The congressman and other elected officials from southeastern Wisconsin meet with business leaders to talk about getting America back to work.
The question of how do we — as a country — create more jobs came to Brookfield Tuesday afternoon as 15 small business leaders from the Milwaukee area met with Republican U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner. Sensenbrenner and several Republican state lawmakers who represent southeastern Wisconsin spent most of the hour-long session at the congressman's office listening to suggestions for growing business in the nation and region. The overall message was clear: lower corporate taxes; ease government regulations; get tough on illegal immigration while expanding the number of visas; change the college-focused culture; and reduce unemployment benefits. Mary Springer, vice president of Therm-Tech of Waukesha, opened the discussion by telling the …
The members of the board decide to change to a salaried wage system, slightly increasing their pay and homeowner's taxes.
Citing a desire to simplify bookkeeping, the Village Board gave support to a new, salaried pay scale that would slightly increase trustees' compsenation next year. Trustees earned $3,758 each in 2010 while the Village President took in $5,550 and they are paid on a per-meeting structure. Village payroll personnel dig through meeting minutes to find out who attended the meetings to determine who should be paid. In the new salaried system, village trustees would be paid $4,000 and the village president would be paid $6,600. “A lot of the Village Board members are doing work at home,” explained Greg Goetz, the village president, during Thursday's budget workshop. “They’re also spending extra monies on things like gas, paper and printer ink. …
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Spending plan will help improve the economy while continuing to address state's ongoing needs.
The Kaukauna School District recently announced that our reforms will allow them to add more teachers, reduce class sizes and set funds aside to reward excellent teachers next school year. This is a prime example of how our budget and budget reforms protect middle class jobs and property taxpayers – as well as future generations. The 2011-13 state budget I recently signed transformed a $3.6 billion deficit into a surplus, it caps property taxes and it provides support for basic safety net programs to protect seniors and needy families. It does what we said we would do to get this state working again. The balanced budget is built on our reforms that give schools and local governments the tools to balance their own budgets and protect …
Sue Reed
6:27 pm on Monday, November 14, 2011
So, how many of you have: run a business? determined what you were going to charge for your product or service? determine all your over head costs, including but not limited to: equipment purchase, heating/lighting, facility inspections, maintenance, liability insurance, worker comp, hiring and training, government regulations, etc? From all that information determine what you can pay your … more ›