Monday, January 14, 2013
With state legislators calling for a part-time Milwaukee County Board, supervisors made their case in front of their municipal counterparts on the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council Monday afternoon.
The Milwaukee County Board has not always seen eye-to-eye with the county's mayors and village presidents. But despite their past misgivings, supervisors were eager to meet with their municipal counterparts Monday and defend their jobs in light of a proposal by two state Republican lawmakers to reduce supervisors' pay from $50,000 to $15,000. The proposed legislation would ask all Milwaukee County residents about the downsizing through a binding referendum on the April 2 ballot. At the request of County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic, Supervisor Theo Lipscomb asked that he and three other supervisors appear before suburban officials and administrators at a Milwaukee County Intergovernmental Cooperation Council meeting Monday …
Monday, June 18, 2012
The group made up of Milwaukee County mayors and village presidents is now led by the Oak Creek and Franklin mayors.
Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi has been selected as vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council, a committee made up of the mayors and village presidents of Milwaukee County's 19 municipalities. Scaffidi noted in this week's Mayor's Message that Franklin Mayor Tom Taylor is the chairman, giving the southern portion of Milwaukee County significant representation at the committee's leadership level. The ICC was in the news last week when it opted to drop its pursuit of Milwaukee County Board downsizing, and then again when new County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic pushed for voting privileges. Click here for the rest of the Mayor's Message, which also has updates on the Drexel Interchange project, last weekend's alumni …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Several members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council of Milwaukee wanted the board reduced and the positions switched to part-time.
The proposal to shrink the Milwaukee County Board is on hold, despite strong support of it by 12 suburban Milwaukee communities. In April, suburban voters overwhelmingly supported reducing the size of the board from 18 members to nine, and making supervisors part-time rather than full-time positions. But on Monday, members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council of Milwaukee County voted to stop pursuing the downsizing of the board. "There’s some new leadership at the county," Greenfield Mayor Michael Neitzke said. "I think we want to get the politics behind us and give them the opportunity to work more cooperatively with us." "There’s this idea that now that Chairman (Lee) Holloway is gone, things could improve. Everyone’s willing …
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Municipal leaders agreed to discuss the topic with their councils and boards and possible add an advisory referendum to the April ballots.
Local municipal leaders have felt like their voices have not been heard by the Milwaukee County Board over the last several months. On Monday they made a loud statement directed at those who they feel are ignoring them. At a meeting in Franklin, Intergovernmental Cooperation Council members, village presidents and city mayors of the 19 municipalities within the city, overwhelmingly supported taking initial steps to add an advisory referendum to next spring’s election ballots. Many ICC members want constituents to have a vote on whether the number of county supervisors should be reduced and whether supervisors should be part-time, measures supported by a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial earlier this week. ICC members uniformly agreed to…
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