Several news outlets have reported on significant Wauwatosa police presence at the school Nov. 19, which resulted in citations issued to three individuals.
The Sonesta hotel on the southeast corner of Watertown Plank and Mayfair roads would be converted to apartments under a redevelopment plan now in the works.
Yard waste collection was one of two lingering issues that dominated the council's debate before it voted, 12-3, to approve the 2026 budget. The other primary debate was over an ongoing city subsidy for Bublr Bikes.
It was perhaps no surprise that there was no love lost between Dennis McBride and Andrew Meindl, who have sparred since facing each other in the last mayoral election in April 2024.
Without state or federal aid, that cost would be born by city taxpayers, either through a one-time tax levy increase, use of a portion of the city's cash reserves or a combination of those two options.
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.
