MPA LLC Recommendations to City of Milwaukee decision makers

April 14, 2014

Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC submitted a 14-page assessment of “how to” for elected-appointed-hired local government representatives of the city of Milwaukee. The evaluation includes strong reforms for consideration of the LBAT/Local Business Action Team - a 13-member group consisting of chair of the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee, two common council members, commissioners of Neighborhood Services, Health, City Development, Public Works, Chief Information Officer, City Clerk, and entrepreneur representative of small business community. Co-Chairs are: Alderman Terry Witkowski and Alderman James Bohl.

MPA LLC assessment started with two (2) important studies. They are:

• in 2008 (The Enduring Challenge to Concentrated Poverty in America - Joint case study of the Federal Reserve and Brookings Institution).
• In 2010 (Disparity Study of Milwaukee - D. Wilson Consulting LLC)

MPA LLC is a public policy firm based in Milwaukee with a focus on the Ethnography of African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged [Work Challenged represents un-, under-skilled; un-, under-employed; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and re-entry. Re-entry represents those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, PROBATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and college-certificated graduates that are unemployed.].

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City of Milwaukee – File #140081 LBAT/Local Business Action Team

Helping Small Businesses

This resolution creates a Local Business Action Team to evaluate and make recommendations to the Common Council concerning the following issues that impact the interaction between local business and City government:

1. Milwaukee’s regulatory environment for business, including zoning,

permits, inspections, business licenses and fees.

2. Delivery of services to business, including strategies to make City services and assistance more accessible to businesses through digital tools, improved ways of organizing service delivery, and best practices from other cities.

3. Systems that ensure the voice of the business customer is heard by all City agencies.

File #140081, Version 2 – City of Milwaukee

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Census Tract and Neighborhood Business

Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC submits the following LBAT/Local Business Action Team recommendations for TRANSPARENT and customer-friendly ACCESS to the vast amount of local, state and federal resources that are earmarked for CORE CONSTITUENTS of Milwaukee, but by-design fail to impact quality of life and economic development issues that create and perpetuate Enduring Concentrated Poverty, unsafe neighborhoods and destroy families of Milwaukee.

We see the amounts of resources that are available on an ongoing basis are being diverted, not being spent where they are supposed to and behavior on behalf of our elected charter officers is “reckless”.

CORE CONSTITUENTS are defined as electorates of Milwaukee, especially African American, other People of Color and Work Challenged (Work Challenged represents un-, under-skilled; un-, under-employed; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and re-entry. Re-entry represents those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, PROBATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and college-certificated graduates that are unemployed.).

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City of Milwaukee

File #: 140081

Local Business Action Team