The Milwaukee County Parks system has made a disturbing about face in the last decade by going from one of the best park systems in the County to one of the worst.
It’s no surprise that the downfall of our parks directly coincides with the administration of Scott Walker.
The study puts Milwaukee County near the cellar in many park statistics, including the number of playgrounds, swimming pools and recreation centers. Milwaukee County ranked in the bottom 10 out of 75 cities in those categories.
It also ranked in the bottom 10 for total number of parks per 10,000 residents, with 1.6, less than half the national average. – JSonline.com
Walker’s answer? The same tired rhetoric about cutting full time, family supporting jobs and replacing them with seasonal workers. He’s unwilling to commit the resources needed to make our parks great again simply so he can run for Governor in two years.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee suffers.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
You know, I’m starting to think that we should *encourage* Scott Walker to run for Governor. That way we could get him out of the CE’s office and get someone in that might actually want to *do* the job we’ve elected him to do. ;{>}
Were you in Walker’s position, what would you have done differently?
Stop cutting funding to critical services in Milwaukee County just so I could have a campaign slogan for a gubernatorial campaign.
But whatever he cuts has, in general, been put back by the Board; especially in Parks. The Board has raised taxes by about 3% annually overall, which is about all the community can afford but which is not enough to keep up with the County’s cost to continue.
So, even if Walker agreed philosophically with the Board, what outside of even bigger tax increases could be done?