The Milwaukee Common Council on Friday will meet to approve the 2010 city budget. Aldermen will review their version of the budget, which as been hammered out over the past month based on the budget Mayor Tom Barrett proposed in ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] A Madison alderman is ushering the city’s façade improvement program to the budget chopping block despite arguments the business grants boost the city’s bottom line. There are no figures to support the claim, but Percy Brown, the ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] Two projects, totaling more than $15 million, are inching closer to the chopping block as Milwaukee aldermen search for money to reduce a sewer and roadwork backlog. The city could save $11.2 million if aldermen agree the ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] A proposed $15 vehicle registration fee could funnel $10 million into Dane County’s transportation budget and not a dime into area road projects. “We have all kinds of projects that are being delayed because of budget problems,” ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] Milwaukee and other government agencies would feel the heat from the city’s latest attempt to burn through its backlog of street projects. The city has 214 miles of road that need repairs (PDF) and a budget strained ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] Road builders hungry for work will find little to sustain them in Dane County’s proposed 2010 budget. “With the downturn in commercial work, a lot more road builders have been relying on public works projects,” said Chris ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] Two national investment firms downgraded Dane County’s bond rating, giving supervisors one more reason to curb borrowing for construction projects. Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings, both based in New York, dropped Dane County from AAA to ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] If Madison does not commit nearly $1 million in its 2010 budget to a central park project, supporters argue, the development could lose momentum and fall apart. That’s not such a bad thing, said Mark Bugher, director ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] Road construction projects throughout Madison are poised to get a financial boost in 2010, but building projects might be less fortunate. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said the 2010 capital budget he will introduce to the Common Council ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] Wisconsin’s transportation budget faces the latest in a long line of blows — a $49.1 million budget shortfall for 2009. The state’s Joint Committee on Finance on Thursday will discuss a Wisconsin Department of Transportation plan to ...

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