Thursday, January 24, 2013
Facing a foreclosure lawsuit, downtown Waukesha hotel pays $233,000 in taxes.
The Clarke Hotel’s taxes were paid by the bank Wednesday, according to Clerk/Treasurer Tom Neill. The Clarke Hotel, which is a $1.5 million city investment, is being threatened with foreclosure because of its unpaid taxes. A lawsuit filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court alleges the hotel broke its $3.4 million mortgage agreement by failing to pay its taxes. The hotel’s delinquent taxes totaled $118,865.91. It also owed $114,143.67 due Jan. 31 on the most recent tax bill. The $233,009.58 has been paid in full, according to the clerk/treasurer's office. The City of Waukesha is named on the foreclosure lawsuit because the city provided financing to the property via tax incremental financing. The lawsuit acknowledges the city may have claims …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
City of Waukesha taxes going up 0.42 percent, but overall taxes will decrease by an estimated $78 on a typical home.
City property taxes are increasing 0.42 percent in the 2013 budget, but it’s the first year the budget was approved without a planned veto from Mayor Jeff Scrima, who said aldermen did a “good job.” “It has taken us three years and two previous vetoes to bring city spending in line with what our taxpaying families are experiencing,” Scrima said after Tuesday's Common Council meeting when the budget was approved. The tax levy for the 2013 budget is $51.68 million, with a property tax rate of $9.63 per $1,000 of assessed value. It was $51.47 million last year with a tax rate of $9.55 per assessed value. The estimated increase for city taxes on the median valued home of $187,600 is $18.20. However, the entire tax bill should decrease an …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Waukesha Mayor Jeff Scrima calls on Finance Committee "to do a better job of providing tax relief for our families and for our future" over the next six weeks.
City taxes could increase by 2.32 percent if the Waukesha Common Council approves the proposed 2013 budget as presented. Total city spending is increasing by 2.02 percent under the proposed budget, despite about $1.5 million in cuts already made – including a deputy fire chief and a firefighter. “As a new city administrator whose first day on the job for the City of Waukesha was Sept. 10, 2012, it was impossible to have the kind of fiscal impact on the budget that more time would have allowed,” wrote City Administrator Ed Henschel in his letter of transmittal to the Common Council. “In spite of that, you will find on the one hand some fairly bold recommended changes and on the other hand a status quo in some operations and service levels…
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
While County Executive Dan Vrakas' budget calls for an overall increase in levy, county property taxes for a typical home should decrease by about $2.
Waukesha County's property tax levy would increase slightly, but the tax bill for a median home would decline under the 2013 budget proposed by County Executive Dan Vrakas Tuesday. The proposed $273.7 million budget cuts overall spending by 3.8 percent or $10.9 million from the 2012 budget. The total property taxes being collected, however, would increase by 0.8 percent — from $100.9 million in 2012 to $101.7 million. However, because home values have fallen by 4.85 percent from 2011 to 2012, the property tax rate would increase from $1.96 to $2.11 per $1,000 of equalized value, under the proposed budget. The median home value in the 2012 budget was $255,642, which was taxed $514 in that budget. The median home value in Waukesha County is…
Monday, April 16, 2012
Milwaukee mayor and gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett welcomed another endorsement, from U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, in his campaign to unseat Gov. Scott Walker. In other news, see details on the latest poll on the Democratic primary.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett picked up another endorsement Monday, from U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee), in his push to grab the Democratic nod and unseat Gov. Scott Walker in June's recall election. Voters are a little more than three weeks away from tapping Walker's Democratic challenger, and Barrett was on the campaign trail in Milwaukee touting how his administration would end Wisconsin's political civil war and restore collective bargaining and tax fairness, while fielding the endorsement from Moore. Barrett will square off against former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout (D-Alma) and Secretary of State Doug La Follette in a Democratic primary May 8. The winner will take on Walker on June 5. Barrett …
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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 …
Mr Lundt
6:30 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
Businesses come and go--- but this proves Waukesha is not competent at evaluating and "investing " taxpayer dollars in this arena. The tax payers get screwed and by them going by "inferior and subordinate" they garunteed we get hammered more ›