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| Center Photo L-R Standing: Jeff Richter - Public Commission of Wisconsin, Jennifer Potts - BID 39, Dawn Powell - Dawn to Dusk Forever Community Garden, Richard Kauper - Amazing Architecture Seated: Mary Glass - Chair/CEO/Chief Visionary Office, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC |
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CITY-WIDE MILWAUKEE || Yes. Yes. We had an eye-opener Kick-off meeting on Thursday, August 24, 2017, to "learn about Lifeline and broadband" services for the under-served population of Milwaukee while launching TEAM INTERNET-Net Neutrality in MKE. Lifeline is an enactment through the Federal Communication Commission/FCC and TINN in Milwaukee is a 3-year initiative of Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.
U. S. Senator Tammy Baldwin office was wisely represented by her Regional Representative, Southeastern Wisconsin, Vanessa Llanas. She shared the hands-on knowledge, direct action and support of Senator Baldwin for Net Neutrality and her willingness to work to improve broadband services.
Vanessa Llanas comes to the table with experience with the city government of Milwaukee. We look forward to working with her and the new Milwaukee Office Director, Tiffany Henry, of Senator Baldwin's office.
Event Highlights
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Vanessa Llanas
Southeastern WI Regional Representative
Office of Senator Tammy Baldwin
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Vanessa Llanas comes to the table with experience with the city government of Milwaukee. We look forward to working with her and the new Milwaukee Office Director, Tiffany Henry, of Senator Baldwin's office.
Jeff Richter, Director, Universal Service Fund Director, Public Service Commission of WI drove down from Madison to provide an in depth report of his official services that are statutory.
It is clear by the extensive introduction of Director Richter that we have much to do in educating our Milwaukee residential and commercial End-Users for broadband service.
His spot-on 16-page presentation gave the participants a What We Do and Who We Are delivery. Additionally, two other handouts included:
- A list of Wireless Providers offering Lifeline Service in AT & T Territory.
- Universal Service Fund Grant Program for Telecommunications Access (FY) 2017.
It is clear that we must establish a level of TRUST based on transparency and accountability of behaviors in the marketplace to date.
It is clear that Broadband Infrastructure engagement through the office of Director Angie Dickison is key for our creative efforts for neighborhood businesses.
BID 39, Center Street Marketplace
BID 39 boundaries are from 22nd Street to 60th Street on Center Street. It is located in the Sherman Park Neighborhood as part of Aldermanic Districts 7, 10 and 15.
Jennifer Potts, Executive Director, represented BID 39 with Opening Remarks that announced BID 39 unanimous board approval at their Annual Board meeting.
BID 39 is an independent and progressive business improvement district within the BID structure of the city of Milwaukee with 120 businesses as it beginning fingerprint for strategic planning of Center Street and Sherman Park. The Chairman, Rickey Potts, Executive Director Jennifer Potts and the other board members know of the challenges facing their BID and neighborhood due to Enduring Concentrated Poverty. Economic development creation within its businesses and quality of life with its resident are at the top of their priorities.
BID 39 is an independent and progressive business improvement district within the BID structure of the city of Milwaukee with 120 businesses as it beginning fingerprint for strategic planning of Center Street and Sherman Park. The Chairman, Rickey Potts, Executive Director Jennifer Potts and the other board members know of the challenges facing their BID and neighborhood due to Enduring Concentrated Poverty. Economic development creation within its businesses and quality of life with its resident are at the top of their priorities.
Dawn Powell, President, Dawn to Dusk Forever Community Garden, is an organization with gardens in the Borchert Field - Harambee Neighborhood, District 6 area of Milwaukee. Dawn to Dusk Forever Community Garden seeks state of the art ways to improve outreach to all age groups, especially youth to introduce Horticulture. Her hands-on efforts include being a weekly commentator on Public Policy w/Mary Glass & Company - WXRW LP Riverwest Radio 104.1, where she provides valuable tidbits on how to be a gardener. She is a District Strategists and board member of the Food Council of Milwaukee.
He works in a collaborative format with Dawn to Dusk Forever Community Garden for improvements of gardens in Borchert Field.
He works with nonprofit and for profit organizations to increase capacity building and to create tools such as a business plan. He is a regular contributing expert on landscaping and gardening as well as Milwaukee County Transit and Transportation analyst on Public Policy w/Mary Glass & Company - WXRW LP Riverwest Radio 104.1 FM.
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August 24, 2017
Kick-Off Meeting
TEAM INTERNET-Net Neutrality in MKE
East Library, 2320 N. Cramer
- Opening Remarks - Vanessa Llanas
- Regional Representative, Southeastern Wisconsin
- Office of Senator Tammy Baldwin
- Opening Remarks - Jennifer Potts
- Executive Director
- BID 39 - Center Street Marketplace
- Special Guest - Jeff Richter
- Director
- Public Service Commission of Wisconsin/PSCW
- Dawn Powell - District 6, Borchert Field, District Strategist
- President
- Dawn to Dusk Forever Community Garden Group
- Richard Kauper - District 6, Borchert Field, District Strategist
- President - Architect
- Amazing Architecture
- Craig Jackson – Photo Journalist Photographer
- Mary Glass - Host/Facilitator
- Chair/CEO/Chief Visionary Officer
- Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC
- Indivisible - Milwaukee (The Hub)
- WXRW LP Riverwest 104.1 FM Radio Talk Show Host/Executive Producer
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The above professionals came together at East Library, 2320 N. Cramer for to launch TEAM INTERNET-Net Neutrality in MKE.
The special event focused primarily on the services of the Public Service Commission of WI and Lifeline 2017 services through the Federal Communication Commission. Director Jeff Richter gave an in-depth explanation of the services of his area and its Mission.
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| MARY GLASS |
Team Internet-Net Neutrality in MKE is the brainchild of Mary Glass, Chair/CEO/Chief Visionary Officer of Milwaukee Professionals Asssociation LLC. It is an initiative to connect underserve neighborhoods of Milwaukee to the internet with broadband services that are accessible, speed-efficient and affordable.
Goal/Mission
The Mission is a successful hands-on outreach to citizenship participation, access to software, hardware, apps, education attainment in use of computers, transparency, and accountability of law makers, the citizenry, and contractual service providers.
Smart Growth - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Section 66.1001(4)(a) of the Statutes requires that the governing body adopt written public participation procedures, designed to “foster public participation, including open discussion, communication programs, information services, and public meetings for which advance notice has been provided, in every stage of the preparation of a comprehensive plan.” Proposed plan elements must be widely distributed, and opportunities must be provided for written comments to be submitted by the public to the governing body. A procedure for the governing body to respond to those comments must also be identified. Public participation procedures must also be adopted for amendments to a comprehensive plan. A plan update is considered a plan amendment.
Smart Growth - SEWRPC - REGIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK The regional plan for Southeastern Wisconsin contains extensive and detailed inventory information relating to existing land uses and natural resources; population and employment information and projections; and regional land use, transportation, housing, and other plan elements that provide an areawide, or metropolitan, planning framework for the preparation of county and local comprehensive plans. County and local plans should refine and detail the recommendations set forth in the regional plan. A summary of regional plan recommendations is available from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC), which serves county and local governments in Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha Counties
Direct links are with those present at the Kick-Off meeting, FCC Commissioners, FCC staff, PSC WI (residential and commercial)*, Universal Service Fund Council, Free Press national movement, City Channel, Milwaukee PBS Channel 10, WUWM Radio Station, MATA Community Media, telecom vendors, Milwaukee & Federated Library system, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College, University of WI-Milwaukee system, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Alverno College, Cardinal Stritch University, Concordia University, Bryant Stratton, Kaplan University, SEWRPC/Southeastern WI Regional Planning Commission, wireless providers in AT&T Territory service providers (i.e., Independent Living Centers, WI Department of Health, Bureau of Aging & Disability Resource Centers, Division of Administrator Program & Management, Americans for Better Hearing, DANEnet, ABC for Health, Inc., Community Action Coalition for South Central WI, Inc., HEAR Wisconsin, New Concept Self Development Center, Northwest WI CEP, Vision Forward Association, Inc., Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council, WisNet, YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, and social networks, i.e., Facebook, Nextdoor, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn.
We will follow the money.
* includes WI Broadband Infrastructure.
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"We were/are so appreciative and heartened to get going on the FIRST 3-year (2017-2020) collaboration of Team Internet-Net Neutrality in MKE model. The collaboration model includes 10 neighborhoods in its initial layout. It is starting with Sherman Park neighborhood along Center Street thanks to BID 39 Board of Directors approval during their Annual Board Meeting on August 25, 2017," said Mary Glass
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The Mission is a successful hands-on outreach to citizenship participation, access to software, hardware, apps, education attainment in use of computers, transparency, and accountability of law makers, the citizenry, and contractual service providers.
Smart Growth - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Section 66.1001(4)(a) of the Statutes requires that the governing body adopt written public participation procedures, designed to “foster public participation, including open discussion, communication programs, information services, and public meetings for which advance notice has been provided, in every stage of the preparation of a comprehensive plan.” Proposed plan elements must be widely distributed, and opportunities must be provided for written comments to be submitted by the public to the governing body. A procedure for the governing body to respond to those comments must also be identified. Public participation procedures must also be adopted for amendments to a comprehensive plan. A plan update is considered a plan amendment.
Smart Growth - SEWRPC - REGIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK The regional plan for Southeastern Wisconsin contains extensive and detailed inventory information relating to existing land uses and natural resources; population and employment information and projections; and regional land use, transportation, housing, and other plan elements that provide an areawide, or metropolitan, planning framework for the preparation of county and local comprehensive plans. County and local plans should refine and detail the recommendations set forth in the regional plan. A summary of regional plan recommendations is available from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC), which serves county and local governments in Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha Counties
Direct links are with those present at the Kick-Off meeting, FCC Commissioners, FCC staff, PSC WI (residential and commercial)*, Universal Service Fund Council, Free Press national movement, City Channel, Milwaukee PBS Channel 10, WUWM Radio Station, MATA Community Media, telecom vendors, Milwaukee & Federated Library system, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College, University of WI-Milwaukee system, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Alverno College, Cardinal Stritch University, Concordia University, Bryant Stratton, Kaplan University, SEWRPC/Southeastern WI Regional Planning Commission, wireless providers in AT&T Territory service providers (i.e., Independent Living Centers, WI Department of Health, Bureau of Aging & Disability Resource Centers, Division of Administrator Program & Management, Americans for Better Hearing, DANEnet, ABC for Health, Inc., Community Action Coalition for South Central WI, Inc., HEAR Wisconsin, New Concept Self Development Center, Northwest WI CEP, Vision Forward Association, Inc., Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council, WisNet, YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, and social networks, i.e., Facebook, Nextdoor, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn.
We will follow the money.
* includes WI Broadband Infrastructure.
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"We were/are so appreciative and heartened to get going on the FIRST 3-year (2017-2020) collaboration of Team Internet-Net Neutrality in MKE model. The collaboration model includes 10 neighborhoods in its initial layout. It is starting with Sherman Park neighborhood along Center Street thanks to BID 39 Board of Directors approval during their Annual Board Meeting on August 25, 2017," said Mary Glass
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| Craig Jackson - Photo Journalist |
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