 1
By Bill Clements
Special to The Daily Reporter
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and some county board members are trading barbs over Walker‘s decision to shift money during the past seven years from the county’s capital budget into the general operating budget.
The board members charge that Walker’s “diversion” of $113.4 million since 2003 has contributed to a [...]
Published: July 9, 2010
Tags: Bob Lang, budget, Legislative Fiscal Bureau
Comments: 1
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature’s top fiscal analyst is warning the state faces a $2.5 billion shortfall in the two-year budget that starts next year.
Bob Lang, director of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, said the general fund will be an estimated $2.51 billion short of the revenue needed to meet current spending commitments.
That means the [...]
Published: July 6, 2010
Tags: budget, Chippewa County, counties, Dane County, Fedderly, Kathleen Falk, Ramberg, roadwork, St. Croix County, Stelzner, Wisconsin County Highway Association
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Wisconsin county highway commissioners, lacking federal stimulus money and local revenue, are facing the likelihood of fewer projects in 2011.
“When county budgets are tight and they’re looking for ways to save money, it becomes easy to say, ‘Let’s just cut a highway project or two,’” said Bruce Stelzner, Chippewa County Highway Commissioner.
Chippewa County [...]
Published: May 26, 2010
Tags: attorney, budget, City Hall, Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Department of Public Works, office, roadwork
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Milwaukee’s dedication to street construction is putting city department leaders on a bumpy road toward office renovation approvals.
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works’ proposed long-range budget dedicates $85.8 million to street projects between 2011 and 2016, starting with $15.3 million in next year’s budget. But city officials charged with prioritizing projects are wondering how [...]
Published: April 2, 2010
Tags: budget, income tax, Pommer, property tax, recession, sales tax, unemployment, Wisconsin Way
By Matt Pommer
Wisconsin’s economic downturn in the early 1980s was far worse than the current recession if seasonally adjusted unemployment numbers are the measuring stick.
The state experienced 13 straight months of double digit unemployment in the early 1980s. Unemployment has not topped 10 percent in the present downturn. But the economic crunch is hurting state [...]
Published: March 26, 2010
Tags: budget, constitution, Doyle, governor, partial veto, Tommy Thompson, veto, Wisconsin
By Matt Pommer
Wisconsin governors are the most powerful in the nation, thanks to a constitutional provision that lets them veto “in part” language in appropriation bills.
Pending in the Legislature is a constitutional amendment that would rebalance the powers of spending and lawmaking by requiring future governors veto a section of an appropriation bill in its [...]
Published: March 25, 2010
Tags: budget, Capital Improvements Committee, City of Milwaukee, Department of Public Works, Dudzik, Jim Bohl, Polenske, wheel tax
By Sean Ryan
A $3.3 million increase for Milwaukee’s local roads budget is an improvement, said city officials, but falls far short of what’s needed for a project backlog.
“We didn’t get into this backlog overnight,” said Alderman Joe Dudzik, chairman of the city’s Capital Improvements Committee. “We’re not going to get out of this backlog over [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: bill, budget, Dan Thompson, Fitzgerald, Huck, income tax, Krueger, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Plale, property tax, roadwork, sales tax, shared revenue, Wisconsin Alliance of Cities
By Paul Snyder
Local governments facing a grim future of postponed roadwork and delayed capital projects are hailing a bill that would force the state to return more money.
But standing between the bill’s proposal and passage is the equally grim reality that the state doesn’t have any more money to return.
“This sounds kind of gimmicky,” said [...]
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, amendment, Brink, budget, Cieslewicz, Curt Brink, Gorman, Gorman & Co., Housing Committee, loan, Madison, Madison Affordable Housing Subcommittee, Madison Housing Committee, maintenance, new construction, operating costs, Schumacher
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
Madison leaders are hung up on the strings to attach to a $4.1 million pot of city money for affordable-housing developers in the city.
The city’s Housing Committee is reviewing a proposed amendment to the 2003 ordinance that created the affordable-housing trust budget and defined how the money would be spent. The amendment would [...]
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