I write in support of the following proposals to make Milwaukee a more equitable, safe and healthy city for all of its inhabitants: ARPA#7 (Kovac) $2.7 million for a Green Jobs Accelerator as recommended by the City-County Task Force on Climate & Economic Equity Jobs & Equity work group; ARPA#74 (Johnson) $5 million to provide energy efficiency upgrades to low-income families in underserved areas; ARPA#9 (Kovac) $1 million to develop a factory to build modular zero-emission homes; ARPA#12 (Dimitrijevic, Bauman, Kovac) $10.7 million to expand Milwaukee's tree canopy and other Green Infrastructure. I am also in support of including $2 million for energy efficiency upgrades in any ARPA proposal funding lead abatement work and $200,000 for consultancy from the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to leverage further funding for combined lead abatement and energy efficiency upgrades. These proposals are essential to the health and well-being of Milwaukeeans, and the future of our city.
I am in support proposal #31 for the installation of an Indoor Soccer Facility in the south side of Milwaukee. This is a phenomenal opportunity to invest in our youth, promote healthy activities, teach applicable life skills through playing a sport, and creating a tight knit community for all those involved. Not only is it an investment for the citizens of Milwaukee, but it adds to the ever growing list of all the new and exciting things happening in our city!
I support proposal #31 for the installation of an Indoor Soccer Facility in the south side of Milwaukee. Investing in our youth through a safe and high quality facility that fosters health & wellness and community in the part of the city where soccer is played the most, is important.
I support proposals 47, 50, 51 and 52. I believe we have to commit funds to public health approaches to violence prevention. We have to transition from seeing public safety as policing only. I understand, that like any public health effort, much of the success is invisible since the measure is things that DON'T happen. So easy to cut funding because you can't see the results right away.
I worked for the Milwaukee Health Department as an inspector from 1991-2016 and I also support hazard pay for general city employees. They are out there as much as protective services staff! They interact with an increasingly irate and hostile public. Public health workers have really been catching it since COVID.
This is in support of proposals 31 and 65 by Ald. Perez. These two proposals are important to me as a lifelong resident of Milwaukee's Southside. Growing up I didn't always have access to spaces and resources to practice the sports and activities that I desired in part because there weren't many local spaces that were available year round. While the public parks offered increasingly more opportunities for better maintained grounds and fields, the time to take advantage would always be short. I would also come to find out more about the kinds of facilities available for kids who lived in the suburbs surrounding the city and that could afford access to clubs and spaces like that. The people of MKE have always found a way to build together despite the segregation, socieconomic differences and lack of opportunities
With proposals and even partnerships with prominent national orgs like the MISL, MLS(soccer) and Tony Hawk's organization (skatepark.org), we can offer our youth the opportunity to engage with the city and its public spaces in a way that positively helps their social-emotional and physical development, giving absolutely everyone a chance to grow through sport no matter what
I’m writing in support of Proposal #31 to allocate $1 million to constructing an indoor soccer complex. This is a catalytic project that can meet the recreational needs of the community, generate new business for the local economy, prevent violence and crime, create jobs and promote healthy living. Every year, thousands of City of Milwaukee residents spend their money at the soccer complexes located in the suburbs. By redeveloping an underutilized building, the project would attract new businesses to the area and new visitors for the existing businesses. This project also matches goals #3 (Support Children, Youth and Families) and #5 (Foster Safe and Strong Neighborhoods) in the Blueprint for Peace created by the Office of Violence Prevention. As the plan says “Investment in neighborhood infrastructure projects (roads, buildings, parks, transportation and public services) that address blight and deterioration is an essential component in preventing violence and has been shown to foster community connectedness and encourage positive social interaction and trust.
As a member of Milwaukee's City-County Task Force on Climate & Economic Equity (CCTFCEE), I urge you to support the following proposals to substantially contribute to CCTFCEE goals of reducing GHG emissions through investments that create goo-paying jobs for Milwaukeeans in communities that have been most dramatically impacted by de-industrialization and economic oppression: ARPA#7 (Kovac) $2.7 million for a Green Jobs Accelerator as recommended by the CCTFCEE Jobs & Equity work group; ARPA#74 (Johnson) $5 million to provide energy efficiency upgrades to low-income families in underserved areas; ARPA#9 (Kovac) $1 million to develop a factory to build modular zero-emission homes; ARPA#12 (Dimitrijevic, Bauman, Kovac) $10.7 million to expand Milwaukee's tree canopy; ARPA#38 (Rainey) $5 million to develop a Business Cooperative Program modeled on Cleveland's Evergreen Cooperative Program. I also urge you to include $2 million for energy efficiency upgrades in any ARPA proposal funding lead abatement work, and also include $200,000 for consultancy from the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to leverage further funding for combined lead abatement and energy efficiency upgrades.
I support proposal #31 - Indoor Soccer Complex. There is no better way to invest in our city than through our youth. Young people in Milwaukee deserve a neighborhood sports complex that is accessible to all. Soccer is a dominant sport within the city of Milwaukee and yet there is not one single soccer complex within the city. Please make an investment in our youth!
I am writing in support of proposal #31 - Indoor Soccer Complex. I believe that this facility will be able to provide a fun and safe environment for the youth in Milwaukee. Making soccer, and other sport more accessible with high quality facilities.
I support Proposal #31 Indoor Soccer Complex! This would be great for our community! There are multiple locations but many are far and inaccessible to younger athletes. A facility in the south side would allow for a space space within our community where members could healthily compete and remain off the streets. This facility will be continuously utilized for years to come
I am writing in support of the Green Jobs Accelerator proposal (Kovac #7, Mayor’s Plan), Energy Efficiency Upgrades for high energy-burden households (various proposals) and Expanding Milwaukee’s Tree Canopy and other Green Infrastructure (Dimitrijevic, Bauman and Kovac). The Trees and GI proposal includes canopy analysis, stumping, tree planting, equipment, ECO’s Green Lots Program and Reforestation grants. Funding for this and the other climate and equity initiatives will demonstrate our City’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis with actions and not just words. The benefits of restoring nature include carbon sequestration, reduced heat-related illnesses, lower flooding risks, cleaner air and water, improved mental health, wildlife habitat and beautification. This proposal is a good start towards promoting the health and longevity of our existing trees, replacing dead and dying trees, removing excess paving, and adding more trees, green infrastructure and natural landscaping while creating green jobs.
I support using ARPA funds to hire more police officers due to out of control recklessness (reckless driving & argument related shootings) on behalf of certain elements of society here in Milwaukee. "Peace Through Strength" is my motto.
As countless of studies have shown, the massive increase in social spending during the late 1960s and early 1970s resulted in decreased employment among black Americans, particularly young black men; increased single-parent families, particularly among black Americans; increased crime; increased the proportion of recipients of government aid; and slowed, then reversed, the decline in poverty that had been a result of the growing economy of the 1950s. Transferring wealth from taxpayers who contribute to the economy to those who contribute the least does nothing to increase the economic activity that creates prosperity. With regard to so-called equity, no government action has improved racial disparities (most have made them worse) and it is not clear why the government should be tasked with eliminating this disparity in the first place. A wise economist once quipped, "It is very easy to be generous with other people's money." Taxpayer money should be spent in a way that benefits (with measurable and documented results) ALL taxpayers. Please invest this money in infrastructure: roads, utilities, etc. and police services (Milwaukee's homicide rate increased 98% from 2019 to 2020).
The Milwaukee Preservation Alliance urges support of an affordable housing proposal submitted by Ald. Bauman (16, 17, 18). ARPA funds represent an opportunity for us to invest in the restoration rather than demolition of City-owned homes. This would create rather than eliminate desperately needed affordable housing, return properties to productive use and the tax rolls rather than reduce them to empty lots, and support jobs. By restoring older existing Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing, we can make neighborhoods safer by bringing vacant homes back to life. Restoration is also environmentally friendly as renovating an older home vs. tearing down and replacing has the effect of removing 93 cars from the road for a year. Let’s use this once in a generation funding to change the narrative from ‘why should this be saved?’ to ‘why should we throw this away?’
I write in support of the following proposals to make Milwaukee a more equitable, safe and healthy city for all of its inhabitants: ARPA#7 (Kovac) $2.7 million for a Green Jobs Accelerator as recommended by the City-County Task Force on Climate & Economic Equity Jobs & Equity work group; ARPA#74 (Johnson) $5 million to provide energy efficiency upgrades to low-income families in underserved areas; ARPA#9 (Kovac) $1 million to develop a factory to build modular zero-emission homes; ARPA#12 (Dimitrijevic, Bauman, Kovac) $10.7 million to expand Milwaukee's tree canopy and other Green Infrastructure. I am also in support of including $2 million for energy efficiency upgrades in any ARPA proposal funding lead abatement work and $200,000 for consultancy from the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to leverage further funding for combined lead abatement and energy efficiency upgrades. These proposals are essential to the health and well-being of Milwaukeeans, and the future of our city.
I am in support proposal #31 for the installation of an Indoor Soccer Facility in the south side of Milwaukee. This is a phenomenal opportunity to invest in our youth, promote healthy activities, teach applicable life skills through playing a sport, and creating a tight knit community for all those involved. Not only is it an investment for the citizens of Milwaukee, but it adds to the ever growing list of all the new and exciting things happening in our city!
I support proposal #31 for the installation and funding of an indoor soccer complex on the Southside of Milwaukee.
I support proposal #31 for the installation of an Indoor Soccer Facility in the south side of Milwaukee. Investing in our youth through a safe and high quality facility that fosters health & wellness and community in the part of the city where soccer is played the most, is important.
I support proposals 47, 50, 51 and 52. I believe we have to commit funds to public health approaches to violence prevention. We have to transition from seeing public safety as policing only. I understand, that like any public health effort, much of the success is invisible since the measure is things that DON'T happen. So easy to cut funding because you can't see the results right away.
I worked for the Milwaukee Health Department as an inspector from 1991-2016 and I also support hazard pay for general city employees. They are out there as much as protective services staff! They interact with an increasingly irate and hostile public. Public health workers have really been catching it since COVID.
This is in support of proposals 31 and 65 by Ald. Perez. These two proposals are important to me as a lifelong resident of Milwaukee's Southside. Growing up I didn't always have access to spaces and resources to practice the sports and activities that I desired in part because there weren't many local spaces that were available year round. While the public parks offered increasingly more opportunities for better maintained grounds and fields, the time to take advantage would always be short. I would also come to find out more about the kinds of facilities available for kids who lived in the suburbs surrounding the city and that could afford access to clubs and spaces like that. The people of MKE have always found a way to build together despite the segregation, socieconomic differences and lack of opportunities
With proposals and even partnerships with prominent national orgs like the MISL, MLS(soccer) and Tony Hawk's organization (skatepark.org), we can offer our youth the opportunity to engage with the city and its public spaces in a way that positively helps their social-emotional and physical development, giving absolutely everyone a chance to grow through sport no matter what
I support the proposal #31 to provide funding for a soccer complex in the Southside of Milwaukee.
I’m writing in support of Proposal #31 to allocate $1 million to constructing an indoor soccer complex. This is a catalytic project that can meet the recreational needs of the community, generate new business for the local economy, prevent violence and crime, create jobs and promote healthy living. Every year, thousands of City of Milwaukee residents spend their money at the soccer complexes located in the suburbs. By redeveloping an underutilized building, the project would attract new businesses to the area and new visitors for the existing businesses. This project also matches goals #3 (Support Children, Youth and Families) and #5 (Foster Safe and Strong Neighborhoods) in the Blueprint for Peace created by the Office of Violence Prevention. As the plan says “Investment in neighborhood infrastructure projects (roads, buildings, parks, transportation and public services) that address blight and deterioration is an essential component in preventing violence and has been shown to foster community connectedness and encourage positive social interaction and trust.
As a member of Milwaukee's City-County Task Force on Climate & Economic Equity (CCTFCEE), I urge you to support the following proposals to substantially contribute to CCTFCEE goals of reducing GHG emissions through investments that create goo-paying jobs for Milwaukeeans in communities that have been most dramatically impacted by de-industrialization and economic oppression: ARPA#7 (Kovac) $2.7 million for a Green Jobs Accelerator as recommended by the CCTFCEE Jobs & Equity work group; ARPA#74 (Johnson) $5 million to provide energy efficiency upgrades to low-income families in underserved areas; ARPA#9 (Kovac) $1 million to develop a factory to build modular zero-emission homes; ARPA#12 (Dimitrijevic, Bauman, Kovac) $10.7 million to expand Milwaukee's tree canopy; ARPA#38 (Rainey) $5 million to develop a Business Cooperative Program modeled on Cleveland's Evergreen Cooperative Program. I also urge you to include $2 million for energy efficiency upgrades in any ARPA proposal funding lead abatement work, and also include $200,000 for consultancy from the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to leverage further funding for combined lead abatement and energy efficiency upgrades.
I support proposal #31 - Indoor Soccer Complex. There is no better way to invest in our city than through our youth. Young people in Milwaukee deserve a neighborhood sports complex that is accessible to all. Soccer is a dominant sport within the city of Milwaukee and yet there is not one single soccer complex within the city. Please make an investment in our youth!
I am writing in support of proposal #31 - Indoor Soccer Complex. I believe that this facility will be able to provide a fun and safe environment for the youth in Milwaukee. Making soccer, and other sport more accessible with high quality facilities.
I support Proposal #31 Indoor Soccer Complex! This would be great for our community! There are multiple locations but many are far and inaccessible to younger athletes. A facility in the south side would allow for a space space within our community where members could healthily compete and remain off the streets. This facility will be continuously utilized for years to come
I am writing in support of the Green Jobs Accelerator proposal (Kovac #7, Mayor’s Plan), Energy Efficiency Upgrades for high energy-burden households (various proposals) and Expanding Milwaukee’s Tree Canopy and other Green Infrastructure (Dimitrijevic, Bauman and Kovac). The Trees and GI proposal includes canopy analysis, stumping, tree planting, equipment, ECO’s Green Lots Program and Reforestation grants. Funding for this and the other climate and equity initiatives will demonstrate our City’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis with actions and not just words. The benefits of restoring nature include carbon sequestration, reduced heat-related illnesses, lower flooding risks, cleaner air and water, improved mental health, wildlife habitat and beautification. This proposal is a good start towards promoting the health and longevity of our existing trees, replacing dead and dying trees, removing excess paving, and adding more trees, green infrastructure and natural landscaping while creating green jobs.
I support using ARPA funds to hire more police officers due to out of control recklessness (reckless driving & argument related shootings) on behalf of certain elements of society here in Milwaukee. "Peace Through Strength" is my motto.
As countless of studies have shown, the massive increase in social spending during the late 1960s and early 1970s resulted in decreased employment among black Americans, particularly young black men; increased single-parent families, particularly among black Americans; increased crime; increased the proportion of recipients of government aid; and slowed, then reversed, the decline in poverty that had been a result of the growing economy of the 1950s. Transferring wealth from taxpayers who contribute to the economy to those who contribute the least does nothing to increase the economic activity that creates prosperity. With regard to so-called equity, no government action has improved racial disparities (most have made them worse) and it is not clear why the government should be tasked with eliminating this disparity in the first place. A wise economist once quipped, "It is very easy to be generous with other people's money." Taxpayer money should be spent in a way that benefits (with measurable and documented results) ALL taxpayers. Please invest this money in infrastructure: roads, utilities, etc. and police services (Milwaukee's homicide rate increased 98% from 2019 to 2020).
The Milwaukee Preservation Alliance urges support of an affordable housing proposal submitted by Ald. Bauman (16, 17, 18). ARPA funds represent an opportunity for us to invest in the restoration rather than demolition of City-owned homes. This would create rather than eliminate desperately needed affordable housing, return properties to productive use and the tax rolls rather than reduce them to empty lots, and support jobs. By restoring older existing Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing, we can make neighborhoods safer by bringing vacant homes back to life. Restoration is also environmentally friendly as renovating an older home vs. tearing down and replacing has the effect of removing 93 cars from the road for a year. Let’s use this once in a generation funding to change the narrative from ‘why should this be saved?’ to ‘why should we throw this away?’