REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL LEGAL NOTICE Dane County Dept. of Waste & Renewables, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI 53713, will receive sealed Proposals until 2:00 P.M., TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2021 RFP NO. 321012 ARCHITECTURAL / ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES FOR OFFICE BUILDING REMODEL DEPARTMENT OF WASTE AND RENEWABLES 3737 COUNTY HIGHWAY AB, TOWN OF COTTAGE GROVE, WI Dane County is ...
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Here’s what could be built on the Queen of Apostles Pewaukee property while preserving St. Mary’s Church
The village of Pewaukee received four responses to a request for proposal regarding St. Mary’s Church and its surrounding lands. Several different visions of what could happen to the Queen of Apostles property, which includes St. Mary’s Church, have emerged, according to the village of Pewaukee. Village Administrator Scott Gosse said the village received four responses to a request for proposal that ...
Read More »Thomas St. single-family home proposal approved in committee
A rendering of the proposed single-family homes for remnant Thomas Street parcels in Wausau. (Photo courtesy of the City of Wausau) WAUSAU, WI — New single-family homes could be coming to downtown Wausau in the next year. Tuesday night Wausau’s Economic Development Committee considered a proposal received for the Thomas Street Phase 2 Remant Parcel RFP put out in October ...
Read More »City issues press release announcing housing study RFP
The City of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Community Development Department has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking professional assistance to complete a housing study and comprehensive housing strategy that will guide the city’s housing decisions in the future. Proposals are due on Jan. 29, with the intent of starting work on the project in March 2021. The study is a ...
Read More »Committee rejects Prairie Lakes RFPs
The photo illustrated map shows the roundabout and its proximity to parking currently allowed on Summerfield (formerly Crane Meadow, lower right). The Public Works Committee OK’d a staff recommendation to prohibit parking on Summerfield near the roundabout, but want to allow staff to prohibit parking without committee approval in the future. Members of the Sun Prairie Public Works Committee on ...
Read More »Milwaukee County Employees seeks investment consultant
Milwaukee County Employees’ Retirement System is searching for an investment consultant. The $1.6 billion pension fund issued an RFP due to the pending expiration of Marquette Associates’ contract, said Erika Bronikowski, director, retirement plan services. The firm is eligible to rebid. As of Aug. 31, the pension fund’s actual allocation was 22.3% domestic equities, 19.6% fixed income, 14.3% international equities, 12.8% ...
Read More »Continental Mapping gets infrastructure contract
Acting on a recommendation from the Public Works Committee, the Sun Prairie City Council on Oct. 6 approved a contract with Sun Prairie-based Continental Mapping to use mobile LiDAR to collect information for the city’s Critical Infrastructure Program. A memo to the committee from Louis Rada, GISP, GIS, and Asset Management Coordinator, the city initially looked at mobile LiDAR as ...
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Vernon County Finance Committee meets at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, in the County Board Room of the Courthouse Annex. Review of 2021 Budget Requests, Departments Called for Budget Review, Review of Bank RFP for Loan—Road Maintenance, Finalizing 2021 Budget, Next Meeting Date, Adjourn. Legal Affairs Committee meets at 11:30 AM on October 8, 2020 in the County Board Room ...
Read More »EDC, Chamber Hopes ‘Light Up Madison’ Will Brighten Holiday Season
MADISON — Just because the weather is growing older and the days are growing dimmer doesn’t mean a beautiful town like Madison can’t shine. That’s the philosophy behind a new push from community and business leaders that would seek to Light Up Madison, bringing a swath of decoration and celebration to the town in time for the holidays, and offering ...
Read More »Patrick Promoted to Chief Information Officer
Elliott Patrick The City-County Information Technology Board has promoted Elliott Patrick to chief information officer for the city of Indianapolis enterprise. He has been with the City-County’s Information Services Agency since 2014, serving as a business services consultant before becoming chief financial officer in 2016 and chief operating officer in 2018. Patrick assumed the position of interim director in January ...
Read More »Opinion: Dreamers and déjà vu
It’s the dreamers that you have to worry about. In my experience, the economic development sphere is to be loaded with officials, consultants and other pundits pitching grand schemes on how to spend other people’s money. Mostly, they hope that the projects created will be monuments to themselves with nary a care for whether the investments have paybacks. There are ...
Read More »Five affordable housing projects to get funding from Dane County
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi. Five affordable housing projects are slated to receive funding from Dane County this year. If approved by the Dane County Board next week, these five projects will receive money from the Dane County Affordable Housing Development Fund in an amount totaling $4.45 million. Taylor Point Apartments, a planned 51-unit building at 4845 Taylor Road and 4900 ...
Read More »RFP Lessons Learned from COVID-19
COVID-19 supply chain disruptions and how suppliers and service providers have handled such disruptions have prompted procurement teams to reconsider whether business should be shifted away from suppliers that have performed unsatisfactorily during the pandemic. In this connection, the request for proposal (“RFP”) process continues to be a valuable tool for buyers of goods and services to evaluate new supply ...
Read More »Sept. 10 public forum set for New Public Safety Center
Village of McFarland residents are encouraged to join the online public forum on the new Public Safety Center on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. The village is planning the future development of a Public Safety Center at the southeast intersection of Holscher and Broadhead Roads. The Village Board in Feburary approved the proposal with Bray Architects to ...
Read More »Thomas Street proposals rejected
WAUSAU, Wis. — Wausau’s Economic Development Committee rejected both return for proposals (RFP) for a new development on Thomas Street. In the proposal Blenker Construction would purchase remaining lots from phase two of the Thomas Street project for $1 and would build high end apartments along with a multi-tenant commercial building. However, several residents spoke out again the proposal at ...
Read More »Thomas St. RFP projects rejected
Artist rendering of proposed townhomes along Thomas Street in Wausau WAUSAU, WI — More townhomes and a new parking lot won’t be coming to Thomas St. this year. Tuesday evening Wausau’s Economic Development Committee discussed two proposals to develop 14 remnant parcels along Thomas St. The RFP is for parcels that were leftover from the 2nd phase of the Thomas ...
Read More »Milwaukee Downtown issues RFP for giant new Schlitz Park mural
An artist is sought to paint a giant new mural at Schlitz Park. As part of a recently announced $6 million makeover, the owners of Schlitz Park are seeking an artist to paint a huge mural on the side of the former brewery and current office park’s power plant. The towering 10,000-square-foot space will be visible along the Milwaukee River from ...
Read More »Regulators May Hire LTCI Block Extraction Advisor
One concern is what cutting blocks of LTCI business out might do to state guaranty funds. State insurance regulators are preparing to hire a legal consultant to help them figure out how to cut bad blocks of long-term care insurance (LTCI) business out of life insurers’ guts without making things worse. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has posted ...
Read More »Romanski: Food Security Initiative funding coming
Additional funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act intended to connect Wisconsin agriculture to those in need is coming in July. The Food Security Initiative, announced by Gov. Tony Evers in May, is funded by $15 million in federal dollars provided to Wisconsin through the CARES Act. The first $5 million in funding from the Food Security Initiative ...
Read More »DATCP: Encourages potential applicants for food security grants to sign up for email updates
MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is encouraging those who may be interested in applying for grants through the Food Security Initiative to sign up for email updates on the department’s website: FoodSecurity.wi.gov. The same distribution list will be used to share program information with applicants for both grant programs described below. The Food Security Initiative, announced ...
Read More »Economic Development Committee extends RFP process for Riverfront land
Wausau riverlife development. WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — Wausau’s Economic Development Committee is continuing to consider proposals for the Riverlife development, including a recent offer for a dental clinic. During Tuesday’s meeting, the committee discussed a proposal for the owners of Cherry Street Dental for a new office in the area, which would combine two of their other Wausau offices into ...
Read More »Waterloo seeks park manager proposals
The Waterloo Parks Commission has directed the city to request proposals for parks management services at its meeting held Dec. 15. The request for proposals (RFP) follows approval from the common council on Nov. 19 to issue a 90-day termination notice to the Waterloo Firemen’s Park Board of Trustees to manage Firemen’s Park. The park, which is owned by the ...
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