Resident Supports Greco, Phillips in School Board Election

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Jim Phillips and Marie Greco are seeking re-election to the Whitefish Bay school board, and I urge village residents to vote for them on April 5.

I admire the quiet competence of both Phillips, an attorney at one of Milwaukee’s most prominent law firms, and Greco, who owns and operates a business. They favor collaboration over conflict, and they know how to keep costs down.

When the voters of Whitefish Bay authorized borrowing $22.6 million for additions and improvements to the district’s high school and two elementary schools, for example, the school board worked hard to keep the cost of the projects to only $20 million. Now the elementary school additions are complete, and the high school addition will open next month. The projects were finished on time and under budget, an impressive accomplishment.

This kind of careful stewardship of resources will be all the more important in the coming months as the full impact of the new state budget hits Whitefish Bay, which stands to lose roughly $2 million in state aid to local schools. I have confidence that Phillips and Greco will manage the inevitable cuts in the best interest of Whitefish Bay’s children.

David Pritchard
Whitefish Bay