Municipal Leaders Will Continue to Work to Restore Paramedic Funding
Mayors and village presidents met Monday in Franklin to discuss the County Board's recent decision to restore half of the funding taken out of the budget by County Executive Chris Abele.
Some municipal leaders said they will continue to do all they can to provide paramedic services residents of Milwaukee County have grown accustomed to, and that they will keep fighting to restore all of the $3 million County Executive Chris Abele took from the county’s paramedic program. Others feel they have done all they can, and when county residents realize how lower funds impacts service, it will be the municipal leaders with clean hands. “We’ve done all we can do. The blood will not lay at our feet. It will lay squarely at the feet of the County Board and the county executive,” Greendale Village President John Hermes said at an Intergovernmental Cooperation Council meeting on Monday in Franklin. President of the ICC and Franklin …
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Mark Strachota
8:55 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I find it interesting that everybody is all for cuts to everything but their own slice of the pie. Abele has proved to be anti labor and law enforcement but this is the only thing that upsets Greendale. Abele can brag about his budget but he merely shifted County tax to village tax. SanFelippo is no better. more ›