At least he is and should be on the last idea from Sheldon Lubar he excerpted from the Journal Sentinel’s latest roundtable –
“Something that I do believe is a solution, and I’m bringing this out for the first time . . . a Milwaukee metropolitan fiscal control board. A board that would have as its purpose the final approval of annual budgets of these entities: No. 1, the Milwaukee Public Schools. No. 2, MATC, or if this board didn’t govern it, you could at least delegate it to the board of regents. They already make 30% or 35% more than the people at the University of Wisconsin who do have higher degrees.
“The Milwaukee sewerage commission. The Wisconsin Center. The Miller Park stadium authority. . . . We’ve got to revise this whole governance system, and I don’t think you’ll find an elected person that will disagree.”
I believe I covered that before. To wit, while it (probably) would be elected, it would suffer the same fatal flaw that the state Legislature suffers with shared revenue; namely, it makes funding decisions for others, as well as the fatal flaw that MATC and MMSD already suffer – a dominance by the city of Milwaukee.
To be fair to both Charlie and Sheldon, much of the rest of the ideas Charlie cherry-picked, from education being the key to boosting people out of poverty, to taking MEA out of the reins of MPS, is good.
You’re right.
A bit more in my post on the same topic.
You could’ve added the link to your post, you know.
For those of you who got here first, Dad29 brings up the proper application of the 9th and 10th Amendments (otherwise known as the “forgotten” part the Bill of Rights).
Nah.
But I added a link to YOUR post.