Thursday, May 2, 2013
District 8 meeting will be at Currie Park Clubhouse instead of Madison Elementary School.
The location for the fifth in a series of Wauwatosa District Town Hall meetings has been changed because of a conflict with school plans. The District 8 meeting, scheduled for Wednesday night, has been moved to the Currie Park Clubhouse at 3535 N. Mayfair Rd., not at Madison Elementary School as originally planned. Mayor Kathy Ehley and 8th District Alds. Jason Wilke and Craig Wilson will be present to describe city initiatives in some key areas affecting both the city as a whole and each district individually. City administrative staff have been on hand for the first to help explain some issues and answer questions. Among the chief topics on the agenda for all districts are the 2013 property revaluation, sewer reconstruction and economic …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
What you need to know to vote on April 2.
We want to make sure you've got all the information you need before hitting the voting booth on Tuesday, April 2. See below for information on the upcoming election and a breakdown of every race, with links to individual candidate profiles. Sample ballot: You can download the sample ballot from the City of Wauwatosa web site. Registering to vote: If you have not yet registered, you can do so at at City Hall through Friday, March 29. You can also register on Election Day at the polls. Early voting: You may vote in person at City Hall now through close of business on Friday, March 29. You may also cast an absentee ballot by mail, but it must be postmarked no later than Election Day, Tuesday, April 2. Absentee ballots also are available at …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
With city's final approval, measure that could swell Innovation Campus' TIF District 6 from $10 million to $30 million or more goes to other taxing bodies for consideration.
After a relatively short debate, the Common Council on Tuesday night approved an amendment that allows for much greater spending through the taxing district created a little over two years ago to support UWM's Innovation Campus. The 14-1 vote paves the way for the city to offer the incentive of using tax-incremental financing dollars to assist developers with building parking structures or surface lots for project plan sites. This was the city's final vote, but the measure still has to pass muster with the Joint Review Board, which is composed of the several other taxing entities supported by the Tosa property tax: schools, the county, MATC and MMSD. The amendment includes projections that show that Wauwatosa's TIF District No. 6 could …
Monday, July 9, 2012
Discussion and any action on Walnut Road route through western Wauwatosa now expected to take place July 17 prior to regular Common Council meeting.
A discussion of the route of one of two new power lines in west Tosa – possibly the last public discussion – has been delayed a week, city officials said Monday. After a recommendation from the Community Development Committee was put off at its last meeting, on June 26, it was expected to revisited and likely acted on at the committee's next meeting, at 8 p.m. Tuesday. But Ald. Jeff Roznowski, the committee chairman, said Monday that the power line discussion had been taken off this week's agenda and would be dealt with the following Tuesday, July 17, before the regular meeting of the full council. The debate is now planned for a meeting of the Committee of the Whole at 6 p.m. the following week, prior to the regular 7:30 p.m. meeting of …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Alderman says he will again vote against appropriations cut by the federal government but doled out by the city, and that it may be time for Wauwatosa to take its own responsibility for assisting independently living seniors.
Ald. Pete Donegan (1st District) is vowing to maintain his opposition Tuesday night on the Common Council to cuts in Community Development Block Grant funding to the Hart Park Senior Center. He's also questioning some past and current practices in how CDBG funds are doled out and used, and he says if he doesn't prevail in restoring funding to the senior center – and maybe even if he does – he'll raise the question of changing how the center is funded, possibly be having the city take over direct responsibility. Donegan cast a lone "protest vote" last week in the Buget and Finance Committee after learning that federal CDBG funding to Wauwatosa through the Housing and Urban Development Department would fall 21 percent below what was expected…
After more than three decades as a Tosa homeowner and police officer, John Dubinski wants to "pay it back" in his retirement.
At long last, John Dubinski can show his face in civil society. Nothing to have been ashamed of. In fact, it's a pretty handsome mug he's got. It's just that for 31½ years as a Wauwatosa police officer, many of those spent as a detective, Dubinski would not have wanted that mug plastered in the media. There was that "undercover" thing to consider. But Dubinski retired from that role in December 2010, and as of 7:30 Tuesday night when he's sworn in again as a public servant, this time as aldermen of the 2nd District, he'll be front and center every week at City Hall. Dubinski was selected by a special committee of the Common Council to serve out the first year of the term won without a contest in April by Eric Meaux, who made a job move to …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Incoming Mayor Ehley will preside over a Common Council with three new faces and, soon, one empty seat. You can attend or watch the proceedings broadcast live from City Hall.
There is little of the regular business of city government on the agenda Tuesday night for the Wauwatosa Common Council. Rather, the business is the governors themselves. Kathy Ehley will be sworn in as mayor to begin a four-year term, along with three new aldermen. Jim Moldenhauer in the 1st District, Greg Walz-Chojnacki in the 3rd District, and Joel Tilleson in the 5th District each won close races in the April 3 general election to take four-year seats on the council. The proceedings will be broadcast live from City Hall on cable Channel 25. The new council will soon have one empty chair, as District 2 Ald. Eric Meaux, who also served as council president and interim mayor since the departure of Jill Didier, has announced he will step …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Job change requires departure, says alderman who also served as president of the Common Council. He will serve through May 1.
Just two days after voters returned him to office in an uncontested election for his District 2 Common Council seat, Alderman and Acting Mayor Eric Meaux announced Tuesday that he will step down. Meaux took over the role of mayor from his position of as president of the Common Council when Jill Didier departed in December. Meaux said that he was departing the council because a job change will lead him to move out of his aldermanic district soon. Explaining his sudden exit just after the election, Meaux said that his decision to accept a new position came less than three weeks ago, and that he hadn't even an inkling before the January filing deadline for candidacy of the possibility that he wouldn't be able to serve. "The timing was what it…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Spurred by citizens of Wauwatosa, the committee on Parks, Energy, and Environment unanimously passes resolution opposing power lines in all county parks.
A standing-room only crowd greeted a Milwaukee County Board committee Tuesday as it unanimously recommended a resolution opposing power lines in a Wauwatosa parkway and overhead lines in an adjacent neighborhood in Milwaukee. As the Milwaukee County Board’s Committee on Parks, Energy and Environment (PE&E) met to discuss the power line routes, the hearing room buzzed with energy. Unprepared for the overflow crowd, committee chairman Gerry Broderick called the meeting to order while people were still streaming into the packed hearing chamber. Many began to sit on the floor. At issue was a plan by American Transmission Co. (ATC) to build power lines along Underwood Creek Parkway in Wauwatosa. In addition to formally opposing “the proposed …
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Voters will have a say in April on whether to reduce the size of the Common Council.
Citizens will get an opportunity to tell their government what they think about reducing its number of representatives, thanks to a single, somewhat surprising, somewhat reluctant vote. It came from Mayor Eric Meaux, appointed to the office Tuesday night to complete Jill Didier's term and almost immediately put to the test. A vote not to call an advisory referendum on the contentious issue of reducing the size of the Common Council ended in a 7-all tie. The mayor does not vote along with the council except to break a tie, and for Meaux, it came down putting the matter to rest. "This issue keeps raising its head," he said before casting the deciding vote against a motion by Ald. Michael Walsh to put the question on file — which amounts to …
Keith Best
6:16 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
If you needed brain surgery would you want a surgeon who has never done it before or one with 17 years experience? The same goes for the WI. Supreme Court and why you should vote for Pat Roggensack and her 17 years of experience. more ›