Last month the MMAC held our annual “Madison Night” in Milwaukee reception where the Mayor, County Executive and MMAC Government Affairs department hosted our elected leaders from the state capitol in Madison for an evening to get to know MMAC members and sponsors and our elected officials from the metro-Milwaukee region.

MMAC is pleased to announce the hiring of Khenzer Senat, Public Policy Analyst.
 
Khenzer comes to MMAC after spending six years at the Republican Party of Wisconsin where he was the African American Engagement Director. He has built relationships with faith-based leaders, business owners and community activist in the African American community; as well as recruited candidates to run for local and state offices in Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran College with a B.A in Communications, emphasis in Political Communications
 
“The MMAC Government Affairs team is thrilled to add Khenzer’s talents to the team,” said MMAC Vice President of Government Affairs Andrew Davis. “His eagerness and knowledge of Milwaukee’s issues will serve him, the organization and its members well.”
 
Away from work, Khenzer lives in West Allis with his wife, Heidi; son, Sebastian (14 months) and their Whippet/Retriever, Harmony.

No two stories are the same, and while they have similarities, Milwaukee County’s fiscal crisis is different from the City’s. However, it is a clear-and-present danger to the county’s future, and it does have a clear-and-present solution.

The definition of a fiscal crisis is “the inability to bridge a deficit between expenditures and tax revenue.” The City of Milwaukee is in a fiscal crisis. 

On a $1B budget, the city begins next year with a $156M deficit, that – with a cost-to-continue budget – grows to $176 by 2026. Without substantial changes in expenditures or revenues these deficits become structural (ongoing).