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Francis Thomas Ament (November 17, 1937 - March 10, 2014) was the fourth Milwaukee County Executive, serving from 1992 until his resignation in 2002 amid a county pension scandal. Ament had served as chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1992.
In 2002, Ordinans served briefly as the acting Milwaukee County executive when Tom Ament retired. Ordinans was then recalled in 2002 because of a retirement pension controversy. Ordinans later served as executive director of the Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin for eighteen years from 2003 until her retirement in 2021.
Pension benefits are primarily designed to favor workers who work a full career (typically at least 25 years of service), which account for approximately 24% of state-level public workers. In a study of 335 statewide retirement plans, Equable Institute found that 74.1% of pension plans in the US served this group of workers well.
With funds stretched thin, Milwaukee County faces a tough budget year ahead, with little room for tweaks. Here are the popular Milwaukee County programs residents called for saving Skip to main ...
(The Center Square) – Milwaukee’s County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to adopt fiscal amendments to the budget that will increase funding for community service programs and ...
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Nevertheless, Sullivan won a narrow victory in the April election, carrying 52% of the Milwaukee county electorate and defeating Judge Drechsler by about 10,000 votes. At the time, some local journalists attributed his win to the fact that he shared the name "Sullivan" with the recently deceased judge, although there was no known familial ...
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said Friday that the entire community "must take steps to prevent future deaths like D'Vontaye Mitchell's" and figure out "where the fundamental protection of life ...