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 [...]
Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: Bauman, Goss, Henken, maintenance, Milwaukee County, Public Policy Forum, roadwork, Stone, Weishan
By Sean Ryan Milwaukee County might take on more roadwork despite studies and theories suggesting there is a benefit to withdrawing from the business. The county could save money if takes over some of the roadwork — such as paving, reconstruction and maintenance — now done by municipalities, said John Weishan, Milwaukee County Board supervisor. [...]
Published: December 24, 2009
Tags: Chippewa County, Fedderly, Geurts, maintenance, Milwaukee County, Outagamie County, O’Connell, plowing, Stelzner, Stone, Wisconsin Counties Association, Wisconsin County Highway Association Inc., Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Way
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By Sean Ryan Outagamie County rejected the state’s 2010 contract offer for highway plowing and maintenance, and more counties may follow suit next year. The proposed Wisconsin Department of Transportation contract would force the county to have 15 snowplows and up to 25 people on staff during winter, said Al Geurts, Outgamie County’s highway commissioner. [...]
By Paul Snyder A bill that would give Milwaukee County the freedom to ask the state for more road maintenance money for the winter is the latest fallout from state transportation budget cuts. “This is being driven by the money being transferred out of the transportation fund,” said state Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale. “It’s creating [...]
By Paul Snyder The pace of construction in the University of Wisconsin System is creating a growing to-do list of maintenance projects and nowhere near enough money to get the work done. “We need to start thinking about this long term,” said state Rep. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah. “And if we’re saving money on other projects, [...]
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: airline, Frontier, jobs, maintenance, Republic
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DENVER (AP) — About 300 Frontier Airlines jobs are being moved to Milwaukee by the airline’s new owner, Republic Airways. Republic announced Tuesday that it’s establishing a hub there. Frontier spokesman Steve Snyder says about 220 heavy maintenance jobs based in Denver will move to Milwaukee as part of the effort. Another 100 or so [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Tags: accessibility, HVAC, maintenance, referendum, Whitefish Bay, Whitefish Bay School District
By Sean Ryan and Joe Yovino sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com joe.yovino@dailyreporter.com The powers of persuasion hit a frenzied pitch in Whitefish Bay as a pre-referendum debate raged over whether or not to borrow $22.6 million for school construction and maintenance work. After the final votes were cast, the Whitefish Bay community approved Tuesday a two-part school district referendum, [...]
Published: August 6, 2009
Tags: army base, barracks, Construction, contractors, Fort McCoy, maintenance, renovation, schedule, soldier
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Trainers at Fort McCoy are living through a logistical nightmare as they search for space for soldiers while contractors overrun the base. “We’re literally operating on a situation where we’re managing right down to bed spaces rather than just building spaces,” said Steve Shanks, chief of Fort McCoy’s training division. “We’re pretty [...]
Published: August 4, 2009
Tags: demolition, Hoan Bridge, maintenance, Milwaukee, painting
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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Milwaukee’s Hoan Bridge will cost the state millions of dollars for maintenance work if planners choose to keep the structure rather than tearing it down. It will cost millions alone just to slap a new coat of paint on the 35-year-old highway bridge, said Bruce Carow, Wisconsin Department of Transportation chief structural [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: codes, Department of Neighborhood Services, elevator, inspection, maintenance, Milwaukee
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Elevator work is going down with the rest of the construction trades in Milwaukee despite a city inspection program that requires regular upkeep. There are not many jobs to build new elevators because of the dearth of construction projects in Milwaukee, said John Caruso, branch manager of KONE Inc., Milwaukee. Most of [...]
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