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The Milwaukee County Board will be meeting as a whole this Thursday. This will be the last regularly scheduled meeting until September, when Scott Walker presents his 2011 County Budget. The digest of the agenda for this month’s meeting can be found here. There are some points of interest: They will be taking up the matter to [...] On Independence Day, being the first Sunday of the month, WISN-AM hosted “Inside the County Board“, a monthly radio show in which various County Board Supervisors speak about issues facing the Board. The purpose of the show is to give citizens a chance to gain insight into how the County Board works and how they [...] In Thursday’s meeting of the County Board, one of the issues taken up was whether to censure Supervisor Lynne De Bruin for “violating” the unwritten rules about closed sessions. Unfortunately, they chose to go with the censure, which is showing the absolute wrong message to the citizens of Milwaukee County. As I pondered whether this would [...] On Thursday morning, the Milwaukee County Board will have their monthly meeting of the whole. One of the items on their agenda is the proposed resolution to censure their colleague, Lynne De Bruin. De Bruin’s offense, according to the resolution, stems from her “breaching a confidence by making certain comments that were made in a [...] The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that the “no snitching” policy which was proposed by people like Board Chairman Lee Holloway and Supervisors Joe Sanfelippo, Elizabeth Coggs and Peggy West was voted on today. The proposal is to censure Supervisor Lynne De Bruin for having the audacity to actually tell the truth about the horrible [...] Last week, appearing in front of the County Board’s Personnel Committee, Cynthia Archer, a Walker aide, that there would be a negative impact on the parks, directly related to Scott Walker’s laying off 26 parks employees, but did not specify what that impact would be: Supervisors were told that the county Parks Department would make do [...] The Behavioral Health Division has already had a lion’s share of problems over the years. These problems include such poor management that they had a $3 million shortfall at the end of last year, the new private food service not following special diets and trying to serve bug-infested food to patients, and allowing a female [...] To be honest, I am flabbergasted at Scott Walker’s audacity. It has become increasingly obvious to even the most casual observer that he has completely put his own personal and political aspirations before the common good of Milwaukee County. His level of personal responsibility to Milwaukee County has deteriorated to the point that even his [...] In a press release, with an alarming story, Supervisor Lynne De Bruin makes a very good point: Some residents of the 15th Supervisory District have requested that Supervisor De Bruin provide written public comment on the recent statements made by County Board Chairman Lee Holloway regarding County Executive Scott Walker. Supervisor De Bruin was present when [...] |
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