The Finance Committee of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors on Thursday unanimously approved a budget amendment that advances the Domes Reimagined plan that was presented to the Milwaukee County Committee on Parks and Culture in September.
The budget amendment, which now goes to the full County Board at its Nov. 7 meeting, includes the county's $30 million contribution to the $107.4 million plan, which would renovate the existing domes and build an addition.
The plan is a partnership between the Friends of the Domes, Milwaukee County Parks and Madison-based real estate developer The Alexander Company.
“Today was an incredible win for our entire community,” said Christa Diefenbach, Executive Director, Friends of the Domes. “The Domes Reimagined plan is all about enhancing the visitor experience and connecting our community to nature in support of their physical and emotional health. We applaud the County Supervisors for unanimously voting in support of Milwaukee.”
You can read much more about the Mitchell Park Domes plan here.
Stay tuned to OnMilwaukee for an update on the Nov. 7 vote.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
