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File #: 971768    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Placed On File
File created: 2/26/1998 In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 12/18/1998
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution expressing the Common Council's support for construction of a new Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School.
Sponsors: James N. Witkowiak, ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. BUTLER
Indexes: EMPLOYMENT, MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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12/18/19980 COMMON COUNCIL PLACED ON FILEPass17:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
12/16/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILEPass5:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE REFERRED WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION AND ASSIGNED TOPass3:2 Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTIONFail2:3 Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECONSIDEREDPass5:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILEFail1:4 Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/19980 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIRPass5:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
3/20/19980 COMMON COUNCIL REFERRED TOFail7:7 Action details Meeting details Not available
3/20/19980 COMMON COUNCIL ADOPTED

Minutes note: (9 votes required to adopt - majority of members of Council needed to adopt)
Fail8:6 Action details Meeting details Not available
3/20/19980 COMMON COUNCIL RECONSIDEREDPass7:6 Action details Meeting details Not available
3/20/19980 COMMON COUNCIL REFERRED TOPass13:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
3/16/19980 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTIONPass3:1 Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/19980 COMMON COUNCIL ASSIGNED TO   Action details Meeting details Not available
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971768
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XXBY:
ALD. WITKOWIAK, D'AMATO and BUTLER
TITL:
Resolution expressing the Common Council's support for construction of a new Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School.
ANLS:
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This resolution expresses the Common Council's support for the construction of a new Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School to provide the opportunity for the youth of Milwaukee to pursue state-of-the-art technical and industrial education in order to qualify for family supporting jobs in the skilled trades and other technical occupations.
BODY:
Whereas, There is an acute shortage of skilled workers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area which will intensify as over 8,000 skilled tradesmen retire during the next 10 years; and

Whereas, The skilled trades and other technical occupations provide family supporting wages and benefits; and

Whereas, Technical and industrial education provides students with life-long, transportable skills and an appreciation of the dignity of work; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School has historically been an important source of youth for apprenticeships; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School physical plant is no longer capable of providing twenty-first century technical education; and

Whereas, The youth of Milwaukee should be provided the opportunity to pursue state-of-the-art technical and industrial education; and

Whereas, At its delegate meeting of January 7, 1998, the Milwaukee County Labor Council AFL-CIO adopted a resolution pledging to use its influence and capacity to work with others in the community, including the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council AFL-CIO and the Milwaukee Area Technical College, to ensure that a new Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School will be constructed in a neighborhood easily accessible to the city's youth; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milw...

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