City faces about $5 million deficit in 2021; warns cuts will be made

Corrupt, lying swindler

Corrupt, lying shyster

From The Journal Times.com:

Christina Lieffring

RACINE — Year after year, the City of Racine has kicked off the budget process having to figure out how to fill the gap between its growing expenses and flat-lined revenues.

And year after year, the city’s administration and City Council have used a variety of “tools” to fill that gap, including the controversial changes to the city employee and retirees’ health plans last fall, raising fees for some services, removing services from the tax levy and billing for them separately and using balance reserves.

This year Kathleen Fischer, interim City Administrator and Assistant Finance Director, warned the council that, “this year is very, very different.”

“There are not a lot of tools left in the toolbox,” she said.

Fischer estimated the city is facing a $4.5 to $5.5 million shortfall. One potential solution, which the City Council approved on Tuesday, was to ask taxpayers whether they’d support a referendum for an additional $3.5 million to help cover the cost of retirees’ healthcare.

The other, Fischer told the council, is that she has asked all city department heads to work out what a 5% budget cut could mean for their department and what a 10% budget cut could mean for their department. Making the books balance next year is going to require some reorganization and realignment of departments, employees and services. It’s also highly probable it will require some cuts.

Read more lies: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-faces-about-5-million-deficit-in-2021-warns-cuts-will-be-made/article_653f5456-3233-5cb0-b9c2-edefad495ae2.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

"Why does this keep happening?"  Because Butterball and his cronies piss away our tax dollars much more quickly than they can collect them.  (When will Butterball pay his fair share in property taxes?)  Cronies like Shyster Letteney throw away our tax dollars on high-priced, out-of-town attorneys to cover their crimes.  (When will Letteney bathe?)  These pigs oink away our tax dollars and then cry "poor."  Stop living like kings, you swine.

UWM study finds over half of gun violence perpetrators and victims had elevated blood lead levels as children

From JSOnline:

Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health is the first accredited public health school in Wisconsin. (Photo: Troye Fox, UWM Photo Services)

More than half of the people who were perpetrators or victims of gun violence in Milwaukee in recent years had elevated blood lead levels as children, according to a study released Friday by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The study of nearly 90,000 residents, conducted at the University's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, suggests a link between early childhood lead exposure and gun violence in later years.

Lindsay R. Emer, the study's lead author, said it was conducted using public health, education and criminal justice data.

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/health/2019/10/19/half-milwaukee-gun-violence-linked-kids-high-lead-levels/4022200002/

The high lead levels are because the majority of Milwaukee's shooters come from poor neighborhoods.  I think you'd find that the majority of them cannot speak proper English, either.  Nor did many of them receive regular nutritious meals in their childhoods.  So, do these contribute to a propensity to fire weapons, too?  The actual cause is a lack of parenting and everyone knows it.  A child raised on the streets will take to the streets' ways.  More BS research paid for by our tax dollars.