What say you SHARON ROBINSON, DOA city of Milwaukee

Mayor, Council At Odds Over How To Prepare For Fiscal Cliff

But there is unanimous agreement that city faces a looming crisis. 

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“I think we forget how many new people [are involved],” said Dimitrijevic in an interview. Johnson as mayor, Kovac as budget director, Perez as council president, and Dimitrijevic as finance committee chair are all going through their first budget cycle in their new roles. “We put our best foot forward and had a pretty engaged process.” She said a second public hearing, held as a hybrid in-person-virtual event, was informative, but that there still wasn’t a feeling of sufficient community engagement.

“Cutting life-saving services while having the means to preserve them just feels irresponsible,” said Common Council President Jose G. Perez to the Finance & Personnel Committee Thursday morning. “Many of us, in communication with one another, didn’t feel that the community was ready for drastic cuts to libraries and services across the city.”

Perez said he didn’t think former Mayor Tom Barrett was interested in engaging the public on the looming need to cut services. He said he’s committed to discussing the issue with residents and with state legislators. The first-time council president said he thought business leaders needed to better understand the issue, including that the city has growing expenses but can’t raise revenue.

“We do need more time,” said finance committee chair Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic. “We do want to have the time to communicate with our constituents the changes that lie ahead.”

The longest-serving council member isn’t backing his colleagues’ proposal, but he is in agreement about the severity of the situation.

 

Welcome to the Department of Administration

SHARON ROBINSON

The Department of Administration (DOA) is responsible for many of the centralized functions of the City of Milwaukee. DOA works to make Milwaukee one of the nation's most attractive cities in which to live, work and do business by:

• Enhancing the ability of city agencies to provide high quality, valued services at what cost citizens' can afford;
• Developing and recommending policies that protect the city's fiscal foundation; and
• Influencing state and federal policies that affect the city's ability to thrive.

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The City of Milwaukee has been allocated approximately $394.2 million in direct ARPA assistance. It is the city’s goal to use the funds to enable the city and community to recover from the pandemic, address the needs of residents, families, and neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic, and put our city on a path to a strong, inclusive and equitable recovery.

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                                                 NIK KOVAC - Budget Manager

Kovac said Johnson supported reversing the temporary closure of the King branch and eliminating the cut to one of the four other branches by using approximately $600,000 in savings from a previously unanticipated delay in starting a police recruiting class and needing to make a smaller payment than anticipated to the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission (MADACC). “Beyond that, we feel is irresponsible,” said Kovac. 

But the use of the word “irresponsible” resulted in pushback from Ald. Milele A. Coggs and several others. “I think that is an unnecessary depiction of actions being taken,” said the alderwoman.

Kovac, a former council member, said that restoring the cuts could make it more difficult to get community engagement on the city’s looming issues. “We all know hypothetical conversations have empty rooms,” said the budget director.

                                    BUDGET AMENDMENT DAY

The heirs/taxpayers/stakeholders deserve a blow-by-blow assessment of the Administration budget in "layman's terms" of how their money has been spent and will be spent - $1.7 billion 2023 budget. 

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The executive and legislative branches have failed the heirs/taxpayers/stakeholders o the city of Milwaukee - 96.8 square miles. The lock-step "this-n-that" charter officers must be put in check for this budget changeover. 

 

What did Nik Kovak become Budget Director for?

What is so significant that he brings to the table of budget impact for African Americans, other People of Color, and Work Challenged Milwaukeeans?  It looks like he is bringing the tired and disrespectful leadership of Tom Barrett" - exploiter.

The majority population of Milwaukee - even though we have everybody and their Caucasian mama power-grabbing our coffers of massive resources.

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Nik Kovac is a member of Sharon Robinson's DOA team.

We have not heard anything impressive from Kovac.

Ashanti Hamilton's quick jump is another, for what?  What does he bring to the party but chaos?

City Hall is just a mess-up.

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Did he have anything to do with pushing Dennis Yaccarino to retirement?

TECHNOLOGY

Where is the push for Broadband?

4-5G employment in Milwaukee for African Americans, other People of Color, and the Work Challenged?

We need an IMPACT STATEMENT from DOA.  We have a new person in the mayor's office.

What's the status of the 2006 internet technology placed in Milwaukee by Tom Barrett and DOA - Sharon Robinson?