Lawmakers held a public hearing Wednesday on a bill that would give Wisconsin municipalities a new means of tearing down blighted buildings that contain asbestos and other contaminants.
Voters rejected school building referendums at an unusually high rate in elections held throughout the state on Tuesday, including some ballot questions seeking permission for multi-million-dollar construction projects.
Two CG Schmidt clients lost more than $1 million in total when a cyber criminal impersonating company employees intercepted invoices intended for the contractor in 2018.
Property taxes levied by schools in Wisconsin will go up 3.3%, a smaller increase than in 2019 but still larger than any other year over the past decade, a report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum released on Thursday showed.
Despite a pandemic, an economic downturn and a polarizing presidential election, a report released on Tuesday has found that Wisconsin voters approved school referendums at the second-highest rate in state history since 1993 on Nov. 3.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a series of school referendums during Tuesday's election, giving the go-ahead to more than $700 million in construction projects to districts throughout the state.
Wisconsin voters approved about $1.7 billion in construction-related school referendums last week despite a spring election muddled by the COVID-19 pandemic.