Milwaukee County to lay off workers
MILWAUKEE -- Temporary layoffs of 150 to 200 Milwaukee County employees will avoid a 2009 year-end shortfall now projected at $3 million, County Executive Scott Walker said Wednesday.
The layoff news came just before the county board’s budget committee recommended its version of a 2010 budget that called for creation of a new $20 motor vehicle registration fee, or "wheel tax,“ to pay for transit. That fee would raise nearly $9 million and would be in addition to state and city of Milwaukee registration fees, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The county budget approved by the committee also included a tax levy increase of $1.1 million, a rise of just 0.4%, to $258 million. Walker had proposed a tax levy freeze for 2010 at this year’s $257 million level.
The layoffs likely will be spread across most county departments, Walker said.
Oct 29, 2009 at 10:54 p.m.
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check his budget and where he actually justifies this. Not a candidate I want! He can't even show up to face the board for his actions. what a coward.
Oct 29, 2009 at 8:55 p.m.
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Right.....................and the saga continues
Oct 29, 2009 at 6:40 p.m.
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Just one more of those "No New Taxes", right?
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