State Rep. David Cullen (D-Milwaukee) just offered an RTA amendment that would require the funding raised in Milwaukee County to stay with the Milwaukee County Transit System for buses. The amendment would also require a binding referendum and the approval of the county executive and the County Board to take effect.
The full Assembly tabled his amendment. Cullen represents the district that includes Story Hill.
This kind of thing late-night / early morning law-making generally doesn’t turn out well.
There’s always an exception to the rule, right?
Here’s to RTA creation.
There was an attempted home break-in yesterday in the 300 block of N. Pinecrest St. An officer said the would-be thieves were unsuccessful, but there was extensive damage to the back door where the crooks tried to get in.
The crime occurred sometime between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
I used to be just a touch envious of the folks who lived in the houses neighboring Doyne Park, just a few short blocks from this neighborhood.
County Executive Scott Walker, a Republican candidate for goovernor, is changing all that, though, by pulling staff from the park’s golf course on weekdays. It’s part of Walker’s path of golf destruction, which also includes Lake, Madison, Noyes and Zablocki. Walker is putting in fareboxes and closing pavilions. Park patrons will be asked to use porta-pottys. (I don’t know about that one. Walker’s convicted felon security chief might be lurking in one of them!)
Don’t know much about the non-Doyne parks, but walk in and near Doyne a lot. We’ll have — gosh — an unstaffed golf course in a park that has been vandalized before. What a terrific idea!
County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin isn’t happy about it, either.
“This decision puts the future of these golf courses at risk,” she said in a prepared statement. “Anyone wishing to golf during the week would have to use payment boxes that are based solely on the honor system, and that will lead to a drop in par-3 golf course revenue for Milwaukee County. It also raises concerns about theft from these payment boxes. Beyond that, we cannot base the County’s revenues on the honor system. This decision effectively sets these courses up for failure, because everyone knows the best way to close a county facility is to depress its revenues.”
“Closing down clubhouses and installing port-a-johns are not the way to go,” Supervisor De Bruin added. “Once again, a major change is made without informing either the County Board of the public.”
And he wants to run the state? The mind reels.
Antonio Z. Andrews, the serial burglar who broke into several Story Hill homes and garages last September, was sentenced earlier this month to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to felony burglary.
Circuit Judge Richard J. Sankovitz also ordered Andrews, 54, to serve 25 months of supervised release after his release from prison. Andrews also was ordered to make restitution totaling $170.28 to four victims.