Milwaukee, WI
Priorities set for the recommended 2025 Milwaukee County budget
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley laid out the plans for the recommended 2025 Milwaukee County budget, with a focus on “financial sustainability” to the tune of almost $1.4 billion dollars.
In the address on Tuesday, October 1, Crowley explained that residents would see a 2.8% property tax levy increase for a total of $8.2 million, and that this increase would be lower than the 2020 levels while maintaining key services to residents and without a hiring freeze to county employees. It would also include a 2% raise for county employees and direct $1.5 million toward compensation study adjustments for staff.
The recommended budget also includes $13 million in tax levy support for the Office of the Sheriff, the Community Reintegration Center, and Court Operations, representing an 11% tax levy funding boost. “These are investments across the entire public safety continuum to help us address rising overtime costs, enhance recruitment and retention, and maintain staffing in the courts and judicial facilities through the addition of 11 new full-time positions”, said Crowley.
He clarified that state law requires that the county carry out these mandated services, with the goal to continue working with law enforcement, the state, and federal partners to identify other revenue sources to keep up with the mandates.
Federal American Rescue Plan Act funding would be directed to the Milwaukee County Transit System, resulting in over $10 million to “maintain current route service levels, it will help us replace our aging bus fleet, and ensure that transit security remains throughout the MCTS,” said Crowley. He noted that the current ARPA funding will be spent down by 2027, and will result in MCTS facing a “fiscal cliff” that will need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
The Milwaukee County Parks would also receive $2.3 million in the recommended budget for park operations, including 10 new full-time positions to “support the increased recreational activity and business services that are taking place at these community assets, which help to generate revenue for our park programming,” said Crowley. The proposal would include $11 million for five capital projects across the park system that would include trail and amenity improvements for a better experience for residents.
The 2025 recommended Capital Budget includes $110 million for 54 projects in the county, with the biggest focus being a $6 million investment for the continued planning a new courthouse complex facility for the courts and other state-mandated services. This would be part of a multi-year project to create a functional and safe building to address the everyone who uses the facility.
“By 2028, Milwaukee County’s structural deficit was estimated to reach a total of $109 million,” said Crowley. “And at the same time, state-mandated services were and are still projected to continue growing and consuming more of Milwaukee County’s local tax levy. If nothing had changed, I would be standing here presenting a budget that includes massive cuts to programs and services that so many people rely on every single day.”
Crowley credits partnering with Governor Evers and the Wisconsin State Legislature on passing the bipartisan Wisconsin Act 12 “to reform the state’s local revenue sharing structure for the first time in over two decades… that allowed Milwaukee County to address a looming pension crisis with historic reforms, generate millions annually in new sales tax revenue, and secure additional shared revenue payments that will grow with economic activity.”
The full 2025 recommended budget is on the Milwaukee County Budget website. The Milwaukee County Board will review all of the recommendations in the budget proposal, with the goal to finalize the budget on November 7.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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