The 2026 city budget, scheduled to be adopted Nov. 18 by the Common Council, includes $42,000 for consulting services related to redevelopment around the Department of Public Works facility.
The five options are currently being discussed by the Secondary Schools Ad Hoc Committee for reconfiguring and renovating the city's four high school and middle school buildings.
Because work had not yet begun on the memorial, no materials were lost, but when the floodwater subsided, the memorial committee conferred with city officials and decided Hart Park would no longer be a suitable location.
A new council structure and district boundaries, endorsed in concept by voters in a 2022 referendum, will take effect with the next term, and it already suggests some interesting council races in the spring.
City officials and the developers say the conversion project will not be feasible without financial support from the City of Wauwatosa, which is considering creating a new tax incremental financing district to include the project.
City officials said the developer had been passed over for a $2 million affordable housing grant, leaving "no financial path forward for that project."
A WISN-TV report noted that some of the suspects were in costumes — reportedly dressed as Care Bears — when they were led out of the former hotel in handcuffs.
The two cities, which have been in talks over a potential merger since January, have been moving swiftly toward a deal in recent months, though the upcoming votes would not yet finalize a merger.
Construction could get underway as early as next year. Tosa Skateboarders United plans to kick off its new fundraising campaign to add the lights at a "flash mob" event at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the park.
