Should River Hills, And Washington County, Get Stimulus Dollars Meant For The Urban Poor?
The regional planning commission's advisory group that is in control of some stimulus spending for transportation projects will meet Friday in Milwaukee to discuss whether to approve $7.5 million for three projects in River Hills and Washington County - - miles, light years away, perhaps, from the economically-distressed urban core to which this funding is supposed to go.
If a bridge in River Hills and two road projects in Washington County are in the economically-distressed urban core, then the English language and the US Census Bureau's data have no value.
There appears to be no opportunity for public comment at the meeting, but showing up and demanding to express your incredulity that these projects could get green-lighted - - while Milwaukee got zero dollars in first-round local transportation project stimulus financing - - is very important.
Here is the agenda - - and the meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Harbor Lights Room in the Milwaukee County Downtown Transit Center, 909 E. Michigan St., which is across the street from the Betty Brinn Children's Museum at the corner of Michigan and Lincoln Memorial Dr.
2 comments:
Can you post a reference to where it says the dollars are designed for the urban poor? Is this in ARRA, or in WIsDOT's interpretation, etc? Would be very useful. Thanks!
"Meant for the urban poor"? Whose gloss is that? Whoever it belongs to had best read that Act again--or, in all likelihood, read it the first time. The infrastructure funding provisions of ARRA are capital investment with a stimulus aim; it's emphatically NOT a transfer payment. Very, very careless.
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